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Over the past few decades, underwater image enhancement has attracted increasing amount of research effort due to its significance in underwater robotics and ocean engineering. Research has evolved from implementing physics-based solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Ankita Naik , Apurva Swarnakar , Kartik Mittal

High-quality underwater images are essential for both machine vision tasks and viewers with their aesthetic appeal.However, the quality of underwater images is severely affected by light absorption and scattering. Deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jiangzhong Cao , Zekai Zeng , Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Chunling Fan , Gangyi Jiang , Weisi Lin

Underwater image enhancement is an important low-level computer vision task for autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles to explore and understand the underwater environments. Recently, deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Hao-Hsiang Yang , Kuan-Chih Huang , Wei-Ting Chen

As artificial intelligence advances rapidly, particularly with the advent of GANs and diffusion models, the accuracy of Image Inpainting Localization (IIL) has become increasingly challenging. Current IIL methods face two main challenges: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Kai Wang , Shaozhang Niu , Qixian Hao , Jiwei Zhang

Underwater images are often affected by complex degradations such as light absorption, scattering, color casts, and artifacts, making enhancement critical for effective object detection, recognition, and scene understanding in aquatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afrah Shaahid , Muzammil Behzad

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

In real-world underwater environment, exploration of seabed resources, underwater archaeology, and underwater fishing rely on a variety of sensors, vision sensor is the most important one due to its high information content, non-intrusive,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Nan Wang , Yabin Zhou , Fenglei Han , Haitao Zhu , Jingzheng Yao

Underwater images often suffer from color distortion and low contrast resulting in various image types, due to the scattering and absorption of light by water. While it is difficult to obtain high-quality paired training samples with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Pan Mu , Hanning Xu , Zheyuan Liu , Zheng Wang , Sixian Chan , Cong Bai

Multi-modality image fusion aims to combine different modalities to produce fused images that retain the complementary features of each modality, such as functional highlights and texture details. To leverage strong generative priors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Zixiang Zhao , Haowen Bai , Yuanzhi Zhu , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Deyu Meng , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

This work studies the challenging problem of acquiring high-quality underwater images via 4-D light field (LF) imaging. To this end, we propose GeoDiff-LF, a novel diffusion-based framework built upon SD-Turbo to enhance underwater 4-D LF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yuji Lin , Qian Zhao , Zongsheng Yue , Junhui Hou , Deyu Meng

For image inpainting, the existing Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) based method i.e. RePaint can produce high-quality images for any inpainting form. It utilizes a pre-trained DDPM as a prior and generates inpainting results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lintao Zhang , Xiangcheng Du , LeoWu TomyEnrique , Yiqun Wang , Yingbin Zheng , Cheng Jin

Underwater optical images inevitably suffer from various degradation factors such as blurring, low contrast, and color distortion, which hinder the accuracy of object detection tasks. Due to the lack of paired underwater/clean images, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Bin Li , Li Li , Zhenwei Zhang , Yuping Duan

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) aims to restore visibility and correct color distortions caused by wavelength-dependent absorption and scattering. Recent hybrid approaches, which couple domain priors with modern deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ching-Heng Cheng , Jen-Wei Lee , Chia-Ming Lee , Chih-Chung Hsu

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) techniques attempt to increase the visibility of images captured in low-light scenarios. However, as a result of enhancement, a variety of image degradations such as noise and color bias are revealed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Savvas Panagiotou , Anna S. Bosman

Free-form image inpainting is the task of reconstructing parts of an image specified by an arbitrary binary mask. In this task, it is typically desired to generalize model capabilities to unseen mask types, rather than learning certain mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Moein Heidari , Alireza Morsali , Tohid Abedini , Samin Heydarian

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have achieved unprecedented success in computer vision. However, they remain underutilized in medical imaging, a field crucial for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. This is primarily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Hongxu Jiang , Muhammad Imran , Teng Zhang , Yuyin Zhou , Muxuan Liang , Kuang Gong , Wei Shao

The light absorption and scattering of underwater impurities lead to poor underwater imaging quality. The existing data-driven based underwater image enhancement (UIE) techniques suffer from the lack of a large-scale dataset containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-05 Lintao Peng , Chunli Zhu , Liheng Bian

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a powerful tool for modeling turbulent flow and is commonly used for urban microclimate simulations. However, traditional CFD methods are computationally intensive, requiring substantial hardware…

Diffusion Probabilistic Models stand as a critical tool in generative modelling, enabling the generation of complex data distributions. This family of generative models yields record-breaking performance in tasks such as image synthesis,…

In this paper, we present a conditional generative adversarial network-based model for real-time underwater image enhancement. To supervise the adversarial training, we formulate an objective function that evaluates the perceptual image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Md Jahidul Islam , Youya Xia , Junaed Sattar