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Secondly, for the problem of dynamic blur, we adopt the Restormer network to eliminate the dynamic blur caused by the combined effects of camera shake, camera out-of-focus and relative motion displacement, etc. then, through qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis and underwater target detection on the enhanced dataset, the feasibility of our underwater enhancement method is verified. Finally, we propose a target recognition network suitable for the complex underwater environment. The local and global information is fused through the CCBC module and the ECLOU loss function to improve the positioning accuracy. The FasterNet module is introduced to reduce redundant computations and parameter counting. 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