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Owing to flexible architectures of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), CNNs are successfully used for image denoising. However, they suffer from the following drawbacks: (i) deep network architecture is very difficult to train. (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Lunke Fei , Junqian Wang , Jie Wen , Nan Luo

One of the main challenges in deep learning-based underwater image enhancement is the limited availability of high-quality training data. Underwater images are difficult to capture and are often of poor quality due to the distortion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alzayat Saleh , Marcus Sheaves , Dean Jerry , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

In real-world underwater environment, exploration of seabed resources, underwater archaeology, and underwater fishing rely on a variety of sensors, vision sensor is the most important one due to its high information content, non-intrusive,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Nan Wang , Yabin Zhou , Fenglei Han , Haitao Zhu , Jingzheng Yao

Underwater Image Rendering aims to generate a true-tolife underwater image from a given clean one, which could be applied to various practical applications such as underwater image enhancement, camera filter, and virtual gaming. We explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Yun Liu , Yi Ye , Erkang Chen , Yuche Li

In recent years, there has been a surge of research focused on underwater image enhancement using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), driven by the need to overcome the challenges posed by underwater environments. Issues such as light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Ashreen Tabassum , Bommakanti Navaneeth , Tenneti Jahnavi , Yenka Akshaya

Deep learning architecture with convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves outstanding success in the field of computer vision. Where U-Net, an encoder-decoder architecture structured by CNN, makes a great breakthrough in biomedical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Qing Xu , Zhicheng Ma , Na HE , Wenting Duan

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) aims to improve the visual quality from a low-quality input. Unlike other image enhancement tasks, underwater images suffer from the unavailability of real reference images. Although existing works exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Shuaixin Liu , Kunqian Li , Yilin Ding , Qi Qi

Deep learning, e.g., convolutional neural networks (CNNs), has achieved great success in image processing and computer vision especially in high level vision applications such as recognition and understanding. However, it is rarely used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Feng Jiang , Wen Tao , Shaohui Liu , Jie Ren , Xun Guo , Debin Zhao

Recent advances of semantic image segmentation greatly benefit from deeper and larger Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models. Compared to image segmentation in the wild, properties of both medical images themselves and of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Xin Chen , Ke Ding

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a practically important yet underexplored application of spiking neural networks (SNNs), where the dominant degradations are large-scale and low-frequency, such as wavelength-dependent colour casts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shuang Chen , Ruochen Li , Zihan Zhu , Ronald Thenius , Farshad Arvin , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Up to now, most existing steganalytic methods are designed for grayscale images, and they are not suitable for color images that are widely used in current social networks. In this paper, we design a universal color image steganalysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Kangkang Wei , Weiqi Luo , Shunquan Tan , Jiwu Huang

Coastal water segmentation from satellite imagery presents unique challenges due to complex spectral characteristics and irregular boundary patterns. Traditional RGB-based approaches often suffer from training instability and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zhen Tian , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Qiyuan Wang , Zhiwei Gao

Several variants of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been developed for Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction. Among them, U-Net has shown to be the baseline architecture for MR image reconstruction. However, sub-sampling is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Sriprabha Ramanarayanan , Balamurali Murugesan , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Underwater images are typically characterized by color cast, haze, blurring, and uneven illumination due to the selective absorption and scattering when light propagates through the water, which limits their practical applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuemei Li , Guojia Hou , Peixian Zhuang , Zhenkuan Pan

Learning-based underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods have made great progress. However, the lack of large-scale and high-quality paired training samples has become the main bottleneck hindering the development of UIE. The inter-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yaofeng Xie , Lingwei Kong , Kai Chen , Ziqiang Zheng , Xiao Yu , Zhibin Yu , Bing Zheng

Over the past few decades, underwater image enhancement has attracted increasing amount of research effort due to its significance in underwater robotics and ocean engineering. Research has evolved from implementing physics-based solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Ankita Naik , Apurva Swarnakar , Kartik Mittal

Convolutional neural networks rely on image texture and structure to serve as discriminative features to classify the image content. Image enhancement techniques can be used as preprocessing steps to help improve the overall image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Vivek Sharma , Ali Diba , Davy Neven , Michael S. Brown , Luc Van Gool , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Recent advances in deep learning, particularly neural networks, have significantly impacted a wide range of fields, including the automatic enhancement of underwater images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jose M. Montero , Jose-Luis Lisani

Conventional 2D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) extract features from an input image by applying linear filters. These filters compute the spatial coherence by weighting the photometric information on a fixed neighborhood without taking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Zongwei Wu , Guillaume Allibert , Christophe Stolz , Cedric Demonceaux

Most current image super-resolution (SR) methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) use residual learning in network structural design, which favors to effective back propagation and hence improves SR performance by increasing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Xiaole Zhao , Ying Liao , Tian He , Yulun Zhang , Yadong Wu , Tao Zhang