Variational Deep Unfolding with Mamba-Based Nonlocal Modeling for Underwater Image Enhancement
Researchers have developed new methods for enhancing underwater images, addressing issues like poor visibility, color distortion, and blur. One approach utilizes a deep unfolding network incorporating Mamba layers to capture scene similarities and a proximal trajectory loss for consistency. Another method employs transfer learning and physics-based decomposition, leveraging prior knowledge from other vision tasks without requiring paired labels. A third framework uses a dual-branch system to jointly optimize image enhancement and object detection, improving clarity and color accuracy for downstream tasks. AI
IMPACT These advancements in underwater image enhancement could improve the performance of AI systems in marine research, exploration, and surveillance.