Xueyan Ding^1,2, Xiyu Chen¹, Jiaxin Wang¹, Jianxin Zhang^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.1, pp. 713-727, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.057655 - 03 January 2025

Abstract Underwater target detection is extensively applied in domains such as underwater search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and marine resource surveys. It is crucial in enabling autonomous underwater robot operations and promoting ocean exploration. Nevertheless, low imaging quality, harsh underwater environments, and obscured objects considerably increase the difficulty of detecting underwater targets, making it difficult for current detection methods to achieve optimal performance. In order to enhance underwater object perception and improve target detection precision, we propose a lightweight underwater target detection method using You Only Look Once (YOLO) v8 with multi-scale cross-channel attention (MSCCA), named… More >

Liqiu Ren, Zhanying Li^*, Xueyu He, Lingyan Kong, Yinghao Zhang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2829-2845, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047028 - 27 February 2024

Abstract For underwater robots in the process of performing target detection tasks, the color distortion and the uneven quality of underwater images lead to great difficulties in the feature extraction process of the model, which is prone to issues like error detection, omission detection, and poor accuracy. Therefore, this paper proposed the CER-YOLOv7(CBAM-EIOU-RepVGG-YOLOv7) underwater target detection algorithm. To improve the algorithm’s capability to retain valid features from both spatial and channel perspectives during the feature extraction phase, we have added a Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) to the backbone network. The Reparameterization Visual Geometry Group (RepVGG)… More >