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
RUSplatting introduces a robust 3D Gaussian splatting framework for reconstructing high‑fidelity underwater scenes from sparse views. The method decouples RGB learning guided by underwater attenuation physics, employs a novel adaptive weighting scheme for frame interpolation, and adds a loss function that reduces noise while preserving edges. Experiments on the newly released Submerged3D dataset show PSNR gains up to 1.90 dB over state‑of‑the‑art methods, improving both visual quality and geometric accuracy for deep‑sea rendering.
By Zhuodong Jiang, Haoran Wang, Guoxi Huang, Brett Seymour, Nantheera Anantrasirichai
arXiv:2608.24594v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Submerged kelp forests are vital coastal ecosystems that support marine biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics, yet accurate underwater kelp segmentation...
By Sundarabalan Balasubramanian, C\'esar Borja, Ana C. Murillo, Lexi N. Wilkes, Meredith L. McPherson, Kira A. Krumhansl, Jennifer A. Dijkstra, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes
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:2609.18069v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Underwater semantic segmentation is essential for marine ecosystem monitoring, yet remains challenging due to severe visual degradation. Light absorpti...
By Xian Wu, Xinjin Li, Yiliu Xu, Yining Liu, Yong Jiang
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:2509.01107v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Layout-to-image (L2I) generation has exhibited promising results in natural domains, but suffers from limited generative fidelity and weak alignmen...
By Wenzhuang Wang, Yifan Zhao, Mingcan Ma, Ming Liu, Zhonglin Jiang, Yong Chen, Jia Li
MambaMPD is a new segmentation framework that leverages Vision Mamba models for marine pollution detection in remote‑sensing imagery. It introduces two structural priors—Frequency‑Aware Augmentation (FAA) and multi‑scale Edge‑Guided Attention (EGA)—to better capture low‑contrast, fragmented pollution patterns and sharpen boundaries. Experiments on the MADOS and M4D datasets show that MambaMPD outperforms existing methods in mIoU while using far less computation than foundation‑model approaches.
By Shuaiyu Chen, Wei Han, Peng Ren, Chunbo Luo, Zeyu Fu
The paper introduces PRIN, a Perceptual-Structural Retinex-Inspired Network designed for low‑light image enhancement. PRIN uses a shared encoder with asymmetric decoders to separately refine reflectance and illumination components, applying attention‑guided wavelet refinement for textures and edge preservation in the reflectance branch and spatially coherent brightness adjustment in the illumination branch. A curve‑based post‑composition head further corrects tone and exposure, achieving state‑of‑the‑art SSIM, LPIPS, and PSNR results on multiple LOL datasets.
By Qiyi Xie, Wei Chen Ng, Ziyao Li, Yuning Wu, Huasen Wu, Tianshi Miao, Jian Ding Tan
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.
By Weifeng Kong, Chenghao Xu, Lin Chen, Ziheng Cao, Guanying Huo
arXiv:2606. 02341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Underwater acoustic classification has a wide array of oceanic applications, but faces challenges due to an increasingly complex acoustic environment.
By Amirmohammad Mohammadi, Joshua Peeples, Alexandra Van Dine
arXiv:2608. 19710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable underwater robotic perception remains difficult because optical imagery degrades under turbidity, wavelength-dependent attenuation, low illumination, scattering, and blur.
By Mohammad Arif Ul Alam