Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been focused on by research
efforts because of their extensive applications in scientific, commercial as well as military …

Demands for oil and gas are increasing with urbanization and industrialization of the world's
increasing population. Giant oil fields are declining in their production worldwide and this …

Underwater image processing is an intelligence research field that has great potential to
help developers better explore the underwater environment. Underwater image processing …

This chapter surveys the problem of navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV
s). Navigation is critical for the safety and effectiveness of AUV missions. The unavailability …

The goals of this article are twofold. First, we detail the operations and discuss the results of
the 2005 Chios ancient shipwreck survey. This survey was conducted by an international …

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 …

For sessile organisms such as reef-building corals, differences in the degree of dispersion of
individuals across a landscape may result from important differences in life-history strategies …

This paper addresses video tracking, the problem of following moving targets automatically
over a video sequence, and brings three main contributions. First, we give a concise …

Vehicle operations in underwater environments are often compromised by poor visibility
conditions. For instance, the perception range of optical devices is heavily constrained in …

This paper presents a novel approach for combining a set of registered images into a
composite mosaic with no visible seams and minimal texture distortion. To promote …