Underwater robot technologies are crucial for marine resource exploration and autonomous
manipulation, and many breakthroughs have been achieved with key indicators (eg, dive …

The advancements of sensing technologies, including remote sensing, in situ sensing,
social sensing, and health sensing, have tremendously improved our capability to observe …

Due to the complex underwater environment, underwater imaging often encounters some
problems such as blur, scale variation, color shift, and texture distortion. Generic detection …

Robot manipulation, for example, pick-and-place manipulation, is broadly used for intelligent
manufacturing with industrial robots, ocean engineering with underwater robots, service …

Underwater manipulation is one of the most remarkable ongoing research subjects in
robotics. Intervention autonomous underwater vehicles (I-AUVs) not only have to cope with …

Discovering unknown objects from visual information as curiosity is highly demanded for
autonomous exploration in underwater environment. In this research, we propose an end-to …

The laser-based 3-D reconstruction is crucial for autonomous manipulation and resource
exploration in both the air and underwater scenarios, due to its accurate precision and …

Abstract Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is a crucial preprocessing step for
underwater vision tasks. Addressing the challenge of training supervised deep learning …

The vision enhancement of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has received increasing
attention and rapid development in recent years. However, existing methods based on prior …

Due to the problem of severe deformation, occlusion, diversified scenarios, general object
detection methods cannot achieve satisfactory results in underwater object detection tasks …