Underwater vision enhancement technologies: A comprehensive review, challenges, and recent trends

J Zhou, T Yang, W Zhang - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
Cameras are integrated with various underwater vision systems for underwater object
detection and marine biological monitoring. However, underwater images captured by …

A survey on underwater computer vision

SP González-Sabbagh, A Robles-Kelly - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Underwater computer vision has attracted increasing attention in the research community
due to the recent advances in underwater platforms such as of rovers, gliders, autonomous …

Underwater camera: Improving visual perception via adaptive dark pixel prior and color correction

J Zhou, Q Liu, Q Jiang, W Ren, KM Lam… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
We present a novel method for underwater image restoration, which combines a
Comprehensive Imaging Formation Model with prior knowledge and unsupervised …

Underwater image enhancement via medium transmission-guided multi-color space embedding

C Li, S Anwar, J Hou, R Cong, C Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images suffer from color casts and low contrast due to wavelength-and distance-
dependent attenuation and scattering. To solve these two degradation issues, we present an …

Underwater image enhancement by attenuated color channel correction and detail preserved contrast enhancement

W Zhang, Y Wang, C Li - IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An underwater image often suffers from quality degradation issues, such as color deviations,
low contrast, and blurred details, due to the absorption and scattering of light. In this article …

An underwater image enhancement benchmark dataset and beyond

C Li, C Guo, W Ren, R Cong, J Hou… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater image enhancement has been attracting much attention due to its significance
in marine engineering and aquatic robotics. Numerous underwater image enhancement …

Underwater image restoration via backscatter pixel prior and color compensation

J Zhou, T Yang, W Chu, W Zhang - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of underwater cameras instead of divers to enter complex underwater areas for real-
time monitoring of fish, shrimp, and algae is significant to the aquaculture industry. However …

Underwater single image color restoration using haze-lines and a new quantitative dataset

D Berman, D Levy, S Avidan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images suffer from color distortion and low contrast, because light is attenuated
while it propagates through water. Attenuation under water varies with wavelength, unlike …

Underwater ranker: Learn which is better and how to be better

C Guo, R Wu, X **, L Han, W Zhang, Z Chai… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
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 …

Sea-thru: A method for removing water from underwater images

D Akkaynak, T Treibitz - … of the IEEE/CVF conference on …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Robust recovery of lost colors in underwater images remains a challenging problem. We
recently showed that this was partly due to the prevalent use of an atmospheric image …