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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 image enhancement is an important low-level computer vision task for autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles to explore and understand the underwater environments. Recently, deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Hao-Hsiang Yang , Kuan-Chih Huang , Wei-Ting Chen

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

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

Underwater images are typically characterized by color cast, haze, blurring, and uneven illumination due to the selective absorption and scattering when light propagates through the water, which limits their practical applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuemei Li , Guojia Hou , Peixian Zhuang , Zhenkuan Pan

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a highly challenging task due to the complexity of underwater environment and the diversity of underwater image degradation. Due to the application of deep learning, current UIE methods have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yi Liu , Qiuping Jiang , Xinyi Wang , Ting Luo , Jingchun Zhou

Unsupervised learning can leverage large-scale data sources without the need for annotations. In this context, deep learning-based autoencoders have shown great potential in detecting anomalies in medical images. However, especially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-03 David Zimmerer , Simon Kohl , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Klaus Maier-Hein

Underwater degraded images greatly challenge existing algorithms to detect objects of interest. Recently, researchers attempt to adopt attention mechanisms or composite connections for improving the feature representation of detectors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Chenping Fu , Wanqi Yuan , Jiewen Xiao , Risheng Liu , Xin Fan

Due to the uneven absorption of different light wavelengths in aquatic environments, underwater images suffer from low visibility and clear color deviations. With the advancement of autonomous underwater vehicles, extensive research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zengxi Zhang , Zeru Shi , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu

Deep learning has transformed computer vision but relies heavily on large labeled datasets and computational resources. Transfer learning, particularly fine-tuning pretrained models, offers a practical alternative; however, models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Iván Matas , Carmen Serrano , Miguel Nogales , David Moreno , Lara Ferrándiz , Teresa Ojeda , Begoña Acha

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 images are often affected by complex degradations such as light absorption, scattering, color casts, and artifacts, making enhancement critical for effective object detection, recognition, and scene understanding in aquatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afrah Shaahid , Muzammil Behzad

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 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 images suffer from colour shifts, low contrast, and haziness due to light absorption, refraction, scattering and restoring these images has warranted much attention. In this work, we present Unsupervised Underwater Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Vinayak Gupta , Manoj S , Mukund Varma T , Kaushik Mitra

Detection of artificial objects from underwater imagery gathered by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is a key requirement for many subsea applications. Real-world AUV image datasets tend to be very large and unlabelled. Furthermore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Suraj Bijjahalli , Oscar Pizarro , Stefan B. Williams

Underwater image suffer from color cast, low contrast and hazy effect due to light absorption, refraction and scattering, which degraded the high-level application, e.g, object detection and object tracking. Recent learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Yu-Wei Chen , Soo-Chang Pei

We present a novel underwater image enhancement method termed SCNet to improve the image quality meanwhile cope with the degradation diversity caused by the water. SCNet is based on normalization schemes across both spatial and channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhenqi Fu , Xiaopeng Lin , Wu Wang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding

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 deep convolutional neural network has achieved significant progress for single image rain streak removal. However, most of the data-driven learning methods are full-supervised or semi-supervised, unexpectedly suffering from significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Changfeng Yu , Yi Chang , Yi Li , Xile Zhao , Luxin Yan