A Scrutiny on Image Enhancement and Restoration Techniques for Underwater Optical Imaging Applications

N Deluxni, P Sudhakaran, MF Ndiaye - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater image processing always a challenging problem in oceanic engineering
applications. Images captured in underwater are commonly suffers due to color distortion …

Udepth: Fast monocular depth estimation for visually-guided underwater robots

B Yu, J Wu, MJ Islam - 2023 IEEE International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a fast monocular depth estimation method for enabling 3D
perception capabilities of low-cost underwater robots. We formulate a novel end-to-end …

Underwater self-supervised depth estimation

X Yang, X Zhang, N Wang, G **n, W Hu - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
Accurate underwater depth estimation is a cornerstone of reaching autonomous underwater
exploration. However, it is incredibly tricky due to the inherent attenuation character and …

Nereon-an underwater dataset for monocular depth estimation

JMM Dionisio, PN Pereira, PN Leite… - OCEANS 2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Structures associated with offshore wind energy production require an arduous and cyclical
inspection and maintenance (O&M) procedure. Moreover, the harsh challenges introduced …

Metrically scaled monocular depth estimation through sparse priors for underwater robots

L Ebner, G Billings, S Williams - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we address the problem of real-time dense depth estimation from monocular
images for mobile underwater vehicles. We formulate a deep learning model that fuses …

Underwater Monocular Depth Estimation Based on Physical-Guided Transformer

C Wang, H Xu, G Jiang, M Yu, T Luo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the light absorption and wavelength scattering in underwater environments,
underwater images are severely degraded, which directly affects the depth estimation of …

Self-Supervised Underwater Image Generation for Underwater Domain Pre-Training

Z Wu, Z Wu, X Chen, Y Lu, J Yu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid progress in computer vision has presented new opportunities for enhancing the
visual capabilities of underwater robots. However, most deep learning-based visual …

Underwater Image Enhancement Based on Hybrid Enhanced Generative Adversarial Network

D Xu, J Zhou, Y Liu, X Min - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, underwater image processing has played an essential role in ocean
exploration. The complexity of seawater leads to the phenomena of light absorption and …

Redefining Accuracy: Underwater Depth Estimation for Irregular Illumination Scenes

T Liu, S Zhang, Z Yu - Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Acquiring underwater depth maps is essential as they provide indispensable three-
dimensional spatial information for visualizing the underwater environment. These depth …

Estimation of Underwater Monocular Depth Using Laplacian Pyramid-Based Depth Residuals

W Chen, X Luo, F Li, D Wang - 2023 13th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the success of deep learning, an increasing number of architectures and models have
been proposed. Among these, the encoder-decoder architecture is one of the most …