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In addition, how to retain the detailed information well in the enhanced image is another critical problem. To solve such issues, we propose a novel unpaired underwater image enhancement method via a cycle generative adversarial network (UW-CycleGAN) to recover the degraded underwater images. Our proposed UW-CycleGAN model includes three main modules: (1) A content loss regularizer is adopted into the generator in CycleGAN, which constrains the detailed information existing in one degraded image to remain in the corresponding generated clear image; (2) A blur-promoting adversarial loss regularizer is introduced into the discriminator to reduce the blur and noise in the generated clear images; (3) We add the DenseNet block to the generator to retain more information of each feature map in the training stage. 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