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 …

An overview of underwater vision enhancement: From traditional methods to recent deep learning

K Hu, C Weng, Y Zhang, J Jin, Q Xia - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Underwater video images, as the primary carriers of underwater information, play a vital role
in human exploration and development of the ocean. Due to the optical characteristics of …

Underwater image enhancement via minimal color loss and locally adaptive contrast enhancement

W Zhang, P Zhuang, HH Sun, G Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images typically suffer from color deviations and low visibility due to the
wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering. To deal with these degradation …

Twin adversarial contrastive learning for underwater image enhancement and beyond

R Liu, Z Jiang, S Yang, X Fan - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images suffer from severe distortion, which degrades the accuracy of object
detection performed in an underwater environment. Existing underwater image …

Underwater image enhancement via weighted wavelet visual perception fusion

W Zhang, L Zhou, P Zhuang, G Li, X Pan… - … on Circuits and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images typically suffer from various quality degradation issues due to the
scattering and absorption of light, but these degraded-quality underwater images are …

UIEC^ 2-Net: CNN-based underwater image enhancement using two color space

Y Wang, J Guo, H Gao, H Yue - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2021 - Elsevier
Underwater image enhancement has attracted much attention due to the rise of marine
resource development in recent years. Benefit from the powerful representation capabilities …

Retinex-inspired color correction and detail preserved fusion for underwater image enhancement

W Zhang, L Dong, W Xu - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2022 - Elsevier
Many practical underwater applications need to address color cast, blurring, and low
contrast of underwater images for display and further analysis. To cope with the …

Enhancement of underwater images with statistical model of background light and optimization of transmission map

W Song, Y Wang, D Huang, A Liotta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images often have severe quality degradation and distortion due to light
absorption and scattering in the water medium. A hazy image formation model is widely …

An experimental-based review of image enhancement and image restoration methods for underwater imaging

Y Wang, W Song, G Fortino, LZ Qi, W Zhang… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images play a key role in ocean exploration but often suffer from severe quality
degradation due to light absorption and scattering in water medium. Although major …

Enhancing underwater image via color correction and bi-interval contrast enhancement

W Zhang, L Dong, T Zhang, W Xu - Signal Processing: Image …, 2021 - Elsevier
Underwater captured images often suffer from color cast and low visibility due to light is
scattered and absorbed while it traveling in water. In this paper, we proposed a novel …