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Quality degradation is observed in underwater images due to the effects of light refraction and absorption by water, leading to issues like color cast, haziness, and limited visibility. This degradation negatively affects the performance of…

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Low-field (LF) MRI scanners (<1T) are still prevalent in settings with limited resources or unreliable power supply. However, they often yield images with lower spatial resolution and contrast than high-field (HF) scanners. This quality…

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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…

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Recent advancements in image restoration increasingly employ conditional latent diffusion models (CLDMs). While these models have demonstrated notable performance improvements in recent years, this work questions their suitability for IR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yunchen Yuan , Junyuan Xiao , Xinjie Li

Due to complex and volatile lighting environment, underwater imaging can be readily impaired by light scattering, warping, and noises. To improve the visual quality, Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) techniques have been widely studied.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yannan Zheng , Weiling Chen , Rongfu Lin , Tiesong Zhao

Recently, learning-based Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) methods have demonstrated promising performance. However, existing learning-based methods still face two challenges. 1) They rarely consider the inconsistent degradation levels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Lingtao Peng , Liheng Bian

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) poses challenges due to distinctive properties of the underwater environment, including low contrast, high turbidity, visual blurriness, and color distortion. In recent years, the application of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Wangzhen Peng , Chenghao Zhou , Runze Hu , Jingchao Cao , Yutao Liu

While deep neural networks (NN) significantly advance image compressed sensing (CS) by improving reconstruction quality, the necessity of training current CS NNs from scratch constrains their effectiveness and hampers rapid deployment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Bin Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Weiqi Li , Chen Zhao , Jiwen Yu , Shijie Zhao , Jie Chen , Jian Zhang

Underwater images are severely degraded by wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering, resulting in color distortion, low contrast, and loss of fine details that hinder vision-based underwater applications. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Afrah Shaahid , Muzammil Behzad

Underwater image enhancement algorithms have attracted much attention in underwater vision task. However, these algorithms are mainly evaluated on different data sets and different metrics. In this paper, we set up an effective and pubic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Hanyu Li , Jingjing Li , Wei Wang

Intrinsic image decomposition is fundamental for visual understanding, as RGB images entangle material properties, illumination, and view-dependent effects. Recent diffusion-based methods have achieved strong results for single-view…

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Latent Diffusion Models (LDM), a subclass of diffusion models, mitigate the computational complexity of pixel-space diffusion by operating within a compressed latent space constructed by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), demonstrating…

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In recent years, with the continuous development of the marine industry, underwater image enhancement has attracted plenty of attention. Unfortunately, the propagation of light in water will be absorbed by water bodies and scattered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Pan Mu , Jing Fang , Haotian Qian , Cong Bai

Underwater image understanding is crucial for both submarine navigation and seabed exploration. However, the low illumination in underwater environments degrades the imaging quality, which in turn seriously deteriorates the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xin Zuo , Jiaran Jiang , Jifeng Shen , Wankou Yang

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

Underwater images suffer from color casts and low contrast due to wavelength- and distance-dependent attenuation and scattering. To solve these two degradation issues, we present an underwater image enhancement network via medium…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Chongyi Li , Saeed Anwar , Junhui Hou , Runmin Cong , Chunle Guo , Wenqi Ren

We present JointDiT, a diffusion transformer that models the joint distribution of RGB and depth. By leveraging the architectural benefit and outstanding image prior of the state-of-the-art diffusion transformer, JointDiT not only generates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Kwon Byung-Ki , Qi Dai , Lee Hyoseok , Chong Luo , Tae-Hyun Oh

Due to the complex interplay of light absorption and scattering in the underwater environment, underwater images experience significant degradation. This research presents a two-stage underwater image enhancement network called the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Han Mei , Kunqian Li , Shuaixin Liu , Chengzhi Ma , Qianli Jiang

Despite its success in image synthesis, we observe that diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) often lack contextual reasoning ability to learn the relations among object parts in an image, leading to a slow learning process. To solve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Shanghua Gao , Pan Zhou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Shuicheng Yan

Underwater robots play an important role in oceanic geological exploration, resource exploitation, ecological research, and other fields. However, the visual perception of underwater robots is affected by various environmental factors. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-08 Xuelei Chen , Pin Zhang , Lingwei Quan , Chao Yi , Cunyue Lu