• Journal of Applied Optics
  • Vol. 45, Issue 1, 89 (2024)
Qingjiang CHEN, Xuanjun WANG*, and Fei SHAO
Author Affiliations
  • School of Science, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China
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    DOI: 10.5768/JAO202445.0102003 Cite this Article
    Qingjiang CHEN, Xuanjun WANG, Fei SHAO. Underwater image enhancement based on multiscale residual attention networks[J]. Journal of Applied Optics, 2024, 45(1): 89 Copy Citation Text show less
    Convolution operation
    Fig. 1. Convolution operation
    Maximum pooling and average pooling operations
    Fig. 2. Maximum pooling and average pooling operations
    Structure diagram of residual module
    Fig. 3. Structure diagram of residual module
    Structure diagram of multi-scale residual attention network
    Fig. 4. Structure diagram of multi-scale residual attention network
    Multi-scale dense feature extraction module
    Fig. 5. Multi-scale dense feature extraction module
    UNet3+-Avg module
    Fig. 6. UNet3+-Avg module
    Construction process of layer-3 decoder feature map XDe3
    Fig. 7. Construction process of layer-3 decoder feature map XDe3
    Attention residual recovery module
    Fig. 8. Attention residual recovery module
    CBAM module
    Fig. 9. CBAM module
    Underwater image example
    Fig. 10. Underwater image example
    Comparison of results of different enhancement methods
    Fig. 11. Comparison of results of different enhancement methods
    Comparison of results of ablation experiments
    Fig. 12. Comparison of results of ablation experiments
    Edge detection results
    Fig. 13. Edge detection results
    EvaluationCLAHE[5]UCM[6]UDCP[7]IBLA[8]UWCNN[10]CycleGAN[18]MSRA-Net[19]AttR2U-Net[20]Ours
    Score0.52.93.10.51.02.93.53.73.9
    Table 1. Average scores of subjective evaluation of nine experimental models
    EvaluationCLAHE[5]UCM[6]UDCP[7]IBLA[8]UWCNN[10]CycleGAN[18]MSRA-Net[19]AttR2U-Net[20]Ours
    PSNR/dB19.8921.4510.3314.1916.2520.9320.4121.7323.63
    SSIM0.890.910.580.650.830.750.880.900.93
    Table 2. Average scores of evaluation indexes of nine experimental models
    ModelMDFERARCharbonnierEdgePSNRSSIM
    a18.250.68
    b20.470.84
    c18.470.83
    d19.980.69
    Our23.630.93
    Table 3. Mean scores of evaluation indexes of ablation experiments
    Qingjiang CHEN, Xuanjun WANG, Fei SHAO. Underwater image enhancement based on multiscale residual attention networks[J]. Journal of Applied Optics, 2024, 45(1): 89
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