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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…

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With the continuous development of underwater vision technology, more and more remote sensing images could be obtained. In the underwater scene, sonar sensors are currently the most effective remote perception devices, and the sonar images…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) captures cross-sectional data and is used for the screening, monitoring, and treatment planning of retinal diseases. Technological developments to increase the speed of acquisition often results in systems…

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Ocean fronts can cause the accumulation of nutrients and affect the propagation of underwater sound, so high-precision ocean front detection is of great significance to the marine fishery and national defense fields. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Cui Xie , Hao Guo , Junyu Dong

Improving the quality of underwater images is essential for advancing marine research and technology. This work introduces a sparsity-driven interpretable neural network (SINET) for the underwater image enhancement (UIE) task. Unlike pure…

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The use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) has increased tremendously in the current decade. They have significantly advanced remote sensing with the capability to deploy and image the terrain as per required spatial, spectral, temporal, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yibin Wang , Wondimagegn Beshah , Padmanava Dash , Haifeng Wang

In recent years, there has been an increasing demand for underwater cameras that monitor the condition of offshore structures and check the number of individuals in aqua culture environments with long-period observation. One of the…

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Underwater images often suffer from severe degradation caused by light absorption and scattering, leading to color distortion, low contrast and reduced visibility. Existing Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) methods can be divided into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shixuan Xu , Yabo Liu , Chao Huang , Junyu Dong , Xinghui Dong

Learning the fine-scale details of a coastal ocean simulation from a coarse representation is a challenging task. For real-world applications, high-resolution simulations are necessary to advance understanding of many coastal processes,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Zhi-Song Liu , Markus Büttner , Matthew Scarborough , Eirik Valseth , Vadym Aizinger , Bernhard Kainz , Andreas Rupp

Monocular depth estimation has recently progressed beyond ordinal depth to provide metric depth predictions. However, its reliability in underwater environments remains limited due to light attenuation and scattering, color distortion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zijie Cai , Christopher Metzler

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) poses challenges due to distinctive properties of the underwater environment, including low contrast, high turbidity, visual blurriness, and color distortion. In recent years, the application of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Wangzhen Peng , Chenghao Zhou , Runze Hu , Jingchao Cao , Yutao Liu

We introduce OceanSplat, a novel 3D Gaussian Splatting-based approach for high-fidelity underwater scene reconstruction. To overcome multi-view inconsistencies caused by scattering media, we design a trinocular setup for each camera pose by…

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Underwater image understanding is crucial for both submarine navigation and seabed exploration. However, the low illumination in underwater environments degrades the imaging quality, which in turn seriously deteriorates the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xin Zuo , Jiaran Jiang , Jifeng Shen , Wankou Yang

In recent years, deep learning models have revolutionized medical image interpretation, offering substantial improvements in diagnostic accuracy. However, these models often struggle with challenging images where critical features are…

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Recently, learning-based Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) methods have demonstrated promising performance. However, existing learning-based methods still face two challenges. 1) They rarely consider the inconsistent degradation levels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Lingtao Peng , Liheng Bian

In this paper we have present an improved Cycle GAN based model for under water image enhancement. We have utilized the cycle consistent learning technique of the state-of-the-art Cycle GAN model with modification in the loss function in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tashmoy Ghosh

Oceanic processes at fine scales are crucial yet difficult to observe accurately due to limitations in satellite and in-situ measurements. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides high-resolution Sea Surface Height…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Eugenio Cutolo , Carlos Granero-Belinchon , Ptashanna Thiraux , Jinbo Wang , Ronan Fablet

Reconstructing high-fidelity underwater scenes remains a challenging task due to light absorption, scattering, and limited visibility inherent in aquatic environments. This paper presents an enhanced Gaussian Splatting-based framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhuodong Jiang , Haoran Wang , Guoxi Huang , Brett Seymour , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Majority of deep learning methods utilize vanilla convolution for enhancing underwater images. While vanilla convolution excels in capturing local features and learning the spatial hierarchical structure of images, it tends to smooth input…

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