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In recent years, there has been a surge of research focused on underwater image enhancement using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), driven by the need to overcome the challenges posed by underwater environments. Issues such as light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Ashreen Tabassum , Bommakanti Navaneeth , Tenneti Jahnavi , Yenka Akshaya

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

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

Raw underwater images are degraded due to wavelength dependent light attenuation and scattering, limiting their applicability in vision systems. Another factor that makes enhancing underwater images particularly challenging is the diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Pritish Uplavikar , Zhenyu Wu , Zhangyang Wang

The challenges in recovering underwater images are the presence of diverse degradation factors and the lack of ground truth images. Although synthetic underwater image pairs can be used to overcome the problem of inadequately observing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhenwei Zhang , Haorui Yan , Ke Tang , Yuping Duan

Underwater image enhancement algorithms have attracted much attention in underwater vision task. However, these algorithms are mainly evaluated on different data sets and different metrics. In this paper, we set up an effective and pubic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Hanyu Li , Jingjing Li , Wei Wang

In this paper, we introduce a generative model for image enhancement specifically for improving diver detection in the underwater domain. In particular, we present a model that integrates generative adversarial network (GAN)-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Chelsey Edge , Md Jahidul Islam , Christopher Morse , Junaed Sattar

Repair and maintenance of underwater structures as well as marine science rely heavily on the results of underwater object detection, which is a crucial part of the image processing workflow. Although many computer vision-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Radhwan Adnan Dakhil , Ali Retha Hasoon Khayeat

Underwater image restoration attracts significant attention due to its importance in unveiling the underwater world. This paper elaborates on a novel method that achieves state-of-the-art results for underwater image restoration based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Junlin Han , Mehrdad Shoeiby , Tim Malthus , Elizabeth Botha , Janet Anstee , Saeed Anwar , Ran Wei , Lars Petersson , Mohammad Ali Armin

Aiming at the problems of color distortion, blur and excessive noise of underwater image, an underwater image enhancement algorithm based on structure-texture reconstruction is proposed. Firstly, the color equalization of the degraded image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Sen Lin , Kaichen Chi

Underwater images play a key role in ocean exploration, but often suffer from severe quality degradation due to light absorption and scattering in water medium. Although major breakthroughs have been made recently in the general area of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Yan Wang , Wei Song , Giancarlo Fortino , Lizhe Qi , Wenqiang Zhang , Antonio Liotta

Image retrieval is a crucial research topic in computer vision, with broad application prospects ranging from online product searches to security surveillance systems. In recent years, the accuracy and efficiency of image retrieval have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Kim Jinwoo

The target of this paper is to recommend a way for Automated classification of Fish species. A high accuracy fish classification is required for greater understanding of fish behavior in Ichthyology and by marine biologists. Maintaining a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Dhruv Rathi , Sushant Jain , Dr. S. Indu

Underwater object detection (UOD), aiming to identify and localise the objects in underwater images or videos, presents significant challenges due to the optical distortion, water turbidity, and changing illumination in underwater scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Long Chen , Yuzhi Huang , Junyu Dong , Qi Xu , Sam Kwong , Huimin Lu , Huchuan Lu , Chongyi Li

With the rapid advancement of technology, the recognition of underwater acoustic signals in complex environments has become increasingly crucial. Currently, mainstream underwater acoustic signal recognition relies primarily on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Minghao Chen

We address a core problem of computer vision: Detection and description of 2D feature points for image matching. For a long time, hand-crafted designs, like the seminal SIFT algorithm, were unsurpassed in accuracy and efficiency. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Aritra Bhowmik , Stefan Gumhold , Carsten Rother , Eric Brachmann

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

Due to the uneven absorption of different light wavelengths in aquatic environments, underwater images suffer from low visibility and clear color deviations. With the advancement of autonomous underwater vehicles, extensive research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zengxi Zhang , Zeru Shi , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu

Underwater image restoration and enhancement are crucial for correcting color distortion and restoring image details, thereby establishing a fundamental basis for subsequent underwater visual tasks. However, current deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yufeng Tian , Yifan Chen , Zhe Sun , Libang Chen , Mingyu Dou , Jijun Lu , Ye Zheng , Xuelong Li

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