Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 33, Issue 7, 1141(2025)

Underwater image enhancement based on multi-branch residual attention network

Zhuming CHENG*, Jiaxuan LI, San'ao HUANG, Lichao HAN, and Peizhen WANG
Author Affiliations
  • School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan243032, China
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    Figures & Tables(15)
    Model structure of underwater image enhancement based on multi-branch residual attention network
    Multi-branch color enhancement module
    Residual attention module
    CBAM module
    Channel attention mechanism
    Spatial attention mechanism
    Comparison of experiment results for LUSI test set
    Comparison of experimental results for EUVP515 test set
    Edge detection results
    • Table 1. Configuration of convolutional layers in model

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      Table 1. Configuration of convolutional layers in model

      NameQuantity of convolutional kernelSize of convolutional kernelStep lengthFillingQuantity of output feature map

      Size of output

      feature map

      Convolutional layer643×31164256×256
      MCEM641×11064256×256
      Encoder 1/2128/2564×421128/256128×128/64×64
      Residual attention module 1/2256/2563×311256/25664×64
      Decoder 1/2128/644×421128/64128×128/256×256
      MCEM641×11064256×256
      Convolutional layer37×7133256×256
    • Table 2. Average scores of evaluation metrics for LUSI400 test set

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      Table 2. Average scores of evaluation metrics for LUSI400 test set

      MethodPSNR/dBSSIM
      ULAP17.8130.750
      UDCP12.8330.548
      U-GAN24.9340.852
      Water-Net26.3890.878
      FUnIE-GAN23.3080.831
      U-shape Transformer26.2210.836
      Ours27.4200.885
    • Table 3. Average scores of evaluation metrics for EUVP515 test set

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      Table 3. Average scores of evaluation metrics for EUVP515 test set

      MethodPSNR/dBSSIM
      ULAP19.6260.735
      UDCP14.5190.565
      U-GAN23.4810.813
      Water-Net25.3160.840
      FUnIE-GAN24.1800.803
      U-shape Transformer25.2360.822
      Ours26.1590.851
    • Table 4. Ablation experiments results of network structure

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      Table 4. Ablation experiments results of network structure

      MethodPSNR/dBSSIM
      w/o MCEM26.3010.701
      w/o RAM23.9870.647
      w/o CBAM26.6840.734
      Ours27.4200.885
    • Table 5. Average evaluation index values of loss functions with different weight coefficients

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      Table 5. Average evaluation index values of loss functions with different weight coefficients

      Distribution of

      weight coefficients

      PSNR/dBSSIM
      λ1=0λ2=0.7λ3=0.326.4530.736
      λ1=1λ2=0λ3=0.327.1650.728
      λ1=1λ2=0.7λ3=026.6360.803
      λ1=1λ2=0.7λ3=0.327.4200.885
    • Table 6. Operational performance analysis of different models

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      Table 6. Operational performance analysis of different models

      MethodTime/sParameter/MFLOPs
      ULAP0.174--
      UDCP2.475--
      U-GAN0.05357.1738.97G
      Water-Net0.68024.81193.73G
      FUnIE-GAN0.0237.0110.23G
      U-shape Transformer0.07165.6466.21G
      Ours0.0428.4651.71G
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    Zhuming CHENG, Jiaxuan LI, San'ao HUANG, Lichao HAN, Peizhen WANG. Underwater image enhancement based on multi-branch residual attention network[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2025, 33(7): 1141

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    Received: Sep. 3, 2024

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jun. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Zhuming CHENG (czm602@ahut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.37188/OPE.20253307.1141

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