AquaScope: Reliable Underwater Image Transmission on Mobile Devices
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| author | Tian, Beitong Zhao, Lingzhi Chen, Bo Wu, Mingyuan Zheng, Haozhen Vasisht, Deepak Yan, Francis Y. Nahrstedt, Klara |
| author_facet | Tian, Beitong Zhao, Lingzhi Chen, Bo Wu, Mingyuan Zheng, Haozhen Vasisht, Deepak Yan, Francis Y. Nahrstedt, Klara |
| contents | Underwater communication is essential for both recreational and scientific activities, such as scuba diving. However, existing methods remain highly constrained by environmental challenges and often require specialized hardware, driving research into more accessible underwater communication solutions. While recent acoustic-based communication systems support text messaging on mobile devices, their low data rates severely limit broader applications.
We present AquaScope, the first acoustic communication system capable of underwater image transmission on commodity mobile devices. To address the key challenges of underwater environments -- limited bandwidth and high transmission errors -- AquaScope employs and enhances generative image compression to improve compression efficiency, and integrates it with reliability-enhancement techniques at the physical layer to strengthen error resilience. We implemented AquaScope on the Android platform and demonstrated its feasibility for underwater image transmission. Experimental results show that AquaScope enables reliable, low-latency image transmission while preserving perceptual image quality, across various bandwidth-constrained and error-prone underwater conditions. |
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| spellingShingle | AquaScope: Reliable Underwater Image Transmission on Mobile Devices Tian, Beitong Zhao, Lingzhi Chen, Bo Wu, Mingyuan Zheng, Haozhen Vasisht, Deepak Yan, Francis Y. Nahrstedt, Klara Networking and Internet Architecture Underwater communication is essential for both recreational and scientific activities, such as scuba diving. However, existing methods remain highly constrained by environmental challenges and often require specialized hardware, driving research into more accessible underwater communication solutions. While recent acoustic-based communication systems support text messaging on mobile devices, their low data rates severely limit broader applications. We present AquaScope, the first acoustic communication system capable of underwater image transmission on commodity mobile devices. To address the key challenges of underwater environments -- limited bandwidth and high transmission errors -- AquaScope employs and enhances generative image compression to improve compression efficiency, and integrates it with reliability-enhancement techniques at the physical layer to strengthen error resilience. We implemented AquaScope on the Android platform and demonstrated its feasibility for underwater image transmission. Experimental results show that AquaScope enables reliable, low-latency image transmission while preserving perceptual image quality, across various bandwidth-constrained and error-prone underwater conditions. |
| title | AquaScope: Reliable Underwater Image Transmission on Mobile Devices |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10891 |