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CoRe-UIE: Rethinking Coexisting and Region-wise Degradation for Underwater Image Enhancement

arXiv:2608. 08965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater images often suffer from diverse and coexisting degradations, including color distortion, scattering haze, texture attenuation, and uneven illumination.

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Jul 30

CoRE-UIR: Prior-guided common and residual experts for efficient all-in-one remote sensing image restoration

Remote sensing images acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellites are often degraded by adverse weather, illumination variation, and imaging artifacts, which may co-occur and jointly induce global distribution shifts and local structural corruption. Although All-in-One image restoration offers an appealing unified alternative to task-specific pipelines, existing methods still suffer from weak or implicit degradation cues and parameter redundancy caused by full-rank multi-expert designs with overlapping restoration behaviors.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

3D-USE: From Image-Level to Scene-Level Underwater Enhancement

The paper introduces 3D-USE, a two‑stage framework for underwater scene‑level enhancement that learns a persistent, visibility‑enhanced 3D representation from degraded multi‑view observations. First, the Medium Radial Basis Anchor Representation (MediumRBF) builds a medium‑aware Gaussian scene by separating object and medium effects. Then, Appearance Transition Consensus (ATC) transfers 2D underwater image enhancement knowledge into scene‑global and Gaussian‑local targets, which are realized by an Underwater Bilateral Appearance Field (U‑BAF) to render enhanced novel views without a 2D UIE model at inference. Experiments on real underwater scenes demonstrate improved visibility, cross‑view consistency, and preserved reconstruction quality.

By Jieyu Yuan, Yuanlin Zhang, Jihong Li, Chunle Guo, Huimin Lu, Chongyi Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

WaterClear-GS: Optical-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Underwater Reconstruction and Restoration

WaterClear-GS introduces a physics-informed Gaussian splatting method tailored for underwater 3D reconstruction and appearance restoration. It models underwater degradation as intrinsic Gaussian attributes and employs a dual-branch optimization that separates clean appearance from degradation while preserving photometric consistency. The approach incorporates depth-guided geometry regularization, perception-driven supervision, exposure constraints, adaptive regularization, and spectral regularization, achieving strong novel view synthesis and image restoration performance at over 160 FPS.

By Xinrui Zhang, Yufeng Wang, Zesheng Wang, Dacheng Qi, Wenrui Ding, Shuangkang Fang
arXiv AI
Sep 10

DPSF-Net: A Dual-Prior Spatial-Frequency Network for Real-World Remote Sensing Image Dehazing

DPSF-Net is a dual‑prior spatial‑frequency network designed for real‑world remote sensing image dehazing. It combines hazy RGB images with dark channel prior maps as joint inputs, and incorporates a spatial‑frequency residual interaction block, a prior‑guided feature attention module, and a selective kernel complementary fusion module to reduce colour shift, structural distortion, and large‑scale haze. Experiments show that DPSF-Net achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on the RRSHID benchmark while maintaining a favorable balance of restoration quality, parameter count, and computational complexity.

By Mei Lu, Shangliang Shao, Shanliang Yao
arXiv AI
Sep 24

Breaking Weather-Content Coupling: Type-Severity Guided Progressive Disentanglement for All-in-One Infrared Restoration

The paper introduces TSGPD-IR, a network that disentangles weather-induced artifacts from true thermal signals in infrared images. It uses weather semantics and regional degradation severity to generate adaptive prompts, estimate severity without manual labels, and select appropriate expert modules for restoration. This approach aims to reduce artifacts and preserve weak thermal details across varying weather conditions.

By Xinyao Wang, Lijun He, Zhihan Ren, Fan Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Learning Spatially Adaptive Structural Coordination for Underwater Salient Object Detection

The paper introduces SASC-USOD, a framework for underwater salient object detection that learns spatially adaptive coordination between two structural representations: a boundary-sensitive representation using Laplacian filtering and a region-coherent representation via dual-range anisotropic large-kernel aggregation. A spatial coordination module estimates the relative reliability of these representations and adaptively blends them based on image content. Experiments on USOD10K and USOD benchmarks show that SASC-USOD outperforms existing methods, reducing MAE by 4.07% and 23.53% respectively, and its lightweight variant achieves 21 FPS on an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX.

By Lin Hong, Chenhui Wang, Linan Deng, Yuning Cui, Yu Zhang, Xin Wang, Bojian Zhang, Xingchen Yang, Fumin Zhang