Underwater Multimedia Processing

With the rapid development of hardware devices and image processing technology, underwater multimedia processing has drawn considerable attention in both industry and academia, and has gradually become a hot research topic in recent years. However, since digital images and videos are easily affected by sensors, scene structure, and imaging environments, underwater images and videos often suffer from low contrast, blurred details, and severe color casts, which limit the practical applications of underwater images and videos in various multimedia related tasks. Relying on various advanced network structures and learning strategies or prior assumptions, many excellent algorithms have been proposed to address these degradation issues. To exchange the latest underwater image processing techniques, in this special session, we would like to provide a venue for researchers in this area to publish their recent discoveries and outcomes in a timely manner.

Topics of interest of this special session include, but not limited to:

  • Low-level underwater vision tasks, including underwater visual enhancement, reconstruction, dehazing and super-resolution, etc.
  • High-level underwater vision tasks, including object detection and recognition, sonar image segmentation, underwater 3D shape recovery, etc.
  • Underwater image/video quality assessment
  • Extreme underwater image/video compression
  • A survey of underwater image/video processing technology
  • New synthetic or real underwater image/video benchmark datasets
  • Some interesting underwater applications such as autonomous underwater vehicle, underwater environment real-time monitoring system, etc.

For authors:

1) Details at Call for Special Sessions
2) Paper templates and paper submission system at Instructions for Authors

Organizers:

Liquan Shen

Liquan Shen

Runmin Cong

Runmin Cong

Chongyi Li

Chongyi Li