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 …

Uncertainty inspired underwater image enhancement

Z Fu, W Wang, Y Huang, X Ding, KK Ma - European conference on …, 2022 - Springer
A main challenge faced in the deep learning-based Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE)
is that the ground truth high-quality image is unavailable. Most of the existing methods first …

Underwater image enhancement via piecewise color correction and dual prior optimized contrast enhancement

W Zhang, S Jin, P Zhuang, Z Liang… - IEEE Signal Processing …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the absorption and scattering of light, underwater captured images often face serious
quality degradation issues. In this letter, we propose to cope with the aforementioned issues …

Beyond single reference for training: Underwater image enhancement via comparative learning

K Li, L Wu, Q Qi, W Liu, X Gao, L Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering, the raw underwater
images are usually inevitably degraded. Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is of great …

Investigating intrinsic degradation factors by multi-branch aggregation for real-world underwater image enhancement

X Xue, Z Li, L Ma, Q Jia, R Liu, X Fan - Pattern recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, improving the visual quality of underwater images has received extensive
attentions in both computer vision and ocean engineering fields. However, existing works …

Generation-based joint luminance-chrominance learning for underwater image quality assessment

Z Wang, L Shen, Z Wang, Y Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater enhanced images (UEIs) are affected by not only the color cast and haze effect
due to light attenuation and scattering, but also the over-enhancement and texture distortion …

UW-CycleGAN: Model-driven CycleGAN for underwater image restoration

H Yan, Z Zhang, J Xu, T Wang, P An… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The formation of underwater images is a complex physical process that often suffers from
various degradation factors, such as blurriness, low contrast, and color casts, which pose …

Cascaded frameworks in underwater optical image restoration

B Li, Z Chen, L Lu, P Qi, L Zhang, Q Ma, H Hu, J Zhai… - Information …, 2025 - Elsevier
Optical imaging and vision technology have become crucial research topics in the field of
underwater and ocean scenes. These technologies play a vital role in advancing …

Human perceptual quality driven underwater image enhancement framework

M Li, Y Lin, L Shen, Z Wang, K Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images suffer from severe color casts, low contrast, and blurriness, which
greatly degrade the visibility and color fidelity of underwater images. Recently, numerous …

UIALN: Enhancement for underwater image with artificial light

M Li, K Wang, L Shen, Y Lin, Z Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since underwater images are seriously degraded due to the attenuation of light, artificial
light (AL) is often used to assist photography in underwater. However, the normal …