MSFE-UIENet: A Multi-Scale Feature Extraction Network for Marine Underwater Image Enhancement

Zhao, Shengya1,2; Mei, Xinkui1; Ye, Xiufen1; Guo, Shuxiang3

2024-09-01

10.3390/jmse12091472

JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING   影响因子和分区

2077-1312

Underwater optical images have outstanding advantages for short-range underwater target detection tasks. However, owing to the limitations of special underwater imaging environments, underwater images often have several problems, such as noise interference, blur texture, low contrast, and color distortion. Marine underwater image enhancement addresses degraded underwater image quality caused by light absorption and scattering. This study introduces MSFE-UIENet, a high-performance network designed to improve image feature extraction, resulting in deep-learning-based underwater image enhancement, addressing the limitations of single convolution and upsampling/downsampling techniques. This network is designed to enhance the image quality in underwater settings by employing an encoder-decoder architecture. In response to the underwhelming enhancement performance caused by the conventional networks' sole downsampling method, this study introduces a pyramid downsampling module that captures more intricate image features through multi-scale downsampling. Additionally, to augment the feature extraction capabilities of the network, an advanced feature extraction module was proposed to capture detailed information from underwater images. Furthermore, to optimize the network's gradient flow, forward and backward branches were introduced to accelerate its convergence rate and improve stability. Experimental validation using underwater image datasets indicated that the proposed network effectively enhances underwater image quality, effectively preserving image details and noise suppression across various underwater environments.

underwater image enhancement multi-scale feature extraction pyramid downsampling module forward and backward branches

SCI

英语

其他

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Engineering ; Oceanography

Engineering, Marine ; Engineering, Ocean ; Oceanography

WOS:001324056000001

MDPI

Web of Science

1.Harbin Engn Univ, Coll Intelligent Syst Sci & Engn, Harbin 150001, Peoples R China
2.Natl Deep Sea Ctr, Deep Sea Technol Dept, Qingdao 266037, Peoples R China
3.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Elect & Elect Engn, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China

Zhao, Shengya,Mei, Xinkui,Ye, Xiufen,et al. MSFE-UIENet: A Multi-Scale Feature Extraction Network for Marine Underwater Image Enhancement[J]. JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING,2024,12(9).

Zhao, Shengya,Mei, Xinkui,Ye, Xiufen,&Guo, Shuxiang.(2024).MSFE-UIENet: A Multi-Scale Feature Extraction Network for Marine Underwater Image Enhancement.JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING,12(9).

Zhao, Shengya,et al."MSFE-UIENet: A Multi-Scale Feature Extraction Network for Marine Underwater Image Enhancement".JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 12.9(2024).