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Contrastive UnderWater Restoration (CWR)

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We provide our PyTorch implementation for paper "Single Underwater Image Restoration by Contrastive Learning". CWR is designed for underwater image restoration, but not limited to it. It performs style-transfer to certain kinds of low-level vision tasks (e.g. Dehaze, Underwater image enhancement, Deraining) while keeping the structure identical.

CWR achieves SOTA performances in underwater image restoration task using HICRD (Heron Island Coral Reef Dataset) as the training data.

CWR and other unsupervised learning-based model works like:

Before restoration:

After restoration:

Datasets

Heron Island Coral Reef Dataset (HICRD) contains 6003 low-quality images, 3673 good-quality images, and 2000 restored images. We use low-quality images and restored images as the unpaired training set (trainA + trainB). In contrast, the paired training set contains good-quality (trainA_paired) images and corresponding restored images (trainB_paired). The test set contains 300 good-quality images (testA) as well as 300 paired restored images (testB) as ground truth. All images are in 1842 x 980 resolution. The copyright belongs to CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation).

Download link: https://data.csiro.au/collections/collection/CIcsiro:49488

To download the dataset, you need to:

1: Click the download link.

2: Click Download, select Download all files via WebDAV in select a method.

3: Enter your email address and click Request files.

4: An email will be sent to your email address for verification, click it.

5: You should receive further instructions soonly. Use the User and Password to access files and download them.

HICRD contains 8 different sites, 6 of them are with water parameters ( diffuse attenuation coefficient). The link contains both paired HICRD and unpaired HICRD. Metadata ( water parameters, camera sensor response) is also provided. More details will be included in the journal version of this paper.

Location of Heron Island:

General information for different sites:

Prerequisites

Python 3.6 or above.

For packages, see requirements.txt.

Getting started

• Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/JunlinHan/CWR.git

• Install PyTorch 1.6 or above and other dependencies (e.g., torchvision, visdom, dominate, gputil).

  For pip users, please type the command pip install -r requirements.txt.

  For Conda users, you can create a new Conda environment using conda env create -f environment.yml.

CWR Training and Test

• A one image train/test example is provided.

• To view training results and loss plots, run python -m visdom.server and click the URL http://localhost:8097.

• Train the CWR model with test HICRD dataset:

python train.py --dataroot ./datasets/HICRD --name HICRD_small

The checkpoints will be stored at ./checkpoints/HICRD_small/web.

• Test the CWR model:

python test.py --dataroot ./datasets/HICRD --name HICRD_small --preprocess scale_width --load_size 1680

The test results will be saved to an html file here: ./results/HICRD_small/latest_test/index.html.

Pre-trained CWR model

We provide our pre-trained models:

Pre-trained CWR: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Ouzzup2jNdg1PoYaQIjd-tm9K3LvwVl/view?usp=sharing

Use the pre-trained model

1: Download the whole HICRD dataset and replace ./dataset/HICRD (optional)

2: Download the pre-tained model, unzip it, and put it inside ./checkpoints (You may need to create checkpoints folder by yourself if you didn't run the training code).

python test.py --dataroot ./datasets/HICRD --name HICRD_CWR --preprocess scale_width --load_size 1680

The test results will be saved to a html file here: ./results/HICRD_CWR/latest_test/index.html.

For FID score, use pytorch-fid.

Test the FID score:

python -m pytorch_fid ./results/HICRD_CWR/test_latest/images/fake_B ./results/HICRD_CWR/test_latest/images/real_B

Citation

Conference: Single Underwater Image Restoration by Contrastive Learning
Junlin Han, Mehrdad Shoeiby, Tim Malthus, Elizabeth Botha, Janet Anstee, Saeed Anwar, Ran Wei, Lars Petersson, Mohammad Ali Armin
CSIRO and Australian National University
In IGARSS 2021

Journal: Underwater Image Restoration via Contrastive Learning and a Real-world Dataset
Junlin Han, Mehrdad Shoeiby, Tim Malthus, Elizabeth Botha, Janet Anstee, Saeed Anwar, Ran Wei, Mohammad Ali Armin, Hongdong Li, Lars Petersson
CSIRO and Australian National University
In submission

If you use our code/results/dataset, please consider citing our paper. Thanks in advance!

@inproceedings{han2021cwr,
  title={Single Underwater Image Restoration by Contrastive Learning},
  author={Junlin Han and Mehrdad Shoeiby and Tim Malthus and Elizabeth Botha and Janet Anstee and Saeed Anwar and Ran Wei and Lars Petersson and Mohammad Ali Armin},
  booktitle={IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)},
  year={2021}
}

@article{han2021underwater,
  title={Underwater Image Restoration via Contrastive Learning and a Real-world Dataset},
  author={Junlin Han and Mehrdad Shoeiby and Tim Malthus and Elizabeth Botha and Janet Anstee and Saeed Anwar and Ran Wei and Mohammad Ali Armin and Honngdong Li and Lars Petersson},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.10718},
  year={2021}
}

If you use something included in CUT, you may also cite CUT.

Contact

[email protected] or [email protected]

Acknowledgments

Our code is developed based on pytorch-CycleGAN-and-pix2pix and CUT. We thank the awesome work provided by CycleGAN and CUT. We also thank pytorch-fid for FID computation. And great thanks to the anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback.