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In the field of computer vision, visible light images often exhibit low contrast in low-light conditions, presenting a significant challenge. While infrared imagery provides a potential solution, its utilization entails high costs and…

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Images captured underwater are often characterized by low contrast, color distortion, and noise. To address these visual degradations, we propose a novel scheme by constructing an adaptive color and contrast enhancement, and denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Xinjie Li , Guojia Hou , Kunqian Li , Zhenkuan Pan

Learning-based underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods have made great progress. However, the lack of large-scale and high-quality paired training samples has become the main bottleneck hindering the development of UIE. The inter-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yaofeng Xie , Lingwei Kong , Kai Chen , Ziqiang Zheng , Xiao Yu , Zhibin Yu , Bing Zheng

Underwater images are altered by the physical characteristics of the medium through which light rays pass before reaching the optical sensor. Scattering and wavelength-dependent absorption significantly modify the captured colors depending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Clémentin Boittiaux , Ricard Marxer , Claire Dune , Aurélien Arnaubec , Maxime Ferrera , Vincent Hugel

Detecting camouflaged objects in underwater environments is crucial for marine ecological research and resource exploration. However, existing methods face two key challenges: underwater image degradation, including low contrast and color…

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In this paper, we introduce and tackle the simultaneous enhancement and super-resolution (SESR) problem for underwater robot vision and provide an efficient solution for near real-time applications. We present Deep SESR, a…

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Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is essential for robust visual perception in marine applications. However, existing methods predominantly rely on uniform mapping tailored to average dataset distributions, leading to over-processing…

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Underwater robot perception is crucial in scientific subsea exploration and commercial operations. The key challenges include non-uniform lighting and poor visibility in turbid environments. High-frequency forward-look sonar cameras address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Hitesh Kyatham , Shahriar Negahdaripour , Michael Xu , Xiaomin Lin , Miao Yu , Yiannis Aloimonos

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

Severe color casts, low contrast and blurriness of underwater images caused by light absorption and scattering result in a difficult task for exploring underwater environments. Different from most of previous underwater image enhancement…

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Underwater image enhancement (UIE) plays a crucial role in various marine applications, but it remains challenging due to the complex underwater environment. Current learning-based approaches frequently lack explicit incorporation of prior…

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The research on neural radiance fields for new view synthesis has experienced explosive growth with the development of new models and extensions. The NERF algorithm, suitable for underwater scenes or scattering media, is also evolving.…

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Although image restoration has advanced significantly, most existing methods target only a single type of degradation. In real-world scenarios, images often contain multiple degradations simultaneously, such as rain, noise, and haze,…

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The underwater images usually suffers from non-uniform lighting, low contrast, blur and diminished colors. In this paper, we proposed an image based preprocessing technique to enhance the quality of the underwater images. The proposed…

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Enhancing underwater images is crucial for exploration. These images face visibility and color issues due to light changes, water turbidity, and bubbles. Traditional prior-based methods and pixel-based methods often fail, while deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Fanghai Yi , Zehong Zheng , Zexiao Liang , Yihang Dong , Xiyang Fang , Wangyu Wu , Xuhang Chen

Improving the quality of underwater images is essential for advancing marine research and technology. This work introduces a sparsity-driven interpretable neural network (SINET) for the underwater image enhancement (UIE) task. Unlike pure…

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Advances in high dynamic range (HDR) lighting estimation from a single image have opened new possibilities for augmented reality (AR) applications. Predicting complex lighting environments from a single input image allows for the realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zitian Zhang , Joshua Urban Davis , Jeanne Phuong Anh Vu , Jiangtao Kuang , Jean-François Lalonde

In this paper, we present an approach to image enhancement with diffusion model in underwater scenes. Our method adapts conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models to generate the corresponding enhanced images by using the…

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Marine scene understanding and segmentation plays a vital role in maritime monitoring and navigation safety. However, prevalent factors like fog and strong reflections in maritime environments cause severe image degradation, significantly…

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