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In recent years, deep learning has been widely used in underwater image enhancement and restoration because of its powerful feature learning capabilities, but there are still shortcomings in detailed enhancement. To address the problem, this paper proposes a deep supervised residual dense network (DS_RD_Net), which is used to better learn the mapping relationship between clear in-air images and synthetic underwater degraded images. DS_RD_Net first uses residual dense blocks to extract features to enhance feature utilization; then, it adds residual path blocks between the encoder and decoder to reduce the semantic differences between the low-level features and high-level features; finally, it employs a deep supervision mechanism to guide network training to improve gradient propagation. Experiments results (PSNR was 36.2, SSIM was 96.5%, and UCIQE was 0.53) demonstrated that the proposed method can fully retain the local details of the image while performing color restoration and defogging compared with other image enhancement methods, achieving good qualitative and quantitative effects.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21093289","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,10]],"date-time":"2021-05-10T10:49:51Z","timestamp":1620643791000},"page":"3289","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["Deep Supervised Residual Dense Network for Underwater Image Enhancement"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Yanling","family":"Han","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lihua","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0045-1066","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhonghua","family":"Hong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shouqi","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Iqbal, K., Odetayo, M., James, A., Salam, R.A., and Talib, A.Z.H. 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