Underwater Image Restoration

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• Underwater Image Enhancement via Medium Transmission-Guided Multi-Color Space Embedding
  27 Apr 2021 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  As a result, our network can effectively improve the visual quality of underwater images by exploiting multiple color spaces embedding and the advantages of both physical model-based and learning-based methods.
• Fast Underwater Image Enhancement for Improved Visual Perception
  23 Mar 2019 3 repositories listed
  In this paper, we present a conditional generative adversarial network-based model for real-time underwater image enhancement.
• U-shape Transformer for Underwater Image Enhancement
  23 Nov 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 5 samples · 4 unverified
  In this work, we constructed a large-scale underwater image (LSUI) dataset including 5004 image pairs, and reported an U-shape Transformer network where the transformer model is for the first time introduced to the UIE…
• Enhancing Underwater Imagery using Generative Adversarial Networks
  11 Jan 2018 2 repositories listed
  Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) rely on a variety of sensors - acoustic, inertial and visual - for intelligent decision making.
• Underwater Image Restoration Through a Prior Guided Hybrid Sense Approach and Extensive Benchmark Analysis
  6 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Underwater imaging grapples with challenges from light-water interactions, leading to color distortions and reduced clarity.
• Underwater Image Restoration via Polymorphic Large Kernel CNNs
  24 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  This work provides new insights into the potential of CNN-based approaches for challenging image restoration tasks in underwater environments.
• Unified Image Restoration and Enhancement: Degradation Calibrated Cycle Reconstruction Diffusion Model
  19 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Image restoration and enhancement are pivotal for numerous computer vision applications, yet unifying these tasks efficiently remains a significant challenge.
• Phaseformer: Phase-based Attention Mechanism for Underwater Image Restoration and Beyond
  2 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Quality degradation is observed in underwater images due to the effects of light refraction and absorption by water, leading to issues like color cast, haziness, and limited visibility.
• Bayesian Enhancement Models for One-to-Many Mapping in Image Enhancement
  13 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  Image enhancement is considered an ill-posed inverse problem due to its tendency to have multiple solutions.
• Image Enhancement Based on Histogram-Guided Multiple Transformation Function Estimation
  8 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  Next, we estimate multiple transformation functions utilizing a cross-attention block to capture the relevance between spatial and statistical information in the input image and its histogram, respectively.
• UIE-UnFold: Deep Unfolding Network with Color Priors and Vision Transformer for Underwater Image Enhancement
  20 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  By explicitly incorporating color priors and modeling the physical characteristics of underwater image formation, the proposed DUN model achieves more accurate and reliable enhancement results.
• Harnessing Multi-resolution and Multi-scale Attention for Underwater Image Restoration
  19 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  Underwater imagery is often compromised by factors such as color distortion and low contrast, posing challenges for high-level vision tasks.
• Dual High-Order Total Variation Model for Underwater Image Restoration
  20 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  Underwater images are typically characterized by color cast, haze, blurring, and uneven illumination due to the selective absorption and scattering when light propagates through the water, which limits their practical…
• CE-VAE: Capsule Enhanced Variational AutoEncoder for Underwater Image Enhancement
  3 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  Our attention-aware image encoder can project the input image onto a latent space representation while being able to run online on a remote device.
• Atlantis: Enabling Underwater Depth Estimation with Stable Diffusion
  19 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  Nonetheless, the performance of these methods is often constrained by the domain gap and looser constraints.
• Wavelet-based Fourier Information Interaction with Frequency Diffusion Adjustment for Underwater Image Restoration
  28 Nov 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 11 of 14 samples · 3 unverified · 14 pointer-only (licence)
  Underwater images are subject to intricate and diverse degradation, inevitably affecting the effectiveness of underwater visual tasks.
• Multiple transformation function estimation for image enhancement
  1 Sep 2023 1 repository listed
  First, we develop a histogram-based multiple transformation function estimation network (HMTF-Net) to estimate multiple transformation functions by exploiting both the spatial and statistical information of the input…
• Synergistic Multiscale Detail Refinement via Intrinsic Supervision for Underwater Image Enhancement
  23 Aug 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Therefore, we present the synergistic multi-scale detail refinement via intrinsic supervision (SMDR-IS) for enhancing underwater scene details, which contain multi-stages.
• Contrastive Semi-supervised Learning for Underwater Image Restoration via Reliable Bank
  16 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  Despite the remarkable achievement of recent underwater image restoration techniques, the lack of labeled data has become a major hurdle for further progress.
• MetaUE: Model-based Meta-learning for Underwater Image Enhancement
  12 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  The meta-learning strategy is used to obtain a pre-trained model on the synthetic underwater dataset, which contains different types of degradation to cover the various underwater environments.
• Underwater Image Restoration via Contrastive Learning and a Real-world Dataset
  20 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  There are 2000 reference restored images and 6003 original underwater images in the unpaired training set.
• Wavelength-based Attributed Deep Neural Network for Underwater Image Restoration
  15 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  Background: Underwater images, in general, suffer from low contrast and high color distortions due to the non-uniform attenuation of the light as it propagates through the water.
• Single Underwater Image Restoration by Contrastive Learning
  17 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  Underwater image restoration attracts significant attention due to its importance in unveiling the underwater world.
• Restoration of Non-rigidly Distorted Underwater Images using a Combination of Compressive Sensing and Local Polynomial Image Representations
  6 Aug 2019 1 repository listed
  Surprisingly, we demonstrate that PEOF is more efficient and often outperforms all the state of the art methods in terms of numerical measures.
• An Underwater Image Enhancement Benchmark Dataset and Beyond
  11 Jan 2019 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 11 samples · 11 unverified
  In this paper, we construct an Underwater Image Enhancement Benchmark (UIEB) including 950 real-world underwater images, 890 of which have the corresponding reference images.

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