UEAOD: Underwater Image Enhancement-Assisted Object Detection Guided by Frequency Decomposition and Physical Consistency (opens in new tab)

Underwater vision is central to marine robotics and ecological monitoring, yet turbidity, color cast, and backscatter degrade appearance and confound object boundaries. Existing enhancement–detection pipelines often optimize perceptual quality, keep the enhancement branch active during inference, and process features uniformly in the spatial domain, yielding residual artifacts, domain sensitivity, and nontrivial latency. We propose underwater enhancement-assisted object detection (UEAOD), a l...