Underwater image enhancement: a comprehensive review, recent trends, challenges and applications

S Raveendran, MD Patil, GK Birajdar - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2021 - Springer
The mysteries of deep-sea ecosystems can be unlocked to reveal new sources, for
developing medical drugs, food and energy resources, and products of renewable energy …

Underwater vision enhancement technologies: A comprehensive review, challenges, and recent trends

J Zhou, T Yang, W Zhang - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
Cameras are integrated with various underwater vision systems for underwater object
detection and marine biological monitoring. However, underwater images captured by …

Underwater single image color restoration using haze-lines and a new quantitative dataset

D Berman, D Levy, S Avidan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images suffer from color distortion and low contrast, because light is attenuated
while it propagates through water. Attenuation under water varies with wavelength, unlike …

Underwater image restoration based on image blurriness and light absorption

YT Peng, PC Cosman - IEEE transactions on image processing, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images often suffer from color distortion and low contrast, because light is
scattered and absorbed when traveling through water. Such images with different color …

Generalization of the dark channel prior for single image restoration

YT Peng, K Cao, PC Cosman - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Images degraded by light scattering and absorption, such as hazy, sandstorm, and
underwater images, often suffer color distortion and low contrast because of light traveling …

Sea-thru: A method for removing water from underwater images

D Akkaynak, T Treibitz - … of the IEEE/CVF conference on …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Robust recovery of lost colors in underwater images remains a challenging problem. We
recently showed that this was partly due to the prevalent use of an atmospheric image …

A revised underwater image formation model

D Akkaynak, T Treibitz - … of the IEEE conference on computer …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The current underwater image formation model descends from atmospheric dehazing
equations where attenuation is a weak function of wavelength. We recently showed that this …

UW-GAN: Single-image depth estimation and image enhancement for underwater images

P Hambarde, S Murala, A Dhall - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the unavailability of large-scale underwater depth image datasets and ill-posed
problems, underwater single-image depth prediction is a challenging task. An unambiguous …

Enhancement of underwater images with statistical model of background light and optimization of transmission map

W Song, Y Wang, D Huang, A Liotta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images often have severe quality degradation and distortion due to light
absorption and scattering in the water medium. A hazy image formation model is widely …

An experimental-based review of image enhancement and image restoration methods for underwater imaging

Y Wang, W Song, G Fortino, LZ Qi, W Zhang… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater images play a key role in ocean exploration but often suffer from severe quality
degradation due to light absorption and scattering in water medium. Although major …