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

S Raveendran, MD Patil, GK Birajdar - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2021 - Springer
The mysteries of deep-sea ecosystems can be unlocked to reveal new sources, for
developing medical drugs, food and energy resources, and products of renewable energy …

A variational framework for underwater image dehazing and deblurring

J Xie, G Hou, G Wang, Z Pan - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater captured images are usually degraded by low contrast, hazy, and blurry due to
absorbing and scattering, which limits their analyses and applications. To address these …

Meta underwater camera: A smart protocol for underwater image enhancement

H Wang, S Sun, P Ren - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2023 - Elsevier
Underwater images captured by an underwater camera normally suffer from visual
degradation issues, such as color deviations, low contrasts, and detail blurs. Existing studies …

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 …

Systematic review and analysis on underwater image enhancement methods, datasets, and evaluation metrics

G Verma, M Kumar - Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Underwater environments can be used to explore new resources that can be employed in
the fields of medical science and energy resources. Humans are dependent on the valuable …

Benchmarking underwater image enhancement and restoration, and beyond

G Hou, X Zhao, Z Pan, H Yang, L Tan, J Li - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image enhancement and restoration is among the most investigated topics in the field of
underwater machine vision. The objective image quality assessment is a fundamental part of …

Underwater image enhancement using contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization and layered difference representation

G Ulutas, B Ustubioglu - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021 - Springer
Underwater images, which have low contrast and visibility as a result of selective attenuation
based on the wavelength of the light passing through water, needs some corrections to …

Underwater image enhancement based on DCP and depth transmission map

H Yu, X Li, Q Lou, C Lei, Z Liu - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2020 - Springer
Seeing that the light in the water is affected by absorption and scattering, underwater image
will suffer degradation including low contrast, low visibility and color deviation. Therefore …

The Retinex based improved underwater image enhancement

N Hassan, S Ullah, N Bhatti, H Mahmood… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2021 - Springer
The underwater images suffer from low contrast and color distortion due to variable
attenuation of light and nonuniform absorption of red, green and blue components. In this …

Underwater image restoration based on secondary guided transmission map

J Zhou, Z Liu, W Zhang, D Zhang, W Zhang - Multimedia Tools and …, 2021 - Springer
The color distortion and low contrast of underwater images are caused by the absorption of
light by water and the scattering of suspended particles. So, we propose an underwater …