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Just like many other topics in computer vision, image classification has achieved significant progress recently by using deep-learning neural networks, especially the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Most of the existing works are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Yanting Pei , Yaping Huang , Qi Zou , Hao Zang , Xingyuan Zhang , Song Wang

Underwater visual imaging is crucial for marine engineering, but it suffers from low contrast, blurriness, and color degradation, which hinders downstream analysis. Existing underwater image enhancement methods often treat the haze and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Chengqin Wu , Shuai Yu , Tuyan Luo , Qiuhua Rao , Qingson Hu , Jingxiang Xu , Lijun Zhang

Underwater Image Rendering aims to generate a true-tolife underwater image from a given clean one, which could be applied to various practical applications such as underwater image enhancement, camera filter, and virtual gaming. We explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Yun Liu , Yi Ye , Erkang Chen , Yuche Li

In this paper we have present an improved Cycle GAN based model for under water image enhancement. We have utilized the cycle consistent learning technique of the state-of-the-art Cycle GAN model with modification in the loss function in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tashmoy Ghosh

Underwater imaging plays a pivotal role in marine exploration and ecological monitoring. However, it faces significant challenges of limited transmission bandwidth and severe distortion in the aquatic environment. In this work, to achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Linwei Zhu , Junhao Zhu , Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Ye Li , Runmin Cong , Sam Kwong

Recent advances in generative compression methods have demonstrated remarkable progress in enhancing the perceptual quality of compressed data, especially in scenarios with low bitrates. However, their efficacy and applicability to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Qi Mao , Tinghan Yang , Yinuo Zhang , Zijian Wang , Meng Wang , Shiqi Wang , Siwei Ma

The underwater environment presents unique challenges, including color distortions, reduced contrast, and blurriness, hindering accurate analysis. In this work, we introduce MuLA-GAN, a novel approach that leverages the synergistic power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ahsan Baidar Bakht , Zikai Jia , Muhayy ud Din , Waseem Akram , Lyes Saad Soud , Lakmal Seneviratne , Defu Lin , Shaoming He , Irfan Hussain

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) has become the most promising method for object recognition, repeatedly demonstrating record breaking results for image classification and object detection in recent years. However, a very deep CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Yunchao Gong , Liu Liu , Ming Yang , Lubomir Bourdev

Improving the aesthetic quality of images is challenging and eager for the public. To address this problem, most existing algorithms are based on supervised learning methods to learn an automatic photo enhancer for paired data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

Recent years have witnessed the prevailing progress of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in image-to-image translation. However, the success of these GAN models hinges on ponderous computational costs and labor-expensive training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yuxi Ren , Jie Wu , Peng Zhang , Manlin Zhang , Xuefeng Xiao , Qian He , Rui Wang , Min Zheng , Xin Pan

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

Computer vision techniques have empowered underwater robots to effectively undertake a multitude of tasks, including object tracking and path planning. However, underwater optical factors like light refraction and absorption present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Haodong Yang , Jisheng Xu , Zhiliang Lin , Jianping He

Deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) methods have achieved remarkable success in wireless image transmission. However, these methods either focus on conventional distortion metrics that do not necessarily yield high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Ming Ye , Kui Cai , Cunhua Pan , Zhen Mei , Wanting Yang , Chunguo 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

Deep image compression systems mainly contain four components: encoder, quantizer, entropy model, and decoder. To optimize these four components, a joint rate-distortion framework was proposed, and many deep neural network-based methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-27 Zhisheng Zhong , Hiroaki Akutsu , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Vector quantization (VQ) is a method for deterministically learning features through discrete codebook representations. Recent works have utilized visual tokenizers to discretize visual regions for self-supervised representation learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Chenjing Ding , Chiyu Wang , Boshi Liu , Xi Guo , Weixuan Tang , Wei Wu

Under-display camera (UDC) provides an elegant solution for full-screen smartphones. However, UDC captured images suffer from severe degradation since sensors lie under the display. Although this issue can be tackled by image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Yang Zhou , Yuda Song , Xin Du

Image Captioning, or the automatic generation of descriptions for images, is one of the core problems in Computer Vision and has seen considerable progress using Deep Learning Techniques. We propose to use Inception-ResNet Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Sulabh Katiyar , Samir Kumar Borgohain

Visual inspection of underwater structures by vehicles, e.g. remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), plays an important role in scientific, military, and commercial sectors. However, the automatic extraction of information using software tools…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yousif Hashisho , Mohamad Albadawi , Tom Krause , Uwe Freiherr von Lukas

Capsule Network is a promising concept in deep learning, yet its true potential is not fully realized thus far, providing sub-par performance on several key benchmark datasets with complex data. Drawing intuition from the success achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Vinoj Jayasundara , Sandaru Jayasekara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Suranga Seneviratne , Ranga Rodrigo