OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
2023 Index IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Vol. 48	240
Table of Contents	165
Editorial Farewell From Your Outgoing EiC	110
Robust Chinese Remainder Theorem–Based Synthetic Aperture Sonar Motion Estimation	99
JOE Call for Papers - Special Issue on Maritime Informatics and Robotics: Advances from the IEEE Symposium on Maritime Informatics & Robotics	82
A Shared Control Framework With Constrained Optimization and Guiding Force Feedback for Teleoperation of Underwater Electric Manipulator	56
Laser Doppler Velocimetry for 3-D Seawater Velocity Measurement Using a Single Wavelength	55
ROV Localization Using Ballasted Umbilical Equipped With IMUs	53
DAPNet: Dual Attention Probabilistic Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	51
Multifrequency Phased-Arrays With Dynamic Range Ratio Control for Coastal Monitoring	49
A Dynamic Ensemble Deep Randomized Neural Network Using Deep Autoregressive Features for Wave Height Forecasting With Missing Values	46
A New Region Ocean Sound Velocity Field Model Considering Variation Mechanisms of Temperature and Salt	46
Reinforcement Learning-Based Virtual Time Compressed Mirror for Underwater Acoustical Channel Equalization Based on Main Path to Side Path Ratio Criterion	46
On the Exploitation of Dual-Polarimetric SAR Measurements to Observe the C33 Iceberg in Antarctica	39
Autonomous Underwater Environment Perceiving and Modeling: An Experimental Campaign With FeelHippo AUV for Forward Looking Sonar-Based Automatic Target Recognition and Data Association	39
Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers-Based Techniques for Underwater Marine Debris Classification: A Comparative Study	37
Evaluation of UKF-Based Fusion Strategies for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Multisensor Navigation	36
Method for Remote Sensing Oil Spill Applications Over Thermal and Polarimetric Imagery	36
Vector Quantized Underwater Image Enhancement With Transformers	36
ADRC-Based Underwater Navigation Control and Parameter Tuning of an Amphibious Multirotor Vehicle	36
An Efficient and Robust Underwater Image Compression Scheme Based on Autoencoder	35
Interference Cancellation for UWA Random Access Data Packet Transmission	33
Path Selection in Parallel Multihop UVLC Systems Over Turbulence Channels	32
Editorial Presenting Abstracts of Accepted/Published JOE Papers at MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conferences	32
A Physics-Based Inversion of Multibeam Sonar Data for Seafloor Characterization	31

MISU: Multi-Input Swin-UNet	30
A Deep Learning Model for Marine Mammal Call Classification	29
Multitask Cooperative Formation Control of Autonomous Surface Vehicles With Interception of Moving Objects	29
Object Modeling From Underwater Forward-Scan Sonar Imagery With Sea-Surface Multipath	29
Autonomous Ship Collision Avoidance in Restricted Waterways Considering Maritime Navigation Rules	26
Parameter Estimation by Alternating Reconstruction and Sensation for Sonar System	25
Table of Contents	25
HoloOcean: A Full-Featured Marine Robotics Simulator for Perception and Autonomy	25
Modal Analysis of Acoustic Energy Periodic Fluctuations Due to Internal Tides in the Yellow Sea	23
Cross Evaluation of Waveform Modulation Schemes Using Postexperimental Field Data	23
Experimental Evaluation of a Real-Time FPGA Platform for Multichannel Coherent Acoustic Communication	22
Improved Adaptive High-Order Sliding Mode-Based Control for Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	22
Super Permutation Frequency-Shift-Keyed Underwater Acoustic Communication	22
Hybrid AC Shipboard Microgrid Time Delayed LFC and AVR Controllers Tuning Through Gazelle Optimization Algorithm and Real-Time HIL Implementation	22
Current Trends and Advances in Quantum Navigation for Maritime Applications: A Comprehensive Review	22
A Ship Tracking Method in Inland Waters Based on Fusion of Video and AIS Data	22
Signals-of-Opportunity-Based Hydrophone Array Shape and Orientation Estimation	22
Underwater Image Enhancement With Reinforcement Learning	21
Unsupervised Multiple Representation Disentanglement Framework for Improved Underwater Visual Perception	21
Structural Imaging of Acoustic Survey Using a Deep-Towed Sub-Bottom Profiler and Hydrophone Cable	21
Finding and Tracking a Phytoplankton Patch by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	20
Editorial Hello From Your New EiC	20
Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Contra-Rotating Offshore Vertical-Axis Turbines	20
PLLS-360°: A 360-Degree Underwater LiDAR Imaging System	19
Estimation of Frequency-Wavenumber Diagrams Using a Physics-Based Grid-Free Compressed Sensing Method	19
A High-Responsivity Subsurface Buoy System With a Fiber-Optic Acoustic Vector Sensor for Continuous Low-Frequency Acoustic Monitoring in the Deep Ocean: Development and Sea Trials	19
UMono: Physical-Model-Informed Hybrid CNN–Transformer Framework for Underwater Monocular Depth Estimation	19
Modeling and Analyzing Water Column Forward Scattering Effect on Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry	18
A Lightweight Real-Time Sidescan Sonar Image Detection Model Based on a Multiscale Fusion Module	18
Underwater Surface Normal Reconstruction via Cross-Grained Photometric Stereo Transformer	18
Self-Adversarial Generative Adversarial Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	18
A Reinforcement Learning Paradigm of Configuring Visual Enhancement for Object Detection in Underwater Scenes	17
Texture-Based Seafloor Characterization Using Gaussian Process Classification	17
Table of Contents	17
Single Receiver Underwater Localization of an Unsynchronized Periodic Acoustic Beacon Using Synthetic Baseline	17
Marine Hydrokinetic Farm Optimization for Coaxial Dual-Rotor Turbines	17
Temporal Temperature Profile Prediction Using Graph Convolutional Networks and Inverted Echosounder Measurements	16
Safe Maneuvering Near Offshore Installations: A New Algorithmic Tool	16
Large-Scale Dense 3-D Mapping Using Submaps Derived From Orthogonal Imaging Sonars	16
Table of Contents	16
Bathymetric Reconstruction From Sidescan Sonar With Deep Neural Networks	16
Joint CFO, Gridless Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems	16
The Impact of the Spatial Variability of the Seafloor on Midfrequency Sound Propagation During the Target and Reverberation Experiment 2013	15
Laser-Acoustic Cross-Medium Communication (LACMC) System: Theoretical Channel Model and Experiments	15
Free Surface Elevation Estimator as a Sensor for Wave-Powered Data Buoys	15
Enhancing Underwater Imagery via Latent Low-Rank Decomposition and Image Fusion	15
Coherence-Induced Bias Reduction in Synthetic Aperture Sonar Along-Track Micronavigation	15
Effects of Water Surface Waves on a Sound-Millimeter Wave-Based Cross-Medium Wireless Communication System	14
An Improved YOLOv8-Based Shallow Sea Creatures Object Detection Method	14
Transfer Learning and Few-Shot Learning Based Deep Neural Network Models for Underwater Sonar Image Classification With a Few Samples	14

An Enhanced DETR Network for Sonar Image Object Detection	14
Improved Calculation of the Second-Order Ocean Doppler Spectrum for Sea State Inversion	14
Spherical Harmonic Expansion Model for GNSS/Acoustic Precise Seafloor Positioning	14
Testing High Directional Resolution Sea-Spectrum Estimation Methods in View of the Needs of a National Monitoring System	14
Potential-Game-Driven Formation Control of AUVs: An Inverse-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Solution	14
Contrastive Learning in NMPC Behavior Cloning for Generalized Trajectory Tracking of Marine Vehicles	14
Tracking Multiple Surface Vessels With an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Field Results	14
Optimization Design Method of the Umbilical Cable Global Configuration Based on Representative Fatigue Conditions	13
A Dense Subframe-Based SLAM Framework With Side-Scan Sonar	13
Joint Equalization and Self-Interference Cancellation for Underwater Acoustic In-Band Full-Duplex Communication	13
NWSP: A Novel Indicator for Ocean–Land Interface Extraction Using Bathymetric LiDAR	13
Experimental Demonstration of an Autonomous Distributed-Consensus Network for Underwater Passive-Acoustic Detection	13
Fast Detection of Small Targets in High-Resolution Maritime Radars by Feature Normalization and Fusion	13
Low Computational Complexity RLS-Based Decision-Feedback Equalization in Underwater Acoustic Communications	13
Secondary Beam Attention Estimation Algorithm	13
Semantic Segmentation in Underwater Ship Inspections: Benchmark and Data Set	13
Call for papers: Special Issue on IEEE MetroSea 2023	12
Applying an Uncrewed Surface Vessel to Measure Under-Pier Bathymetry	12
Benchmarking Online Object Trackers for Underwater Robot Position Locking Applications	12
Modeling of the Electroacoustic Process of Incomplete Spark Discharge in Saline Water-Sparker Source	12
Prior-Based Underwater Enhanced Image Quality Assessment Network	12
Binocular Underwater Measurement With Multicolor Structured Light	12
Estimating Scattering Patch Area for a Direction Finding HF Radar	12
Monitoring Tidal Currents and Macroturbulence in a High-Flow Tidal Channel Using a Kilometer-Scale Acoustic Travel-Time Instrument	12
Full-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis for Lift Operation of a DP Crane Vessel	12
In Situ Suction Filtration Sampler With Hundreds of Membranes for Deep-Sea Suspensions	12
Underwater 3D-Feature-Enhanced Acoustic Imaging	12
In Situ Performance Prediction of a Coherent Acoustic Modem in a Reverberant Environment	12
Occlusion Modeling for Coherent Echo Data Simulation: A Comparison Between Ray-Tracing and Convex-Hull Occlusion Methods	12
Demonstration of Underwater Channel State Information Acquisition in Grand Passage, Nova Scotia	12
A Hyperheuristic Algorithm Based on Evolutionary Strategy for Complex Mission Planning of AUVs in Marine Environment	12
Robust Wideband Beamspace Adaptive Beamforming for Mainlobe Jamming in Underwater Environment	11
Safety-Critical Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	11
2022 List of Reviewers	11
Adaptive Formation Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	11
Inversion for Parameters of Mud as a Porous Medium	11
The Effects of Vertical Correlation Characteristics on Vertical Array Gain Performance in Deep Water	11
A Greedy Depth-Seeking Behavior for Energy-Efficient Transits by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	11
Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Underwater Communications and Networking 2021 (UComms21)	11
Experiment-Based Modeling and Control of a Floating Wind-Wave Hybrid System for Damping Enhancement	10
Coordinate-Rotation-Decoupled 3-D Near-Field Localization for Underwater Electric Dipole Sources	10
Ocean Sound Speed Profile Measurement Using a Pulse–Echo Technique	10
Simulating Marine Snow Images: Pipeline, Data Set, and Benchmark	10
Combined Texture Continuity and Correlation for Sidescan Sonar Heading Distortion	10
Model-Guided Deep Learning for Line Segment Detection in Time–Frequency Spectrograms of an Ocean Waveguide	10
Real-Time Sonar Image Simulation for Adaptive Template Matching in Automatic Target Recognition	9
Parameterized Dynamic Modeling and Spiral Motion Pattern Analysis for Underwater Gliders	9
Autonomous Tracking of Salinity-Intrusion Fronts by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	9
Underwater Image Enhancement via Modeling White Degradation	9
Long-Term Evolution of Wave Loads Against Offshore Fixed Monopile Structures on the Irish Atlantic Coast (1900–2010)	9
HG2former: HSV-Gamma Guided Transformers for Efficient Underwater Image Enhancement	9
Analysis and Compensation of Acoustic Rolling Shutter Effect of Acoustic-Lens-Based Forward-Looking Sonar	9
Table of Contents	9
Multi-USV System Antidisturbance Cooperative Searching Based on the Reinforcement Learning Method	9
Neural Shape-From-Shading for Survey-Scale Self-Consistent Bathymetry From Sidescan	9
Fairness-Driven Optimization for NOMA-UWOC Systems With Energy Harvesting Requirements	9
Seismo-Acoustic Sensing on the Beaufort Sea in the 2021 Sea Ice Dynamics Experiment (SIDEx)	9
Adaptive Zigzag Mapping of a Patchy Field by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	9
Side-Scan Sonar Underwater Target Detection: Combining the Diffusion Model With an Improved YOLOv7 Model	8
Real Signal DHT-OFDM With Index Modulation for Underwater Acoustic Communication	8
A Ship Radiated Noise Recognition Method Applicable to Incomplete Training Data Sets	8
A Novel Frequency-Based Global-Scope Adaptive Mixer for Sea State Estimation	8
Hydrodynamic Analysis of Payload Bay Berthing for Underwater Vehicles	8
Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Advanced Machine Learning Methodologies for Underwater Image and Video Processing and Analysis	8
Assessment of Risks Induced by Countermining Unexploded Large-Charge Historical Ordnance in a Shallow Water Environment—Part I: Real Case Study	8
Horizon Picking on Subbottom Profiles Using Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis	8
Passive Vacuum Regeneration for Suction-Based Marine Adhesion Devices	8
Real-Time 3-D Underwater Target Detection With Sparse Labeling Using V-AFDPC and Hybrid Online Learning	8
Automatic Detection of Pipelines From Sub-bottom Profiler Sonar Images	8
Phase Space Representation of Sound Fields in Lake Kinneret	8
Performance Improvement of Turbid Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Link Using Ratiometric Signal Processing	8
Cyclostationarity of Communication Signals in Underwater Acoustic Channels	8
A Novel Adaptive Initial State Estimation Method for Underwater Bearings-Only Target Tracking	8
Multilabel Classification of Heterogeneous Underwater Soundscapes With Bayesian Deep Learning	8
Tightly Coupled, Graph-Based DVL/IMU Fusion and Decoupled Mapping for SLAM-Centric Maritime Infrastructure Inspection	8