The paper introduces a unified training framework for underwater image enhancement that addresses the scarcity of paired clean-degraded datasets. It employs a text-guided diffusion model to generate diverse, semantically consistent degraded images and uses a progressive degradation curriculum to balance learning across multiple attributes and difficulty levels. The approach also incorporates a transmission-guided one-step diffusion model to handle varying degradation severity, achieving superior performance on several underwater benchmarks.
arXiv:2606.06176v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is essential for mitigating degradations caused by water medium. Although learning-based methods have advanced s...
arXiv:2608.00137v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Underwater image enhancement (UIE) aims to recover clear images from observations affected by wavelength-dependent absorption, scattering, an...
Recovering high-quality images from degraded underwater observations is crucial for underwater exploration. Polarization observations show promise as an effective source of complementary physical cues...
arXiv:2608.00137v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Underwater image enhancement (UIE) aims to recover clear images from observations degraded by wavelength-dependent absorption, scattering, an...
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.
The paper introduces IT-TextFusion, an iterative text-guided image fusion framework that uses text-conditioned feature interaction across multiple fusion and refinement stages. It incorporates deep cross-attention, multi-scale cross-gate fusion, and stage-specific text-conditioned modulation to enable degradation-aware global semantic conditioning while preserving complementary visible and infrared information. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate improvements in information-preservation and perceptual-quality metrics, with some metric-dependent trade-offs.
The paper introduces ImIR, a method that tunes a large pretrained image‑editing model for all‑in‑one image restoration by replacing text prompts with continuous image‑derived instructions. The approach uses a lightweight token mapper to shift the degraded image’s vision‑language embedding toward that of a clean image, enabling a single adapter to handle six restoration tasks in about three hours on one GPU. ImIR outperforms text conditioning in matched comparisons and supports task‑agnostic restoration without requiring a degradation label.
Degradations vary widely across images, so a practical restoration system has to handle many degradation types with one model. A recent and effective recipe adapts a large pretrained image-editing mod...
arXiv:2407.05389v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Underwater image enhancement (UIE) has attracted much attention owing to its importance for underwater operation and marine engineering. Moti...
Learning-based stereo matching models struggle in underwater environments due to scarce in-domain data and the difficulty of extracting discriminative correspondences from degraded imagery. In this work, we present $\textbf{AquaStereo}$, a perception-enhanced framework with a data simulation pipeline and a self-distillation strategy that jointly address data scarcity and feature degradation in underwater stereo matching.
arXiv:2507.08375v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Video restoration and enhancement are critical not only for improving visual quality, but also as essential pre-processing steps to boost the perfo...
arXiv:2608. 09482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: All-in-one image restoration is a unified low-level vision task that aims to effectively recover high-quality images from inputs degraded by various types and levels of corruption using a single model.