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In general, underwater images suffer from color distortion and low contrast, because light is attenuated and backscattered as it propagates through water (differently depending on wavelength and on the properties of the water body). An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Tanmoy Mondal , Ricardo Mendoza , Lucas Drumetz

Effective waste sorting is critical for sustainable recycling, yet AI research in this domain continues to lag behind commercial systems due to limited datasets and reliance on legacy object detectors. In this work, we advance AI-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hassan Abid , Khan Muhammad , Muhammad Haris Khan

With climate change and increasing human pressure on natural landscapes, inland water resources are becoming progressively scarcer, more vulnerable, and more difficult to manage sustainably. Reliable and automated methods for detecting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Iulia Pleşu , Alexandra Băicoianu , Ioana Cristina Plajer

With the rapid advancement of technology, the recognition of underwater acoustic signals in complex environments has become increasingly crucial. Currently, mainstream underwater acoustic signal recognition relies primarily on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Minghao Chen

Deep learning is a topic of considerable current interest. The availability of massive data collections and powerful software resources has led to an impressive amount of results in many application areas that reveal essential but hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Gianluigi Pillonetto , Aleksandr Aravkin , Daniel Gedon , Lennart Ljung , Antônio H. Ribeiro , Thomas B. Schön

Underwater Camouflaged Object Detection (UCOD) is a challenging task due to the extreme visual similarity between targets and backgrounds across varying marine depths. Existing methods often struggle with topological fragmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenji Wu , Shuo Ye , Yiyu Liu , Jiguang He , Zhuo Wang , Zitong Yu

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

Due to the growing amount of data from in-situ sensors in wastewater systems, it becomes necessary to automatically identify abnormal behaviours and ensure high data quality. This paper proposes an anomaly detection method based on a deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Stefania Russo , Andy Disch , Frank Blumensaat , Kris Villez

When logos are increasingly created, logo detection has gradually become a research hotspot across many domains and tasks. Recent advances in this area are dominated by deep learning-based solutions, where many datasets, learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Sujuan Hou , Jiacheng Li , Weiqing Min , Qiang Hou , Yanna Zhao , Yuanjie Zheng , Shuqiang Jiang

The detection and classification of microplastics in water remain a significant challenge due to their diverse properties and the limitations of traditional optical methods. Standard spectroscopic techniques often suffer from the strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Leonard Saur , Marc von Pawlowski , Ulrich Gengenbach , Ingo Sieber , Hossein Shirali , Lorenz Wührl , Xiangyu Weng , Rainer Kiko , Christian Pylatiuk

This paper is motivated by a simple question: Can we design and build battery-free devices capable of machine learning and inference in underwater environments? An affirmative answer to this question would have significant implications for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yuchen Zhao , Sayed Saad Afzal , Waleed Akbar , Osvy Rodriguez , Fan Mo , David Boyle , Fadel Adib , Hamed Haddadi

For aquaculture resource evaluation and ecological environment monitoring, automatic detection and identification of marine organisms is critical. However, due to the low quality of underwater images and the characteristics of underwater…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Zheng Liu , Yaoming Zhuang , Pengrun Jia , Chengdong Wu , Hongli Xu ang Zhanlin Liu

Underground water and wastewater pipelines are vital for city operations but plagued by anomalies like leaks and infiltrations, causing substantial water loss, environmental damage, and high repair costs. Conventional manual inspections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Qiming Guo , Bishal Khatri , Hua Zhang , Wenlu Wang

Plastic waste in aquatic environments poses severe risks to marine life and human health. Autonomous robots can be utilized to collect floating waste, but they require accurate object identification capability. While deep learning has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Luis Felipe Wolf Batista , Salim Khazem , Mehran Adibi , Seth Hutchinson , Cedric Pradalier

Underwater litter is widely spread across aquatic environments such as lakes, rivers, and oceans, significantly impacting natural ecosystems. Current monitoring technologies for detecting underwater litter face limitations in survey…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Fan Zhao , Yongying Liu , Jiaqi Wang , Yijia Chen , Dianhan Xi , Xinlei Shao , Shigeru Tabeta , Katsunori Mizuno

Water quality is foundational to environmental sustainability, ecosystem resilience, and public health. Deep learning offers transformative potential for large-scale water quality prediction and scientific insights generation. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaobo Xia , Xiaofeng Liu , Jiale Liu , Kuai Fang , Lu Lu , Samet Oymak , William S. Currie , Tongliang Liu

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 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

The machine learning community has been overwhelmed by a plethora of deep learning based approaches. Many challenging computer vision tasks such as detection, localization, recognition and segmentation of objects in unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Swarnendu Ghosh , Nibaran Das , Ishita Das , Ujjwal Maulik

Crack detection plays a crucial role in civil infrastructures, including inspection of pavements, buildings, etc., and deep learning has significantly advanced this field in recent years. While numerous technical and review papers exist in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xinan Zhang , Haolin Wang , Yung-An Hsieh , Zhongyu Yang , Anthony Yezzi , Yi-Chang Tsai