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Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve low-illumination images. However, existing methods face two challenges: (1) uncertainty in restoration from diverse brightness degradations; (2) loss of texture and color information caused…

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Underwater vision suffers from severe effects due to selective attenuation and scattering when light propagates through water. Such degradation not only affects the quality of underwater images but limits the ability of vision tasks.…

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Large vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural scene understanding, yet their application to underwater environments remains largely unexplored. Underwater imagery presents unique challenges including severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Da Zhang , Chenggang Rong , Bingyu Li , Feiyu Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

Recent learning-based underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods have advanced by incorporating physical priors into deep neural networks, particularly using the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) prior to reduce wavelength-dependent attenuation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xin Tian , Yingtie Lei , Xiujun Zhang , Zimeng Li , Chi-Man Pun , Xuhang Chen

Underwater image restoration is essential for marine applications ranging from ecological monitoring to archaeological surveys, but effectively addressing the complex and spatially varying nature of underwater degradations remains a…

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We introduce a pretraining technique called Selfie, which stands for SELFie supervised Image Embedding. Selfie generalizes the concept of masked language modeling of BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) to continuous data, such as images, by making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Trieu H. Trinh , Minh-Thang Luong , Quoc V. Le

In nighttime conditions, high noise levels and bright illumination sources degrade image quality, making low-light image enhancement challenging. Thermal images provide complementary information, offering richer textures and structural…

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Underwater object detection (UOD) is vital to diverse marine applications, including oceanographic research, underwater robotics, and marine conservation. However, UOD faces numerous challenges that compromise its performance. Over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Edwine Nabahirwa , Wei Song , Minghua Zhang , Yi Fang , Zhou Ni

Low-light images suffer from severe noise, contrast loss, and semantic ambiguity, making enhancement a joint problem of denoising and detail recovery. We propose PixIE, a feed-forward pixel-space LLIE framework semantically prompted by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ruirui Lin , Guoxi Huang , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Although deep learning based models for underwater image enhancement have achieved good performance, they face limitations in both lightweight and effectiveness, which prevents their deployment and application on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Fuheng Zhou , Dikai Wei , Ye Fan , Yulong Huang , Yonggang Zhang

Despite recent advances in stereo matching, the extension to intricate underwater settings remains unexplored, primarily owing to: 1) the reduced visibility, low contrast, and other adverse effects of underwater images; 2) the difficulty in…

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Underwater images are inevitably affected by color distortion and reduced contrast. Traditional statistic-based methods such as white balance and histogram stretching attempted to adjust the imbalance of color channels and narrow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ziyuan Xiao , Yina Han , Susanto Rahardja , Yuanliang Ma

Recent text-guided image editing (TIE) models have made remarkable progress, yet edited images still frequently suffer from fine-grained issues such as unnatural objects, lighting mismatch, and unexpected changes. Existing refinement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Yifei Nie , Mingda Du , Sijing Wu , Xiongkuo Min , Tianyi Zheng , Jian Zhang , Shusong Xu , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li , Guangtao Zhai

Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation (UIT) focuses on translating images among different domains by using unpaired data, which has received increasing research focus due to its practical usage. However, existing UIT schemes defect in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Xinyang Li , Jie Hu , Shengchuan Zhang , Xiaopeng Hong , Qixiang Ye , Chenglin Wu , Rongrong Ji

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

With the development of underwater object grabbing technology, underwater object recognition and segmentation of high accuracy has become a challenge. The existing underwater object detection technology can only give the general position of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhiwei Ma , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang , Dan Yu , Tianyi Wang , Yingshuang Gu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Image aesthetic enhancement aims to perceive aesthetic deficiencies in images and perform corresponding editing operations, which is highly challenging and requires the model to possess creativity and aesthetic perception capabilities.…

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Deep learning algorithms have recently achieved promising deraining performances on both the natural and synthetic rainy datasets. As an essential low-level pre-processing stage, a deraining network should clear the rain streaks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shen Zheng , Changjie Lu , Yuxiong Wu , Gaurav Gupta

Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS) is a subclass of image-to-image translation where a photorealistic image is synthesized from a segmentation mask. SIS has mostly been addressed as a supervised problem. However, state-of-the-art methods depend…

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