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 …

A variational framework for underwater image dehazing and deblurring

J Xie, G Hou, G Wang, Z Pan - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater captured images are usually degraded by low contrast, hazy, and blurry due to
absorbing and scattering, which limits their analyses and applications. To address these …

Meta underwater camera: A smart protocol for underwater image enhancement

H Wang, S Sun, P Ren - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2023 - Elsevier
Underwater images captured by an underwater camera normally suffer from visual
degradation issues, such as color deviations, low contrasts, and detail blurs. Existing studies …

Algorithms for improving the quality of underwater optical images: A comprehensive review

X Shuang, J Zhang, Y Tian - Signal Processing, 2024 - Elsevier
High-quality underwater optical images are essential for various applications of underwater
vision. However, these images often suffer from severe degradation, complex noise, low …

A survey of restoration and enhancement for underwater images

W Zhang, L Dong, X Pan, P Zou, L Qin, W Xu - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Images captured underwater usually suffer from color distortion, detail blurring, low contrast,
and a bluish or greenish tone due to light scattering and absorption in the underwater …

A unified lightweight CNN-based model for disease detection and identification in corn, rice, and wheat

S Verma, P Kumar, JP Singh - IETE Journal of Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Plant diseases are a significant threat to global food security since they directly affect the
quality of crops, leading to a decline in agricultural productivity. Several researchers have …

Benchmarking underwater image enhancement and restoration, and beyond

G Hou, X Zhao, Z Pan, H Yang, L Tan, J Li - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image enhancement and restoration is among the most investigated topics in the field of
underwater machine vision. The objective image quality assessment is a fundamental part of …

Underwater image enhancement using contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization and layered difference representation

G Ulutas, B Ustubioglu - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021 - Springer
Underwater images, which have low contrast and visibility as a result of selective attenuation
based on the wavelength of the light passing through water, needs some corrections to …

UIDEF: A real-world underwater image dataset and a color-contrast complementary image enhancement framework

L Chang, H Song, M Li, M Xiang - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerous underwater image enhancement methods have been proposed in recent years.
However, these methods are mainly evaluated using synthetic datasets with similar …

Dual-model: Revised imaging network and visual perception correction for underwater image enhancement

H Song, L Chang, H Wang, P Ren - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Considering the limitation of a single physics-based or deep learning-based method, this
paper proposes an effective Dual-model methodology for underwater image enhancement …