Underwater simultaneous enhancement and super-resolution impact evaluation on object detection

Ali Awad; Nusrat Zahan; Evan Lucas; Timothy C. Havens; Sidike Paheding; Ashraf Saleem

doi:10.1117/12.3014034

7 June 2024 Underwater simultaneous enhancement and super-resolution impact evaluation on object detection

Ali Awad, Nusrat Zahan, Evan Lucas, Timothy C. Havens, Sidike Paheding, Ashraf Saleem

Proceedings Volume 13040, Pattern Recognition and Tracking XXXV; 1304009 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3014034
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2024, National Harbor, Maryland, United States

Abstract

Underwater imagery often exhibits significant degradation and poor quality as compared to outdoor imagery. To compensate for this, Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR) and enhancement algorithms are used to lessen this degradation and produce high-resolution images. In this study, we apply state-of-the-art Simultaneous Enhancement and Super-Resolution (SESR) and SISR models to different sets of downscaled images from the comprehensive RUOD dataset. We then conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the upscaled and enhanced images using standard underwater image quality metrics (IQMs). Subsequently, we evaluate the robustness of the state-of-the-art YOLO-NAS detector against image sets with varying downscaled spatial resolutions. Lastly, we examine the impact that the SISR and SESR models has on YOLO-NAS detector performance. The findings reveal a decline in the detection performance on the downscaled test images and a further decline on the upscaled and enhanced images produced by SISR and SESR models, suggesting a negative relationship between such models and detection.

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Ali Awad, Nusrat Zahan, Evan Lucas, Timothy C. Havens, Sidike Paheding, and Ashraf Saleem "Underwater simultaneous enhancement and super-resolution impact evaluation on object detection", Proc. SPIE 13040, Pattern Recognition and Tracking XXXV, 1304009 (7 June 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3014034

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