A Novel Underwater Image Enhancement Using Optimal Composite Backbone Network [PDF]
Biomimetics, 2023 Continuous exploration of the ocean has made underwater image processing an important research field, and plenty of CNN (convolutional neural network)-based underwater image enhancement methods have emerged over time.
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A Survey of Restoration and Enhancement for Underwater Images [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2019 Images captured underwater usually suffer from color distortion, detail blurring, low contrast, and a bluish or greenish tone due to light scattering and absorption in the underwater medium, which in turn the visibility is adversely affected by these ...
Weidong Zhang +5 more
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An Underwater Image Enhancement Method for a Preprocessing Framework Based on Generative Adversarial Network [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 This paper presents an efficient underwater image enhancement method, named ECO-GAN, to address the challenges of color distortion, low contrast, and motion blur in underwater robot photography. The proposed method is built upon a preprocessing framework
Xiao Jiang +6 more
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Underwater Image Enhancement Using a Diffusion Model with Adversarial Learning [PDF]
Journal of ImagingDue to the distinctive attributes of underwater environments, underwater images frequently encounter challenges such as low contrast, color distortion, and noise.
Xueyan Ding +4 more
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Unveiling the hidden depths: advancements in underwater image enhancement using deep learning and auto-encoders [PDF]
PeerJ Computer ScienceUnderwater images hold immense value for various fields, including marine biology research, underwater infrastructure inspection, and exploration activities. However, capturing high-quality images underwater proves challenging due to light absorption and
Jaisuraj Bantupalli +3 more
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MHF-UIE a multi-task hybrid fusion method for real-world underwater image enhancement [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUnderwater image quality often deteriorates, posing significant challenges in extracting underwater information and affecting advanced visual tasks, for instance, tasks in various fields such as oceanography, marine biology, underwater exploration ...
Jian Xu +4 more
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A Novel Lightweight Model for Underwater Image Enhancement. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Underwater images suffer from low contrast and color distortion. In order to improve the quality of underwater images and reduce storage and computational resources, this paper proposes a lightweight model Rep-UWnet to enhance underwater images. The model consists of a fully connected convolutional network and three densely connected RepConv blocks in ...
Liu B, Yang Y, Zhao M, Hu M.
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ENHANCEMENT OF UNDERWATER IMAGES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesCamera systems using optical sensors have made great progress in recent years in obtaining underwater images. Very high-resolution images can be obtained with underwater cameras.
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UNDERWATER IMAGE ENHANCEMENT BASED ON POLARIZATION IMAGING [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020 Abstract. The need of high-quality underwater imaging is obviously required in many underwater applications. For example, underwater archaeology, underwater ecological research, underwater object detection and tracking. This paper presents a joint enhancing and denoising scheme for an image taken in underwater conditions.
Y. Zhao, L. Shen
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Lighting the darkness in the sea: A deep learning model for underwater image enhancement
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Currently, optical imaging cameras are widely used on underwater vehicles to obtain images and support numerous marine exploration tasks. Many underwater image enhancement algorithms have been proposed in the past few years to suppress backscattering ...
Yaofeng Xie +5 more
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