Underwater Vision Sensing System: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2025 | Viewed by 613
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Interests: underwater vision; artificial intelligence
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Interests: underwater vision; marine vision; underwater scene understanding
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Interests: robotics; oceanic optics; computer vision; artificial Intelligence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Image and video sensing are essential tools for exploring and understanding the hidden world beneath the waves, yet the complex aquatic environment has prevented them from being widely deployed. Recent advances in underwater vision sensing technology have enabled researchers to develop efficient and cost-effective systems for underwater imaging. Underwater vision sensing systems can be used for a variety of applications, such as underwater surveillance and tracking, the monitoring of marine habitats and species, navigation and mapping, and exploration.
The goal of this Special Issue is to introduce recent advances in underwater vision sensing systems, which involve autonomous underwater vehicles, sonar imaging, optical imaging, 3D reconstruction, automatic driving devices, sonar system optimization, the Internet of Things, security facilities, navigation systems, computer vision devices, acoustic materials, acoustic technologies, and so on. In this Special Issue, we expect to publish papers with theoretical and practical innovations in underwater vision sensing systems involving underwater optical and sonar imaging, underwater sensor design and development, image and signal processing for underwater vision sensing, image and signal analysis for object recognition and tracking, machine learning and artificial intelligence for underwater vision sensing, underwater navigation and localization, underwater communication and networking, applications of underwater vision sensing in autonomous underwater vehicles, and any other possible applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Underwater imaging;
- Acoustic technology;
- The implementation of deep learning in underwater vision systems;
- Underwater 3D reconstruction;
- Remotely operated vehicles;
- Autonomous underwater vehicles;
- Underwater stereo vision;
- Underwater monitoring;
- Image and signal processing in underwater vision sensing systems;
- Underwater networks;
- Underwater communication;
- Underwater sensors;
- Underwater materials;
- Underwater devices;
- Underwater navigation;
- Underwater sensing and detection;
- Underwater microscopy.
Dr. Zhibin Yu
Dr. Sai-Kit Yeung
Dr. Huimin Lu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- underwater imaging
- underwater 3D reconstruction
- autonomous underwater vehicles
- underwater vision sensing systems
- underwater networks
- underwater communication
- underwater sensing and detection
- underwater microscopy
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