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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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
2023 Index IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Vol. 48	225
Editorial Farewell From Your Outgoing EiC	152
Robust Chinese Remainder Theorem–Based Synthetic Aperture Sonar Motion Estimation	113
Table of Contents	104
JOE Call for Papers - Special Issue on Maritime Informatics and Robotics: Advances from the IEEE Symposium on Maritime Informatics & Robotics	100
Laser Doppler Velocimetry for 3-D Seawater Velocity Measurement Using a Single Wavelength	89
Autonomous Underwater Environment Perceiving and Modeling: An Experimental Campaign With FeelHippo AUV for Forward Looking Sonar-Based Automatic Target Recognition and Data Association	80
DAPNet: Dual Attention Probabilistic Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	61
Reinforcement Learning-Based Virtual Time Compressed Mirror for Underwater Acoustical Channel Equalization Based on Main Path to Side Path Ratio Criterion	54
A Dynamic Ensemble Deep Randomized Neural Network Using Deep Autoregressive Features for Wave Height Forecasting With Missing Values	50
On the Exploitation of Dual-Polarimetric SAR Measurements to Observe the C33 Iceberg in Antarctica	47
ROV Localization Using Ballasted Umbilical Equipped With IMUs	44
Multifrequency Phased-Arrays With Dynamic Range Ratio Control for Coastal Monitoring	43
Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers-Based Techniques for Underwater Marine Debris Classification: A Comparative Study	42
A Shared Control Framework With Constrained Optimization and Guiding Force Feedback for Teleoperation of Underwater Electric Manipulator	42
A New Region Ocean Sound Velocity Field Model Considering Variation Mechanisms of Temperature and Salt	42
ADRC-Based Underwater Navigation Control and Parameter Tuning of an Amphibious Multirotor Vehicle	38
A Two-Stage Underwater Enhancement Network Based on Structure Decomposition and Characteristics of Underwater Imaging	36
Evaluation of UKF-Based Fusion Strategies for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Multisensor Navigation	36
A Physics-Based Inversion of Multibeam Sonar Data for Seafloor Characterization	35
Method for Remote Sensing Oil Spill Applications Over Thermal and Polarimetric Imagery	35
MISU: Multi-Input Swin-UNet	34
Multitask Cooperative Formation Control of Autonomous Surface Vehicles With Interception of Moving Objects	34
Editorial Presenting Abstracts of Accepted/Published JOE Papers at MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conferences	33
Path Selection in Parallel Multihop UVLC Systems Over Turbulence Channels	31

A Deep Learning Model for Marine Mammal Call Classification	30
An Efficient and Robust Underwater Image Compression Scheme Based on Autoencoder	30
Object Modeling From Underwater Forward-Scan Sonar Imagery With Sea-Surface Multipath	30
Vector Quantized Underwater Image Enhancement With Transformers	29
Interference Cancellation for UWA Random Access Data Packet Transmission	28
Autonomous Ship Collision Avoidance in Restricted Waterways Considering Maritime Navigation Rules	28
HoloOcean: A Full-Featured Marine Robotics Simulator for Perception and Autonomy	27
Super Permutation Frequency-Shift-Keyed Underwater Acoustic Communication	26
Multiobjective Risk-Aware Path Planning in Uncertain Transient Currents: An Ensemble-Based Stochastic Optimization Approach	26
Table of Contents	26
Parameter Estimation by Alternating Reconstruction and Sensation for Sonar System	25
Hybrid AC Shipboard Microgrid Time Delayed LFC and AVR Controllers Tuning Through Gazelle Optimization Algorithm and Real-Time HIL Implementation	25
A Ship Tracking Method in Inland Waters Based on Fusion of Video and AIS Data	25
Signals-of-Opportunity-Based Hydrophone Array Shape and Orientation Estimation	24
Current Trends and Advances in Quantum Navigation for Maritime Applications: A Comprehensive Review	24
Cross Evaluation of Waveform Modulation Schemes Using Postexperimental Field Data	23
Unsupervised Multiple Representation Disentanglement Framework for Improved Underwater Visual Perception	23
Structural Imaging of Acoustic Survey Using a Deep-Towed Sub-Bottom Profiler and Hydrophone Cable	23
Improved Adaptive High-Order Sliding Mode-Based Control for Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	23
Modal Analysis of Acoustic Energy Periodic Fluctuations Due to Internal Tides in the Yellow Sea	23
Experimental Evaluation of a Real-Time FPGA Platform for Multichannel Coherent Acoustic Communication	22
Underwater Image Enhancement With Reinforcement Learning	21
Editorial Hello From Your New EiC	21
Pruned Distributed and Parallel Subarray Beamforming for 3-D Underwater Imaging With Fine-Grid Sparse Arrays	20
Texture-Based Seafloor Characterization Using Gaussian Process Classification	20
Finding and Tracking a Phytoplankton Patch by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	20
Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Contra-Rotating Offshore Vertical-Axis Turbines	19
Modeling and Analyzing Water Column Forward Scattering Effect on Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry	19
Underwater Surface Normal Reconstruction via Cross-Grained Photometric Stereo Transformer	19
Single Receiver Underwater Localization of an Unsynchronized Periodic Acoustic Beacon Using Synthetic Baseline	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
Estimation of Frequency-Wavenumber Diagrams Using a Physics-Based Grid-Free Compressed Sensing Method	19
PLLS-360°: A 360-Degree Underwater LiDAR Imaging System	18
Table of Contents	18
A Reinforcement Learning Paradigm of Configuring Visual Enhancement for Object Detection in Underwater Scenes	18
Self-Adversarial Generative Adversarial Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	18
Bathymetric Reconstruction From Sidescan Sonar With Deep Neural Networks	17
Joint CFO, Gridless Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems	17
Enhancing Underwater Imagery via Latent Low-Rank Decomposition and Image Fusion	17
Large-Scale Dense 3-D Mapping Using Submaps Derived From Orthogonal Imaging Sonars	17
Safe Maneuvering Near Offshore Installations: A New Algorithmic Tool	17
Temporal Temperature Profile Prediction Using Graph Convolutional Networks and Inverted Echosounder Measurements	17
Marine Hydrokinetic Farm Optimization for Coaxial Dual-Rotor Turbines	17
Transfer Learning and Few-Shot Learning Based Deep Neural Network Models for Underwater Sonar Image Classification With a Few Samples	16
Effects of Water Surface Waves on a Sound-Millimeter Wave-Based Cross-Medium Wireless Communication System	16
The Impact of the Spatial Variability of the Seafloor on Midfrequency Sound Propagation During the Target and Reverberation Experiment 2013	16
Laser-Acoustic Cross-Medium Communication (LACMC) System: Theoretical Channel Model and Experiments	16
Table of Contents	16
Testing High Directional Resolution Sea-Spectrum Estimation Methods in View of the Needs of a National Monitoring System	16
Performance Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Communications in Barrow Strait	15

Free Surface Elevation Estimator as a Sensor for Wave-Powered Data Buoys	15
Contrastive Learning in NMPC Behavior Cloning for Generalized Trajectory Tracking of Marine Vehicles	15
An Improved YOLOv8-Based Shallow Sea Creatures Object Detection Method	15
Spherical Harmonic Expansion Model for GNSS/Acoustic Precise Seafloor Positioning	14
Improved Calculation of the Second-Order Ocean Doppler Spectrum for Sea State Inversion	14
Low Computational Complexity RLS-Based Decision-Feedback Equalization in Underwater Acoustic Communications	14
Coherence-Induced Bias Reduction in Synthetic Aperture Sonar Along-Track Micronavigation	14
Tracking Multiple Surface Vessels With an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Field Results	14
Potential-Game-Driven Formation Control of AUVs: An Inverse-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Solution	14
A Dense Subframe-Based SLAM Framework With Side-Scan Sonar	13
Semantic Segmentation in Underwater Ship Inspections: Benchmark and Data Set	13
Secondary Beam Attention Estimation Algorithm	13
Experimental Demonstration of an Autonomous Distributed-Consensus Network for Underwater Passive-Acoustic Detection	13
Optimization Design Method of the Umbilical Cable Global Configuration Based on Representative Fatigue Conditions	13
NWSP: A Novel Indicator for Ocean–Land Interface Extraction Using Bathymetric LiDAR	13
A CFAR Detection Approach for Identifying Gas Bubble Seeps With Multibeam Echo Sounders	13
Binocular Underwater Measurement With Multicolor Structured Light	12
Underwater 3D-Feature-Enhanced Acoustic Imaging	12
The Effects of Vertical Correlation Characteristics on Vertical Array Gain Performance in Deep Water	12
Joint Equalization and Self-Interference Cancellation for Underwater Acoustic In-Band Full-Duplex Communication	12
Call for papers: Special Issue on IEEE MetroSea 2023	12
Monitoring Tidal Currents and Macroturbulence in a High-Flow Tidal Channel Using a Kilometer-Scale Acoustic Travel-Time Instrument	12
Applying an Uncrewed Surface Vessel to Measure Under-Pier Bathymetry	12
Fast Detection of Small Targets in High-Resolution Maritime Radars by Feature Normalization and Fusion	12
Benchmarking Online Object Trackers for Underwater Robot Position Locking Applications	12
In Situ Performance Prediction of a Coherent Acoustic Modem in a Reverberant Environment	12
A Hyperheuristic Algorithm Based on Evolutionary Strategy for Complex Mission Planning of AUVs in Marine Environment	12
Estimating Scattering Patch Area for a Direction Finding HF Radar	11
Modeling of the Electroacoustic Process of Incomplete Spark Discharge in Saline Water-Sparker Source	11
Occlusion Modeling for Coherent Echo Data Simulation: A Comparison Between Ray-Tracing and Convex-Hull Occlusion Methods	11
Safety-Critical Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	11
Demonstration of Underwater Channel State Information Acquisition in Grand Passage, Nova Scotia	11
A Strategy for Sizing and Optimizing the Energy System on Long-Range AUVs	11
Full-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis for Lift Operation of a DP Crane Vessel	11
Robust Wideband Beamspace Adaptive Beamforming for Mainlobe Jamming in Underwater Environment	11
Prior-Based Underwater Enhanced Image Quality Assessment Network	11
In Situ Suction Filtration Sampler With Hundreds of Membranes for Deep-Sea Suspensions	11
Inversion for Parameters of Mud as a Porous Medium	10
Model-Guided Deep Learning for Line Segment Detection in Time–Frequency Spectrograms of an Ocean Waveguide	10
Fairness-Driven Optimization for NOMA-UWOC Systems With Energy Harvesting Requirements	10
Adaptive Formation Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	10
Combined Texture Continuity and Correlation for Sidescan Sonar Heading Distortion	10
Analysis and Compensation of Acoustic Rolling Shutter Effect of Acoustic-Lens-Based Forward-Looking Sonar	10
Long-Term Evolution of Wave Loads Against Offshore Fixed Monopile Structures on the Irish Atlantic Coast (1900–2010)	10
Simulating Marine Snow Images: Pipeline, Data Set, and Benchmark	10
Ocean Sound Speed Profile Measurement Using a Pulse–Echo Technique	10
2022 List of Reviewers	10
Real-Time Sonar Image Simulation for Adaptive Template Matching in Automatic Target Recognition	10
HG2former: HSV-Gamma Guided Transformers for Efficient Underwater Image Enhancement	10
Seismo-Acoustic Sensing on the Beaufort Sea in the 2021 Sea Ice Dynamics Experiment (SIDEx)	10
Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Underwater Communications and Networking 2021 (UComms21)	10
A Greedy Depth-Seeking Behavior for Energy-Efficient Transits by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	10
Neural Shape-From-Shading for Survey-Scale Self-Consistent Bathymetry From Sidescan	10
Parameterized Dynamic Modeling and Spiral Motion Pattern Analysis for Underwater Gliders	9
Real Signal DHT-OFDM With Index Modulation for Underwater Acoustic Communication	9
A Novel Adaptive Initial State Estimation Method for Underwater Bearings-Only Target Tracking	9
Cyclostationarity of Communication Signals in Underwater Acoustic Channels	9
Autonomous Tracking of Salinity-Intrusion Fronts by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	9
Table of Contents	9
Real-Time Flight Simulation of Hydrobatic AUVs Over the Full 0$^{\circ}$–360$^{\circ}$ Envelope	9
Passive Vacuum Regeneration for Suction-Based Marine Adhesion Devices	9
Multi-USV System Antidisturbance Cooperative Searching Based on the Reinforcement Learning Method	9
A Novel Frequency-Based Global-Scope Adaptive Mixer for Sea State Estimation	9
Hydrodynamic Analysis of Payload Bay Berthing for Underwater Vehicles	9
A Ship Radiated Noise Recognition Method Applicable to Incomplete Training Data Sets	9
Underwater Image Enhancement via Modeling White Degradation	8
Tightly Coupled, Graph-Based DVL/IMU Fusion and Decoupled Mapping for SLAM-Centric Maritime Infrastructure Inspection	8
Minimum Time Sailing Boat Path Algorithm	8
Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Advanced Machine Learning Methodologies for Underwater Image and Video Processing and Analysis	8
Autosub Long Range 6000: A Multiple-Month Endurance AUV for Deep-Ocean Monitoring and Survey	8
Multilabel Classification of Heterogeneous Underwater Soundscapes With Bayesian Deep Learning	8
Joint Message-Passing-Based Bidirectional Channel Estimation and Equalization With Superimposed Training for Underwater Acoustic Communications	8
Automatic Detection of Pipelines From Sub-bottom Profiler Sonar Images	8
Adaptive Zigzag Mapping of a Patchy Field by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	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