All Outputs (8)

Blind quality assessment using channel-based structural, dispersion rate xcores, and overall saturation and hue for underwater images. (2025)
Journal Article
TOLIE, H.F., REN, J., CAI, J., CHEN, R. and ZHAO, H. 2025. Blind quality assessment using channel-based structural, dispersion rate scores, and overall saturation and hue for underwater images. IEEE journal of oceanic engineering [online], Early Cite. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/joe.2025.3553888

In underwater subsea environments light attenuation, water turbidity, and limitations of the optical devices make the captured images suffer from poor contrast and quality, proportional degradation, low visibility, and low color richness. In recent y... Read More about Blind quality assessment using channel-based structural, dispersion rate xcores, and overall saturation and hue for underwater images..

Protecting visual data privacy in offshore industry via underwater image inpainting. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
TOLIE, H.F., REN, J., CHEN, R. and ZHAO, H. 2024. Protecting visual data privacy in offshore industry via underwater image inpainting. In Proceedings of the 9th International conference on image, vision and computing 2024 (ICIVC 2024), 15-17 July 2024, Suzhou, China. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 281-286. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIVC61627.2024.10837433

Leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies offers the advantage of incorporating multiple expert viewpoints, thereby facilitating a more comprehensive inspection of underwater infrastructure. However, the implementation of AI tech... Read More about Protecting visual data privacy in offshore industry via underwater image inpainting..

Effective marine monitoring with multimodal sensing and improved underwater robotic perception towards environmental protection and smart energy transition. (2024)
Journal Article
FARHADI TOLIE, H., REN, J., HASAN, M.J., MA, P, KENNAN, S. and LI, Y. 2024. Effective marine monitoring with multimodal sensing and improved underwater robotic perception towards environmental protection and smart energy transition. Journal of geodesy and geoinformation science [online], 7(4), pages 19-35. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11947/j.JGGS.2024.0403

Effective underwater sensing is crucial for environmental protection and sustainable energy transitions, particularly as we face growing challenges in marine ecosystem monitoring, resource management, and the need for efficient energy infrastructure.... Read More about Effective marine monitoring with multimodal sensing and improved underwater robotic perception towards environmental protection and smart energy transition..

Blind sonar image quality assessment via machine learning: leveraging micro- and macro-scale texture and contour features in the wavelet domain. (2024)
Journal Article
TOLIE, H.F., REN, J., CHEN, R., ZHAO, H. and ELYAN, E. 2025. Blind sonar image quality assessment via machine learning: leveraging micro- and macro-scale texture and contour features in the wavelet domain. Engineering applications of artificial intelligence [online], 141, article number 109730. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.109730

In subsea environments, sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) images are widely used for exploring and monitoring infrastructures due to their robustness and insensitivity to low-light conditions. However, their quality can degrade during acquisition... Read More about Blind sonar image quality assessment via machine learning: leveraging micro- and macro-scale texture and contour features in the wavelet domain..

Enhancing underwater situational awareness: RealSense camera integration with deep learning for improved depth perception and distance measurement. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
TOLIE, H.F., REN, J., HASAN, M.J. and KANNAN, S. 2024. Enhancing underwater situational awareness: RealSense camera integration with deep learning for improved depth perception and distance measurement. In Bouma, H., Prabhu, R., Yitzhaky, Y. and Kuijf, H.J. (eds.) Artificial intelligence for security and defence applications II: proceedings of the 2024 SPIE Security + defence, 16-20 September 2024, Edinburgh, UK. Proceedings of SPIE, 13206. Bellingham, WA; SPIE [online], paper 1320605. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3030972

This work presents a depth image refinement technique designed to enhance the usability of a commercial camera in underwater environments. Stereo vision-based depth cameras offer dense data that is well-suited for accurate environmental understanding... Read More about Enhancing underwater situational awareness: RealSense camera integration with deep learning for improved depth perception and distance measurement..

Promptable sonar image segmentation for distance measurement using SAM. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
TOLIE, H.F., REN, J., HASAN, M.J., KANNAN, S. and FOUGH, N. 2024. Promptable sonar image segmentation for distance measurement using SAM. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International workshop on Metrology for the sea; learning to measure sea health parameters (IEEE MetroSea 2024), 14-16 October 2024, Portorose, Slovenia. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 229-233. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/metrosea62823.2024.10765703

The subsea environment presents numerous challenges for robotic vision, including non-uniform light attenuation, backscattering, floating particles, and low-light conditions, which significantly degrade underwater images. This degradation impacts rob... Read More about Promptable sonar image segmentation for distance measurement using SAM..

DICAM: deep inception and channel-wise attention modules for underwater image enhancement. (2024)
Journal Article
FARHADI TOLIE, H., REN, J. and ELYAN, E. 2024. DICAM: deep inception and channel-wise attention modules for underwater image enhancement. Neurocomputing [online], 584, article number 127585. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2024.127585

In underwater environments, imaging devices suffer from water turbidity, attenuation of lights, scattering, and particles, leading to low quality, poor contrast, and biased color images. This has led to great challenges for underwater condition monit... Read More about DICAM: deep inception and channel-wise attention modules for underwater image enhancement..

Blind quality assessment of screen content images via edge histogram descriptor and statistical moments. (2023)
Journal Article
FARHADI TOLIE, H., FARAJI, M.R. and QI, X. 2024. Blind quality assessment of screen content images via edge histogram descriptor and statistical moments. Visual computer [online], 40(8), pages 5341-5356. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-023-03108-1

With the growth in utilizing desktop sharing and remote control applications in recent years - for many purposes, like online education and remote working - quality assessment (QA) of screen images has become a hot topic. It could be used to enhance... Read More about Blind quality assessment of screen content images via edge histogram descriptor and statistical moments..