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A main challenge faced in the deep learning-based Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is that the ground truth high-quality image is unavailable. Most of the existing methods first generate approximate reference maps and then train an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Zhenqi Fu , Wu Wang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Kai-Kuang Ma

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) presents a significant challenge within computer vision research. Despite the development of numerous UIE algorithms, a thorough and systematic review is still absent. To foster future advancements, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xiaofeng Cong , Yu Zhao , Jie Gui , Junming Hou , Dacheng Tao

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

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

Visual inspection of underwater structures by vehicles, e.g. remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), plays an important role in scientific, military, and commercial sectors. However, the automatic extraction of information using software tools…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yousif Hashisho , Mohamad Albadawi , Tom Krause , Uwe Freiherr von Lukas

Improving the quality of underwater images is essential for advancing marine research and technology. This work introduces a sparsity-driven interpretable neural network (SINET) for the underwater image enhancement (UIE) task. Unlike pure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Gargi Panda , Soumitra Kundu , Saumik Bhattacharya , Aurobinda Routray

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a practically important yet underexplored application of spiking neural networks (SNNs), where the dominant degradations are large-scale and low-frequency, such as wavelength-dependent colour casts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shuang Chen , Ruochen Li , Zihan Zhu , Ronald Thenius , Farshad Arvin , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Underwater images often suffer from severe degradation caused by light absorption and scattering, leading to color distortion, low contrast and reduced visibility. Existing Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) methods can be divided into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shixuan Xu , Yabo Liu , Chao Huang , Junyu Dong , Xinghui Dong

In real underwater environments, downstream image recognition tasks such as semantic segmentation and object detection often face challenges posed by problems like blurring and color inconsistencies. Underwater image enhancement (UIE) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Bosen Lin , Feng Gao , Yanwei Yu , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Underwater object detection (UOD) plays a significant role in aquaculture and marine environmental protection. Considering the challenges posed by low contrast and low-light conditions in underwater environments, several underwater image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Linhui Dai , Hong Liu , Pinhao Song , Mengyuan Liu

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) has attracted much attention owing to its importance for underwater operation and marine engineering. Motivated by the recent advance in generative models, we propose a novel UIE method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xingyang Nie , Su Pan , Xiaoyu Zhai , Shifei Tao , Fengzhong Qu , Biao Wang , Huilin Ge , Guojie Xiao

Recently, learning-based Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) methods have demonstrated promising performance. However, existing learning-based methods still face two challenges. 1) They rarely consider the inconsistent degradation levels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Lingtao Peng , Liheng Bian

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) plays a crucial role in various marine applications, but it remains challenging due to the complex underwater environment. Current learning-based approaches frequently lack explicit incorporation of prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yingtie Lei , Jia Yu , Yihang Dong , Changwei Gong , Ziyang Zhou , Chi-Man Pun

Document Image Enhancement (DIE) serves as a critical component in Document AI systems, where its performance substantially determines the effectiveness of downstream tasks. To address the limitations of existing methods confined to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zhihong Tang

Underwater images are subject to intricate and diverse degradation, inevitably affecting the effectiveness of underwater visual tasks. However, most approaches primarily operate in the raw pixel space of images, which limits the exploration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Chen Zhao , Weiling Cai , Chenyu Dong , Chengwei Hu

Depth super-resolution (DSR) aims to restore high-resolution (HR) depth from low-resolution (LR) one, where RGB image is often used to promote this task. Recent image guided DSR approaches mainly focus on spatial domain to rebuild depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhengxue Wang , Zhiqiang Yan , Jian Yang

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is an ill-posed problem where natural clean references are not available, and the degradation levels vary significantly across semantic regions. Existing UIE methods treat images with a single global model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Bosen Lin , Feng Gao , Yanwei Yu , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

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

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

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