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Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
2023 Index IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Vol. 48	176
Editorial Farewell From Your Outgoing EiC	120
DAPNet: Dual Attention Probabilistic Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	88
Robust Chinese Remainder Theorem–Based Synthetic Aperture Sonar Motion Estimation	88
Method for Remote Sensing Oil Spill Applications Over Thermal and Polarimetric Imagery	81
Table of Contents	77
JOE Call for Papers - Special Issue on Maritime Informatics and Robotics: Advances from the IEEE Symposium on Maritime Informatics & Robotics	76
A Two-Stage Underwater Enhancement Network Based on Structure Decomposition and Characteristics of Underwater Imaging	48
Autonomous Underwater Environment Perceiving and Modeling: An Experimental Campaign With FeelHippo AUV for Forward Looking Sonar-Based Automatic Target Recognition and Data Association	46
ADRC-Based Underwater Navigation Control and Parameter Tuning of an Amphibious Multirotor Vehicle	45
On the Exploitation of Dual-Polarimetric SAR Measurements to Observe the C33 Iceberg in Antarctica	45
ROV Localization Using Ballasted Umbilical Equipped With IMUs	44
Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers-Based Techniques for Underwater Marine Debris Classification: A Comparative Study	39
Multifrequency Phased-Arrays With Dynamic Range Ratio Control for Coastal Monitoring	37
A Shared Control Framework With Constrained Optimization and Guiding Force Feedback for Teleoperation of Underwater Electric Manipulator	35
Evaluation of UKF-Based Fusion Strategies for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Multisensor Navigation	33
Experimental Study of Acoustic Channel Reciprocity in the Shallow Ocean	32
HoloOcean: A Full-Featured Marine Robotics Simulator for Perception and Autonomy	31
Autonomous Ship Collision Avoidance in Restricted Waterways Considering Maritime Navigation Rules	29
A Physics-Based Inversion of Multibeam Sonar Data for Seafloor Characterization	29
An Efficient and Robust Underwater Image Compression Scheme Based on Autoencoder	28
Multitask Cooperative Formation Control of Autonomous Surface Vehicles With Interception of Moving Objects	27
Path Selection in Parallel Multihop UVLC Systems Over Turbulence Channels	27
Editorial Presenting Abstracts of Accepted/Published JOE Papers at MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conferences	27
Object Modeling From Underwater Forward-Scan Sonar Imagery With Sea-Surface Multipath	25

Interference Cancellation for UWA Random Access Data Packet Transmission	25
Vector Quantized Underwater Image Enhancement With Transformers	25
Improved Adaptive High-Order Sliding Mode-Based Control for Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	23
Table of Contents	23
Super Permutation Frequency-Shift-Keyed Underwater Acoustic Communication	23
Current Trends and Advances in Quantum Navigation for Maritime Applications: A Comprehensive Review	23
Modal Analysis of Acoustic Energy Periodic Fluctuations Due to Internal Tides in the Yellow Sea	22
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Call for Papers	22
Structural Imaging of Acoustic Survey Using a Deep-Towed Sub-Bottom Profiler and Hydrophone Cable	22
Experimental Evaluation of a Real-Time FPGA Platform for Multichannel Coherent Acoustic Communication	21
Signals-of-Opportunity-Based Hydrophone Array Shape and Orientation Estimation	21
Cross Evaluation of Waveform Modulation Schemes Using Postexperimental Field Data	20
Unsupervised Multiple Representation Disentanglement Framework for Improved Underwater Visual Perception	20
Multiobjective Risk-Aware Path Planning in Uncertain Transient Currents: An Ensemble-Based Stochastic Optimization Approach	20
Underwater Image Enhancement With Reinforcement Learning	19
Texture-Based Seafloor Characterization Using Gaussian Process Classification	19
Pruned Distributed and Parallel Subarray Beamforming for 3-D Underwater Imaging With Fine-Grid Sparse Arrays	19
Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Contra-Rotating Offshore Vertical-Axis Turbines	19
Editorial Hello From Your New EiC	19
Estimation of Frequency-Wavenumber Diagrams Using a Physics-Based Grid-Free Compressed Sensing Method	19
Single Receiver Underwater Localization of an Unsynchronized Periodic Acoustic Beacon Using Synthetic Baseline	18
Modeling and Analyzing Water Column Forward Scattering Effect on Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry	18
A Reinforcement Learning Paradigm of Configuring Visual Enhancement for Object Detection in Underwater Scenes	17
Underwater Surface Normal Reconstruction via Cross-Grained Photometric Stereo Transformer	17
Self-Adversarial Generative Adversarial Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	17
Finding and Tracking a Phytoplankton Patch by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	17
Bathymetric Reconstruction From Sidescan Sonar With Deep Neural Networks	16
Table of Contents	16
Safe Maneuvering Near Offshore Installations: A New Algorithmic Tool	16
An Approach for Computing Parameters for a Lagrangian Nonlinear Maneuvering and Seakeeping Model of Submerged Vessel Motion	15
Enhancing Underwater Imagery via Latent Low-Rank Decomposition and Image Fusion	15
Large-Scale Dense 3-D Mapping Using Submaps Derived From Orthogonal Imaging Sonars	15
Temporal Temperature Profile Prediction Using Graph Convolutional Networks and Inverted Echosounder Measurements	15
Marine Hydrokinetic Farm Optimization for Coaxial Dual-Rotor Turbines	15
Joint CFO, Gridless Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems	14
Table of Contents	14
Table of Contents	14
Tracking Multiple Surface Vessels With an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Field Results	13
Low Computational Complexity RLS-Based Decision-Feedback Equalization in Underwater Acoustic Communications	13
Transfer Learning and Few-Shot Learning Based Deep Neural Network Models for Underwater Sonar Image Classification With a Few Samples	13
The Impact of the Spatial Variability of the Seafloor on Midfrequency Sound Propagation During the Target and Reverberation Experiment 2013	13
Coherence-Induced Bias Reduction in Synthetic Aperture Sonar Along-Track Micronavigation	13
Testing High Directional Resolution Sea-Spectrum Estimation Methods in View of the Needs of a National Monitoring System	12
Performance Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Communications in Barrow Strait	12
An Improved YOLOv8-Based Shallow Sea Creatures Object Detection Method	12
Potential-Game-Driven Formation Control of AUVs: An Inverse-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Solution	12
A CFAR Detection Approach for Identifying Gas Bubble Seeps With Multibeam Echo Sounders	12
Laser-Acoustic Cross-Medium Communication (LACMC) System: Theoretical Channel Model and Experiments	12
Effects of Water Surface Waves on a Sound-Millimeter Wave-Based Cross-Medium Wireless Communication System	12
Experimental Demonstration of an Autonomous Distributed-Consensus Network for Underwater Passive-Acoustic Detection	12

NWSP: A Novel Indicator for Ocean–Land Interface Extraction Using Bathymetric LiDAR	11
Optimization Design Method of the Umbilical Cable Global Configuration Based on Representative Fatigue Conditions	11
Call for papers: Special Issue on IEEE MetroSea 2023	11
In Situ Performance Prediction of a Coherent Acoustic Modem in a Reverberant Environment	11
Fast Detection of Small Targets in High-Resolution Maritime Radars by Feature Normalization and Fusion	11
Semantic Segmentation in Underwater Ship Inspections: Benchmark and Data Set	11
A Greedy Depth-Seeking Behavior for Energy-Efficient Transits by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	11
Joint Equalization and Self-Interference Cancellation for Underwater Acoustic In-Band Full-Duplex Communication	11
Binocular Underwater Measurement With Multicolor Structured Light	11
A Dense Subframe-Based SLAM Framework With Side-Scan Sonar	11
Time Evolution of Bistatic Acoustic Scattering: Mechanism Loci Identification for Broadside Cylinder Near a Flat Interface	11
Monitoring Tidal Currents and Macroturbulence in a High-Flow Tidal Channel Using a Kilometer-Scale Acoustic Travel-Time Instrument	11
A Hyperheuristic Algorithm Based on Evolutionary Strategy for Complex Mission Planning of AUVs in Marine Environment	10
Occlusion Modeling for Coherent Echo Data Simulation: A Comparison Between Ray-Tracing and Convex-Hull Occlusion Methods	10
A Strategy for Sizing and Optimizing the Energy System on Long-Range AUVs	10
Modeling of the Electroacoustic Process of Incomplete Spark Discharge in Saline Water-Sparker Source	10
Neural Shape-From-Shading for Survey-Scale Self-Consistent Bathymetry From Sidescan	10
Robust Wideband Beamspace Adaptive Beamforming for Mainlobe Jamming in Underwater Environment	10
Applying an Uncrewed Surface Vessel to Measure Under-Pier Bathymetry	10
Adaptive Formation Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	10
Demonstration of Underwater Channel State Information Acquisition in Grand Passage, Nova Scotia	10
Prior-Based Underwater Enhanced Image Quality Assessment Network	10
Fairness-Driven Optimization for NOMA-UWOC Systems With Energy Harvesting Requirements	10
Estimating Scattering Patch Area for a Direction Finding HF Radar	10
Safety-Critical Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	10
The Effects of Vertical Correlation Characteristics on Vertical Array Gain Performance in Deep Water	10
2022 List of Reviewers	10
Multi-USV System Antidisturbance Cooperative Searching Based on the Reinforcement Learning Method	10
Combined Texture Continuity and Correlation for Sidescan Sonar Heading Distortion	9
Seismo-Acoustic Sensing on the Beaufort Sea in the 2021 Sea Ice Dynamics Experiment (SIDEx)	9
Real-Time Sonar Image Simulation for Adaptive Template Matching in Automatic Target Recognition	9
Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Underwater Communications and Networking 2021 (UComms21)	9
Analysis and Compensation of Acoustic Rolling Shutter Effect of Acoustic-Lens-Based Forward-Looking Sonar	9
Inversion for Parameters of Mud as a Porous Medium	9
Autonomous Tracking of Salinity-Intrusion Fronts by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	9
HG2former: HSV-Gamma Guided Transformers for Efficient Underwater Image Enhancement	8
Table of Contents	8
Underwater Image Enhancement via Modeling White Degradation	8
Adaptive Zigzag Mapping of a Patchy Field by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	8
Parameterized Dynamic Modeling and Spiral Motion Pattern Analysis for Underwater Gliders	8
Real-Time Flight Simulation of Hydrobatic AUVs Over the Full 0$^{\circ}$–360$^{\circ}$ Envelope	8
Automatic Detection of Pipelines From Sub-bottom Profiler Sonar Images	8
Long-Term Evolution of Wave Loads Against Offshore Fixed Monopile Structures on the Irish Atlantic Coast (1900–2010)	8
Hydrodynamic Analysis of Payload Bay Berthing for Underwater Vehicles	8
Tightly Coupled, Graph-Based DVL/IMU Fusion and Decoupled Mapping for SLAM-Centric Maritime Infrastructure Inspection	8
Autosub Long Range 6000: A Multiple-Month Endurance AUV for Deep-Ocean Monitoring and Survey	7
Multilabel Classification of Heterogeneous Underwater Soundscapes With Bayesian Deep Learning	7
Performance Improvement of Turbid Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Link Using Ratiometric Signal Processing	7
Enhanced Dual-Comb Underwater Ranging via an Improved VMD Algorithm	7
Target Detection Using Underwater Acoustic Communication Links	7
A Novel Frequency-Based Global-Scope Adaptive Mixer for Sea State Estimation	7
A New Automatic Nonlinear Optimization-Based Method for Directional Ocean Wave Spectrum Extraction From Monostatic HF-Radar Data	7
A Ship Radiated Noise Recognition Method Applicable to Incomplete Training Data Sets	7
Multichannel Signal Detection in Time-Spreading Distortion Underwater Channels Using Vector and Scalar Sensors: Theory and Experiments	7
Joint Message-Passing-Based Bidirectional Channel Estimation and Equalization With Superimposed Training for Underwater Acoustic Communications	7
High-Frequency Radar Ocean Current Mapping at Rapid Scale With Autoregressive Modeling	7
Real Signal DHT-OFDM With Index Modulation for Underwater Acoustic Communication	7
Cyclostationarity of Communication Signals in Underwater Acoustic Channels	7
Phase Space Representation of Sound Fields in Lake Kinneret	7
Underwater Object Detection Under Domain Shift	7
Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Advanced Machine Learning Methodologies for Underwater Image and Video Processing and Analysis	7