Analysis of recent techniques in marine object detection: a review

S Bhalla, A Kumar, R Kushwaha - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Marine Object Detection, leveraging computer vision, plays a vital role in detecting
objects in marine environments ranging from marine organisms to marine surveillance …

Underwater image restoration and enhancement: a comprehensive review of recent trends, challenges, and applications

YM Alsakar, NA Sakr, S El-Sappagh, T Abuhmed… - The Visual …, 2024 - Springer
In recent years, underwater exploration for deep-sea resource utilization and development
has a considerable interest. In an underwater environment, the obtained images and videos …

Seeing Through the Haze: A Comprehensive Review of Underwater Image Enhancement Techniques

LS Saoud, M Elmezain, A Sultan, M Heshmat… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater imaging suffers from significant quality degradation due to light scattering and
absorption by water molecules, leading to color cast and reduced visibility. This hinders the …

Underwater image restoration based on light attenuation prior and color-contrast adaptive correction

J Li, X Zhu, Y Zheng, H Lu, Y Li - Image and Vision Computing, 2024 - Elsevier
Underwater imaging is uniquely beset by issues such as color distortion and diminished
contrast due to the intricate behavior of light as it traverses water, being attenuated by …

Gplm: enhancing underwater images with global pyramid linear modulation

J Shao, H Zhang, J Miao - Image and Vision Computing, 2025 - Elsevier
Underwater imagery often suffers from challenges such as color distortion, low contrast,
blurring, and noise due to the absorption and scattering of light in water. These degradations …

Underwater moving target detection and tracking based on enhanced you only look once and deep simple online and realtime tracking strategy

B Sun, W Zhang, C **ng, Y Li - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2025 - Elsevier
Addressing the challenges posed by factors like light attenuation, turbid water quality, large
target scale changes, and dense distribution in underwater moving target images, we …

[HTML][HTML] SCoralDet: Efficient real-time underwater soft coral detection with YOLO

Z Lu, L Liao, X **e, H Yuan - Ecological Informatics, 2025 - Elsevier
In recent years, climate change and marine pollution have significantly degraded coral reefs,
highlighting the urgent need for automated coral detection to monitor marine ecosystems …

Exploring underwater image quality: A review of current methodologies and emerging trends

X Xu, H Cai, M Wang, W Chen, R Zhang… - Image and Vision …, 2024 - Elsevier
The complex underwater environment often leads to issues such as light scattering, color
distortion, structural blurring, and noise interference in underwater images, hindering …

Multi-Level Perception Assessment for Underwater Image Enhancement

Y Xu, Y Lin, N He, X Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the complex underwater imaging environment, existing Underwater Image
Enhancement (UIE) techniques are unable to handle the increasing demand for high-quality …

UIR-ES: An unsupervised underwater image restoration framework with equivariance and stein unbiased risk estimator

J Zhu, J Wen, D Hong, Z Lin, W Hong - Image and Vision Computing, 2024 - Elsevier
Underwater imaging faces challenges for enhancing object visibility and restoring true
colors due to the absorptive and scattering characteristics of water. Underwater image …