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Water segmentation is critical to disaster response and water resource management. Authorities may employ high-resolution photography to monitor rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, allowing for more proactive management in agriculture, industry,…

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Despite the great advances in visual recognition, it has been witnessed that recognition models trained on clean images of common datasets are not robust against distorted images in the real world. To tackle this issue, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Taeyoung Son , Juwon Kang , Namyup Kim , Sunghyun Cho , Suha Kwak

Underwater vision suffers from severe effects due to selective attenuation and scattering when light propagates through water. Such degradation not only affects the quality of underwater images but limits the ability of vision tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Chongyi Li , Jichang Guo , Chunle Guo

All-in-one image restoration tasks are becoming increasingly important, especially for ultra-high-definition (UHD) images. Existing all-in-one UHD image restoration methods usually boost the model's performance by introducing prompt or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Xin Su , Zhuoran Zheng , Chen Wu

Addressing the issue of submerged underwater trash is crucial for safeguarding aquatic ecosystems and preserving marine life. While identifying debris present on the surface of water bodies is straightforward, assessing the underwater…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jaskaran Singh Walia , Pavithra L K

Restoring underwater images affected by non-uniform illumination (NUI) is essential to improve visual quality and usability in marine applications. Conventional methods often fall short in handling complex illumination patterns, while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Ezequiel Perez-Zarate , Chunxiao Liu , Oscar Ramos-Soto , Diego Oliva , Marco Perez-Cisneros

Images captured underwater often suffer from suboptimal illumination settings that can hide important visual features, reducing their quality. We present a novel single-image low-light underwater image enhancer, L^2UWE, that builds on our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tunai Porto Marques , Alexandra Branzan Albu

Recent learning-based underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods have advanced by incorporating physical priors into deep neural networks, particularly using the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) prior to reduce wavelength-dependent attenuation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xin Tian , Yingtie Lei , Xiujun Zhang , Zimeng Li , Chi-Man Pun , Xuhang Chen

Underwater image enhancement has become an attractive topic as a significant technology in marine engineering and aquatic robotics. However, the limited number of datasets and imperfect hand-crafted ground truth weaken its robustness to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Di Wang , Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan

This paper presents a high-performance general-purpose no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) method based on image entropy. The image features are extracted from two domains. In the spatial domain, the mutual information between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Xiaoqiao Chen , Qingyi Zhang , Manhui Lin , Guangyi Yang , Chu He

With the rise of marine exploration, underwater imaging has gained significant attention as a research topic. Underwater video enhancement has become crucial for real-time computer vision tasks in marine exploration. However, most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Suhas Srinath , Aditya Chandrasekar , Hemang Jamadagni , Rajiv Soundararajan , Prathosh A P

Enhancing underwater images is crucial for exploration. These images face visibility and color issues due to light changes, water turbidity, and bubbles. Traditional prior-based methods and pixel-based methods often fail, while deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Fanghai Yi , Zehong Zheng , Zexiao Liang , Yihang Dong , Xiyang Fang , Wangyu Wu , Xuhang Chen

When assessing whether an image is of high or low quality, it is indispensable to take personal preference into account. Existing aesthetic models lay emphasis on hand-crafted features or deep features commonly shared by high quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Pei Lv , Meng Wang , Yongbo Xu , Ze Peng , Junyi Sun , Shimei Su , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu

Underwater visual enhancement (UVE) and underwater 3D reconstruction pose significant challenges in computer vision and AI-based tasks due to complex imaging conditions in aquatic environments. Despite the development of numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Guoxi Huang , Haoran Wang , Brett Seymour , Evan Kovacs , John Ellerbrock , Dave Blackham , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) for ultrahighdefinition (UHD) images remains challenging because native-resolution inference is computationally expensive, whereas aggressive resizing or isolated cropping may suppress scale-sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Shaode Yu , Enqi Chen , Ming Huang , Xuemin Ren , Songnan Zhao , Zhicheng Zhang , Qiurui Sun

Underwater images suffer from light refraction and absorption, which impairs visibility and interferes the subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods mainly focus on image quality improvement, ignoring the effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

High-precision localization is pivotal in underwater reinspection missions. Traditional localization methods like inertial navigation systems, Doppler velocity loggers, and acoustic positioning face significant challenges and are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Luyuan Peng , Hari Vishnu , Mandar Chitre , Yuen Min Too , Bharath Kalyan , Rajat Mishra , Soo Pieng Tan

With the increasing exploration and exploitation of the underwater world, underwater images have become a critical medium for human interaction with marine environments, driving extensive research into their efficient transmission and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yimin Zhou , Yichong Xia , Sicheng Pan , Bin Chen , Yaowei Li , Jiawei Li , Mingyao Hong , Zhi Wang , Yaowei Wang

Deep learning-based underwater object detection (UOD) remains a major challenge due to the degraded visibility and difficulty to obtain sufficient underwater object images captured from various perspectives for training. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Xiuyuan Li , Fengchao Li , Jiangang Yu , Guowen An

Underwater image restoration is of significant importance in unveiling the underwater world. Numerous techniques and algorithms have been developed in the past decades. However, due to fundamental difficulties associated with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Junlin Han , Mehrdad Shoeiby , Tim Malthus , Elizabeth Botha , Janet Anstee , Saeed Anwar , Ran Wei , Mohammad Ali Armin , Hongdong Li , Lars Petersson