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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

Due to the absorption and scattering effects of the water, underwater images tend to suffer from many severe problems, such as low contrast, grayed out colors and blurring content. To improve the visual quality of underwater images, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Hui Li , Xi Yang , ZhenMing Li , TianLun Zhang

The light absorption and scattering of underwater impurities lead to poor underwater imaging quality. The existing data-driven based underwater image enhancement (UIE) techniques suffer from the lack of a large-scale dataset containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-05 Lintao Peng , Chunli Zhu , Liheng Bian

Recent learning-based underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods have advanced by incorporating physical priors into deep neural networks, particularly using the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) prior to reduce wavelength-dependent attenuation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xin Tian , Yingtie Lei , Xiujun Zhang , Zimeng Li , Chi-Man Pun , Xuhang Chen

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

Background: Underwater images, in general, suffer from low contrast and high color distortions due to the non-uniform attenuation of the light as it propagates through the water. In addition, the degree of attenuation varies with the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-20 Prasen Kumar Sharma , Ira Bisht , Arijit Sur

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

We present a wavelet-based dual-stream network that addresses color cast and blurry details in underwater images. We handle these artifacts separately by decomposing an input image into multiple frequency bands using discrete wavelet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Ziyin Ma , Changjae Oh

Underwater images normally suffer from degradation due to the transmission medium of water bodies. Both traditional prior-based approaches and deep learning-based methods have been used to address this problem. However, the inflexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shixuan Xu , Hao Qi , Wei Wang , Chao Huang , Jie Wen , Junyu Dong , Xinghui Dong

Underwater images suffer from colour shifts, low contrast, and haziness due to light absorption, refraction, scattering and restoring these images has warranted much attention. In this work, we present Unsupervised Underwater Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Vinayak Gupta , Manoj S , Mukund Varma T , Kaushik Mitra

Restoring images captured under adverse weather conditions is a fundamental task for many computer vision applications. However, most existing weather restoration approaches are only capable of handling a specific type of degradation, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Ruoxi Zhu , Zhengzhong Tu , Jiaming Liu , Alan C. Bovik , Yibo Fan

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 challenges in recovering underwater images are the presence of diverse degradation factors and the lack of ground truth images. Although synthetic underwater image pairs can be used to overcome the problem of inadequately observing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhenwei Zhang , Haorui Yan , Ke Tang , Yuping Duan

Image dehazing is fundamental yet not well-solved in computer vision. Most cutting-edge models are trained in synthetic data, leading to the poor performance on real-world hazy scenarios. Besides, they commonly give deterministic dehazed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Ming Tong , Yongzhen Wang , Peng Cui , Xuefeng Yan , Mingqiang Wei

The degradation in the underwater images is due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, scattering, and to the diversity of the water types in which they are captured. Deep neural networks take a step in this field, providing autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Niki Martinel

Quality degradation is observed in underwater images due to the effects of light refraction and absorption by water, leading to issues like color cast, haziness, and limited visibility. This degradation negatively affects the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 MD Raqib Khan , Anshul Negi , Ashutosh Kulkarni , Shruti S. Phutke , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Subrahmanyam Murala

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

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 are severely degraded by wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering, resulting in color distortion, low contrast, and loss of fine details that hinder vision-based underwater applications. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Afrah Shaahid , Muzammil Behzad
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