Algorithms for improving the quality of underwater optical images: A comprehensive review

X Shuang, J Zhang, Y Tian - Signal Processing, 2024 - Elsevier
High-quality underwater optical images are essential for various applications of underwater
vision. However, these images often suffer from severe degradation, complex noise, low …

Wavelet-based fourier information interaction with frequency diffusion adjustment for underwater image restoration

C Zhao, W Cai, C Dong, C Hu - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Underwater images are subject to intricate and diverse degradation inevitably affecting the
effectiveness of underwater visual tasks. However most approaches primarily operate in the …

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 …

Robust underwater image enhancement with cascaded multi-level sub-networks and triple attention mechanism

D Zhang, C Wu, J Zhou, W Zhang, Z Lin, K Polat… - Neural Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
With the growing exploration of marine resources, underwater image enhancement has
gained significant attention. Recent advances in convolutional neural networks (CNN) have …

IACC: cross-illumination awareness and color correction for underwater images under mixed natural and artificial lighting

J Zhou, Q Gai, D Zhang, KM Lam… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enhancing underwater images captured under mixed artificial and natural lighting
conditions presents two critical challenges. Existing methods lack a unified luminance …

HFM: A hybrid fusion method for underwater image enhancement

S An, L Xu, I Senior Member, Z Deng… - Engineering Applications of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Different underwater images captured by different devices may exhibit varying degrees of
nonlinear rendering, leading to white balance distortion. Meanwhile, wavelength attenuation …

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 …

A pixel distribution remapping 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 …

TANet: Transmission and atmospheric light driven enhancement of underwater images

D Zhang, Y Guo, J Zhou, W Zhang, Z Lin, K Polat… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Motivated by the adverse impact of light attenuation and scattering, which leads to color
distortion and low contrast in underwater images, our study primarily focuses on …