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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 object detection (UOD) remains a critical challenge in computer vision due to underwater distortions which degrade low-level features and compromise the reliability of even state-of-the-art detectors. While YOLO models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Edwine Nabahirwa , Wei Song , Minghua Zhang , Shufan Chen

Plankton recognition is an important computer vision problem due to plankton's essential role in ocean food webs and carbon capture, highlighting the need for species-level monitoring. However, this task is challenging due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Joona Kareinen , Tuomas Eerola , Kaisa Kraft , Lasse Lensu , Sanna Suikkanen , Heikki Kälviäinen

Low light images captured in a non-uniform illumination environment usually are degraded with the scene depth and the corresponding environment lights. This degradation results in severe object information loss in the degraded image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Xin Xu , Shiqin Wang , Zheng Wang , Xiaolong Zhang , Ruimin Hu

Underwater image quality is affected by fluorescence, low illumination, absorption, and scattering. Recent works in underwater image enhancement have proposed different deep network architectures to handle these problems. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Pranjali Singh , Prithwijit Guha

Object detection is a fundamental task for robots to operate in unstructured environments. Today, there are several deep learning algorithms that solve this task with remarkable performance. Unfortunately, training such systems requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Federico Ceola , Elisa Maiettini , Giulia Pasquale , Lorenzo Rosasco , Lorenzo Natale

In low-light environments, the performance of computer vision algorithms often deteriorates significantly, adversely affecting key vision tasks such as segmentation, detection, and classification. With the rapid advancement of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Fangxue Liu , Lei Fan

Accurate and fast extraction of foreground object is a key prerequisite for a wide range of computer vision applications such as object tracking and recognition. Thus, enormous background subtraction methods for foreground object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Dongdong Zeng , Ming Zhu , Arjan Kuijper

In this paper, we introduce and tackle the simultaneous enhancement and super-resolution (SESR) problem for underwater robot vision and provide an efficient solution for near real-time applications. We present Deep SESR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Md Jahidul Islam , Peigen Luo , Junaed Sattar

Underwater imaging plays a pivotal role in marine exploration and ecological monitoring. However, it faces significant challenges of limited transmission bandwidth and severe distortion in the aquatic environment. In this work, to achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Linwei Zhu , Junhao Zhu , Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Ye Li , Runmin Cong , Sam Kwong

While computer vision has received increasing attention in computer science over the last decade, there are few efforts in applying this to leverage engineering design research. Existing datasets and technologies allow researchers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Jorgen F. Erichsen , Sampsa Kohtala , Martin Steinert , Torgeir Welo

Object Detection is the task of classification and localization of objects in an image or video. It has gained prominence in recent years due to its widespread applications. This article surveys recent developments in deep learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Syed Sahil Abbas Zaidi , Mohammad Samar Ansari , Asra Aslam , Nadia Kanwal , Mamoona Asghar , Brian Lee

One of the main challenges in deep learning-based underwater image enhancement is the limited availability of high-quality training data. Underwater images are difficult to capture and are often of poor quality due to the distortion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alzayat Saleh , Marcus Sheaves , Dean Jerry , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Among underwater perceptual sensors, imaging sonar has been highlighted for its perceptual robustness underwater. The major challenge of imaging sonar, however, arises from the difficulty in defining visual features despite limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Sejin Lee , Byungjae Park , Ayoung Kim

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable developments made by deep learning techniques for object detection, a fundamentally challenging problem of computer vision. Nevertheless, there are still difficulties in training accurate deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Joya Chen , Qi Wu , Dong Liu , Tong Xu

The cross-depiction problem is that of recognising visual objects regardless of whether they are photographed, painted, drawn, etc. It is a potentially significant yet under-researched problem. Emulating the remarkable human ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Hongping Cai , Qi Wu , Tadeo Corradi , Peter Hall

Underwater video analysis is particularly challenging due to factors such as low lighting, color distortion, and turbidity, which compromise visual data quality and directly impact the performance of perception modules in robotic…

The underwater images usually suffers from non-uniform lighting, low contrast, blur and diminished colors. In this paper, we proposed an image based preprocessing technique to enhance the quality of the underwater images. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-04 C. J. Prabhakar , P. U. Praveen Kumar

The target of this paper is to recommend a way for Automated classification of Fish species. A high accuracy fish classification is required for greater understanding of fish behavior in Ichthyology and by marine biologists. Maintaining a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Dhruv Rathi , Sushant Jain , Dr. S. Indu

What is the current state-of-the-art for image restoration and enhancement applied to degraded images acquired under less than ideal circumstances? Can the application of such algorithms as a pre-processing step to improve image…