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    Patch-based Cascaded Underwater Image Enhancement via HSV-Domain Patch Processing and Full-Resolution RGB Refinement with Heterogeneous Skip Connections
    (National Institute of Technology, Silchar, 2026) Gautam, Aditi
    Underwater images often suffer from severe degradation due to light scattering, color attenuation, and non-uniform illumination. This paper proposes a cascaded two-stage deep learning framework that combines localized enhancement in the HSV color space with global refinement in the RGB domain. In Stage-1, overlapping 256 × 256 patches are enhanced independently to correct region-specific color and illumination distortions, followed by cosine-based blending for seamless reconstruction. Stage-2 performs full-resolution refinement using a residual learning-based network with multi-scale feature extraction, deep supervision, and channel attention to enforce global consistency and improve perceptual quality. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior performance in terms of PSNR, SSIM, UIQM, and UCIQE, producing visually coherent images with improved color fidelity and structural preservation. The framework provides an effective and robust solution for underwater image enhancement across diverse degradation conditions.