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Due to light scatter and absorption in waterbody, underwater imaging can be easily impaired with low contrast and visual distortion. The resulting images are often unable to meet the quality requirements of human perception and computer processing. Therefore, Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) has been attracting extensive research efforts. Although deep learning has demonstrated its great success in many vision tasks, its huge amounts of parameters and computations are not conducive to UIE in resource-limited scenarios. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing a Lightweight Cascaded Network (LCNet) based on Laplacian image pyramids. At each pyramid level, we implement cascaded blocks upon a residual network. Specifically, high quality residuals can be progressively predicted with significantly reduced complexity in a coarse-to-fine fashion. Furthermore, these sub-networks are recursively nested to build our LCNet, thereby reducing the overall computational complexity with reused parameters. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method performs favorably against the state-of-the-arts in terms of visual quality, model parameters and complexity.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
ISSN: 1520-9210
Year: 2022
Volume: 24
7 . 3
JCR@2022
8 . 4 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: COMPUTER SCIENCE;
ESI HC Threshold:61
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:1
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SCOPUS Cited Count: 68
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 4
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