5 papers
HiRQA: Hierarchical Ranking and Quality Alignment for Opinion-Unaware Image Quality Assessment
Vaishnav Ramesh, Haining Wang, Md Jahidul Islam
Despite significant progress in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), dataset biases and reliance on subjective labels continue to hinder their generalization performance…
NemeSys: Toward Online Underwater Exploration with Remote Operator-in-the-loop Adaptive Autonomy
Adnan Abdullah, Alankrit Gupta, Vaishnav Ramesh +2
Adaptive mission control and dynamic parameter reconfiguration are essential for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating in GPS-denied, communication-limited marine environ…
UStyle: Waterbody Style Transfer of Underwater Scenes by Depth-Guided Feature Synthesis
Md Abu Bakr Siddique, Vaishnav Ramesh, Junliang Liu +2
The concept of waterbody style transfer remains largely unexplored in the underwater imaging and vision literature. Traditional image style transfer (STx) methods primarily focus o…
DGIQA: Depth-guided Feature Attention and Refinement for Generalizable Image Quality Assessment
Vaishnav Ramesh, Junliang Liu, Haining Wang +1
A long-held challenge in no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) learning from human subjective perception is the lack of objective generalization to unseen natural distorti…
Demonstrating CavePI: Autonomous Exploration of Underwater Caves by Semantic Guidance
Alankrit Gupta, Adnan Abdullah, Xianyao Li +3
Enabling autonomous robots to safely and efficiently navigate, explore, and map underwater caves is of significant importance to water resource management, hydrogeology, archaeolog…