AquaFeat+: an Underwater Vision Learning-based Enhancement Method for Object Detection, Classification, and Tracking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09652v1
• Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:38:41 GMT
• Title: AquaFeat+: an Underwater Vision Learning-based Enhancement Method for Object Detection, Classification, and Tracking
• Authors: Emanuel da Costa Silva, Tatiana Taís Schein, José David García Ramos, Eduardo Lawson da Silva, Stephanie Loi Brião, Felipe Gomes de Oliveira, Paulo Lilles Jorge Drews-Jr,
• Abstract summary: This work proposes AquaFeat+, a plug-and-play pipeline designed to enhance features specifically for automated vision tasks.<n>The architecture includes modules for color correction, hierarchical feature enhancement, and an adaptive residual output, which are trained end-to-end and guided directly by the loss function of the final application.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Underwater video analysis is particularly challenging due to factors such as low lighting, color distortion, and turbidity, which compromise visual data quality and directly impact the performance of perception modules in robotic applications. This work proposes AquaFeat+, a plug-and-play pipeline designed to enhance features specifically for automated vision tasks, rather than for human perceptual quality. The architecture includes modules for color correction, hierarchical feature enhancement, and an adaptive residual output, which are trained end-to-end and guided directly by the loss function of the final application. Trained and evaluated in the FishTrack23 dataset, AquaFeat+ achieves significant improvements in object detection, classification, and tracking metrics, validating its effectiveness for enhancing perception tasks in underwater robotic applications.

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