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Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is challenging since image degradation in aquatic environments is complicated and changing over time. Existing mainstream methods rely on either physical-model or data-driven, suffering from performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xiaowen Shi , Yuan-Gen Wang

Underwater visuals undergo various complex degradations, inevitably influencing the efficiency of underwater vision tasks. Recently, diffusion models were employed to underwater image enhancement (UIE) tasks, and gained SOTA performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chen Zhao , Chenyu Dong , Weiling Cai , Yueyue Wang

As 3D perception problems grow in popularity and the need for large-scale labeled datasets for LiDAR semantic segmentation increase, new methods arise that aim to reduce the necessity for dense annotations by employing weakly-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Ozan Unal , Dengxin Dai , Lukas Hoyer , Yigit Baran Can , Luc Van Gool

Accurate, detailed, and regularly updated bathymetry, coupled with complex semantic content, is essential for under-mapped shallow-water environments facing increasing climatological and anthropogenic pressures. However, existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Panagiotis Agrafiotis , Begüm Demir

The degradation in the underwater images is due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, scattering, and to the diversity of the water types in which they are captured. Deep neural networks take a step in this field, providing autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Niki Martinel

Underwater images often suffer from quality degradation due to absorption and scattering effects. Most existing underwater image enhancement algorithms produce a single, fixed-color image, limiting user flexibility and application. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xiaofeng Cong , Jing Zhang , Yeying Jin , Junming Hou , Yu Zhao , Jie Gui , James Tin-Yau Kwok , Yuan Yan Tang

Underwater image enhancement algorithms have attracted much attention in underwater vision task. However, these algorithms are mainly evaluated on different data sets and different metrics. In this paper, we set up an effective and pubic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Hanyu Li , Jingjing Li , Wei Wang

The task of point cloud upsampling aims to acquire dense and uniform point sets from sparse and irregular point sets. Although significant progress has been made with deep learning models, state-of-the-art methods require ground-truth dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xinhai Liu , Xinchen Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

In this paper, we present the first large-scale dataset for semantic Segmentation of Underwater IMagery (SUIM). It contains over 1500 images with pixel annotations for eight object categories: fish (vertebrates), reefs (invertebrates),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Md Jahidul Islam , Chelsey Edge , Yuyang Xiao , Peigen Luo , Muntaqim Mehtaz , Christopher Morse , Sadman Sakib Enan , Junaed Sattar

Fundus photography is prone to suffer from image quality degradation that impacts clinical examination performed by ophthalmologists or intelligent systems. Though enhancement algorithms have been developed to promote fundus observation on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Heng Li , Haofeng Liu , Huazhu Fu , Yanwu Xu , Hui Shu , Ke Niu , Yan Hu , Jiang Liu

Low light images captured in a non-uniform illumination environment usually are degraded with the scene depth and the corresponding environment lights. This degradation results in severe object information loss in the degraded image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Xin Xu , Shiqin Wang , Zheng Wang , Xiaolong Zhang , Ruimin Hu

Underwater images often suffer from severe degradation, such as color distortion, low contrast, and blurred details, due to light absorption and scattering in water. While learning-based methods like CNNs and Transformers have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tejeswar Pokuri , Shivarth Rai

This work proposes a method for underwater image enhancement using the principle of histogram equalization. Since underwater images have a global strong dominant colour, their colourfulness and contrast are often degraded. Before applying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Anushka Yadav , Mayank Upadhyay , Ghanapriya Singh

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

Existing underwater image restoration (UIR) methods generally only handle color distortion or jointly address color and haze issues, but they often overlook the more complex degradations that can occur in underwater scenes. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Guoli Wang , Qian Zhang , Lefei Zhang , Bo Du

Accurate medical image segmentation is critical for early medical diagnosis. Most existing methods are based on U-shape structure and use element-wise addition or concatenation to fuse different level features progressively in decoder.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoqi Zhao , Hongpeng Jia , Youwei Pang , Long Lv , Feng Tian , Lihe Zhang , Weibing Sun , Huchuan Lu

Semantic segmentation is one of the core tasks in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to accurately classify each pixel in an image. The traditional Unet model achieves efficient feature extraction and fusion through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xuan Li , Quanchao Lu , Yankaiqi Li , Muqing Li , Yijiashun Qi

Underwater images are subject to intricate and diverse degradation, inevitably affecting the effectiveness of underwater visual tasks. However, most approaches primarily operate in the raw pixel space of images, which limits the exploration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Chen Zhao , Weiling Cai , Chenyu Dong , Chengwei Hu

High-quality image inpainting requires filling missing regions in a damaged image with plausible content. Existing works either fill the regions by copying image patches or generating semantically-coherent patches from region context, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Yanhong Zeng , Jianlong Fu , Hongyang Chao , Baining Guo

Images acquired in low-light environments present significant obstacles for computer vision systems and human perception, especially for applications requiring accurate object recognition and scene analysis. Such images typically manifest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh