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Presence of haze in images obscures underlying information, which is undesirable in applications requiring accurate environment information. To recover such an image, a dehazing algorithm should localize and recover affected regions while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Pranjay Shyam , Kuk-Jin Yoon , Kyung-Soo Kim

Near-infrared imaging can capture haze-free near-infrared gray images and visible color images, according to physical scattering models, e.g., Rayleigh or Mie models. However, there exist serious discrepancies in brightness and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Chang-Hwan Son , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Severe color casts, low contrast and blurriness of underwater images caused by light absorption and scattering result in a difficult task for exploring underwater environments. Different from most of previous underwater image enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-15 Xueyan Ding , Yafei Wang , Yang Yan , Zheng Liang , Zetian Mi , Xianping Fu

Underwater images are inevitably affected by color distortion and reduced contrast. Traditional statistic-based methods such as white balance and histogram stretching attempted to adjust the imbalance of color channels and narrow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ziyuan Xiao , Yina Han , Susanto Rahardja , Yuanliang Ma

In this paper, we propose an efficient visual transformer framework for ultra-high-definition (UHD) image dehazing that addresses the key challenges of slow training speed and high memory consumption for existing methods. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Pu Wang , Pengwen Dai , Chen Wu , Yeying Jin , Dianjie Lu , Guijuan Zhang , Youshan Zhang , Zhuoran Zheng

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is challenging since image degradation in aquatic environments is complicated and changing over time. Existing mainstream methods rely on either physical-model or data-driven, suffering from performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xiaowen Shi , Yuan-Gen Wang

Zero-shot image restoration provides a flexible way to handle diverse degradations without task-specific training. However, existing methods typically rely on stacked layers or pre-trained features to enhance degradation expression, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 XiaoWan Hu , Jing Yang , HeNan Liu , HuaQiu Li , Mai Xu

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

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

We present a novel dual-stream architecture that achieves state-of-the-art underwater image enhancement by explicitly integrating the Jaffe-McGlamery physical model with capsule clustering-based feature representation learning. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Niki Martinel , Rita Pucci

Recently, learning-based algorithms have shown impressive performance in underwater image enhancement. Most of them resort to training on synthetic data and achieve outstanding performance. However, these methods ignore the significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhengyong Wang , Liquan Shen , Mei Yu , Kun Wang , Yufei Lin , Mai Xu

Restoration of images contaminated by different adverse weather conditions such as fog, snow, and rain is a challenging task due to the varying nature of the weather conditions. Most of the existing methods focus on any one particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Kotha Kartheek , Lingamaneni Gnanesh Chowdary , Snehasis Mukherjee

In this paper, we introduce a bilinear composition loss function to address the problem of image dehazing. Previous methods in image dehazing use a two-stage approach which first estimate the transmission map followed by clear image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Hui Yang , Jinshan Pan , Qiong Yan , Wenxiu Sun , Jimmy Ren , Yu-Wing Tai

Color correction for underwater images has received increasing interests, due to its critical role in facilitating available mature vision algorithms for underwater scenarios. Inspired by the stunning success of deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Xiaodong Liu , Zhi Gao , Ben M. Chen

Recent advances in deep learning, particularly neural networks, have significantly impacted a wide range of fields, including the automatic enhancement of underwater images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jose M. Montero , Jose-Luis Lisani

We consider the generic deep image enhancement problem where an input image is transformed into a perceptually better-looking image. Recent methods for image enhancement consider the problem by performing style transfer and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Indra Deep Mastan , Shanmuganathan Raman

The goal of this work is to apply a denoising image transformer to remove the distortion from underwater images and compare it with other similar approaches. Automatic restoration of underwater images plays an important role since it allows…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Abderrahmene Boudiaf , Yuhang Guo , Adarsh Ghimire , Naoufel Werghi , Giulia De Masi , Sajid Javed , Jorge Dias

The image processing community has witnessed remarkable advances in enhancing and restoring images. Nevertheless, restoring the visual quality of underwater images remains a great challenge. End-to-end frameworks might fail to enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Walysson Vital Barbosa , Henrique Grandinetti Barbosa Amaral , Thiago Lages Rocha , Erickson Rangel Nascimento

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) integrate visual understanding and generation within a single framework. For text-to-image (T2I) tasks, this unified capability allows UMMs to refine outputs after their initial generation, potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jiayi Guo , Linqing Wang , Jiangshan Wang , Yang Yue , Zeyu Liu , Zhiyuan Zhao , Qinglin Lu , Gao Huang , Chunyu Wang

Computer vision techniques have empowered underwater robots to effectively undertake a multitude of tasks, including object tracking and path planning. However, underwater optical factors like light refraction and absorption present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Haodong Yang , Jisheng Xu , Zhiliang Lin , Jianping He