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New imaging techniques enhance visibility through turbulent water

Researchers have developed computational imaging techniques to improve visibility through challenging aquatic conditions like turbid, bubbly, and flowing water. They created a dataset by filming a telescope viewing displayed images and physical objects through a water layer, testing various combinations of flow, bubbles, and turbidity. The study found that while turbidity significantly reduces contrast, averaging frames improves image quality, and learned fusion offers minimal additional benefit. Notably, raw frames were sufficient for high-accuracy recognition, and networks trained on measured and synthetic data improved underwater photographs without retraining. AI

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New imaging techniques enhance visibility through turbulent water

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Alexander Ingold, Sabina D. Menon, Aadhi Umamageswaran, Alec Ikei, May H. Hlaing, Syed N. Qadri, Rajesh Menon ·

    Computational imaging through turbid, bubbly and flowing water near the telescope

    arXiv:2610.32646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cameras in the surf zone or behind ship wakes look through turbid, bubbly, moving water close to the lens, yet restoration networks are usually scored only on displayed images. We introduce a measured dataset of a telescope viewin…