Underwater image quality optimization: Researches, challenges, and future trends

M Wang, K Zhang, H Wei, W Chen, T Zhao - Image and Vision Computing, 2024 - Elsevier
Underwater images serve as crucial mediums for conveying marine information.
Nevertheless, due to the inherent complexity of the underwater environment, underwater …

HCLR-Net: hybrid contrastive learning regularization with locally randomized perturbation for underwater image enhancement

J Zhou, J Sun, C Li, Q Jiang, M Zhou, KM Lam… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Underwater image enhancement presents a significant challenge due to the complex and
diverse underwater environments that result in severe degradation phenomena such as light …

A comprehensive survey on underwater image enhancement based on deep learning

X Cong, Y Zhao, J Gui, J Hou, D Tao - ar** and multi-prior retinex variational model for underwater image enhancement
J Zhou, S Wang, Z Lin, Q Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-quality underwater imaging is crucial for underwater exploration. However, particle
scattering and light absorption by seawater significantly degrade image clarity. To address …

LiteEnhanceNet: A lightweight network for real-time single underwater image enhancement

S Zhang, S Zhao, D An, D Li, R Zhao - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, the field of underwater image enhancement has evolved from physics-based
approaches to various neural network-based methods, all of which have achieved promising …

GR-PSN: Learning to estimate surface normal and reconstruct photometric stereo images

Y Ju, B Shi, Y Chen, H Zhou, J Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel method, namely GR-PSN, which learns surface normals
from photometric stereo images and generates the photometric images under distant …

UIEDP: Boosting underwater image enhancement with diffusion prior

D Du, E Li, L Si, W Zhai, F Xu, J Niu, F Sun - Expert Systems with …, 2025 - Elsevier
Underwater image enhancement (UIE) aims to generate clear images from low-quality
underwater images. Due to the unavailability of clear reference images, researchers often …

Underwater image enhancement via multi-scale fusion and adaptive color-gamma correction in low-light conditions

D Zhang, Z He, X Zhang, Z Wang, W Ge, T Shi… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
In dark underwater areas, existing single-model underwater image enhancement methods
have poor enhancement effects. We propose an underwater image enhancement method …

Synergistic multiscale detail refinement via intrinsic supervision for underwater image enhancement

D Zhang, J Zhou, C Guo, W Zhang, C Li - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Visually restoring underwater scenes primarily involves mitigating interference from
underwater media. Existing methods ignore the inherent scale-related characteristics in …