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The widespread image applications have greatly promoted the vision-based tasks, in which the Image Quality Assessment (IQA) technique has become an increasingly significant issue. For user enjoyment in multimedia systems, the IQA exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Weiling Chen , Rongfu Lin , Honggang Liao , Tiesong Zhao , Ke Gu , Patrick Le Callet

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

Underwater images are typically characterized by color cast, haze, blurring, and uneven illumination due to the selective absorption and scattering when light propagates through the water, which limits their practical applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuemei Li , Guojia Hou , Peixian Zhuang , Zhenkuan Pan

As the volume of image data grows, data-oriented cloud computing in Internet of Video Things (IoVT) systems encounters latency issues. Task-oriented edge computing addresses this by shifting data analysis to the edge. However, limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jiaqi Wu , Simin Chen , Zehua Wang , Wei Chen , Zijian Tian , F. Richard Yu , Victor C. M. Leung

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

In contrast to fully-supervised models, self-supervised representation learning only needs a fraction of data to be labeled and often achieves the same or even higher downstream performance. The goal is to pre-train deep neural networks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Friederike Baier , Sebastian Mair , Samuel G. Fadel

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the perception or interpretability of an image captured in an environment with poor illumination. Recent advances in this area are dominated by deep learning-based solutions, where many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Chongyi Li , Chunle Guo , Linghao Han , Jun Jiang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Recently, learning-based algorithms have shown impressive performance in underwater image enhancement. Most of them resort to training on synthetic data and achieve outstanding performance. However, these methods ignore the significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhengyong Wang , Liquan Shen , Mei Yu , Kun Wang , Yufei Lin , Mai Xu

In recent years, deep learning-based image compressive sensing (ICS) methods have achieved brilliant success. Many optimization-inspired networks have been proposed to bring the insights of optimization algorithms into the network structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Wenjun Chen , Chunling Yang , Xin Yang

The lack of quality labeled data is one of the main bottlenecks for training Deep Learning models. As the task increases in complexity, there is a higher penalty for overfitting and unstable learning. The typical paradigm employed today is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Priyam Mazumdar , Aiman Soliman , Volodymyr Kindratenko , Luigi Marini , Kenton McHenry

Due to numerous hardware shortcomings, medical image acquisition devices are susceptible to producing low-quality (i.e., low contrast, inappropriate brightness, noisy, etc.) images. Regrettably, perceptually degraded images directly impact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 S M A Sharif , Rizwan Ali Naqvi , Mithun Biswas , Woong-Kee Loh

While deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve impressive performance on environment perception tasks, their sensitivity to adversarial perturbations limits their use in practical applications. In this paper, we (i) propose a novel adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Marvin Klingner , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani , Andreas Bär , Tim Fingscheidt

Successful applications of complex vision-based behaviours underwater have lagged behind progress in terrestrial and aerial domains. This is largely due to the degraded image quality resulting from the physical phenomena involved in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Stewart Jamieson , Jonathan P. How , Yogesh Girdhar

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

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

In real-world underwater environment, exploration of seabed resources, underwater archaeology, and underwater fishing rely on a variety of sensors, vision sensor is the most important one due to its high information content, non-intrusive,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Nan Wang , Yabin Zhou , Fenglei Han , Haitao Zhu , Jingzheng Yao

Image Transformer has recently achieved significant progress for natural image understanding, either using supervised (ViT, DeiT, etc.) or self-supervised (BEiT, MAE, etc.) pre-training techniques. In this paper, we propose \textbf{DiT}, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Junlong Li , Yiheng Xu , Tengchao Lv , Lei Cui , Cha Zhang , Furu Wei

Thanks to breakthroughs in AI and Deep learning methodology, Computer vision techniques are rapidly improving. Most computer vision applications require sophisticated image segmentation to comprehend what is image and to make an analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Lichun Gao , Chinmaya Khamesra , Uday Kumbhar , Ashay Aglawe

Underwater images are often affected by complex degradations such as light absorption, scattering, color casts, and artifacts, making enhancement critical for effective object detection, recognition, and scene understanding in aquatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Afrah Shaahid , Muzammil Behzad

By combining complementary benefits of short- and long-exposure images, Dual-Exposure Imaging (DEI) enhances image quality in low-light scenarios. However, existing DEI approaches inevitably suffer from producing artifacts due to spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mingyuan Lin , Hongyi Liu , Chu He , Wen Yang , Gui-Song Xia , Lei Yu