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I am an Assistant Professor at Laoshan National Laboratory, China. Laoshan National Laboratory is Chinaβs national laboratory for ocean science and technology, where I conduct research in ocean observation.
π News
- Jul. 2025, π¨βπΌI have been appointed as Associate Editor of the international journal Frontiers in ImagingοΌ
- Jul. 2025, πOur works βLarge Foundation Model Empowered Discriminative Underwater Image Enhancementβ (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing) and βUnderwater image captioning: Challenges, models, and datasetsβ (ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) has been newly selected as ESI Highly Cited Paper!
- Jul. 2025, πOur work βUnderwater Image Captioning with AquaSketch-Enhanced Cross-Scale Information Fusionβ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing!
- May 2025, π₯Our works βLarge Foundation Model Empowered Discriminative Underwater Image Enhancementβ (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing), βUnderwater image captioning: Challenges, models, and datasetsβ (ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), and βA Reinforcement Learning Paradigm of Configuring Visual Enhancement for Object Detection in Underwater Scenesβ (IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering) have been newly selected as ESI Hot Paper!
- Apr. 2025, πOur work βMambaHSISR: Mamba Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolutionβ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing!
- Apr. 2025, ποΈI have been selected by the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering editorial board to be the Journalβs Outstanding Reviewer of 2024!
- Mar. 2025, π₯Our work βSelf-organized underwater image enhancementβ (ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) has been newly selected as ESI Hot Paper!
- Feb. 2025, β¨Our work βUnderwater image captioning: Challenges, models, and datasetsβ has been selected as the Feature Article of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in February 2025 (the only article selected that month)!
- Jan. 2025, πOur work βUnderwater image captioning: Challenges, models, and datasetsβ has been accepted by ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing!
- Jan. 2025, πOur work βLarge Foundation Model Empowered Discriminative Underwater Image Enhancementβ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing!
- Jan. 2025, π₯Our work βMetalantis: A Comprehensive Underwater Image Enhancement Frameworkβ (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing) has been newly selected as ESI Hot Paper!
- Jan. 2025, πOur works βMetalantis: A Comprehensive Underwater Image Enhancement Frameworkβ (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing), βSelf-organized underwater image enhancementβ (ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), βINSPIRATION: A reinforcement learning-based human visual perception-driven image enhancement paradigm for underwater scenesβ (Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence), and βA Reinforcement Learning Paradigm of Configuring Visual Enhancement for Object Detection in Underwater Scenesβ (IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering) have been newly selected as ESI Highly Cited Paper!
π Publications
- Hao Wang, Kevin KΓΆser, Peng Ren. Large Foundation Model Empowered Discriminative Underwater Image Enhancement. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025. [ESI Hot Paper & ESI Highly Cited Paper & TGRS Popular Articles] [PDF]
- Hao Wang, Weibo Zhang, Lu Bai, Peng Ren. Metalantis: A Comprehensive Underwater Image Enhancement Framework. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024. [ESI Hot Paper & ESI Highly Cited Paper & TGRS Popular Articles] [PDF]
- Hao Wang, Weibo Zhang, Peng Ren. Self-organized underwater image enhancement. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2024. [ESI Hot Paper & ESI Highly Cited Paper] [PDF]
- Hao Wang, Shixin Sun, Peng Ren. Underwater Color Disparities: Cues for Enhancing Underwater Images Toward Natural Color Consistencies. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2024. [ESI Highly Cited Paper] [PDF]
- Hao Wang, Shixin Sun, Laibin Chang, Huanyu Li, Wenwen Zhang, Alejandro C. Frery, Peng Ren. INSPIRATION: A reinforcement learning-based human visual perception-driven image enhancement paradigm for underwater scenes. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2024. [ESI Highly Cited Paper] [PDF]
- Hao Wang, Shixin Sun, Peng Ren. Meta underwater camera: A smart protocol for underwater image enhancement. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2023. [ESI Highly Cited Paper] [PDF]
- Hao Wang, Shixin Sun, Xiao Bai, Jian Wang, Peng Ren. A Reinforcement Learning Paradigm of Configuring Visual Enhancement for Object Detection in Underwater Scenes. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2023. [ESI Hot Paper & ESI Highly Cited Paper & JOE Popular Articles] [PDF]
- Hao Wang, Alejandro C. Frery, Mingjie Li, Peng Ren. Underwater image enhancement via histogram similarity-oriented color compensation complemented by multiple attribute adjustment. Intelligent Marine Technology and Systems, 2023. [PDF]
- Hao Wang, Shixin Sun, Xiaohui Wu, Li Li, Hao Zhang, Mingjie Li, Peng Ren. A YOLOv5 Baseline for Underwater Object Detection. OCEANS 2021: San Diego β Porto, 2021. [OCEANS Popular Articles] [PDF]
- Huanyu Li, Hao Wang, Ying Zhang, Li Li, Peng Ren. Underwater image captioning: Challenges, models, and datasets. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2025. [ESI Hot Paper & ESI Highly Cited Paper & ISPRS Featured Articles] [PDF]
- Yinghao Xu, Hao Wang, Fei Zhou, Chunbo Luo, Xin Sun, Susanto Rahardja, Peng Ren. MambaHSISR: Mamba Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025. [PDF]
- Weibo Zhang, Hao Wang, Peng Ren, Weidong Zhang. MACT: Underwater image color correction via Minimally Attenuated Channel Transfer. Pattern Recognition Letters, 2025. [PDF]
- Huanyu Li, Li Li, Hao Wang, Weibo Zhang, Peng Ren. Underwater Image Captioning with AquaSketch-Enhanced Cross-Scale Information Fusion. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025. [PDF]
- Ying Zhang, Huanyu Li, Bingyu Li, Li Li, Weibo Zhang, Hao Wang, Peng Ren. An underwater acoustic semantic communication approach to underwater image transmission. Intelligent Marine Technology and Systems, 2025. [PDF]
- Shixin Sun, Hao Wang, Hao Zhang, Mingjie Li, Ming Xiang, Cai Luo, Peng Ren. Underwater Image Enhancement With Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2024. [JOE Popular Articles] [PDF]
- Weibo Zhang, Hao Wang, Peng Ren, Weidong Zhang. Underwater Image Color Correction via Color Channel Transfer. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2024. [PDF]
- Huajun Song, Laibin Chang, Hao Wang, Peng Ren. Dual-model: Revised imaging network and visual perception correction for underwater image enhancement. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023. [PDF]
- Shixin Sun, Hao Wang, Xiaohui Wu, Li Li, Hao Zhang, Mingjie Li, Peng Ren. Underwater Color Correction via Deep Reinforcement Learning. OCEANS 2021: San Diego β Porto, 2021. [OCEANS Popular Articles] [PDF]
π Educations
- 2020 - 2025, PhD in Control Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), China. (PhD Thesis: Underwater Optical Observation Enhancement With Reinforcement Learning)
- 2024 - 2025, Visiting PhD, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel University, Germany.
- 2017 - 2020, MEng in Control Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, China.
- 2013 - 2017, BEng in Automation, Qingdao University of Technology, China.
π Academic Services
π¨βπΌ Editorial Roles
- 2025 β Present, Associate Editor, Frontiers in Imaging.
π Peer Review Experience (Reviewed over 200 manuscripts for more than 40 academic journals)
πContinuous Reviewer (2023 β Present) for:
- Information Fusion
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
- Pattern Recognition
- Knowledge-Based Systems
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
- Neural Networks
- Artificial Intelligence Review
- Optics and Laser Technology
- Infrared Physics and Technology
- Applied Ocean Research
- IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
- β¦and more.
π Selected Honors and Awards
- Apr. 2025, ποΈIEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineeringβs Outstanding Reviewers.