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Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) technology aims to tackle the challenge of restoring the degraded underwater images due to light absorption and scattering. To address problems, a novel U-Net based Reinforced Swin-Convs Transformer for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Tingdi Ren , Haiyong Xu , Gangyi Jiang , Mei Yu , Ting Luo

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

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

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

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

Instead of performing text-conditioned denoising in the image domain, latent diffusion models (LDMs) operate in latent space of a variational autoencoder (VAE), enabling more efficient processing at reduced computational costs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jason Becker , Chris Wendler , Peter Baylies , Robert West , Christian Wressnegger

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is vital for safety-critical applications such as surveillance, autonomous navigation, and medical imaging, where visibility degradation can impair downstream task performance. Recently, diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Eashan Adhikarla , Yixin Liu , Brian D. Davison

To improve the quality of underwater images, various kinds of underwater image enhancement (UIE) operators have been proposed during the past few years. However, the lack of effective objective evaluation methods limits the further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Zhenqi Fu , Xueyang Fu , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding

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

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

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

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

Underwater image enhancement plays a crucial role in providing reliable visual information for underwater platforms, since strong absorption and scattering in water-related environments generally lead to image quality degradation. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yiqiang Zhou , Yifan Chen , Zhe Sun , Jijun Lu , Ye Zheng , Xuelong Li

Underwater imagery is often compromised by factors such as color distortion and low contrast, posing challenges for high-level vision tasks. Recent underwater image restoration (UIR) methods either analyze the input image at full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Alik Pramanick , Arijit Sur , V. Vijaya Saradhi

Underwater image enhancement, as a pre-processing step to improve the accuracy of the following object detection task, has drawn considerable attention in the field of underwater navigation and ocean exploration. However, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Long Chen , Zheheng Jiang , Lei Tong , Zhihua Liu , Aite Zhao , Qianni Zhang , Junyu Dong , Huiyu Zhou

In underwater environments, variations in suspended particle concentration and turbidity cause severe image degradation, posing significant challenges to image enhancement (IE) and object detection (OD) tasks. Currently, in-air image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jingchun Zhou , Qilin Gai , Kin-man Lam , Xianping Fu

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 play a crucial role in ocean research and marine environmental monitoring since they provide quality information about the ecosystem. However, the complex and remote nature of the environment results in poor image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nilesh Jain , Elie Alhajjar

The class-conditional image generation based on diffusion models is renowned for generating high-quality and diverse images. However, most prior efforts focus on generating images for general categories, e.g., 1000 classes in ImageNet-1k. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ziying Pan , Kun Wang , Gang Li , Feihong He , Yongxuan Lai

Image aesthetic enhancement aims to perceive aesthetic deficiencies in images and perform corresponding editing operations, which is highly challenging and requires the model to possess creativity and aesthetic perception capabilities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Xinyu Nan , Ning Wang , Yuyao Zhai , Mei Yang