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Metaverse, a burgeoning technological trend that combines virtual and augmented reality, provides users with a fully digital environment where they can assume a virtual identity through a digital avatar and interact with others as they were…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Nikolaos Misirlis , Yiannis Nikolaidis , Anna Sabidussi

eXtended reality (XR) technologies such as virtual reality and 360{\deg} stereoscopic streaming enable the concept of the Metaverse, an immersive virtual space for collaboration and interaction. To ensure high fidelity display of immersive…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Haiwei Dong , Jeannie S. A. Lee

Underwater image enhancement has been attracting much attention due to its significance in marine engineering and aquatic robotics. Numerous underwater image enhancement algorithms have been proposed in the last few years. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Wenqi Ren , Runmin Cong , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong , Dacheng Tao

The metaverse is a nascent concept that envisions a virtual universe, a collaborative space where individuals can interact, create, and participate in a wide range of activities. Privacy in the metaverse is a critical concern as the concept…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Mahdi Alkaeed , Adnan Qayyum , Junaid Qadir

Metaverse is expected to emerge as a new paradigm for the next-generation Internet, providing fully immersive and personalised experiences to socialize, work, and play in self-sustaining and hyper-spatio-temporal virtual world(s). The…

In recent years, ubiquitous semantic Metaverse has been studied to revolutionize immersive cyber-virtual experiences for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) users, which leverages advanced semantic understanding and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kai Li , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni , Mohsen Guizani , Chau Yuen

The Metaverse depicts a parallel digitalized world where virtuality and reality are fused. It has economic and social systems like those in the real world and provides intelligent services and applications. In this paper, we introduce the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Feifei Shi , Huansheng Ning , Xiaohong Zhang , Rongyang Li , Qiaohui Tian , Shiming Zhang , Yuanyuan Zheng , Yudong Guo , Mahmoud Daneshmand

In this paper, we present a conditional generative adversarial network-based model for real-time underwater image enhancement. To supervise the adversarial training, we formulate an objective function that evaluates the perceptual image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Md Jahidul Islam , Youya Xia , Junaed Sattar

Underwater scenes intrinsically involve degradation problems owing to heterogeneous ocean elements. Prevailing underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods stick to straightforward feature modeling to learn the mapping function, which leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zhixiong Huang , Xinying Wang , Chengpei Xu , Jinjiang Li , Lin Feng

The way we engage with digital spaces and the digital world has undergone rapid changes in recent years, largely due to the emergence of the Metaverse. As technology continues to advance, the demand for sophisticated and immersive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Senthil Kumar Jagatheesaperumal , Praveen Sathikumar , Harikrishnan Rajan

This paper introduces the concept of employing neuromorphic methodologies for task-oriented underwater robotics applications. In contrast to the increasing computational demands of conventional deep learning algorithms, neuromorphic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Vidya Sudevan , Fakhreddine Zayer , Sajid Javed , Hamad Karki , Giulia De Masi , Jorge Dias

Metaverse, the core of the next-generation Internet, is a computer-generated holographic digital environment that simultaneously combines spatio-temporal, immersive, real-time, sustainable, interoperable, and data-sensitive characteristics.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Chuan Chen , Yuecheng Li , Zhenpeng Wu , Chengyuan Mai , Youming Liu , Yanming Hu , Zibin Zheng , Jiawen Kang

In the Metaverse, the physical space and the virtual space co-exist, and interact simultaneously. While the physical space is virtually enhanced with information, the virtual space is continuously refreshed with real-time, real-world…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Beng Chin Ooi , Gang Chen , Mike Zheng Shou , Kian-Lee Tan , Anthony Tung , Xiaokui Xiao , James Wei Luen Yip , Meihui Zhang

In recent years, the maturation of emerging technologies such as Virtual Reality, Digital twins, and Blockchain has accelerated the realization of the metaverse. As a virtual world independent of the real world, the metaverse will provide…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiaolong Xu , Xuanhong Zhou , Muhammad Bilal , Sherali Zeadally , Jon Crowcroft , Lianyong Qi , Shengjun Xue

Metaverse has evolved as one of the popular research agendas that let the users learn, socialize, and collaborate in a networked 3D immersive virtual world. Due to the rich multimedia streaming capability and immersive user experience with…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Senthil Kumar Jagatheesaperumal , Kashif Ahmad , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Junaid Qadir

The Metaverse is a concept that proposes to immerse users into real-time rendered 3D content virtual worlds delivered through Extended Reality (XR) devices like Augmented and Mixed Reality (AR/MR) smart glasses and Virtual Reality (VR)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés , Paula Fraga-Lamas

Metaverse aims to construct a large, unified, immersive, and shared digital realm by combining various technologies, namely XR (extended reality), blockchain, and digital twin, among others. This article explores the Metaverse from the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Haopeng Wang , Roberto Martinez-Velazquez , Haiwei Dong , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

The metaverse, enormous virtual-physical cyberspace, has brought unprecedented opportunities for artists to blend every corner of our physical surroundings with digital creativity. This article conducts a comprehensive survey on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Lik-Hang Lee , Zijun Lin , Rui Hu , Zhengya Gong , Abhishek Kumar , Tangyao Li , Sijia Li , Pan Hui

Recent advances in deep learning, particularly neural networks, have significantly impacted a wide range of fields, including the automatic enhancement of underwater images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jose M. Montero , Jose-Luis Lisani

Incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) technology, particularly large language models (LLMs), is becoming increasingly vital for developing immersive and interactive metaverse experiences. GPT, a representative LLM developed by OpenAI,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Pengyuan Zhou