Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Identifying Critical Issues and Future Perspectives in Image Acquisition
Underwater imaging has been present for many decades due to its relevance in vision and navigation systems. In recent years, advances in robotics have led to the availability of autonomous or unmanned underwater vehicles (AUVs, UUVs). Despite the rapid development of new studies and promising algori...
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| author | Alberto Monterroso Muñoz Maria-Jose Moron-Fernández Daniel Cascado-Caballero Fernando Diaz-del-Rio Pedro Real |
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| description | Underwater imaging has been present for many decades due to its relevance in vision and navigation systems. In recent years, advances in robotics have led to the availability of autonomous or unmanned underwater vehicles (AUVs, UUVs). Despite the rapid development of new studies and promising algorithms in this field, there is currently a lack of research toward standardized, general-approach proposals. This issue has been stated in the literature as a limiting factor to be addressed in the future. The key starting point of this work is to identify a synergistic effect between professional photography and scientific fields by analyzing image acquisition issues. Subsequently, we discuss underwater image enhancement and quality assessment, image mosaicking and algorithmic concerns as the last processing step. In this line, statistics about 120 AUV articles fro recent decades have been analyzed, with a special focus on state-of-the-art papers from recent years. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify critical issues in autonomous underwater vehicles encompassing the entire process, starting from optical issues in image sensing and ending with some issues related to algorithmic processing. In addition, a global underwater workflow is proposed, extracting future requirements, outcome effects and new perspectives in this context. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6bc78d48671b44d9941798426c65bd882023-11-18T03:15:40ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-05-012310498610.3390/s23104986Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Identifying Critical Issues and Future Perspectives in Image AcquisitionAlberto Monterroso Muñoz0Maria-Jose Moron-Fernández1Daniel Cascado-Caballero2Fernando Diaz-del-Rio3Pedro Real4Department of Applied Mathematics I, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, SpainDepartment of Computer Architecture and Technology, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, SpainDepartment of Computer Architecture and Technology, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, SpainDepartment of Computer Architecture and Technology, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, SpainDepartment of Applied Mathematics I, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, SpainUnderwater imaging has been present for many decades due to its relevance in vision and navigation systems. In recent years, advances in robotics have led to the availability of autonomous or unmanned underwater vehicles (AUVs, UUVs). Despite the rapid development of new studies and promising algorithms in this field, there is currently a lack of research toward standardized, general-approach proposals. This issue has been stated in the literature as a limiting factor to be addressed in the future. The key starting point of this work is to identify a synergistic effect between professional photography and scientific fields by analyzing image acquisition issues. Subsequently, we discuss underwater image enhancement and quality assessment, image mosaicking and algorithmic concerns as the last processing step. In this line, statistics about 120 AUV articles fro recent decades have been analyzed, with a special focus on state-of-the-art papers from recent years. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify critical issues in autonomous underwater vehicles encompassing the entire process, starting from optical issues in image sensing and ending with some issues related to algorithmic processing. In addition, a global underwater workflow is proposed, extracting future requirements, outcome effects and new perspectives in this context.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/10/4986underwater imagesensing for autonomous underwater vehiclesoptical imaging technologiesimage acquisitionimage processing methods |
| spellingShingle | Alberto Monterroso Muñoz Maria-Jose Moron-Fernández Daniel Cascado-Caballero Fernando Diaz-del-Rio Pedro Real Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Identifying Critical Issues and Future Perspectives in Image Acquisition Sensors underwater image sensing for autonomous underwater vehicles optical imaging technologies image acquisition image processing methods |
| title | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Identifying Critical Issues and Future Perspectives in Image Acquisition |
| title_full | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Identifying Critical Issues and Future Perspectives in Image Acquisition |
| title_fullStr | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Identifying Critical Issues and Future Perspectives in Image Acquisition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Identifying Critical Issues and Future Perspectives in Image Acquisition |
| title_short | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Identifying Critical Issues and Future Perspectives in Image Acquisition |
| title_sort | autonomous underwater vehicles identifying critical issues and future perspectives in image acquisition |
| topic | underwater image sensing for autonomous underwater vehicles optical imaging technologies image acquisition image processing methods |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/10/4986 |
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