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 image enhancement method via multi-feature prior fusion

J Zhou, D Zhang, W Zhang - Applied Intelligence, 2022 - Springer
The information in a single underwater image is insufficient due to the complexity of the
underwater environment, which makes it challenging to meet the expectations of marine …

Recent progress in digital image restoration techniques: a review

A Wali, A Naseer, M Tamoor, SAM Gilani - Digital Signal Processing, 2023 - Elsevier
Digital images are playing a progressively important role in almost all the fields such as
computer science, medicine, communications, transmission, security, surveillance, and …

Underwater image enhancement method with light scattering characteristics

J Zhou, X Wei, J Shi, W Chu, W Zhang - Computers and Electrical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Light is absorbed and scattered when propagating in water, which results in low quality and
poor visibility of underwater optical images. Furthermore, the absorption of light by water …

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 …

Underwater image enhancement using adaptive color restoration and dehazing

T Li, S Rong, W Zhao, L Chen, Y Liu, H Zhou, B He - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Underwater images captured by optical cameras can be degraded by light attenuation and
scattering, which leads to deteriorated visual image quality. The technique of underwater …

Semantic attention and relative scene depth-guided network for underwater image enhancement

T Chen, N Wang, Y Chen, X Kong, Y Lin, H Zhao… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, to solve unique underwater degradation challenges covering low contrast,
color deviation and blurring, etc., a novel semantic attention and relative scene depth …

Underwater image restoration via depth map and illumination estimation based on a single image

J Zhou, T Yang, W Ren, D Zhang, W Zhang - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
For the enhancement process of underwater images taken in various water types, previous
methods employ the simple image formation model, thus obtaining poor restoration results …

Autonomous underwater robot for underwater image enhancement via multi-scale deformable convolution network with attention mechanism

Y Lin, J Zhou, W Ren, W Zhang - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2021 - Elsevier
Underwater images suffer from poor visibility quality, which results from selective attenuation
and scattering. These interdependence phenomena together cause image degradation …

Optical imaging and image restoration techniques for deep ocean mapping: a comprehensive survey

Y Song, D Nakath, M She, K Köser - PFG–Journal of Photogrammetry …, 2022 - Springer
Visual systems are receiving increasing attention in underwater applications. While the
photogrammetric and computer vision literature so far has largely targeted shallow water …