Polarimetric imaging through scattering media: A review

X Li, Y Han, H Wang, T Liu, SC Chen, H Hu - Frontiers in physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Imaging in scattering media has been a challenging and important subject in optical
science. In scattering media, the image quality is often severely degraded by the scattering …

A survey of target detection and recognition methods in underwater turbid areas

X Yuan, L Guo, C Luo, X Zhou, C Yu - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Based on analysis of state-of-the-art research investigating target detection and recognition
in turbid waters, and aiming to solve the problems encountered during target detection and …

Underwater image enhancement based on global and local equalization of histogram and dual-image multi-scale fusion

L Bai, W Zhang, X Pan, C Zhao - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images suffer from color cast and low visibility caused by the medium scattering
and absorption, which will reduce the use of valuable information from the image. In this …

A survey of restoration and enhancement for underwater images

W Zhang, L Dong, X Pan, P Zou, L Qin, W Xu - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Classical and state-of-the-art approaches for underwater image defogging: a comprehensive survey

J Zhou, D Zhang, W Zhang - Frontiers of Information Technology & …, 2020 - Springer
In underwater scenes, the quality of the video and image acquired by the underwater
imaging system suffers from severe degradation, influencing target detection and …

Underwater image restoration via feature priors to estimate background light and optimized transmission map

J Zhou, Y Wang, W Zhang, C Li - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Underwater images frequently suffer from color casts and poor contrast, due to the
absorption and scattering of light in water medium. To address these two degradation …

U2R-pGAN: Unpaired underwater-image recovery with polarimetric generative adversarial network

P Qi, X Li, Y Han, L Zhang, J Xu, Z Cheng, T Liu… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polarimetric imaging has prominent advantages in scattering media. Emerging learning-
based polarimetric technologies has succeeded but heavily relied on paired data …

Real-time underwater polarization imaging without relying on background

J Deng, J Zhu, H Li, X Zhang, F Guo, X Hou - Optics and Lasers in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polarization imaging has excellent potential for use in underwater application scenarios due
to efficient elimination of backscattered light. In most studies, two images that contain the …

Cascaded frameworks in underwater optical image restoration

B Li, Z Chen, L Lu, P Qi, L Zhang, Q Ma, H Hu, J Zhai… - Information …, 2025 - Elsevier
Optical imaging and vision technology have become crucial research topics in the field of
underwater and ocean scenes. These technologies play a vital role in advancing …

Automatic underwater polarization imaging without background region or any prior

H Wang, H Hu, J Jiang, X Li, W Zhang, Z Cheng… - Optics express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Previous polarization underwater imaging methods based on the physical scattering model
usually require background region included in the image and the prior knowledge, which …