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Single underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a challenging ill-posed problem, but its development is hindered by two major issues: (1) The labels in underwater reference datasets are pseudo labels, relying on these pseudo ground truths in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhi Zhang , Minfu Li , Lu Li , Daoyi Chen

A main challenge faced in the deep learning-based Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is that the ground truth high-quality image is unavailable. Most of the existing methods first generate approximate reference maps and then train an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Zhenqi Fu , Wu Wang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Kai-Kuang Ma

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

In this paper, we present an approach to image enhancement with diffusion model in underwater scenes. Our method adapts conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models to generate the corresponding enhanced images by using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yi Tang , Takafumi Iwaguchi , Hiroshi Kawasaki

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is essential for robust visual perception in marine applications. However, existing methods predominantly rely on uniform mapping tailored to average dataset distributions, leading to over-processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hang Xu , Chen Long , Bing Wang , Hao Chen , Zhen Dong

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

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is widely used for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT). It provides real time visualization at low cost and dose. However, photon scattering and beam hindrance cause artifacts in CBCT. These include…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Alzahra Altalib , Chunhui Li , Alessandro Perelli

In real underwater environments, downstream image recognition tasks such as semantic segmentation and object detection often face challenges posed by problems like blurring and color inconsistencies. Underwater image enhancement (UIE) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Bosen Lin , Feng Gao , Yanwei Yu , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Underwater images are subject to intricate and diverse degradation, inevitably affecting the effectiveness of underwater visual tasks. However, most approaches primarily operate in the raw pixel space of images, which limits the exploration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Chen Zhao , Weiling Cai , Chenyu Dong , Chengwei Hu

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) introduce the transformer architecture to diffusion tasks for latent-space image generation. With an isotropic architecture that chains a series of transformer blocks, DiTs demonstrate competitive performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuchuan Tian , Zhijun Tu , Hanting Chen , Jie Hu , Chao Xu , Yunhe Wang

Diffusion models are widely recognized for their ability to generate high-fidelity images. Despite the excellent performance and scalability of the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture, it applies fixed compression across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Weinan Jia , Mengqi Huang , Nan Chen , Lei Zhang , Zhendong Mao

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is an ill-posed problem where natural clean references are not available, and the degradation levels vary significantly across semantic regions. Existing UIE methods treat images with a single global model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Bosen Lin , Feng Gao , Yanwei Yu , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) presents a significant challenge within computer vision research. Despite the development of numerous UIE algorithms, a thorough and systematic review is still absent. To foster future advancements, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xiaofeng Cong , Yu Zhao , Jie Gui , Junming Hou , Dacheng Tao

We explore a new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture. We train latent diffusion models of images, replacing the commonly-used U-Net backbone with a transformer that operates on latent patches. We analyze the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 William Peebles , Saining Xie

Underwater images suffer from wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering, which reduces visual quality. This phenomenon could limit the operational reliability of autonomous underwater vehicles, marine surveys, and offshore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

Despite recent advances in UNet-based image editing, methods for shape-aware object editing in high-resolution images are still lacking. Compared to UNet, Diffusion Transformers (DiT) demonstrate superior capabilities to effectively capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kunyu Feng , Yue Ma , Bingyuan Wang , Chenyang Qi , Haozhe Chen , Qifeng Chen , Zeyu Wang

In an underwater scene, wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering degrade the visibility of images, causing low contrast and distorted color casts. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Saeed Anwar , Chongyi Li , Fatih Porikli

Diffusion transformers have demonstrated remarkable generation quality, albeit requiring longer training iterations and numerous inference steps. In each denoising step, diffusion transformers encode the noisy inputs to extract the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Shuai Wang , Zhi Tian , Weilin Huang , Limin Wang

Continuous Conditional Diffusion Model (CCDM) is a diffusion-based framework designed to generate high-quality images conditioned on continuous regression labels. Although CCDM has demonstrated clear advantages over prior approaches across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xin Ding , Yun Chen , Sen Zhang , Kao Zhang , Nenglun Chen , Peibei Cao , Yongwei Wang , Fei Wu

The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of underwater image enhancement techniques to improve keypoint detection and matching. By applying advanced deep learning models, including generative adversarial networks and convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Pedro Diaz-Garcia , Felix Escalona , Miguel Cazorla