Unveiling of How Image Restoration Contributes to Underwater Object Detection
Journal
2021 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Taiwan, ICCE-TW 2021
Date Issued
2021
Author(s)
Abstract
Most underwater image restoration works indicate that restoring images can improve their visual quality and performance of computer vision tasks that use the restored data. This paper aims to investigate how image restoration contributes to underwater object detection. We found that utilizing image restoration through data augmentation rather than using it as a pre-processing step can boost underwater object detection accuracy (up to a 1.9% gain in mAP) on URPC2019 dataset. © 2021 IEEE.
Other Subjects
Image enhancement; Object detection; Object recognition; Restoration; Data augmentation; Detection accuracy; Pre-processing step; Restoration works; Underwater object detection; Visual performance; Visual qualities; Image reconstruction
Type
conference paper