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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…

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Underwater images are degraded by the selective attenuation of light that distorts colours and reduces contrast. The degradation extent depends on the water type, the distance between an object and the camera, and the depth under the water…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Chau Yi Li , Riccardo Mazzon , Andrea Cavallaro

In an underwater scene, wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering degrade the visibility of images, causing low contrast and distorted color casts. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Saeed Anwar , Chongyi Li , Fatih Porikli

Underwater images suffer from color casts and low contrast due to wavelength- and distance-dependent attenuation and scattering. To solve these two degradation issues, we present an underwater image enhancement network via medium…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Chongyi Li , Saeed Anwar , Junhui Hou , Runmin Cong , Chunle Guo , Wenqi Ren

The performance of existing underwater object detection methods degrades seriously when facing domain shift caused by complicated underwater environments. Due to the limitation of the number of domains in the dataset, deep detectors easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yang Chen , Pinhao Song , Hong Liu , Linhui Dai , Xiaochuan Zhang , Runwei Ding , Shengquan Li

Underwater object detection constitutes a pivotal endeavor within the realms of marine surveillance and autonomous underwater systems; however, it presents significant challenges due to pronounced visual impairments arising from phenomena…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Md. Mushibur Rahman , Umme Fawzia Rahim , Enam Ahmed Taufik

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

Existing underwater image restoration (UIR) methods generally only handle color distortion or jointly address color and haze issues, but they often overlook the more complex degradations that can occur in underwater scenes. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Guoli Wang , Qian Zhang , Lefei Zhang , Bo Du

Underwater image enhancement is such an important vision task due to its significance in marine engineering and aquatic robot. It is usually work as a pre-processing step to improve the performance of high level vision tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Long Chen , Lei Tong , Feixiang Zhou , Zheheng Jiang , Zhenyang Li , Jialin Lv , Junyu Dong , Huiyu Zhou

Underwater images often suffer from quality degradation due to absorption and scattering effects. Most existing underwater image enhancement algorithms produce a single, fixed-color image, limiting user flexibility and application. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xiaofeng Cong , Jing Zhang , Yeying Jin , Junming Hou , Yu Zhao , Jie Gui , James Tin-Yau Kwok , Yuan Yan Tang

Underwater instance segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in various underwater vision tasks. However, the decline in image quality caused by complex underwater environments presents significant challenges to existing segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lianjun Liu

Underwater object detection (UOD) is vital to diverse marine applications, including oceanographic research, underwater robotics, and marine conservation. However, UOD faces numerous challenges that compromise its performance. Over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Edwine Nabahirwa , Wei Song , Minghua Zhang , Yi Fang , Zhou Ni

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

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

Small object detection via UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images captured from drones and radar is a complex task with several formidable challenges. This domain encompasses numerous complexities that impede the accurate detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Vipin Gautam , Shitala Prasad , Sharad Sinha

This work reviews the problem of object detection in underwater environments. We analyse and quantify the shortcomings of conventional state-of-the-art (SOTA) algorithms in the computer vision community when applied to this challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Andre Jesus , Claudio Zito , Claudio Tortorici , Eloy Roura , Giulia De Masi

Owing to refraction, absorption, and scattering of light by suspended particles in water, raw underwater images suffer from low contrast, blurred details, and color distortion. These characteristics can significantly interfere with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Yuan Zhou , Kangming Yan

Underwater images taken from autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV's) often suffer from low light, high turbidity, poor contrast, motion-blur and excessive light scattering and hence require image enhancement techniques for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Sreeraj Rajan Warrier , D Sri Harshavardhan Reddy , Sriya Bada , Rohith Achampeta , Sebastian Uppapalli , Jayasri Dontabhaktuni

Underwater images are typically characterized by color cast, haze, blurring, and uneven illumination due to the selective absorption and scattering when light propagates through the water, which limits their practical applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuemei Li , Guojia Hou , Peixian Zhuang , Zhenkuan Pan

Underwater images suffer severe degradation due to wavelength-dependent attenuation, scattering, and illumination non-uniformity that vary across water types and depths. We propose an unsupervised Domain-Invariant Visual Enhancement and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Rajini Makam , Sharanya Patil , Dhatri Shankari T M , Suresh Sundaram , Narasimhan Sundararajan