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The goal of this work is to apply a denoising image transformer to remove the distortion from underwater images and compare it with other similar approaches. Automatic restoration of underwater images plays an important role since it allows…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Abderrahmene Boudiaf , Yuhang Guo , Adarsh Ghimire , Naoufel Werghi , Giulia De Masi , Sajid Javed , Jorge Dias

We study the design of deep architectures for lossy image compression. We present two architectural recipes in the context of multi-stage progressive encoders and empirically demonstrate their importance on compression performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Mohammad Haris Baig , Vladlen Koltun , Lorenzo Torresani

Deep networks have shown impressive performance in the image restoration tasks, such as image colorization. However, we find that previous approaches rely on the digital representation from single color model with a specific mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiangcheng Du , Zhao Zhou , Yanlong Wang , Zhuoyao Wang , Yingbin Zheng , Cheng Jin

Underwater image enhancement, as a pre-processing step to improve the accuracy of the following object detection task, has drawn considerable attention in the field of underwater navigation and ocean exploration. However, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Long Chen , Zheheng Jiang , Lei Tong , Zhihua Liu , Aite Zhao , Qianni Zhang , Junyu Dong , Huiyu Zhou

Continuous and reliable underwater monitoring is essential for assessing marine biodiversity, detecting ecological changes and supporting autonomous exploration in aquatic environments. Underwater monitoring platforms rely on mainly visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shuang Chen , Ronald Thenius , Farshad Arvin , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Depth information plays a crucial role in autonomous systems for environmental perception and robot state estimation. With the rapid development of deep neural network technology, depth estimation has been extensively studied and shown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Quang Truong Nguyen , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Xiem HoangVan

Image colorization is a challenging problem due to multi-modal uncertainty and high ill-posedness. Directly training a deep neural network usually leads to incorrect semantic colors and low color richness. While transformer-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xiaoyang Kang , Tao Yang , Wenqi Ouyang , Peiran Ren , Lingzhi Li , Xuansong Xie

Images acquired during underwater activities suffer from environmental properties of the water, such as turbidity and light attenuation. These phenomena cause color distortion, blurring, and contrast reduction. In addition, irregular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Claudio D. Mello , Bryan U. Moreira , Paulo J. O. Evald , Paulo L. Drews , Silvia S. Botelho

Underwater imaging grapples with challenges from light-water interactions, leading to color distortions and reduced clarity. In response to these challenges, we propose a novel Color Balance Prior \textbf{Guided} \textbf{Hyb}rid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiaojiao Guo , Xuhang Chen , Shuqiang Wang , Chi-Man Pun

Underwater image restoration attracts significant attention due to its importance in unveiling the underwater world. This paper elaborates on a novel method that achieves state-of-the-art results for underwater image restoration based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Junlin Han , Mehrdad Shoeiby , Tim Malthus , Elizabeth Botha , Janet Anstee , Saeed Anwar , Ran Wei , Lars Petersson , Mohammad Ali Armin

Image compression and reconstruction are crucial for various digital applications. While contemporary neural compression methods achieve impressive compression rates, the adoption of such technology has been largely hindered by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ethan G. Rogers , Cheng Wang

Underwater images typically suffer from severe colour distortions, low visibility, and reduced structural clarity due to complex optical effects such as scattering and absorption, which greatly degrade their visual quality and limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chang Huang , Jiahang Cao , Jun Ma , Kieren Yu , Cong Li , Huayong Yang , Kaishun Wu

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 understanding is crucial for both submarine navigation and seabed exploration. However, the low illumination in underwater environments degrades the imaging quality, which in turn seriously deteriorates the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xin Zuo , Jiaran Jiang , Jifeng Shen , Wankou Yang

Capsule networks aim to parse images into a hierarchy of objects, parts and relations. While promising, they remain limited by an inability to learn effective low level part descriptions. To address this issue we propose a way to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Sara Sabour , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Soroosh Yazdani , Geoffrey E. Hinton , David J. Fleet

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 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

Image colorization is the process of colorizing grayscale images or recoloring an already-color image. This image manipulation can be used for grayscale satellite, medical and historical images making them more expressive. With the help of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ahmed Samir Ragab , Shereen Aly Taie , Howida Youssry Abdelnaby

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

Recent advances in deep learning, particularly neural networks, have significantly impacted a wide range of fields, including the automatic enhancement of underwater images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jose M. Montero , Jose-Luis Lisani