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Due to the wavelength-dependent light attenuation, refraction and scattering, underwater images usually suffer from color distortion and blurred details. However, due to the limited number of paired underwater images with undistorted images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Qi Qi , Kunqian Li , Haiyong Zheng , Xiang Gao , Guojia Hou , Kun Sun

Image colorization is a challenging problem due to multi-modal uncertainty and high ill-posedness. Directly training a deep neural network usually leads to incorrect semantic colors and low color richness. While transformer-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xiaoyang Kang , Tao Yang , Wenqi Ouyang , Peiran Ren , Lingzhi Li , Xuansong Xie

Underwater images normally suffer from degradation due to the transmission medium of water bodies. Both traditional prior-based approaches and deep learning-based methods have been used to address this problem. However, the inflexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shixuan Xu , Hao Qi , Wei Wang , Chao Huang , Jie Wen , Junyu Dong , Xinghui Dong

Underwater optical images inevitably suffer from various degradation factors such as blurring, low contrast, and color distortion, which hinder the accuracy of object detection tasks. Due to the lack of paired underwater/clean images, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Bin Li , Li Li , Zhenwei Zhang , Yuping Duan

Severe color casts, low contrast and blurriness of underwater images caused by light absorption and scattering result in a difficult task for exploring underwater environments. Different from most of previous underwater image enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-15 Xueyan Ding , Yafei Wang , Yang Yan , Zheng Liang , Zetian Mi , Xianping Fu

Underwater imaging plays a pivotal role in marine exploration and ecological monitoring. However, it faces significant challenges of limited transmission bandwidth and severe distortion in the aquatic environment. In this work, to achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Linwei Zhu , Junhao Zhu , Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Ye Li , Runmin Cong , Sam Kwong

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) techniques aim to improve visual quality of images captured in aquatic environments by addressing degradation issues caused by light absorption and scattering effects, including color distortion, blurring,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zheng Cheng , Wenri Wang , Guangyong Chen , Yakun Ju , Yihua Cheng , Zhisong Liu , Yanda Meng , Jintao Song

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) plays a crucial role in various marine applications, but it remains challenging due to the complex underwater environment. Current learning-based approaches frequently lack explicit incorporation of prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yingtie Lei , Jia Yu , Yihang Dong , Changwei Gong , Ziyang Zhou , Chi-Man Pun

Underwater imagery often exhibits distorted coloration as a result of light-water interactions, which complicates the study of benthic environments in marine biology and geography. In this research, we propose an algorithm to restore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Underwater image enhancement, as a pre-processing step to improve the accuracy of the following object detection task, has drawn considerable attention in the field of underwater navigation and ocean exploration. However, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Long Chen , Zheheng Jiang , Lei Tong , Zhihua Liu , Aite Zhao , Qianni Zhang , Junyu Dong , Huiyu Zhou

Underwater images often suffer from severe color distortion, low contrast, and a hazy appearance due to wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering. Simultaneously, existing deep learning models exhibit high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Munsif Ali , Najmul Hassan , Lucia Ventura , Davide Di Bari , Simonepietro Canese

Underwater optical imaging is severely degraded by light absorption, scattering, and color distortion, hindering visibility and accurate image analysis. This paper presents an adaptive enhancement framework integrating illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yuezhe Tian , Kangchen Yao , Xiaoyang Yu

The challenges in recovering underwater images are the presence of diverse degradation factors and the lack of ground truth images. Although synthetic underwater image pairs can be used to overcome the problem of inadequately observing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhenwei Zhang , Haorui Yan , Ke Tang , Yuping Duan

Underwater images typically experience mixed degradations of brightness and structure caused by the absorption and scattering of light by suspended particles. To address this issue, we propose a Real-time Spatial and Frequency Domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jingxia Jiang , Jinbin Bai , Yun Liu , Junjie Yin , Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Erkang Chen

Underwater object detection (UOD) plays a significant role in aquaculture and marine environmental protection. Considering the challenges posed by low contrast and low-light conditions in underwater environments, several underwater image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Linhui Dai , Hong Liu , Pinhao Song , Mengyuan Liu

Underwater images captured by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are inevitably affected by artificial light sources, which often produce halos in the foreground of the camera and seriously interfere with the quality of the image. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiaxin Yang , Honglin Liu , Yongli Wang , Shuyi Cao , Chengcheng Jiang , Jiale Wang

This paper addresses the challenging problem of image enhancement in complex underwater scenes by proposing a solution based on deep learning. The proposed method skillfully integrates two deep convolutional neural network models, VGG19 and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Aoqi Li , Yanghui Song , Jichao Dao , Chengfu Yang

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is an ill-posed problem where natural clean references are not available, and the degradation levels vary significantly across semantic regions. Existing UIE methods treat images with a single global model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Bosen Lin , Feng Gao , Yanwei Yu , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Underwater images suffer from severe degradations, including color distortions, reduced visibility, and loss of structural details due to wavelength-dependent attenuation and scattering. Existing enhancement methods primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jaskaran Singh Walia , Shravan Venkatraman , Pavithra LK

The powerful representation capacity of deep learning has made it inevitable for the underwater image enhancement community to employ its potential. The exploration of deep underwater image enhancement networks is increasing over time, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Saeed Anwar , Chongyi Li