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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

Deep learning has achieved remarkable results in many computer vision tasks. Deep neural networks typically rely on large amounts of training data to avoid overfitting. However, labeled data for real-world applications may be limited. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Suorong Yang , Weikang Xiao , Mengchen Zhang , Suhan Guo , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

Underwater object detection suffers from low detection performance because the distance and wavelength dependent imaging process yield evident image quality degradations such as haze-like effects, low visibility, and color distortions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Chenping Fu , Xin Fan , Jiewen Xiao , Wanqi Yuan , Risheng Liu , Zhongxuan Luo

Underwater environments pose significant challenges due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by water, which affects image clarity, contrast, and color fidelity. To overcome these, we introduce OceanLens, a method that models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Rajini Makam , Dhatri Shankari T M , Sharanya Patil , Suresh Sundram

Over the past few decades, underwater image enhancement has attracted increasing amount of research effort due to its significance in underwater robotics and ocean engineering. Research has evolved from implementing physics-based solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Ankita Naik , Apurva Swarnakar , Kartik Mittal

Deep learning has been achieving decent performance in computer vision requiring a large volume of images, however, collecting images is expensive and difficult in many scenarios. To alleviate this issue, many image augmentation algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mingle Xu , Sook Yoon , Alvaro Fuentes , Dong Sun Park

Object detection is a fundamental visual recognition problem in computer vision and has been widely studied in the past decades. Visual object detection aims to find objects of certain target classes with precise localization in a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Xiongwei Wu , Doyen Sahoo , Steven C. H. Hoi

Due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by diverse aquatic media, underwater images usually suffer from various visual degradations. Existing underwater image enhancement (UIE) approaches that combine underwater physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dazhao Du , Lingyu Si , Fanjiang Xu , Jianwei Niu , Fuchun Sun

In this paper, we introduce a generative model for image enhancement specifically for improving diver detection in the underwater domain. In particular, we present a model that integrates generative adversarial network (GAN)-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Chelsey Edge , Md Jahidul Islam , Christopher Morse , Junaed Sattar

Object recognition is a critical part of any surveillance system. It is the matter of utmost concern to identify intruders and foreign objects in the area where surveillance is done. The performance of surveillance system using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Aashish Bhandari , Aayush Kafle , Pranjal Dhakal , Prateek Raj Joshi , Dinesh Baniya Kshatri

Efficient and accurate object detection is an important topic in the development of computer vision systems. With the advent of deep learning techniques, the accuracy of object detection has increased significantly. The project aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Md Pranto , Omar Faruk

Underwater images often exhibit poor quality, distorted color balance and low contrast due to the complex and intricate interplay of light, water, and objects. Despite the significant contributions of previous underwater enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Weiwen Chen , Yingtie Lei , Shenghong Luo , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li , Chi-Man Pun

Due to complex and volatile lighting environment, underwater imaging can be readily impaired by light scattering, warping, and noises. To improve the visual quality, Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) techniques have been widely studied.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yannan Zheng , Weiling Chen , Rongfu Lin , Tiesong Zhao

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

Object detection, one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in computer vision, seeks to locate object instances from a large number of predefined categories in natural images. Deep learning techniques have emerged as a powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Li Liu , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Paul Fieguth , Jie Chen , Xinwang Liu , Matti Pietikäinen

Underwater image restoration and enhancement are crucial for correcting color distortion and restoring image details, thereby establishing a fundamental basis for subsequent underwater visual tasks. However, current deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yufeng Tian , Yifan Chen , Zhe Sun , Libang Chen , Mingyu Dou , Jijun Lu , Ye Zheng , Xuelong Li

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a meaningful but challenging task, and many learning-based UIE methods have been proposed in recent years. Although much progress has been made, these methods still exist two issues: (1) There exists a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhengyong Wang , Liquan Shen , Yihan Yu , Yuan Hui

This paper presents a new dataset and general tracker enhancement method for Underwater Visual Object Tracking (UVOT). Despite its significance, underwater tracking has remained unexplored due to data inaccessibility. It poses distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Basit Alawode , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Mehnaz Ummar , Yuhang Guo , Arif Mahmood , Naoufel Werghi , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Jiri Matas , Sajid Javed

Object detection is one of the most important and challenging branches of computer vision, which has been widely applied in peoples life, such as monitoring security, autonomous driving and so on, with the purpose of locating instances of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Licheng Jiao , Fan Zhang , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Lingling Li , Zhixi Feng , Rong Qu