WaterFlow: Heuristic Normalizing Flow for Underwater Image Enhancement and Beyond

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00931v1
• Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 04:17:35 GMT
• Title: WaterFlow: Heuristic Normalizing Flow for Underwater Image Enhancement and Beyond
• Authors: Zengxi Zhang, Zhiying Jiang, Jinyuan Liu, Xin Fan, Risheng Liu
• Abstract summary: Existing underwater image enhancement methods mainly focus on image quality improvement, ignoring the effect on practice. We propose a normalizing flow for detection-driven underwater image enhancement, dubbed WaterFlow. Considering the differentiability and interpretability, we incorporate the prior into the data-driven mapping procedure.
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• Abstract: Underwater images suffer from light refraction and absorption, which impairs visibility and interferes the subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods mainly focus on image quality improvement, ignoring the effect on practice. To balance the visual quality and application, we propose a heuristic normalizing flow for detection-driven underwater image enhancement, dubbed WaterFlow. Specifically, we first develop an invertible mapping to achieve the translation between the degraded image and its clear counterpart. Considering the differentiability and interpretability, we incorporate the heuristic prior into the data-driven mapping procedure, where the ambient light and medium transmission coefficient benefit credible generation. Furthermore, we introduce a detection perception module to transmit the implicit semantic guidance into the enhancement procedure, where the enhanced images hold more detection-favorable features and are able to promote the detection performance. Extensive experiments prove the superiority of our WaterFlow, against state-of-the-art methods quantitatively and qualitatively.

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