A review of recent underwater imaging methods and advancements

This paper is intended to review recent achievements in the areas of non-acoustic imaging, image formation, image processing, compression, photogrammetry and visualization. Papers in these topical areas during the last six Oceans conferences will be included, in addition to publications from various journals. ; Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. ; This manuscript is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ and may be cited as: Caimi, F. M. (1996). A review of recent underwater imaging methods and advancements. In Oceans ’96 MTS/IEEE Supplementary Proceedings: The Coastal Ocean – Prospects for the 21st Century, 23 – 26 September, 1996, Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL. (pp. 69-71). Washington, DC?: Oceans '96 MTS/IEEE Conference Committee. doi:10.1109/OCEANS.1996.566720 ; Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1166.