Style-Decoupled Adaptive Routing Network for Underwater Image Enhancement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12257v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:13:44 GMT
• Title: Style-Decoupled Adaptive Routing Network for Underwater Image Enhancement
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel adaptive enhancement framework, SDAR-Net.<n>It first decouples specific degradation styles from the input and subsequently modulates the enhancement process adaptively.<n>SDAR-Net achieves a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance with a PSNR of 25.72 dB on real-world benchmark.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is essential for robust visual perception in marine applications. However, existing methods predominantly rely on uniform mapping tailored to average dataset distributions, leading to over-processing mildly degraded images or insufficient recovery for severe ones. To address this challenge, we propose a novel adaptive enhancement framework, SDAR-Net. Unlike existing uniform paradigms, it first decouples specific degradation styles from the input and subsequently modulates the enhancement process adaptively. Specifically, since underwater degradation primarily shifts the appearance while keeping the scene structure, SDAR-Net formulates image features into dynamic degradation style embeddings and static scene structural representations through a carefully designed training framework. Subsequently, we introduce an adaptive routing mechanism. By evaluating style features and adaptively predicting soft weights at different enhancement states, it guides the weighted fusion of the corresponding image representations, accurately satisfying the adaptive restoration demands of each image. Extensive experiments show that SDAR-Net achieves a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance with a PSNR of 25.72 dB on real-world benchmark, and demonstrates its utility in downstream vision tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/WHU-USI3DV/SDAR-Net.

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