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Among underwater perceptual sensors, imaging sonar has been highlighted for its perceptual robustness underwater. The major challenge of imaging sonar, however, arises from the difficulty in defining visual features despite limited…

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Recently, learning-based algorithms have shown impressive performance in underwater image enhancement. Most of them resort to training on synthetic data and achieve outstanding performance. However, these methods ignore the significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhengyong Wang , Liquan Shen , Mei Yu , Kun Wang , Yufei Lin , Mai Xu

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 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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afrah Shaahid , Muzammil Behzad

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-04 C. J. Prabhakar , P. U. Praveen Kumar

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 often exhibit poor quality, distorted color balance and low contrast due to the complex and intricate interplay of light, water, and objects. Despite the significant contributions of previous underwater enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Weiwen Chen , Yingtie Lei , Shenghong Luo , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li , Chi-Man Pun

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

Monocular depth estimation has experienced significant progress on terrestrial images in recent years, largely due to deep learning advancements. However, it remains inadequate for underwater scenes, primarily because of data scarcity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Fan Zhang , Shaodi You , Yu Li , Ying Fu

Despite recent advances in stereo matching, the extension to intricate underwater settings remains unexplored, primarily owing to: 1) the reduced visibility, low contrast, and other adverse effects of underwater images; 2) the difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Qingxuan Lv , Junyu Dong , Yuezun Li , Sheng Chen , Hui Yu , Shu Zhang , Wenhan Wang

One-shot fine-grained visual recognition often suffers from the problem of training data scarcity for new fine-grained classes. To alleviate this problem, an off-the-shelf image generator can be applied to synthesize additional training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Satoshi Tsutsui , Yanwei Fu , David Crandall

Due to the complex interplay of light absorption and scattering in the underwater environment, underwater images experience significant degradation. This research presents a two-stage underwater image enhancement network called the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Han Mei , Kunqian Li , Shuaixin Liu , Chengzhi Ma , Qianli Jiang

Current methods for single-image depth estimation use training datasets with real image-depth pairs or stereo pairs, which are not easy to acquire. We propose a framework, trained on synthetic image-depth pairs and unpaired real images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Chuanxia Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Cai

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 image enhancement is such an important low-level vision task with many applications that numerous algorithms have been proposed in recent years. These algorithms developed upon various assumptions demonstrate successes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Ming Zhu , Minjun Hou , Zhongxuan Luo

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

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 photography presents significant inherent challenges including reduced contrast, spatial blur, and wavelength-dependent color distortions. These effects can obscure the vibrancy of marine life and awareness photographers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Andreas Mentzelopoulos , Keith Ellenbogen

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

As synthetic imagery is used more frequently in training deep models, it is important to understand how different synthesis techniques impact the performance of such models. In this work, we perform a thorough evaluation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kristofer Schlachter , Connor DeFanti , Sebastian Herscher , Ken Perlin , Jonathan Tompson