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Underwater imagery often exhibits distorted coloration as a result of light-water interactions, which complicates the study of benthic environments in marine biology and geography. In this research, we propose an algorithm to restore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Underwater imagery is often compromised by factors such as color distortion and low contrast, posing challenges for high-level vision tasks. Recent underwater image restoration (UIR) methods either analyze the input image at full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Alik Pramanick , Arijit Sur , V. Vijaya Saradhi

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

Research on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) for novel view generation is exploding with new models and extensions. However, a question that remains unanswered is what happens in underwater or foggy scenes where the medium strongly influences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Deborah Levy , Amit Peleg , Naama Pearl , Dan Rosenbaum , Derya Akkaynak , Simon Korman , Tali Treibitz

Underwater image enhancement plays a crucial role in providing reliable visual information for underwater platforms, since strong absorption and scattering in water-related environments generally lead to image quality degradation. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yiqiang Zhou , Yifan Chen , Zhe Sun , Jijun Lu , Ye Zheng , Xuelong Li

While Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated exceptional quality, their protracted training duration remains a limitation. Generalizable and MVS-based NeRFs, although capable of mitigating training time, often incur tradeoffs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Chih-Hai Su , Chih-Yao Hu , Shr-Ruei Tsai , Jie-Ying Lee , Chin-Yang Lin , Yu-Lun Liu

This paper presents a simple and effective solution to the longstanding classical multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) problem. It is well-known that photometric stereo (PS) is excellent at recovering high-frequency surface details, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

In 3D reconstruction of underwater scenes, traditional methods based on atmospheric optical models cannot effectively deal with the selective attenuation of light wavelengths and the effect of suspended particle scattering, which are unique…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jiachen Li , Guangzhi Han , Jin Wan , Yuan Gao , Delong Han

Localization and mapping are core perceptual capabilities for underwater robots. Stereo cameras provide a low-cost means of directly estimating metric depth to support these tasks. However, despite recent advances in stereo depth estimation…

We introduce Point-MVSNet, a novel point-based deep framework for multi-view stereo (MVS). Distinct from existing cost volume approaches, our method directly processes the target scene as point clouds. More specifically, our method predicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Rui Chen , Songfang Han , Jing Xu , Hao Su

Reconstructing photo-realistic large-scale scenes from images, for example at city scale, is a long-standing problem in computer graphics. Neural rendering is an emerging technique that enables photo-realistic image synthesis from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yaru Liu , Derek Nowrouzezahri , Morgan Mcguire

To reconstruct the 3D geometry from calibrated images, learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) methods typically perform multi-view depth estimation and then fuse depth maps into a mesh or point cloud. To improve the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Fangjinhua Wang , Qingshan Xu , Yew-Soon Ong , Marc Pollefeys

Multi-View Stereo~(MVS) is a fundamental problem in geometric computer vision which aims to reconstruct a scene using multi-view images with known camera parameters. However, the mainstream approaches represent the scene with a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Song Zhang , Wenjia Xu , Zhiwei Wei , Lili Zhang , Yang Wang , Junyi Liu

Demands on capturing dynamic scenes of underwater environments are rapidly growing. Passive stereo is applicable to capture dynamic scenes, however the shape with textureless surfaces or irregular reflections cannot be recovered by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Kazuto Ichimaru , Ryo Furukawa , Hiroshi Kawasaki

While deep learning has recently achieved great success on multi-view stereo (MVS), limited training data makes the trained model hard to be generalized to unseen scenarios. Compared with other computer vision tasks, it is rather difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yao Yao , Zixin Luo , Shiwei Li , Jingyang Zhang , Yufan Ren , Lei Zhou , Tian Fang , Long Quan

3D reconstruction has lately attracted increasing attention due to its wide application in many areas, such as autonomous driving, robotics and virtual reality. As a dominant technique in artificial intelligence, deep learning has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Qingtian Zhu , Chen Min , Zizhuang Wei , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang

Multi-view stereo methods have achieved great success for depth estimation based on the coarse-to-fine depth learning frameworks, however, the existing methods perform poorly in recovering the depth of object boundaries and detail regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haitao Tian , Junyang Li , Chenxing Wang , Helong Jiang

Unsupervised Multi-View Stereo (MVS) methods have achieved promising progress recently. However, previous methods primarily depend on the photometric consistency assumption, which may suffer from two limitations: indistinguishable regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kaiqiang Xiong , Rui Peng , Zhe Zhang , Tianxing Feng , Jianbo Jiao , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

Underwater scene reconstruction is essential for immersive exploration of aquatic environments, yet remains challenging due to complex participating-media effects such as absorption and scattering, as well as the limited field of view (FoV)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiangbei Hu , Weichao Song , Shibo Yu , Mohan Wang , Zihan Yi , Rui Wu , Mingkang Xiang , Na Lei , Shengfa Wang , Zhongxuan Luo , Ying He

Monocular depth estimation from a single image is an ill-posed problem for computer vision due to insufficient reliable cues as the prior knowledge. Besides the inter-frame supervision, namely stereo and adjacent frames, extensive prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zhengyang Lu , Ying Chen