UIF: An objective quality assessment for underwater image enhancement

Y Zheng, W Chen, R Lin, T Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to complex and volatile lighting environment, underwater imaging can be readily
impaired by light scattering, warping, and noises. To improve the visual quality, Underwater …

Machine learning for shipwreck segmentation from side scan sonar imagery: Dataset and benchmark

AV Sethuraman, A Sheppard… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Open-source benchmark datasets have been a critical component for advancing machine
learning for robot perception in terrestrial applications. Benchmark datasets enable the …

A swarm of unmanned vehicles in the shallow ocean: A survey

G Liu, L Chen, K Liu, Y Luo - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of offshore exploration, autonomous underwater vehicles
(AUVs) have come in great diversities depending on their particular specifications in civil …

An effectual underwater image enhancement using deep learning algorithm

G Ramkumar, M Ayyadurai… - 2021 5th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital image processing domain is growing day-by-day by introducing novel technologies
to provide assistance for several applications such as robotic activities, underwater network …

Multi-AUV inspection for process monitoring of underwater oil transportation

J He, J Wen, S Xiao, J Yang - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dear Editor, This letter presents an inspection method for process monitoring of underwater
oil transportation via multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). To improve the …

Robotic ultrasound scanning with real-time image-based force adjustment: quick response for enabling physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

M Akbari, J Carriere, T Meyer, R Sloboda… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
During an ultrasound (US) scan, the sonographer is in close contact with the patient, which
puts them at risk of COVID-19 transmission. In this paper, we propose a robot-assisted …

An underwater image quality assessment metric

P Guo, H Liu, D Zeng, T Xiang, L Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various image enhancement algorithms are adopted to improve underwater images that
often suffer from visual distortions. It is critical to assess the output quality of underwater …

Underwater image quality assessment: Subjective and objective methods

P Guo, L He, S Liu, D Zeng, H Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater image enhancement plays a critical role in marine industry. Various algorithms
are applied to enhance underwater images, but their performance in terms of perceptual …

Knowledge-guided blind image quality assessment with few training samples

T Song, L Li, J Wu, Y Yang, Y Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) for in-the-wild images has achieved great progress
by training advanced deep neural networks. However, the current BIQA models are suffering …

Exploring underwater image quality: A review of current methodologies and emerging trends

X Xu, H Cai, M Wang, W Chen, R Zhang… - Image and Vision …, 2024 - Elsevier
The complex underwater environment often leads to issues such as light scattering, color
distortion, structural blurring, and noise interference in underwater images, hindering …