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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

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is challenging since image degradation in aquatic environments is complicated and changing over time. Existing mainstream methods rely on either physical-model or data-driven, suffering from performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xiaowen Shi , Yuan-Gen Wang

Several supervised networks exist that remove haze information from underwater images using paired datasets and pixel-wise loss functions. However, training these networks requires large amounts of paired data which is cumbersome, complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Praveen Kandula , A. N. Rajagopalan

Underwater visual perception is essentially important for underwater exploration, archeology, ecosystem and so on. The low illumination, light reflections, scattering, absorption and suspended particles inevitably lead to the critically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Yan Kai , Liang Lanyue , Zheng Ziqiang , Wang Guoqing , Yang Yang

Repair and maintenance of underwater structures as well as marine science rely heavily on the results of underwater object detection, which is a crucial part of the image processing workflow. Although many computer vision-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Radhwan Adnan Dakhil , Ali Retha Hasoon Khayeat

In underwater environments, variations in suspended particle concentration and turbidity cause severe image degradation, posing significant challenges to image enhancement (IE) and object detection (OD) tasks. Currently, in-air image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jingchun Zhou , Qilin Gai , Kin-man Lam , Xianping Fu

In many applications of deep learning, particularly those in image restoration, it is either very difficult, prohibitively expensive, or outright impossible to obtain paired training data precisely as in the real world. In such cases, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Bolin Liu , Xiao Shu , Xiaolin Wu

Recently, a new underwater imaging formation model presented that the coefficients related to the direct and backscatter transmission signals are dependent on the type of water, camera specifications, water depth, and imaging range. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Monika Roznere , Alberto Quattrini Li

Underwater image restoration has been a challenging problem for decades since the advent of underwater photography. Most solutions focus on shallow water scenarios, where the scene is uniformly illuminated by the sunlight. However, the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yifan Song , Mengkun She , Kevin Köser

Underwater images play a key role in ocean exploration, but often suffer from severe quality degradation due to light absorption and scattering in water medium. Although major breakthroughs have been made recently in the general area of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Yan Wang , Wei Song , Giancarlo Fortino , Lizhe Qi , Wenqiang Zhang , Antonio Liotta

This paper proposes a non-data-driven deep neural network for spectral image recovery problems such as denoising, single hyperspectral image super-resolution, and compressive spectral imaging reconstruction. Unlike previous methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Tatiana Gelvez-Barrera , Jorge Bacca , Henry Arguello

Underwater photography presents significant inherent challenges including reduced contrast, spatial blur, and wavelength-dependent color distortions. These effects can obscure the vibrancy of marine life and awareness photographers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Andreas Mentzelopoulos , Keith Ellenbogen

Underwater images are usually covered with a blue-greenish colour cast, making them distorted, blurry or low in contrast. This phenomenon occurs due to the light attenuation given by the scattering and absorption in the water column. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Salma Gonzalez-Sabbagh , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Shang Gao

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) aims to restore visibility and correct color distortions caused by wavelength-dependent absorption and scattering. Recent hybrid approaches, which couple domain priors with modern deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ching-Heng Cheng , Jen-Wei Lee , Chia-Ming Lee , Chih-Chung Hsu

In this paper, we introduce and tackle the simultaneous enhancement and super-resolution (SESR) problem for underwater robot vision and provide an efficient solution for near real-time applications. We present Deep SESR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Md Jahidul Islam , Peigen Luo , Junaed Sattar

Underwater image enhancement has attracted much attention due to the rise of marine resource development in recent years. Benefit from the powerful representation capabilities of Convolution Neural Networks(CNNs), multiple underwater image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yudong Wang , Jichang Guo , Huan Gao , Huihui Yue

Deep image prior (DIP) is a recently proposed technique for solving imaging inverse problems by fitting the reconstructed images to the output of an untrained convolutional neural network. Unlike pretrained feedforward neural networks, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kevin Zhang , Mingyang Xie , Maharshi Gor , Yi-Ting Chen , Yvonne Zhou , Christopher A. Metzler

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

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

To overcome the constraints of the underwater environment and improve the accuracy and robustness of underwater target detection models, this paper develops a specialized dataset for underwater target detection and proposes an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chang Liu