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Due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by diverse aquatic media, underwater images usually suffer from various visual degradations. Existing underwater image enhancement (UIE) approaches that combine underwater physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dazhao Du , Lingyu Si , Fanjiang Xu , Jianwei Niu , Fuchun Sun

Activities in underwater environments are paramount in several scenarios, which drives the continuous development of underwater image enhancement techniques. A major challenge in this domain is the depth at which images are captured, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tatiana Taís Schein , Gustavo Pereira de Almeira , Stephanie Loi Brião , Rodrigo Andrade de Bem , Felipe Gomes de Oliveira , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr

Underwater images normally suffer from degradation due to the transmission medium of water bodies. Both traditional prior-based approaches and deep learning-based methods have been used to address this problem. However, the inflexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shixuan Xu , Hao Qi , Wei Wang , Chao Huang , Jie Wen , Junyu Dong , Xinghui Dong

Underwater visuals undergo various complex degradations, inevitably influencing the efficiency of underwater vision tasks. Recently, diffusion models were employed to underwater image enhancement (UIE) tasks, and gained SOTA performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chen Zhao , Chenyu Dong , Weiling Cai , Yueyue Wang

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) aims to generate clear images from low-quality underwater images. Due to the unavailability of clear reference images, researchers often synthesize them to construct paired datasets for training deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Dazhao Du , Enhan Li , Lingyu Si , Fanjiang Xu , Jianwei Niu , Fuchun Sun

Underwater scenes intrinsically involve degradation problems owing to heterogeneous ocean elements. Prevailing underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods stick to straightforward feature modeling to learn the mapping function, which leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zhixiong Huang , Xinying Wang , Chengpei Xu , Jinjiang Li , Lin Feng

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) aims to improve the visual quality from a low-quality input. Unlike other image enhancement tasks, underwater images suffer from the unavailability of real reference images. Although existing works exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Shuaixin Liu , Kunqian Li , Yilin Ding , Qi Qi

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) has attracted much attention owing to its importance for underwater operation and marine engineering. Motivated by the recent advance in generative models, we propose a novel UIE method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xingyang Nie , Su Pan , Xiaoyu Zhai , Shifei Tao , Fengzhong Qu , Biao Wang , Huilin Ge , Guojie Xiao

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

This report presents the comprehensive implementation, evaluation, and optimization of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) and Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIMs), which are state-of-the-art generative models. During…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jaineet Shah , Michael Gromis , Rickston Pinto

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 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

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) plays a crucial role in various marine applications, but it remains challenging due to the complex underwater environment. Current learning-based approaches frequently lack explicit incorporation of prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yingtie Lei , Jia Yu , Yihang Dong , Changwei Gong , Ziyang Zhou , Chi-Man Pun

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alzayat Saleh , Marcus Sheaves , Dean Jerry , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

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

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

Underwater imaging often suffers from significant visual degradation, which limits its suitability for subsequent applications. While recent underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods rely on the current advances in deep neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Laibin Chang , Yunke Wang , Bo Du , Chang Xu

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 vital for high-level vision-related underwater tasks. Although learning-based UIE methods have made remarkable achievements in recent years, it's still challenging for them to consistently deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Junjie Wen , Jinqiang Cui , Zhenjun Zhao , Ruixin Yan , Zhi Gao , Lihua Dou , Ben M. Chen
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