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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 images suffer from severe degradations, including color distortions, reduced visibility, and loss of structural details due to wavelength-dependent attenuation and scattering. Existing enhancement methods primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jaskaran Singh Walia , Shravan Venkatraman , Pavithra LK

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) technology aims to tackle the challenge of restoring the degraded underwater images due to light absorption and scattering. To address problems, a novel U-Net based Reinforced Swin-Convs Transformer for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Tingdi Ren , Haiyong Xu , Gangyi Jiang , Mei Yu , Ting Luo

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. Recent advances in this area are dominated by deep learning-based solutions, where many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Linghao Han , Jun Jiang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

To assist underwater object detection for better performance, image enhancement technology is often used as a pre-processing step. However, most of the existing enhancement methods tend to pursue the visual quality of an image, instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yanling Qiu , Qianxue Feng , Boqin Cai , Hongan Wei , Weiling Chen

Underwater object detection (UOD) plays a significant role in aquaculture and marine environmental protection. Considering the challenges posed by low contrast and low-light conditions in underwater environments, several underwater image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Linhui Dai , Hong Liu , Pinhao Song , Mengyuan Liu

Vessel segmentation of retinal images is a key diagnostic capability in ophthalmology. This problem faces several challenges including low contrast, variable vessel size and thickness, and presence of interfering pathology such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Vijay Kumar BG , Raja Bala , Vishal Monga

Underwater images suffer from severe wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering, and turbidity due to suspended particles, degrading visual quality for applications in autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), marine biology,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Sahana Ray , Bibhabasu Debnath , Sanjay Ghosh

Successful applications of complex vision-based behaviours underwater have lagged behind progress in terrestrial and aerial domains. This is largely due to the degraded image quality resulting from the physical phenomena involved in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Stewart Jamieson , Jonathan P. How , Yogesh Girdhar

Nowadays underwater vision systems are being widely applied in ocean research. However, the largest portion of the ocean - the deep sea - still remains mostly unexplored. Only relatively few image sets have been taken from the deep sea due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yifan Song , David Nakath , Mengkun She , Furkan Elibol , Kevin Köser

Stereo image super-resolution (SSR) aims to enhance high-resolution details by leveraging information from stereo image pairs. However, existing stereo super-resolution (SSR) upsampling methods (e.g., pixel shuffle) often overlook…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yi Liu , Xinyi Liu , Yi Wan , Panwang Xia , Qiong Wu , Yongjun Zhang

In this paper, we propose a scene-level inverse rendering framework that uses multi-view images to decompose the scene into geometry, SVBRDF, and 3D spatially-varying lighting. While multi-view images have been widely used for object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 JunYong Choi , SeokYeong Lee , Haesol Park , Seung-Won Jung , Ig-Jae Kim , Junghyun Cho

Deep learning techniques have successfully been employed in numerous computer vision tasks including image segmentation. The techniques have also been applied to medical image segmentation, one of the most critical tasks in computer-aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Titinunt Kitrungrotsakul , Iwamoto Yutaro , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Jingsong Li , Yen-Wei Chen

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

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

Quality feature representation is key to instance image retrieval. To attain it, existing methods usually resort to a deep model pre-trained on benchmark datasets or even fine-tune the model with a task-dependent labelled auxiliary dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Zhongyan Zhang , Lei Wang , Yang Wang , Luping Zhou , Jianjia Zhang , Peng Wang , Fang Chen

The experimental results of improved underwater image enhancement algorithms based on partial differential equations (PDEs) are presented in this report. This second work extends the study of previous work and incorporating several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 U. A. Nnolim

Underwater monocular depth estimation serves as the foundation for tasks such as 3D reconstruction of underwater scenes. However, due to the influence of light and medium, the underwater environment undergoes a distinctive imaging process,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Jian Wang , Jing Wang , Shenghui Rong , Bo He

Inferring the depth of images is a fundamental inverse problem within the field of Computer Vision since depth information is obtained through 2D images, which can be generated from infinite possibilities of observed real scenes. Benefiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Raul de Queiroz Mendes , Eduardo Godinho Ribeiro , Nicolas dos Santos Rosa , Valdir Grassi

We introduce local matching stability and furthest matchable frame as quantitative measures for evaluating the success of underwater image enhancement. This enhancement process addresses visual degradation caused by light absorption,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jason M. Summers , Mark W. Jones