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Due to the uneven absorption of different light wavelengths in aquatic environments, underwater images suffer from low visibility and clear color deviations. With the advancement of autonomous underwater vehicles, extensive research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zengxi Zhang , Zeru Shi , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu

Raw underwater images are degraded due to wavelength dependent light attenuation and scattering, limiting their applicability in vision systems. Another factor that makes enhancing underwater images particularly challenging is the diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Pritish Uplavikar , Zhenyu Wu , Zhangyang Wang

Underwater images often exhibit poor quality, distorted color balance and low contrast due to the complex and intricate interplay of light, water, and objects. Despite the significant contributions of previous underwater enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Weiwen Chen , Yingtie Lei , Shenghong Luo , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li , Chi-Man Pun

In real-world underwater environment, exploration of seabed resources, underwater archaeology, and underwater fishing rely on a variety of sensors, vision sensor is the most important one due to its high information content, non-intrusive,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Nan Wang , Yabin Zhou , Fenglei Han , Haitao Zhu , Jingzheng Yao

Just like many other topics in computer vision, image classification has achieved significant progress recently by using deep-learning neural networks, especially the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Most of the existing works are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Yanting Pei , Yaping Huang , Qi Zou , Hao Zang , Xingyuan Zhang , Song Wang

Images captured in challenging environments--such as nighttime, smoke, rainy weather, and underwater--often suffer from significant degradation, resulting in a substantial loss of visual quality. The effective restoration of these degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenfeng Huang , Guoan Xu , Wenjing Jia , Stuart Perry , Guangwei Gao

Underwater images are usually covered with a blue-greenish colour cast, making them distorted, blurry or low in contrast. This phenomenon occurs due to the light attenuation given by the scattering and absorption in the water column. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Salma Gonzalez-Sabbagh , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Shang Gao

The environmental perception of autonomous vehicles in normal conditions have achieved considerable success in the past decade. However, various unfavourable conditions such as fog, low-light, and motion blur will degrade image quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhanwen Liu , Yuhang Li , Yang Wang , Bolin Gao , Yisheng An , Xiangmo Zhao

Underwater images suffer from complex and diverse degradation, which inevitably affects the performance of underwater visual tasks. However, most existing learning-based Underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods mainly restore such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chen Zhao , Weiling Cai , Chenyu Dong , Ziqi Zeng

Infrared images captured under turbulent conditions are degraded by complex geometric distortions and blur. We address infrared deturbulence as an image restoration task, proposing DparNet, a parameter-assisted multi-frame network with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yi Lu , Yadong Wang , Xingbo Jiang , Xiangzhi Bai

In recent years, there has been a surge of research focused on underwater image enhancement using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), driven by the need to overcome the challenges posed by underwater environments. Issues such as light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Ashreen Tabassum , Bommakanti Navaneeth , Tenneti Jahnavi , Yenka Akshaya

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve an image's visibility while keeping its visual naturalness. Different from existing methods tending to accomplish the relighting task directly by ignoring the fidelity and naturalness recovery, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zheng Wang , Chen Chen , Peng Yi , Tao Lu , Chia-Wen Lin

In recent years, significant progress has been made in image recognition technology based on deep neural networks. However, improving recognition performance under low-light conditions remains a significant challenge. This study addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

In this paper, we present a ranking-based underwater image quality assessment (UIQA) method, abbreviated as URanker. The URanker is built on the efficient conv-attentional image Transformer. In terms of underwater images, we specially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chunle Guo , Ruiqi Wu , Xin Jin , Linghao Han , Zhi Chai , Weidong Zhang , Chongyi Li

To enhance low-light images to normally-exposed ones is highly ill-posed, namely that the mapping relationship between them is one-to-many. Previous works based on the pixel-wise reconstruction losses and deterministic processes fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Haoliang Li , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot

Due to numerous hardware shortcomings, medical image acquisition devices are susceptible to producing low-quality (i.e., low contrast, inappropriate brightness, noisy, etc.) images. Regrettably, perceptually degraded images directly impact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 S M A Sharif , Rizwan Ali Naqvi , Mithun Biswas , Woong-Kee Loh

Generalization to unseen degradations remains a fundamental challenge for low-level vision models. This paper aims to investigate the underlying mechanism of this failure, using image deraining as a primary case study due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jinfan Hu , Zhiyuan You , Jinjin Gu , Kaiwen Zhu , Tianfan Xue , Chao Dong

Classification for degraded images having various levels of degradation is very important in practical applications. This paper proposes a convolutional neural network to classify degraded images by using a restoration network and an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Kazuki Endo , Masayuki Tanaka , Masatoshi Okutomi

This paper addresses the challenging problem of image enhancement in complex underwater scenes by proposing a solution based on deep learning. The proposed method skillfully integrates two deep convolutional neural network models, VGG19 and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Aoqi Li , Yanghui Song , Jichao Dao , Chengfu Yang

Convolutional neural networks have been proven effective in a variety of image restoration tasks. Most state-of-the-art solutions, however, are trained using images with a single particular degradation level, and their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yiwen Guo , Ming Lu , Wangmeng Zuo , Changshui Zhang , Yurong Chen