IEEE

Deep Underwater Image Quality Assessment With Explicit Degradation Awareness Embedding

Abstract: Underwater Image Quality Assessment (UIQA) is currently an area of intensive research interest. Existing deep learning-based UIQA models always learn a deep neural network to directly map ...

Airborne AI spots underwater munitions in shallow seas with high precision

A new airborne imaging approach can reliably detect unexploded weapons that lie in shallow coastal waters and remain an ...

NASA Satellites Spot Rare Underwater Volcano Eruption That Could Create Earth’s Newest Island

A submarine eruption north of Papua New Guinea may be building new land while satellites track its evolution from above.
IEEE

UIE-DDPM: Underwater Image Enhancement Based on the Integration of Physical Model and Conditional Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model

Abstract: Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is crucial for underwater perception tasks but is challenged by complex physical degradations, including backscatter, wavelength-dependent attenuation, ...
digitalcameraworld

A pitch-black underwater cave, a diver, and a fragile ecosystem: This award-winning underwater image is both terrifying and inspiring

Sometimes, the best images create warring emotions – and that's certainly the case with a photograph that recently won the “Connecting Oceans” category of the Photo Competition for United Nations (UN) ...
SeafoodSource

Underwater camera company CatchCam helping to improve sustainability, decision-making within small-scale fishing

CatchCam Technologies CEO and Co-Founder Tom Rossiter grew up with a love for technology and a background in fishing but never desired to be an entrepreneur. “I think it was a necessity. It was never ...