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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

We propose a novel generative video model to robustly learn temporal change as a neural Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) flow with a bilinear objective which combines two aspects: The first is to map from the past into future video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Chen Liu , Tobias Ritschel

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) presents a significant challenge within computer vision research. Despite the development of numerous UIE algorithms, a thorough and systematic review is still absent. To foster future advancements, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xiaofeng Cong , Yu Zhao , Jie Gui , Junming Hou , Dacheng Tao

Due to the light absorption and scattering induced by the water medium, underwater images usually suffer from some degradation problems, such as low contrast, color distortion, and blurring details, which aggravate the difficulty of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Runmin Cong , Wenyu Yang , Wei Zhang , Chongyi Li , Chun-Le Guo , Qingming Huang , Sam Kwong

Robust vision restoration of underwater images remains a challenge. Owing to the lack of well-matched underwater and in-air images, unsupervised methods based on the cyclic generative adversarial framework have been widely investigated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuaizheng Yan , Xingyu Chen , Zhengxing Wu , Min Tan , Junzhi Yu

Generating high-dimensional visual modalities is a computationally intensive task. A common solution is progressive generation, where the outputs are synthesized in a coarse-to-fine spectral autoregressive manner. While diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Moayed Haji-Ali , Willi Menapace , Ivan Skorokhodov , Arpit Sahni , Sergey Tulyakov , Vicente Ordonez , Aliaksandr Siarohin

We explore spatiotemporal data augmentation using video foundation models to diversify both camera viewpoints and scene dynamics. Unlike existing approaches based on simple geometric transforms or appearance perturbations, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jinfan Zhou , Lixin Luo , Sungmin Eum , Heesung Kwon , Jeong Joon Park

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

Due to the absorption and scattering effects of the water, underwater images tend to suffer from many severe problems, such as low contrast, grayed out colors and blurring content. To improve the visual quality of underwater images, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Hui Li , Xi Yang , ZhenMing Li , TianLun Zhang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yanling Qiu , Qianxue Feng , Boqin Cai , Hongan Wei , Weiling Chen

Underwater image enhancement is such an important low-level vision task with many applications that numerous algorithms have been proposed in recent years. These algorithms developed upon various assumptions demonstrate successes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Ming Zhu , Minjun Hou , Zhongxuan Luo

Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Huan Yang , Kai Zhang , Junnan Li

Existing underwater image restoration (UIR) methods generally only handle color distortion or jointly address color and haze issues, but they often overlook the more complex degradations that can occur in underwater scenes. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Guoli Wang , Qian Zhang , Lefei Zhang , Bo Du

Collecting multi-view driving scenario videos to enhance the performance of 3D visual perception tasks presents significant challenges and incurs substantial costs, making generative models for realistic data an appealing alternative. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Junpeng Jiang , Gangyi Hong , Miao Zhang , Hengtong Hu , Kun Zhan , Rui Shao , Liqiang Nie

Recent generative models have shown strong performance in generating diverse 3D assets from 2D images, a fundamental research topic in computer vision and graphics. However, these models still struggle to generate voluminous 3D assets when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hankyeol Lee , Wooyeol Baek , Seongdo Kim , Jongyoo Kim

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

Images captured underwater often suffer from suboptimal illumination settings that can hide important visual features, reducing their quality. We present a novel single-image low-light underwater image enhancer, L^2UWE, that builds on our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tunai Porto Marques , Alexandra Branzan Albu

Images acquired during underwater activities suffer from environmental properties of the water, such as turbidity and light attenuation. These phenomena cause color distortion, blurring, and contrast reduction. In addition, irregular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Claudio D. Mello , Bryan U. Moreira , Paulo J. O. Evald , Paulo L. Drews , Silvia S. Botelho

The recent renaissance in generative models, driven primarily by the advent of diffusion models and iterative improvement in GAN methods, has enabled many creative applications. However, each advancement is also accompanied by a rise in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Sanjay Saha , Rashindrie Perera , Sachith Seneviratne , Tamasha Malepathirana , Sanka Rasnayaka , Deshani Geethika , Terence Sim , Saman Halgamuge

Underwater images often exhibit poor quality, distorted color balance and low contrast due to the complex and intricate interplay of light, water, and objects. Despite the significant contributions of previous underwater enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Weiwen Chen , Yingtie Lei , Shenghong Luo , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li , Chi-Man Pun