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Background: Underwater images, in general, suffer from low contrast and high color distortions due to the non-uniform attenuation of the light as it propagates through the water. In addition, the degree of attenuation varies with the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-20 Prasen Kumar Sharma , Ira Bisht , Arijit Sur

Unknown Object Detection (UOD) aims to identify objects of unseen categories, differing from the traditional detection paradigm limited by the closed-world assumption. A key component of UOD is learning a generalized representation, i.e.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Haomiao Liu , Hao Xu , Chuhuai Yue , Bo Ma

Image deblurring is a fundamental and challenging low-level vision problem. Previous vision research indicates that edge structure in natural scenes is one of the most important factors to estimate the abilities of human visual perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zhichao Fu , Tianlong Ma , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Jing Yang , Liang He

The perception of transparent objects is one of the well-known challenges in computer vision. Conventional depth sensors have difficulty in sensing the depth of transparent objects due to refraction and reflection of light. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xianghui Fan , Zhaoyu Chen , Mengyang Pan , Anping Deng , Hang Yang

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Peng Zheng , Shou-tao Xu , Xindong Wu

With the advancement of maritime unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and deep learning technologies, the application of UAV-based object detection has become increasingly significant in the fields of maritime industry and ocean engineering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Chenjie Zhao , Ryan Wen Liu , Jingxiang Qu , Ruobin Gao

The Unified Object Detection (UOD) task aims to achieve object detection of all merged categories through training on multiple datasets, and is of great significance in comprehensive object detection scenarios. In this paper, we conduct a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 XiaoJun Tang , Jingru Wang , Zeyu Shangguan , Darun Tang , Yuyu Liu

Object identification is one of the most fundamental and difficult issues in computer vision. It aims to discover object instances in real pictures from a huge number of established categories. In recent years, deep learning-based object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Venkata Beri

Repair and maintenance of underwater structures as well as marine science rely heavily on the results of underwater object detection, which is a crucial part of the image processing workflow. Although many computer vision-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Radhwan Adnan Dakhil , Ali Retha Hasoon Khayeat

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions due to their ability to monitor vast maritime areas. However, small objects often remain difficult to detect from high altitudes due to low object-to-background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sakib Ahmed , Oscar Pizarro

Small object detection (SOD) is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision, with applications like spanning surveillance, autonomous systems, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Unlike larger objects, small objects contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mahya Nikouei , Bita Baroutian , Shahabedin Nabavi , Fateme Taraghi , Atefe Aghaei , Ayoob Sajedi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

This work presents a novel deep-learning-based pipeline for the inverse problem of image deblurring, leveraging augmentation and pre-training with synthetic data. Our results build on our winning submission to the recent Helsinki Deblur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Theophil Trippe , Martin Genzel , Jan Macdonald , Maximilian März

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

Underwater object detection constitutes a pivotal endeavor within the realms of marine surveillance and autonomous underwater systems; however, it presents significant challenges due to pronounced visual impairments arising from phenomena…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Md. Mushibur Rahman , Umme Fawzia Rahim , Enam Ahmed Taufik

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the field of underwater image enhancement (UIE). However, its practical utility for high-level vision tasks, such as underwater object detection (UOD) in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Junjie Wen , Jinqiang Cui , Benyun Zhao , Bingxin Han , Xuchen Liu , Zhi Gao , Ben M. Chen

Unsupervised pre-training aims at learning transferable features that are beneficial for downstream tasks. However, most state-of-the-art unsupervised methods concentrate on learning global representations for image-level classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jian Ding , Enze Xie , Hang Xu , Chenhan Jiang , Zhenguo Li , Ping Luo , Gui-Song Xia

Underwater salient object detection (USOD) plays a vital role in marine vision tasks but remains fundamentally challenging due to severe visual degradation, such as selective absorption and medium scattering. Conventional pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Laibin Chang , Shaodong Wang , Yunke Wang , Xu Zhang , Kui Jiang , Chang Xu , Bo Du

Unsupervised cross-domain image retrieval (UCIR) aims to retrieve images of the same category across diverse domains without relying on annotations. Existing UCIR methods, which align cross-domain features for the entire image, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruohong Yang , Peng Hu , Yunfan Li , Xi Peng

Object detection aims to obtain the location and the category of specific objects in a given image, which includes two tasks: classification and location. In recent years, researchers tend to apply object detection to underwater robots…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Pinhao Song

Underwater object detection suffers from low detection performance because the distance and wavelength dependent imaging process yield evident image quality degradations such as haze-like effects, low visibility, and color distortions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Chenping Fu , Xin Fan , Jiewen Xiao , Wanqi Yuan , Risheng Liu , Zhongxuan Luo