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Recent advances in deep learning, particularly neural networks, have significantly impacted a wide range of fields, including the automatic enhancement of underwater images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improving…

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Underwater video analysis, hampered by the dynamic marine environment and camera motion, remains a challenging task in computer vision. Existing training-free video generation techniques, learning motion dynamics on the frame-by-frame…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Quang Trung Truong , Wong Yuk Kwan , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

In this paper, we revisit the problem of classifying ships (maritime vessels) detected from overhead imagery. Despite the last decade of research on this very important and pertinent problem, it remains largely unsolved. One of the major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Chris M. Ward , Josh Harguess , Cameron Hilton

The majority of Earth's surface lies deep in the oceans, where no surface light reaches. Robots diving down to great depths must bring light sources that create moving illumination patterns in the darkness, such that the same 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Kevin Köser , Yifan Song , Lasse Petersen , Emanuel Wenzlaff , Felix Woelk

Image restoration under adverse weather conditions refers to the process of removing degradation caused by weather particles while improving visual quality. Most existing deweathering methods rely on increasing the network scale and data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zihan Shen , Yu Xuan , Qingyu Yang

Underwater images suffer from extremely unfavourable conditions. Light is heavily attenuated and scattered. Attenuation creates change in hue, scattering causes so called veiling light. General state of the art methods for enhancing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Tomasz Łuczyński , Andreas Birk

Underwater image enhancement, as a pre-processing step to improve the accuracy of the following object detection task, has drawn considerable attention in the field of underwater navigation and ocean exploration. However, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Long Chen , Zheheng Jiang , Lei Tong , Zhihua Liu , Aite Zhao , Qianni Zhang , Junyu Dong , Huiyu Zhou

Solving fish segmentation in underwater videos, a real-world problem of great practical value in marine and aquaculture industry, is a challenging task due to the difficulty of the filming environment, poor visibility and limited existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Andrei Jelea , Ahmed Nabil Belbachir , Marius Leordeanu

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

The superior performance introduced by deep learning approaches in removing atmospheric particles such as snow and rain from a single image; favors their usage over classical ones. However, deep learning-based approaches still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Ibrahim Kajo , Mohamed Kas , Yassine Ruichek

Accurate image-based bathymetric mapping in shallow waters remains challenging due to the complex optical distortions such as wave induced patterns, scattering and sunglint, introduced by the dynamic water surface, the water column…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Maximilian Kromer , Panagiotis Agrafiotis , Begüm Demir

Underwater images often have severe quality degradation and distortion due to light absorption and scattering in the water medium. A hazed image formation model is widely used to restore the image quality. It depends on two optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Wei Song , Yan Wang , Dongmei Huang , Antonio Liotta , Cristian Perra

Underwater image restoration is of significant importance in unveiling the underwater world. Numerous techniques and algorithms have been developed in the past decades. However, due to fundamental difficulties associated with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Junlin Han , Mehrdad Shoeiby , Tim Malthus , Elizabeth Botha , Janet Anstee , Saeed Anwar , Ran Wei , Mohammad Ali Armin , Hongdong Li , Lars Petersson

Most of previous image denoising methods focus on additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). However,the real-world noisy image denoising problem with the advancing of the computer vision techiniques. In order to promote the study on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Jun Xu , Hui Li , Zhetong Liang , David Zhang , Lei Zhang

The image processing community has witnessed remarkable advances in enhancing and restoring images. Nevertheless, restoring the visual quality of underwater images remains a great challenge. End-to-end frameworks might fail to enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Walysson Vital Barbosa , Henrique Grandinetti Barbosa Amaral , Thiago Lages Rocha , Erickson Rangel Nascimento

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

Underwater video enhancement (UVE) aims to improve the visibility and frame quality of underwater videos, which has significant implications for marine research and exploration. However, existing methods primarily focus on developing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Dazhao Du , Enhan Li , Lingyu Si , Fanjiang Xu , Jianwei Niu

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

Supervised training has led to state-of-the-art results in image and video denoising. However, its application to real data is limited since it requires large datasets of noisy-clean pairs that are difficult to obtain. For this reason,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Valéry Dewil , Aranud Barral , Gabriele Facciolo , Pablo Arias

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