Marine Snow Removal Using Internally Generated Pseudo Ground Truth

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19289v1
• Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:08:00 GMT
• Title: Marine Snow Removal Using Internally Generated Pseudo Ground Truth
• Authors: Alexandra Malyugina, Guoxi Huang, Eduardo Ruiz, Benjamin Leslie, Nantheera Anantrasirichai,
• Abstract summary: Existing methods for removing marine snow are ineffective due to the lack of paired training data.<n>This paper proposes a novel enhancement framework that introduces a new approach for generating datasets paired from raw underwater videos.<n>The resulting dataset consists of paired images of generated snowy and snow, free underwater videos, enabling supervised training for video enhancement.
• Score: 44.44860723575667
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Underwater videos often suffer from degraded quality due to light absorption, scattering, and various noise sources. Among these, marine snow, which is suspended organic particles appearing as bright spots or noise, significantly impacts machine vision tasks, particularly those involving feature matching. Existing methods for removing marine snow are ineffective due to the lack of paired training data. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a novel enhancement framework that introduces a new approach for generating paired datasets from raw underwater videos. The resulting dataset consists of paired images of generated snowy and snow, free underwater videos, enabling supervised training for video enhancement. We describe the dataset creation process, highlight its key characteristics, and demonstrate its effectiveness in enhancing underwater image restoration in the absence of ground truth.

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