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I am an Assistant Professor at Laoshan National Laboratory, China. Laoshan National Laboratory is China’s national laboratory for ocean science and technology, where I conduct research in ocean observation.

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πŸ“ 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 – 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 – Porto, 2021. [OCEANS Popular Articles] [PDF]

πŸ“š 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.

🌍 Academic Services

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’Ό Editorial Roles

πŸ“ Peer Review Experience (Reviewed over 200 manuscripts for more than 40 academic journals)

πŸ”„Continuous Reviewer (2023 – 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
  • …and more.

πŸŽ– Selected Honors and Awards