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 …

Survey of natural image enhancement techniques: Classification, evaluation, challenges, and perspectives

X Liu, M Pedersen, R Wang - Digital Signal Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
Image enhancement is an essential technique used in many imaging applications. The main
motivation of image enhancement is processing an image to be more suitable for specific …

Underwater image enhancement with hyper-laplacian reflectance priors

P Zhuang, J Wu, F Porikli, C Li - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater image enhancement aims at improving the visibility and eliminating color
distortions of underwater images degraded by light absorption and scattering in water …

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 …

Target oriented perceptual adversarial fusion network for underwater image enhancement

Z Jiang, Z Li, S Yang, X Fan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the refraction and absorption of light by water, underwater images usually suffer from
severe degradation, such as color cast, hazy blur, and low visibility, which would degrade …

Underwater image enhancement quality evaluation: Benchmark dataset and objective metric

Q Jiang, Y Gu, C Li, R Cong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the attenuation and scattering of light by water, there are many quality defects in raw
underwater images such as color casts, decreased visibility, reduced contrast, et al.. Many …

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 …

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 …

SGUIE-Net: Semantic attention guided underwater image enhancement with multi-scale perception

Q Qi, K Li, H Zheng, X Gao, G Hou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the wavelength-dependent light attenuation, refraction and scattering, underwater
images usually suffer from color distortion and blurred details. However, due to the limited …