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Underwater object detection has higher requirements of running speed and deployment efficiency for the detector due to its specific environmental challenges. NMS of two- or one-stage object detectors and transformer architecture of…

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Underwater imaging grapples with challenges from light-water interactions, leading to color distortions and reduced clarity. In response to these challenges, we propose a novel Color Balance Prior \textbf{Guided} \textbf{Hyb}rid…

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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

Accurate depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene comprehension in robotics and autonomous vehicles. Fisheye cameras, known for their wide field of view, have inherent geometric benefits. However, their use in depth estimation is restricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Guoyang Zhao , Yuxuan Liu , Weiqing Qi , Fulong Ma , Ming Liu , Jun Ma

Images captured by fisheye lenses violate the pinhole camera assumption and suffer from distortions. Rectification of fisheye images is therefore a crucial preprocessing step for many computer vision applications. In this paper, we propose…

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Performance of deep learning models is strongly governed by architectural capacity, with width and depth as primary controls. However, in physical-science applications, models are often compared at a single fixed size or by separating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Alexander I. Khrabry , Edward A. Startsev , Andrew T. Powis , Igor D. Kaganovich

Aiming at the problems of color distortion, blur and excessive noise of underwater image, an underwater image enhancement algorithm based on structure-texture reconstruction is proposed. Firstly, the color equalization of the degraded image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Sen Lin , Kaichen Chi

Underwater vision suffers from severe effects due to selective attenuation and scattering when light propagates through water. Such degradation not only affects the quality of underwater images but limits the ability of vision tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Chongyi Li , Jichang Guo , Chunle Guo

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

Underwater images are often affected by complex degradations such as light absorption, scattering, color casts, and artifacts, making enhancement critical for effective object detection, recognition, and scene understanding in aquatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afrah Shaahid , Muzammil Behzad

Underwater images typically suffer from severe colour distortions, low visibility, and reduced structural clarity due to complex optical effects such as scattering and absorption, which greatly degrade their visual quality and limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chang Huang , Jiahang Cao , Jun Ma , Kieren Yu , Cong Li , Huayong Yang , Kaishun Wu

Current deep learning-based low-light image enhancement methods often struggle with high-resolution images, and fail to meet the practical demands of visual perception across diverse and unseen scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Tomáš Chobola , Yu Liu , Hanyi Zhang , Julia A. Schnabel , Tingying Peng

Underwater docking is critical to enable the persistent operation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). For this, the AUV must be capable of detecting and localizing the docking station, which is complex due to the highly dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jalil Chavez-Galaviz , Jianwen Li , Matthew Bergman , Miras Mengdibayev , Nina Mahmoudian

Nowadays underwater vision systems are being widely applied in ocean research. However, the largest portion of the ocean - the deep sea - still remains mostly unexplored. Only relatively few image sets have been taken from the deep sea due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yifan Song , David Nakath , Mengkun She , Furkan Elibol , Kevin Köser

Underwater object detection (UOD), aiming to identify and localise the objects in underwater images or videos, presents significant challenges due to the optical distortion, water turbidity, and changing illumination in underwater scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Long Chen , Yuzhi Huang , Junyu Dong , Qi Xu , Sam Kwong , Huimin Lu , Huchuan Lu , Chongyi Li

In this paper, we provide an improved version of UnDEMoN model for depth and ego motion estimation from monocular images. The improvement is achieved by combining the standard bi-linear sampler with a deep network based image sampling model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Madhu Babu , Swagat Kumar , Anima Majumder , Kaushik Das

The problem of blind image super-resolution aims to recover high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) images with unknown degradation modes. Most existing methods model the image degradation process using blur kernels. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Junxiong Lin , Zeng Tao , Xuan Tong , Xinji Mai , Haoran Wang , Boyang Wang , Yan Wang , Qing Zhao , Jiawen Yu , Yuxuan Lin , Shaoqi Yan , Shuyong Gao , Wenqiang Zhang

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

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation serves as a key task in the development of endoscopic navigation systems. However, performance degradation persists due to uneven illumination inherent in endoscopic images, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Mingyang Ou , Haojin Li , Yifeng Zhang , Ke Niu , Zhongxi Qiu , Heng Li , Jiang Liu

Depth estimation from a single underwater image is one of the most challenging problems and is highly ill-posed. Due to the absence of large generalized underwater depth datasets and the difficulty in obtaining ground truth depth-maps,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Honey Gupta , Kaushik Mitra