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Due to adverse atmospheric and imaging conditions, natural images suffer from various degradation phenomena. Consequently, image restoration has emerged as a key solution and garnered substantial attention. Although recent Transformer…

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The degradation in the underwater images is due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, scattering, and to the diversity of the water types in which they are captured. Deep neural networks take a step in this field, providing autonomous…

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Underwater image restoration attracts significant attention due to its importance in unveiling the underwater world. This paper elaborates on a novel method that achieves state-of-the-art results for underwater image restoration based on…

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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…

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In this paper, we propose a scene-level inverse rendering framework that uses multi-view images to decompose the scene into geometry, SVBRDF, and 3D spatially-varying lighting. While multi-view images have been widely used for object-level…

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Image restoration (IR) seeks to recover high-quality images from degraded observations caused by a wide range of factors, including noise, blur, compression, and adverse weather. While traditional IR methods have made notable progress by…

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The performance of existing underwater object detection methods degrades seriously when facing domain shift caused by complicated underwater environments. Due to the limitation of the number of domains in the dataset, deep detectors easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yang Chen , Pinhao Song , Hong Liu , Linhui Dai , Xiaochuan Zhang , Runwei Ding , Shengquan Li

Blind image restoration (IR) is a common yet challenging problem in computer vision. Classical model-based methods and recent deep learning (DL)-based methods represent two different methodologies for this problem, each with their own…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Zongsheng Yue , Hongwei Yong , Qian Zhao , Lei Zhang , Deyu Meng , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Images captured under low-light conditions present significant limitations in many applications, as poor lighting can obscure details, reduce contrast, and hide noise. Removing the illumination effects and enhancing the quality of such…

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Underwater object detection (UOD) is vital to diverse marine applications, including oceanographic research, underwater robotics, and marine conservation. However, UOD faces numerous challenges that compromise its performance. Over the…

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To assist underwater object detection for better performance, image enhancement technology is often used as a pre-processing step. However, most of the existing enhancement methods tend to pursue the visual quality of an image, instead of…

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Restore lost images due to noise and blurred is a burgeoning subject in image processing and despite the different algorithms on this subject, but the effort to improve is always considered. The definition of fractional derivatives in…

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This report describes the experimental analysis of proposed underwater image enhancement algorithms based on partial differential equations (PDEs). The algorithms perform simultaneous smoothing and enhancement due to the combination of both…

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We introduce local matching stability and furthest matchable frame as quantitative measures for evaluating the success of underwater image enhancement. This enhancement process addresses visual degradation caused by light absorption,…

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This paper presents a new variational inference framework for image restoration and a convolutional neural network (CNN) structure that can solve the restoration problems described by the proposed framework. Earlier CNN-based image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Variational regularization models are one of the popular and efficient approaches for image restoration. The regularization functional in the model carries prior knowledge about the image to be restored. The prior knowledge, in particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Yan-ran Li , Raymond H. F. Chan , Lixin Shen , Xiaosheng Zhuang

Underwater object detection suffers from low detection performance because the distance and wavelength dependent imaging process yield evident image quality degradations such as haze-like effects, low visibility, and color distortions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Chenping Fu , Xin Fan , Jiewen Xiao , Wanqi Yuan , Risheng Liu , Zhongxuan Luo

Super-resolution tasks oriented to images captured in ultra-dark environments is a practical yet challenging problem that has received little attention. Due to uneven illumination and low signal-to-noise ratio in dark environments, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jiaxin Gao , Ziyu Yue , Yaohua Liu , Sihan Xie , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

This paper proposes UHDformer, a general Transformer for Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) image restoration. UHDformer contains two learning spaces: (a) learning in high-resolution space and (b) learning in low-resolution space. The former…

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