Underwater Image Enhancement by Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20485v1
• Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:15:38 GMT
• Title: Underwater Image Enhancement by Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces UIE-SNN, the first SNN-based UIE algorithm to improve visibility of underwater images.<n>We explore and validate the influence of training datasets on energy reduction, a unique advantage of UIE-SNN architecture.<n>Our algorithm performs on par with its non-spiking counterpart methods in terms of PSNR and SSIM at reduced timesteps.
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• Abstract: Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is fundamental for marine applications, including autonomous vision-based navigation. Deep learning methods using convolutional neural networks (CNN) and vision transformers advanced UIE performance. Recently, spiking neural networks (SNN) have gained attention for their lightweight design, energy efficiency, and scalability. This paper introduces UIE-SNN, the first SNN-based UIE algorithm to improve visibility of underwater images. UIE-SNN is a 19- layered convolutional spiking encoder-decoder framework with skip connections, directly trained using surrogate gradient-based backpropagation through time (BPTT) strategy. We explore and validate the influence of training datasets on energy reduction, a unique advantage of UIE-SNN architecture, in contrast to the conventional learning-based architectures, where energy consumption is model-dependent. UIE-SNN optimizes the loss function in latent space representation to reconstruct clear underwater images. Our algorithm performs on par with its non-spiking counterpart methods in terms of PSNR and structural similarity index (SSIM) at reduced timesteps ($T=5$) and energy consumption of $85\%$. The algorithm is trained on two publicly available benchmark datasets, UIEB and EUVP, and tested on unseen images from UIEB, EUVP, LSUI, U45, and our custom UIE dataset. The UIE-SNN algorithm achieves PSNR of \(17.7801~dB\) and SSIM of \(0.7454\) on UIEB, and PSNR of \(23.1725~dB\) and SSIM of \(0.7890\) on EUVP. UIE-SNN achieves this algorithmic performance with fewer operators (\(147.49\) GSOPs) and energy (\(0.1327~J\)) compared to its non-spiking counterpart (GFLOPs = \(218.88\) and Energy=\(1.0068~J\)). Compared with existing SOTA UIE methods, UIE-SNN achieves an average of \(6.5\times\) improvement in energy efficiency. The source code is available at \href{https://github.com/vidya-rejul/UIE-SNN.git}{UIE-SNN}.

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