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  Chapter-9: Computer Vision Applications in Underwater Robotics and Oceanography.
  Computer Vision: Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities

  M. J. Islam, A.Q. Li, Y. Girdhar, and I. Rekleitis.

  CRC Press, 2024, p.173, eBook ISBN9781003328957.

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EgoExo++: Integrating On-demand Exocentric Visuals with 2.5D Ground Surface Estimation for Interactive Teleoperation of Subsea ROVs

A. Abdullah, R. Chen, I. Rekleitis, and M. J. Islam.

Accepted for publication at the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2026.
*Impact Factor: 9.3

BlueME: Robust Underwater Robot-to-Robot Communication Using Compact Magnetoelectric Antennas

M. Talebi, S. Mahmud, A. Khalifa, and M. J. Islam.

Accepted for publication at the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (JOE), 2026.
*Impact Factor: 5.3

Single-Step Latent Diffusion for Underwater Image Restoration

J. Wu, T. Wang, M.A.B. Siddique, M. J. Islam, C. Fermuller, Y. Aloimonos, C. A. Metzler.

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2025. Presented at ICCP-2025.
*Impact Factor: 20.8

UStyle: Waterbody Style Transfer of Underwater Scenes by Depth-guided High-Fidelity Feature Synthesis

M.A.B. Siddique, V. Ramesh, J. Liu, P. Singh, and M. J. Islam.

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (JOE), 2025.
*Impact Factor: 5.3

AquaFuse: Waterbody Fusion for Physics Guided View Synthesis of Underwater Scenes

M.A.B. Siddique, J. Wu, I. Rekleitis, and M. J. Islam.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 10 , no. 5, 2025.
*Impact Factor: 6.0

LightViz: Autonomous Light-field Sensing and Mapping for Distributed Light Pollution Monitoring

S. Huang, K.F.F. Suhi, and M. J. Islam.

Springer Nature Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (EMA), vol. 197, no. 384, 2025.
*Impact Factor: 3.1

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  Human-Machine Interfaces for Subsea Telerobotics: from Soda-straw to Natural Language Interactions

  A. Abdullah, R. Chen, D. Blow, T. Uthai, E. Du, and M. J. Islam.

  In Review, 2025.
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  A Force-Aware Imitation Learning Approach for Subsea Robotic Jumper Pipe Installation

  H. You, T. Zhou, F. Xu, B. Sun, M. J. Islam, E. Du

  In review, 2026.
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  Active Localization of Close-range Adversarial Acoustic Sources for Underwater Data Center Surveillance

  A. Abdullah, D. Blow, S. Rampazzi, and M. J. Islam.

  In review, 2026.
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  Evaluating Body-Referenced Haptic Guidance for Mitigating Delay Effects in ROV Pipeline Inspection Teleoperations

  F. Xu, T. Zhou, J. Herrera, M. J. Islam, E. Du

  In review, 2026.
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  VL-Explore: Zero-shot Vision-Language Exploration and Target Discovery by Mobile Robots

  Y. Zhang, A. Abdullah, S. J. Koppal, and M. J. Islam.

  In Review, 2026.
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  DGIQA: Depth-guided Feature Attention and Refinement for Generalizable Image Quality Assessment

  V. Ramesh, J. Liu, H. Wang, and M. J. Islam.

  In Review, 2026.
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  HiRQA: Hierarchical Ranking and Quality Alignment for Opinion-Unaware Image Quality Assessment

  V. Ramesh, H. Wang, and M. J. Islam.

  In Review, 2026.

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  NemeSys: Toward Online Underwater Exploration with Goal-Driven Adaptive Autonomy

  A. Abdullah, A. Gupta, V. Ramesh, S. Patel, and M. J. Islam.

  In Review, 2026.
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  Demonstrating CavePI: Autonomous Exploration of Underwater Caves by Semantic Guidance

  A. Gupta, A. Abdullah, X. Li, V. Ramesh, I. Rekleitis, and M. J. Islam.

  Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025, Los Angeles, CA, US. (Acceptance Rate: 27%)
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  Detection and Localization of Acoustic Vulnerabilities of Underwater Data Centers for Remote Surveillance

  D. Blow, A. Abdullah, J. M. Sheldon, W. Zhu, S. Rampazzi, and M. J. Islam.

  SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing, 2025, Orlando, FL, US.
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  Word2Wave: Language Driven Mission Programming for Efficient Subsea Deployments of Marine Robots

  R. Chen, D. Blow, A. Abdullah, and M. J. Islam.

  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
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  SubSense: VR-Haptic and Motor Feedback for Immersive Control in Subsea Telerobotics

  R. Chen, D. Blow, A. Abdullah, and M. J. Islam.

  The OCEANS 2025 Great Lakes conference 250515 (113), US, 2025.
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  Ego-to-Exo: Interfacing Third Person Visuals from Egocentric Views in Real-time for Improved ROV Teleoperation

  A. Abdullah, R. Chen, I. Rekleitis, and M. J. Islam.

  International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), CA, US 2024.
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  Edge-Centric Real-Time Segmentation for Autonomous Underwater Cave Exploration

  M. Mohammadi, A. Abdullah, A. Juneja, I. Rekleitis, M. J. Islam, and R. Zand.

  IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), FL, US, 2024.
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  AquaSonic: Acoustic Manipulation of Underwater Data Center Operations and Resource Management

  J. M. Sheldon, W. Zhu, A. Abdullah, S.H.V Bhupathiraju, T. Sugawara, K. Butler, M. J. Islam, S. Rampazzi.

  45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2024, San Francisco, CA, US. (Acceptance Rate: 17.8%)
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  A Mobile Robotic Solution for Dense Water Quality Sensing and Monitoring

  A. Abdullah, M. Talebi, R. Chen, and M. J. Islam.

  Robots for Understanding Natural Ecosystems (RUNE) Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
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  Dynamic Light-field Sensing for Distributed Light Pollution Monitoring

  S. Huang, A. Abdullah, R. Chen, and M. J. Islam.

  Robots for Understanding Natural Ecosystems (RUNE) Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
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  CaveSeg: Deep Semantic Segmentation and Scene Parsing for Autonomous Underwater Cave Exploration

  A. Abdullah, T. Barua, Z. Chen, R. Tibbetts, M. J. Islam, and I. Rekleitis.

  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
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  Eye On the Back: Augmented Visuals for Improved ROV Teleoperation in Deep Water Surveillance and Inspection

  M. J. Islam

  SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing, 2024, National Harbor, Maryland, US.
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  Caveline Detection at the Edge for Autonomous Underwater Cave Exploration and Mapping

  M. Mohammadi, S. Huang, T. Barua, I. Rekleitis, M. J. Islam, and R. Zand.

  IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2023, Jacksonville, US.
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  Weakly Supervised Caveline Detection For AUV Navigation Inside Underwater Caves

  B. Yu, R. Tibbetts, T. Barua, A. Morales, I. Rekleitis, and M. J. Islam.

  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS), 2023, Michigan, US.
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  3D Reconstruction of Underwater Scenes using Nonlinear Domain Projection

  J. Wu, B. Yu, and M. J. Islam.

  Best paper award at the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) 2023, Santa Clara, CA, US.
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  Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availability of Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers?

  J. M. Sheldon, W. Zhu, A. Abdullah, K. Butler, M. J. Islam, S. Rampazzi.

  Best paper award at the ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2023, Boston, MA, US.
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  UDepth: Fast Monocular Depth Estimation for Visually-guided Underwater Robots

  B. Yu, J. Wu, and M. J. Islam.

  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023, London, UK.
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  SVAM: Saliency-guided Visual Attention Modeling by Autonomous Underwater Robots

  M. J. Islam, R. Wang, and J. Sattar.

  Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), P048, 2022, NYC, NY, US. (Acceptance Rate: 32%)