Relationship and Interconversion Between Superhydrophilicity, Underwater Superoleophilicity, Underwater Superaerophilicity, Superhydrophobicity, Underwater Superoleophobicity, and Underwater Superaerophobicity: A Mini-Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 Superwetting surfaces have received increasing attention because of their rich practical applications. Although various superwettabilities are independently achieved, the relationship between those superwettabilities is still not well-clarified.
Xun Hou +3 more
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Sensors, 2017 In this paper, an improved azimuth angle estimation method with a single acoustic vector sensor (AVS) is proposed based on matched filtering theory. The proposed method is mainly applied in an active sonar detection system.
Anbang Zhao, Lin Ma, Xuefei Ma, Juan Hui
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Role of Restored Underwater Images in Underwater Imaging Applications [PDF]
Applied System Innovation, 2021 Underwater images are extremely sensitive to distortion occurring in an aquatic underwater environment, with absorption, scattering, polarization, diffraction and low natural light penetration representing common problems caused by sea water. Because of these degradation of quality, effectiveness of the acquired images for underwater applications may ...
Jarina Raihan A +2 more
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A Review of Detection Technologies for Underwater Cracks on Concrete Dam Surfaces
Applied Sciences, 2023 Cracks seriously endanger the safe and stable operation of dams. It is important to detect surface cracks in a timely and accurate manner to ensure the safety and serviceability of a dam. The above-water crack detection technology of dams has been widely
Dong Chen, Ben Huang, F. Kang
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UMGAN: Underwater Image Enhancement Network for Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Due to light absorption and scattering underwater images suffer from low contrast, color distortion, blurred details, and uneven illumination, which affect underwater vision tasks and research.
Bo Sun, Yupeng Mei, Ni Yan, Yingyi Chen
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Underwater Ranker: Learn Which Is Better and How to Be Better [PDF]
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022 In this paper, we present a ranking-based underwater image quality assessment (UIQA) method, abbreviated as URanker. The URanker is built on the efficient conv-attentional image Transformer.
Chunle Guo +6 more
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A Conformal Driving Class IV Flextensional Transducer
Sensors, 2018 Class IV Flextensional Transducers (FTs) are the most popular among various FTs used as low-frequency and high power underwater acoustic sources. However, an undeniable fact exists in Class IV FTs is that the resonance frequency of breathing mode ...
Tianfang Zhou +5 more
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SGUIE-Net: Semantic Attention Guided Underwater Image Enhancement With Multi-Scale Perception [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2022 Due to the wavelength-dependent light attenuation, refraction and scattering, underwater images usually suffer from color distortion and blurred details. However, due to the limited number of paired underwater images with undistorted images as reference,
Qi Qi +5 more
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Simulated Research on Passive Sonar Range Using Different Hydrographic Conditions
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2015 As an example using the passive sonar, it calculated the quality factor of passive sonar using the sonar equation. The sound field was calculated under different depth and range using multiform hydrographic conditions.
Han Jing +3 more
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An Improved Aerial Target Localization Method with a Single Vector Sensor
Sensors, 2017 This paper focuses on the problems encountered in the actual data processing with the use of the existing aerial target localization methods, analyzes the causes of the problems, and proposes an improved algorithm.
Anbang Zhao +4 more
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