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Main Authors: Yang, Jiaxin, Liu, Honglin, Wang, Yongli, Cao, Shuyi, Jiang, Chengcheng, Wang, Jiale
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10374
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author Yang, Jiaxin
Liu, Honglin
Wang, Yongli
Cao, Shuyi
Jiang, Chengcheng
Wang, Jiale
author_facet Yang, Jiaxin
Liu, Honglin
Wang, Yongli
Cao, Shuyi
Jiang, Chengcheng
Wang, Jiale
contents Underwater images captured by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are inevitably affected by artificial light sources, which often produce halos in the foreground of the camera and seriously interfere with the quality of the image. The existing underwater image enhancement methods fail to fully consider this key problem, and the robustness of processing images under artificial light scenes is poor. In practical applications, since underwater image enhancement itself is a very challenging task, the influence of artificial light sources will lead to serious degradation of image performance and affect subsequent vision tasks. In order to effectively deal with this problem, this paper designs a single halo image correction method based on an iterative structure. The network is mainly divided into two sub-networks, one is the halo layer separation sub-network which aims to separate the halo by gradient minimization, and the other is the multi-scale recovery sub-network which aims to recover the image information masked by halo. The UIEB and EUVP synthetic datasets are used for training to ensure that the network can fully learn the characteristics and laws of underwater halo images. Then a large number of halo images taken in an underwater environment with real artificial light are collected for testing. In addition, the brightness distribution characteristics of underwater halo images are analyzed and the radial gradient is introduced to constraint eliminate halo to improve the effect of underwater image restoration.
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spellingShingle Halo Separation-guided Underwater Multi-scale Image Restoration
Yang, Jiaxin
Liu, Honglin
Wang, Yongli
Cao, Shuyi
Jiang, Chengcheng
Wang, Jiale
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Underwater images captured by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are inevitably affected by artificial light sources, which often produce halos in the foreground of the camera and seriously interfere with the quality of the image. The existing underwater image enhancement methods fail to fully consider this key problem, and the robustness of processing images under artificial light scenes is poor. In practical applications, since underwater image enhancement itself is a very challenging task, the influence of artificial light sources will lead to serious degradation of image performance and affect subsequent vision tasks. In order to effectively deal with this problem, this paper designs a single halo image correction method based on an iterative structure. The network is mainly divided into two sub-networks, one is the halo layer separation sub-network which aims to separate the halo by gradient minimization, and the other is the multi-scale recovery sub-network which aims to recover the image information masked by halo. The UIEB and EUVP synthetic datasets are used for training to ensure that the network can fully learn the characteristics and laws of underwater halo images. Then a large number of halo images taken in an underwater environment with real artificial light are collected for testing. In addition, the brightness distribution characteristics of underwater halo images are analyzed and the radial gradient is introduced to constraint eliminate halo to improve the effect of underwater image restoration.
title Halo Separation-guided Underwater Multi-scale Image Restoration
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10374