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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…

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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

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

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…

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Underwater images suffer severe degradation due to wavelength-dependent attenuation, scattering, and illumination non-uniformity that vary across water types and depths. We propose an unsupervised Domain-Invariant Visual Enhancement and…

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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

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

High-quality underwater images are essential for both machine vision tasks and viewers with their aesthetic appeal.However, the quality of underwater images is severely affected by light absorption and scattering. Deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jiangzhong Cao , Zekai Zeng , Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Chunling Fan , Gangyi Jiang , Weisi Lin

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 imaging often suffers from significant visual degradation, which limits its suitability for subsequent applications. While recent underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods rely on the current advances in deep neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Laibin Chang , Yunke Wang , Bo Du , Chang Xu

Underwater images suffer from color casts and low contrast due to wavelength- and distance-dependent attenuation and scattering. To solve these two degradation issues, we present an underwater image enhancement network via medium…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Chongyi Li , Saeed Anwar , Junhui Hou , Runmin Cong , Chunle Guo , Wenqi Ren

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

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

Underwater images are often affected by light refraction and absorption, reducing visibility and interfering with subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods primarily focus on improving visual quality while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Completing a corrupted image with correct structures and reasonable textures for a mixed scene remains an elusive challenge. Since the missing hole in a mixed scene of a corrupted image often contains various semantic information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Liang Liao , Jing Xiao , Zheng Wang , Chia-Wen Lin , Shin'ichi Satoh

Self-supervised depth estimation has shown its great effectiveness in producing high quality depth maps given only image sequences as input. However, its performance usually drops when estimating on border areas or objects with thin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Rui Li , Qing Mao , Pei Wang , Xiantuo He , Yu Zhu , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

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

Underwater imaging grapples with challenges from light-water interactions, leading to color distortions and reduced clarity. In response to these challenges, we propose a novel Color Balance Prior \textbf{Guided} \textbf{Hyb}rid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiaojiao Guo , Xuhang Chen , Shuqiang Wang , Chi-Man Pun

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

Detecting camouflaged objects in underwater environments is crucial for marine ecological research and resource exploration. However, existing methods face two key challenges: underwater image degradation, including low contrast and color…

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