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Imaging"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Underwater images often suffer from severe color distortion, low contrast, and reduced visibility, motivating the widespread use of image enhancement as a preprocessing step for downstream computer vision tasks. However, recent studies have questioned whether enhancement actually improves object detection performance. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive and rigorous evaluation of nine state-of-the-art enhancement methods and their interactions with modern object detectors. We propose a unified evaluation framework that integrates (1) a distribution-level quality assessment using a composite quality index (Q-index), (2) a fine-grained per-image detection protocol based on COCO-style mAP, and (3) a mixed-set upper-bound analysis that quantifies the theoretical performance achievable through ideal selective enhancement. Our findings reveal that traditional image quality metrics do not reliably predict detection performance, and that dataset-level conclusions often overlook substantial image-level variability. Through per-image evaluation, we identify numerous cases in which enhancement significantly improves detection accuracy\u2014primarily for low-quality inputs\u2014while also demonstrating conditions under which enhancement degrades performance. The mixed-set analysis shows that selective enhancement can yield substantial gains over both original and fully enhanced datasets, establishing a new direction for designing enhancement models optimized for downstream vision tasks. This study provides the most comprehensive evidence to date that underwater image enhancement can be beneficial for object detection when evaluated at the appropriate granularity and guided by informed selection strategies. 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