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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
2023 Index IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Vol. 48	207
Editorial Farewell From Your Outgoing EiC	143
Robust Chinese Remainder Theorem–Based Synthetic Aperture Sonar Motion Estimation	101
DAPNet: Dual Attention Probabilistic Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	96
Table of Contents	92
JOE Call for Papers - Special Issue on Maritime Informatics and Robotics: Advances from the IEEE Symposium on Maritime Informatics & Robotics	84
ADRC-Based Underwater Navigation Control and Parameter Tuning of an Amphibious Multirotor Vehicle	79
On the Exploitation of Dual-Polarimetric SAR Measurements to Observe the C33 Iceberg in Antarctica	51
Autonomous Underwater Environment Perceiving and Modeling: An Experimental Campaign With FeelHippo AUV for Forward Looking Sonar-Based Automatic Target Recognition and Data Association	51
ROV Localization Using Ballasted Umbilical Equipped With IMUs	46
Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers-Based Techniques for Underwater Marine Debris Classification: A Comparative Study	44
Multifrequency Phased-Arrays With Dynamic Range Ratio Control for Coastal Monitoring	42
Evaluation of UKF-Based Fusion Strategies for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Multisensor Navigation	39
Method for Remote Sensing Oil Spill Applications Over Thermal and Polarimetric Imagery	38
Laser Doppler Velocimetry for 3-D Seawater Velocity Measurement Using a Single Wavelength	37
A Shared Control Framework With Constrained Optimization and Guiding Force Feedback for Teleoperation of Underwater Electric Manipulator	36
A Two-Stage Underwater Enhancement Network Based on Structure Decomposition and Characteristics of Underwater Imaging	33
Interference Cancellation for UWA Random Access Data Packet Transmission	32
A Physics-Based Inversion of Multibeam Sonar Data for Seafloor Characterization	32
An Efficient and Robust Underwater Image Compression Scheme Based on Autoencoder	31
HoloOcean: A Full-Featured Marine Robotics Simulator for Perception and Autonomy	31
Path Selection in Parallel Multihop UVLC Systems Over Turbulence Channels	29
Editorial Presenting Abstracts of Accepted/Published JOE Papers at MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conferences	29
Object Modeling From Underwater Forward-Scan Sonar Imagery With Sea-Surface Multipath	28
Multitask Cooperative Formation Control of Autonomous Surface Vehicles With Interception of Moving Objects	28

Autonomous Ship Collision Avoidance in Restricted Waterways Considering Maritime Navigation Rules	27
Vector Quantized Underwater Image Enhancement With Transformers	27
Table of Contents	26
A Deep Learning Model for Marine Mammal Call Classification	26
Super Permutation Frequency-Shift-Keyed Underwater Acoustic Communication	25
Multiobjective Risk-Aware Path Planning in Uncertain Transient Currents: An Ensemble-Based Stochastic Optimization Approach	25
A Ship Tracking Method in Inland Waters Based on Fusion of Video and AIS Data	24
Improved Adaptive High-Order Sliding Mode-Based Control for Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	24
Current Trends and Advances in Quantum Navigation for Maritime Applications: A Comprehensive Review	24
Parameter Estimation by Alternating Reconstruction and Sensation for Sonar System	24
Modal Analysis of Acoustic Energy Periodic Fluctuations Due to Internal Tides in the Yellow Sea	23
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	22
Hybrid AC Shipboard Microgrid Time Delayed LFC and AVR Controllers Tuning Through Gazelle Optimization Algorithm and Real-Time HIL Implementation	21
Cross Evaluation of Waveform Modulation Schemes Using Postexperimental Field Data	21
Signals-of-Opportunity-Based Hydrophone Array Shape and Orientation Estimation	21
Estimation of Frequency-Wavenumber Diagrams Using a Physics-Based Grid-Free Compressed Sensing Method	20
Underwater Image Enhancement With Reinforcement Learning	20
Editorial Hello From Your New EiC	20
Texture-Based Seafloor Characterization Using Gaussian Process Classification	20
Unsupervised Multiple Representation Disentanglement Framework for Improved Underwater Visual Perception	20
Pruned Distributed and Parallel Subarray Beamforming for 3-D Underwater Imaging With Fine-Grid Sparse Arrays	19
Modeling and Analyzing Water Column Forward Scattering Effect on Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry	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
Finding and Tracking a Phytoplankton Patch by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	19
Self-Adversarial Generative Adversarial Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	18
Underwater Surface Normal Reconstruction via Cross-Grained Photometric Stereo Transformer	18
A Reinforcement Learning Paradigm of Configuring Visual Enhancement for Object Detection in Underwater Scenes	18
Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Contra-Rotating Offshore Vertical-Axis Turbines	18
Single Receiver Underwater Localization of an Unsynchronized Periodic Acoustic Beacon Using Synthetic Baseline	17
Table of Contents	17
Marine Hydrokinetic Farm Optimization for Coaxial Dual-Rotor Turbines	17
Safe Maneuvering Near Offshore Installations: A New Algorithmic Tool	17
Large-Scale Dense 3-D Mapping Using Submaps Derived From Orthogonal Imaging Sonars	16
Joint CFO, Gridless Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems	16
Bathymetric Reconstruction From Sidescan Sonar With Deep Neural Networks	15
Potential-Game-Driven Formation Control of AUVs: An Inverse-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Solution	14
Effects of Water Surface Waves on a Sound-Millimeter Wave-Based Cross-Medium Wireless Communication System	14
Low Computational Complexity RLS-Based Decision-Feedback Equalization in Underwater Acoustic Communications	14
Temporal Temperature Profile Prediction Using Graph Convolutional Networks and Inverted Echosounder Measurements	14
Coherence-Induced Bias Reduction in Synthetic Aperture Sonar Along-Track Micronavigation	14
Testing High Directional Resolution Sea-Spectrum Estimation Methods in View of the Needs of a National Monitoring System	14
Table of Contents	14
The Impact of the Spatial Variability of the Seafloor on Midfrequency Sound Propagation During the Target and Reverberation Experiment 2013	14
Laser-Acoustic Cross-Medium Communication (LACMC) System: Theoretical Channel Model and Experiments	14
Enhancing Underwater Imagery via Latent Low-Rank Decomposition and Image Fusion	14
Contrastive Learning in NMPC Behavior Cloning for Generalized Trajectory Tracking of Marine Vehicles	13
An Improved YOLOv8-Based Shallow Sea Creatures Object Detection Method	13
Tracking Multiple Surface Vessels With an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Field Results	13
Performance Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Communications in Barrow Strait	13

A Dense Subframe-Based SLAM Framework With Side-Scan Sonar	12
Joint Equalization and Self-Interference Cancellation for Underwater Acoustic In-Band Full-Duplex Communication	12
Monitoring Tidal Currents and Macroturbulence in a High-Flow Tidal Channel Using a Kilometer-Scale Acoustic Travel-Time Instrument	12
Improved Calculation of the Second-Order Ocean Doppler Spectrum for Sea State Inversion	12
Experimental Demonstration of an Autonomous Distributed-Consensus Network for Underwater Passive-Acoustic Detection	12
Fast Detection of Small Targets in High-Resolution Maritime Radars by Feature Normalization and Fusion	12
Optimization Design Method of the Umbilical Cable Global Configuration Based on Representative Fatigue Conditions	12
Binocular Underwater Measurement With Multicolor Structured Light	12
Free Surface Elevation Estimator as a Sensor for Wave-Powered Data Buoys	12
Transfer Learning and Few-Shot Learning Based Deep Neural Network Models for Underwater Sonar Image Classification With a Few Samples	12
NWSP: A Novel Indicator for Ocean–Land Interface Extraction Using Bathymetric LiDAR	12
Semantic Segmentation in Underwater Ship Inspections: Benchmark and Data Set	12
Call for papers: Special Issue on IEEE MetroSea 2023	12
A CFAR Detection Approach for Identifying Gas Bubble Seeps With Multibeam Echo Sounders	12
The Effects of Vertical Correlation Characteristics on Vertical Array Gain Performance in Deep Water	11
Robust Wideband Beamspace Adaptive Beamforming for Mainlobe Jamming in Underwater Environment	11
In Situ Performance Prediction of a Coherent Acoustic Modem in a Reverberant Environment	11
Estimating Scattering Patch Area for a Direction Finding HF Radar	11
Prior-Based Underwater Enhanced Image Quality Assessment Network	11
Applying an Uncrewed Surface Vessel to Measure Under-Pier Bathymetry	11
Modeling of the Electroacoustic Process of Incomplete Spark Discharge in Saline Water-Sparker Source	11
A Hyperheuristic Algorithm Based on Evolutionary Strategy for Complex Mission Planning of AUVs in Marine Environment	11
A Strategy for Sizing and Optimizing the Energy System on Long-Range AUVs	11
Demonstration of Underwater Channel State Information Acquisition in Grand Passage, Nova Scotia	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
A Greedy Depth-Seeking Behavior for Energy-Efficient Transits by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	11
Inversion for Parameters of Mud as a Porous Medium	10
Neural Shape-From-Shading for Survey-Scale Self-Consistent Bathymetry From Sidescan	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
Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Underwater Communications and Networking 2021 (UComms21)	10
In Situ Suction Filtration Sampler With Hundreds of Membranes for Deep-Sea Suspensions	10
2022 List of Reviewers	10
Real-Time Sonar Image Simulation for Adaptive Template Matching in Automatic Target Recognition	10
Parameterized Dynamic Modeling and Spiral Motion Pattern Analysis for Underwater Gliders	10
Full-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis for Lift Operation of a DP Crane Vessel	10
Fairness-Driven Optimization for NOMA-UWOC Systems With Energy Harvesting Requirements	10
Seismo-Acoustic Sensing on the Beaufort Sea in the 2021 Sea Ice Dynamics Experiment (SIDEx)	9
HG2former: HSV-Gamma Guided Transformers for Efficient Underwater Image Enhancement	9
Long-Term Evolution of Wave Loads Against Offshore Fixed Monopile Structures on the Irish Atlantic Coast (1900–2010)	9
A Novel Frequency-Based Global-Scope Adaptive Mixer for Sea State Estimation	9
Analysis and Compensation of Acoustic Rolling Shutter Effect of Acoustic-Lens-Based Forward-Looking Sonar	9
Model-Guided Deep Learning for Line Segment Detection in Time–Frequency Spectrograms of an Ocean Waveguide	9
Real-Time Flight Simulation of Hydrobatic AUVs Over the Full 0$^{\circ}$–360$^{\circ}$ Envelope	9
Multilabel Classification of Heterogeneous Underwater Soundscapes With Bayesian Deep Learning	9
Multi-USV System Antidisturbance Cooperative Searching Based on the Reinforcement Learning Method	9
Autonomous Tracking of Salinity-Intrusion Fronts by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	9
Adaptive Zigzag Mapping of a Patchy Field by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	9
Table of Contents	9
Underwater Image Enhancement via Modeling White Degradation	8
Autosub Long Range 6000: A Multiple-Month Endurance AUV for Deep-Ocean Monitoring and Survey	8
Real Signal DHT-OFDM With Index Modulation for Underwater Acoustic Communication	8
Direct-Adaptive Turbo Equalization Based on Interference Reconstruction for OTFS Underwater Acoustic Communication System	8
Automatic Detection of Pipelines From Sub-bottom Profiler Sonar Images	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
Joint Message-Passing-Based Bidirectional Channel Estimation and Equalization With Superimposed Training for Underwater Acoustic Communications	8
Cyclostationarity of Communication Signals in Underwater Acoustic Channels	8
A Ship Radiated Noise Recognition Method Applicable to Incomplete Training Data Sets	8
Phase Space Representation of Sound Fields in Lake Kinneret	8
Tightly Coupled, Graph-Based DVL/IMU Fusion and Decoupled Mapping for SLAM-Centric Maritime Infrastructure Inspection	8