{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/single-underwater-image-restoration-by","title":"Single Underwater Image Restoration by Contrastive Learning","arxiv_id":"2103.09697","date":"2021-03-17","proceeding":null,"authors":["Junlin Han","Mehrdad Shoeiby","Tim Malthus","Elizabeth Botha","Janet Anstee","Saeed Anwar","Ran Wei","Lars Petersson","Mohammad Ali Armin"],"abstract":"Underwater image restoration attracts significant attention due to its importance in unveiling the underwater world. This paper elaborates on a novel method that achieves state-of-the-art results for underwater image restoration based on the unsupervised image-to-image translation framework. We design our method by leveraging from contrastive learning and generative adversarial networks to maximize mutual information between raw and restored images. Additionally, we release a large-scale real underwater image dataset to support both paired and unpaired training modules. Extensive experiments with comparisons to recent approaches further demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09697v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.09697v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"single-underwater-image-restoration-by","repo_url":"https://github.com/JunlinHan/CWR","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"NOASSERTION"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"contrastive-learning","task_name":"Contrastive Learning"},{"task_slug":"image-restoration","task_name":"Image Restoration"},{"task_slug":"image-to-image-translation","task_name":"Image-to-Image Translation"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"},{"task_slug":"underwater-image-restoration","task_name":"Underwater Image Restoration"},{"task_slug":"unsupervised-image-to-image-translation","task_name":"Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"contrastive-learning","method_name":"Contrastive Learning"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2103.09697","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}