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Due to complex and volatile lighting environment, underwater imaging can be readily impaired by light scattering, warping, and noises. To improve the visual quality, Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) techniques have been widely studied.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yannan Zheng , Weiling Chen , Rongfu Lin , Tiesong Zhao

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a challenging task due to the complex degradation caused by underwater environments. To solve this issue, previous methods often idealize the degradation process, and neglect the impact of medium noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Jingchun Zhou , Zongxin He , Qiuping Jiang , Kui Jiang , Xianping Fu , Xuelong Li

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Saeed Anwar , Chongyi Li

Underwater images often suffer from severe degradation caused by light absorption and scattering, leading to color distortion, low contrast and reduced visibility. Existing Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) methods can be divided into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shixuan Xu , Yabo Liu , Chao Huang , Junyu Dong , Xinghui Dong

Underwater scenes intrinsically involve degradation problems owing to heterogeneous ocean elements. Prevailing underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods stick to straightforward feature modeling to learn the mapping function, which leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zhixiong Huang , Xinying Wang , Chengpei Xu , Jinjiang Li , Lin Feng

In an underwater scene, wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering degrade the visibility of images, causing low contrast and distorted color casts. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Saeed Anwar , Chongyi Li , Fatih Porikli

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 Image Enhancement (UIE) is an ill-posed problem where natural clean references are not available, and the degradation levels vary significantly across semantic regions. Existing UIE methods treat images with a single global model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Bosen Lin , Feng Gao , Yanwei Yu , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Deploying deep learning (DL) models in medical applications relies on predictive performance and other critical factors, such as conveying trustworthy predictive uncertainty. Uncertainty estimation (UE) methods provide potential solutions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Kudaibergen Abutalip , Numan Saeed , Ikboljon Sobirov , Vincent Andrearczyk , Adrien Depeursinge , Mohammad Yaqub

Due to the light absorption and scattering induced by the water medium, underwater images usually suffer from some degradation problems, such as low contrast, color distortion, and blurring details, which aggravate the difficulty of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Runmin Cong , Wenyu Yang , Wei Zhang , Chongyi Li , Chun-Le Guo , Qingming Huang , Sam Kwong

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is essential for robust visual perception in marine applications. However, existing methods predominantly rely on uniform mapping tailored to average dataset distributions, leading to over-processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hang Xu , Chen Long , Bing Wang , Hao Chen , Zhen Dong

Uncertainty quantification is essential when dealing with ill-conditioned inverse problems due to the inherent nonuniqueness of the solution. Bayesian approaches allow us to determine how likely an estimation of the unknown parameters is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-16 Ali Siahkoohi , Gabrio Rizzuti , Felix J. Herrmann

The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of underwater image enhancement techniques to improve keypoint detection and matching. By applying advanced deep learning models, including generative adversarial networks and convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Pedro Diaz-Garcia , Felix Escalona , Miguel Cazorla

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Pranjali Singh , Prithwijit Guha

The challenges in recovering underwater images are the presence of diverse degradation factors and the lack of ground truth images. Although synthetic underwater image pairs can be used to overcome the problem of inadequately observing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhenwei Zhang , Haorui Yan , Ke Tang , Yuping Duan

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

Images acquired during underwater activities suffer from environmental properties of the water, such as turbidity and light attenuation. These phenomena cause color distortion, blurring, and contrast reduction. In addition, irregular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Claudio D. Mello , Bryan U. Moreira , Paulo J. O. Evald , Paulo L. Drews , Silvia S. Botelho

Learning-based methods for underwater image enhancement (UWIE) have undergone extensive exploration. However, learning-based models are usually vulnerable to adversarial examples so as the UWIE models. To the best of our knowledge, there is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Siyu Zhai , Zhibo He , Xiaofeng Cong , Junming Hou , Jie Gui , Jian Wei You , Xin Gong , James Tin-Yau Kwok , Yuan Yan Tang

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has achieved unprecedented success in image super-resolution tasks in recent years. However, the network's performance depends on the distribution of the training sets and degrades on out-of-distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Aupendu Kar , Prabir Kumar Biswas

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