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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…

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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…

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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…

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Underwater images often have severe quality degradation and distortion due to light absorption and scattering in the water medium. A hazed image formation model is widely used to restore the image quality. It depends on two optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Wei Song , Yan Wang , Dongmei Huang , Antonio Liotta , Cristian Perra

Underwater images suffer from wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering, which reduces visual quality. This phenomenon could limit the operational reliability of autonomous underwater vehicles, marine surveys, and offshore…

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In recent years, the widespread use of deep neural networks (DNNs) has facilitated great improvements in performance for computer vision tasks like image classification and object recognition. In most realistic computer vision applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tejas Borkar , Lina Karam

Monocular depth estimation and image deblurring are two fundamental tasks in computer vision, given their crucial role in understanding 3D scenes. Performing any of them by relying on a single image is an ill-posed problem. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Saqib Nazir , Lorenzo Vaquero , Manuel Mucientes , Víctor M. Brea , Daniela Coltuc

Performance of deep learning models is strongly governed by architectural capacity, with width and depth as primary controls. However, in physical-science applications, models are often compared at a single fixed size or by separating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Alexander I. Khrabry , Edward A. Startsev , Andrew T. Powis , Igor D. Kaganovich

While the depth of convolutional neural networks has attracted substantial attention in the deep learning research, the width of these networks has recently received greater interest. The width of networks, defined as the size of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Peng Liu , Xiaoxiao Zhou , Yangjunyi Li , El Basha Mohammad D , Ruogu Fang

Underwater imagery often suffers from severe degradation resulting in low visual quality and reduced object detection performance. This work aims to evaluate state-of-the-art image enhancement models, investigate their effects on underwater…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Ali Awad , Ashraf Saleem , Sidike Paheding , Evan Lucas , Serein Al-Ratrout , Timothy C. Havens

In general, underwater images suffer from color distortion and low contrast, because light is attenuated and backscattered as it propagates through water (differently depending on wavelength and on the properties of the water body). An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Tanmoy Mondal , Ricardo Mendoza , Lucas Drumetz

With the goal of recovering high-quality image content from its degraded version, image restoration enjoys numerous applications, such as in surveillance, computational photography, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

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

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

Super-resolution reconstruction techniques entail the utilization of software algorithms to transform one or more sets of low-resolution images captured from the same scene into high-resolution images. In recent years, considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Hao Yan , Zixiang Wang , Zhengjia Xu , Zhuoyue Wang , Zhizhong Wu , Ranran Lyu

Underwater imaging is a critical task performed by marine robots for a wide range of applications including aquaculture, marine infrastructure inspection, and environmental monitoring. However, water column effects, such as attenuation and…

Given a degraded input image, image restoration aims to recover the missing high-quality image content. Numerous applications demand effective image restoration, e.g., computational photography, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

Improving the quality of underwater images is essential for advancing marine research and technology. This work introduces a sparsity-driven interpretable neural network (SINET) for the underwater image enhancement (UIE) task. Unlike pure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Gargi Panda , Soumitra Kundu , Saumik Bhattacharya , Aurobinda Routray

Ultra-high-definition (UHD) image restoration aims to specifically solve the problem of quality degradation in ultra-high-resolution images. Recent advancements in this field are predominantly driven by deep learning-based innovations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Liyan Wang , Weixiang Zhou , Cong Wang , Kin-Man Lam , Zhixun Su , Jinshan Pan

The light absorption and scattering of underwater impurities lead to poor underwater imaging quality. The existing data-driven based underwater image enhancement (UIE) techniques suffer from the lack of a large-scale dataset containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-05 Lintao Peng , Chunli Zhu , Liheng Bian