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Underwater images are often affected by complex degradations such as light absorption, scattering, color casts, and artifacts, making enhancement critical for effective object detection, recognition, and scene understanding in aquatic…

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The underwater images usually suffers from non-uniform lighting, low contrast, blur and diminished colors. In this paper, we proposed an image based preprocessing technique to enhance the quality of the underwater images. The proposed…

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Computer vision techniques have empowered underwater robots to effectively undertake a multitude of tasks, including object tracking and path planning. However, underwater optical factors like light refraction and absorption present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Haodong Yang , Jisheng Xu , Zhiliang Lin , Jianping He

Underwater images play a crucial role in ocean research and marine environmental monitoring since they provide quality information about the ecosystem. However, the complex and remote nature of the environment results in poor image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nilesh Jain , Elie Alhajjar

Activities in underwater environments are paramount in several scenarios, which drives the continuous development of underwater image enhancement techniques. A major challenge in this domain is the depth at which images are captured, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tatiana Taís Schein , Gustavo Pereira de Almeira , Stephanie Loi Brião , Rodrigo Andrade de Bem , Felipe Gomes de Oliveira , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr

The appearance of objects in underwater images is degraded by the selective attenuation of light, which reduces contrast and causes a colour cast. This degradation depends on the water environment, and increases with depth and with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chau Yi Li , Andrea Cavallaro

Underwater image understanding is crucial for both submarine navigation and seabed exploration. However, the low illumination in underwater environments degrades the imaging quality, which in turn seriously deteriorates the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xin Zuo , Jiaran Jiang , Jifeng Shen , Wankou Yang

Recovery of true color from underwater images is an ill-posed problem. This is because the wide-band attenuation coefficients for the RGB color channels depend on object range, reflectance, etc. which are difficult to model. Also, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Neham Jain , Gopi Matta , Kaushik Mitra

Underwater visual imaging is crucial for marine engineering, but it suffers from low contrast, blurriness, and color degradation, which hinders downstream analysis. Existing underwater image enhancement methods often treat the haze and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Chengqin Wu , Shuai Yu , Tuyan Luo , Qiuhua Rao , Qingson Hu , Jingxiang Xu , Lijun Zhang

Underwater images typically suffer from severe colour distortions, low visibility, and reduced structural clarity due to complex optical effects such as scattering and absorption, which greatly degrade their visual quality and limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chang Huang , Jiahang Cao , Jun Ma , Kieren Yu , Cong Li , Huayong Yang , Kaishun Wu

In this paper, we present a ranking-based underwater image quality assessment (UIQA) method, abbreviated as URanker. The URanker is built on the efficient conv-attentional image Transformer. In terms of underwater images, we specially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chunle Guo , Ruiqi Wu , Xin Jin , Linghao Han , Zhi Chai , Weidong Zhang , Chongyi Li

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

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

Underwater images play a key role in ocean exploration, but often suffer from severe quality degradation due to light absorption and scattering in water medium. Although major breakthroughs have been made recently in the general area of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Yan Wang , Wei Song , Giancarlo Fortino , Lizhe Qi , Wenqiang Zhang , Antonio Liotta

Underwater image quality is affected by fluorescence, low illumination, absorption, and scattering. Recent works in underwater image enhancement have proposed different deep network architectures to handle these problems. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Pranjali Singh , Prithwijit Guha

Underwater image restoration has been a challenging problem for decades since the advent of underwater photography. Most solutions focus on shallow water scenarios, where the scene is uniformly illuminated by the sunlight. However, the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yifan Song , Mengkun She , Kevin Köser

Underwater images suffer from light refraction and absorption, which impairs visibility and interferes the subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods mainly focus on image quality improvement, ignoring the effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Handling various objects with different colors is a significant challenge for image colorization techniques. Thus, for complex real-world scenes, the existing image colorization algorithms often fail to maintain color consistency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Subhankar Ghosh , Saumik Bhattacharya , Prasun Roy , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Underwater images suffer from colour shifts, low contrast, and haziness due to light absorption, refraction, scattering and restoring these images has warranted much attention. In this work, we present Unsupervised Underwater Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Vinayak Gupta , Manoj S , Mukund Varma T , Kaushik Mitra

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