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In recent years, learning-based underwater image enhancement (UIE) techniques have rapidly evolved. However, distribution shifts between high-quality enhanced outputs and natural images can hinder semantic cue extraction for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Guodong Fan , Shengning Zhou , Genji Yuan , Huiyu Li , Jingchun Zhou , Jinjiang Li

Underwater environments pose significant challenges due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by water, which affects image clarity, contrast, and color fidelity. To overcome these, we introduce OceanLens, a method that models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Rajini Makam , Dhatri Shankari T M , Sharanya Patil , Suresh Sundram

Recently, learning-based algorithms have shown impressive performance in underwater image enhancement. Most of them resort to training on synthetic data and achieve outstanding performance. However, these methods ignore the significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhengyong Wang , Liquan Shen , Mei Yu , Kun Wang , Yufei Lin , Mai Xu

Medical images usually suffer from image degradation in clinical practice, leading to decreased performance of deep learning-based models. To resolve this problem, most previous works have focused on filtering out degradation-causing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-17 Haoxuan Che , Siyu Chen , Hao Chen

Underwater imagery is often compromised by factors such as color distortion and low contrast, posing challenges for high-level vision tasks. Recent underwater image restoration (UIR) methods either analyze the input image at full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Alik Pramanick , Arijit Sur , V. Vijaya Saradhi

High-quality underwater images are essential for both machine vision tasks and viewers with their aesthetic appeal.However, the quality of underwater images is severely affected by light absorption and scattering. Deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jiangzhong Cao , Zekai Zeng , Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Chunling Fan , Gangyi Jiang , Weisi Lin

Due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by diverse aquatic media, underwater images usually suffer from various visual degradations. Existing underwater image enhancement (UIE) approaches that combine underwater physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dazhao Du , Lingyu Si , Fanjiang Xu , Jianwei Niu , Fuchun Sun

Underwater image enhancement has been attracting much attention due to its significance in marine engineering and aquatic robotics. Numerous underwater image enhancement algorithms have been proposed in the last few years. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Wenqi Ren , Runmin Cong , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Dacheng Tao

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

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

Underwater image enhancement is such an important low-level vision task with many applications that numerous algorithms have been proposed in recent years. These algorithms developed upon various assumptions demonstrate successes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Ming Zhu , Minjun Hou , Zhongxuan Luo

Underwater imagery often suffers from severe degradation resulting in low visual quality and reduced object detection performance. This work aims to evaluate state-of-the-art image enhancement models, investigate their effects on underwater…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Ali Awad , Ashraf Saleem , Sidike Paheding , Evan Lucas , Serein Al-Ratrout , Timothy C. Havens

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

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

Due to the complex interplay of light absorption and scattering in the underwater environment, underwater images experience significant degradation. This research presents a two-stage underwater image enhancement network called the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Han Mei , Kunqian Li , Shuaixin Liu , Chengzhi Ma , Qianli Jiang

Single underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a challenging ill-posed problem, but its development is hindered by two major issues: (1) The labels in underwater reference datasets are pseudo labels, relying on these pseudo ground truths in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhi Zhang , Minfu Li , Lu Li , Daoyi Chen

Marine snow, the floating particles in underwater images, severely degrades the visibility and performance of human and machine vision systems. This paper proposes a novel method to reduce the marine snow interference using deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Fernando Galetto , Guang Deng

Underwater object detection is a crucial and challenging problem in marine engineering and aquatic robot. The difficulty is partly because of the degradation of underwater images caused by light selective absorption and scattering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yudong Wang , Jichang Guo , Wanru He , Huan Gao , Huihui Yue , Zenan Zhang , Chongyi Li

Ultra-high-definition (UHD) image restoration aims to specifically solve the problem of quality degradation in ultra-high-resolution images. Recent advancements in this field are predominantly driven by deep learning-based innovations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Liyan Wang , Weixiang Zhou , Cong Wang , Kin-Man Lam , Zhixun Su , Jinshan Pan

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