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  1. Cross-Modal Semantic Successive Refinement for Generative Image Communication over Underwater Acoustic Channels

    Nov 4, 2026Xu Pei, Bin Wang, Guangxu Zhu +2Semantic CommunicationIterative Refinement

  2. Wave Physics as Representation: Tensor-Structured Neural Reconstruction for Ocean Acoustic Fields

    Nov 1, 2026Yifan Sun, Panqi Chen, Weifeng Shi +2Underwater AcousticsSparse-View 3D Reconstruction

    College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University · Department of ECE, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

  3. Lightweight Underwater Acoustic Vessel Classification for Embedded Deployment

    Oct 29, 2026Abishek Soti, Thura Pyae Sone, Naqib Ibnul +5Audio ClassificationUnderwater Acoustics

    ICNS, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

  4. Dolphin broadband transient vocalization detection in impulsive ambient noise

    Oct 26, 2026Hari Vishnu, Jin Xinhui, Mandar Chitre +2Underwater AcousticsBioacoustics

    Acoustic Research Laboratory, Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore.

  5. Music of the Deep: An acoustic blueprint of sperm whale codas

    Oct 25, 2026Mudit Sinha, Sanika ChavanBioacousticsUnderwater Acoustics

    Independent Researcher, San Bruno, California 94066, United States

  6. From Signals to Evidence: Interpretable Underwater Acoustic Target Sensing with Large Language Models - Part II: Passive Detection

    Oct 22, 2026Zhiyuan Li, Yuge Zhang, Jie Chen +6Underwater AcousticsPassive Acoustic Monitoring

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710129, China · School of Ocean Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 519000, Guangdong, China · School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710129, China +1

  7. MarineSet: Large-Scale Underwater Acoustic Data Curation and evaluation

    Oct 21, 2026Hilde I. Hummel, Sandjai Bhulai, Rob D. van der Mei +1Underwater AcousticsTraining Data Curation

    Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

  8. From Signals to Evidence: Interpretable Underwater Acoustic Target Sensing with Large Language Models - Part I: Framework and Recognition

    Oct 15, 2026Yuge Zhang, Jie Chen, Zhengqiao Zhao +4Underwater AcousticsAudio Representation Learning

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710129, China · School of Ocean Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 519000, Guangdong, China · School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710129, China +1

  9. UA-Bench: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models on Underwater Acoustic Recognition

    Oct 12, 2026Zhe Sun, Liang An, Jiayu Yao +9Underwater AcousticsAudio-Language Model Evaluation

    Southeast University

  10. Robust Prediction of Internal Wave-Affected Multi-Scale Sound Speed Distribution Using Lightweight Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks with Hybrid Basis Functions

    Oct 7, 2026Wei Huang, Junpeng Lu, Tianhe Xu +2Underwater AcousticsKolmogorov-Arnold Networks

    Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266404, China · School of Space Science and Technology, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, Shandong 264200, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, Guangdong 518172, China

  11. Towards Deployable Underwater Vessel Classification

    Sep 24, 2026Abishek Soti, Thura Pyae Sone, Naqib Ibnul +4Passive Acoustic MonitoringLightweight CNNs

    ICNS, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

  12. LoRA Enhanced Contrastive Learning with SAS Vision Transformers

    Sep 17, 2026Dan Zimmerman, Frank E. Bobe, Amelia L. McCormack +2SAR ATRUnderwater Object Detection

    Center for Connected Autonomy & AI Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, USA · Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division Panama City, USA · Department of Computer Science Florida State University Tallahassee, USA

  13. Large-scale bioacoustic detection using semantic segmentation: a deep learning framework applied to fin whale calls in ocean-bottom seismometer recordings

    Sep 8, 2026Jocelyn Japnanto, Alex A. Saoulis, Miriam Romagosa +5BioacousticsPassive Acoustic Monitoring

    Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom · Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, United Kingdom · Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar (OKEANOS), Universidade dos Açores, Horta, Portugal +4

  14. Adapting Vision Foundation Models to Acoustics for Pose-Free 3D Sonar Reconstruction

    Sep 5, 2026Kevin Zhang, Jingxi Chen, Mohamad Qadri +5Underwater 3D Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    University of Maryland, College Park · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Rhode Island +1

  15. Arctic Dispersion Interruption Phenomenon and Sound Source Depth Estimation

    Aug 31, 2026Weng Jinbao, Yang Yanming, Chen Benqing +2Depth EstimationUnderwater Acoustics

    Laboratory of ocean acoustic and remote sensing, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, China

  16. SCTD 3.0: Sonar Common Target Detection in the Wild - A Large-Scale, Multi-Scene Dataset from Real Marine Surveys

    Aug 8, 2026Peng ZhangUnderwater ImagingUnderwater Object Detection

  17. An End-to-End Workflow for Fin Whale Song Detection, Note Characterization, and Localization with Distributed Acoustic Sensing

    Aug 3, 2026Dídac Diego-Tortosa, Miriam Romagosa, Arantza Ugalde +4Distributed Acoustic SensingSound Event Detection

    Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona · Institut de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Centre Mixte Universitat de València (UV-CSIC), Paterna

  18. Underwater Source Detection and Classification for Signal-based Surveillance: Audio Dataset Curation and Cross-Domain Evaluation

    Jun 27, 2026Quoc Thinh Vo, David K. HanTraining Data CurationAudio Classification

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

  19. Deep learning for echo sounder data

    Jun 9, 2026Ketil MaldeUnderwater Acoustics

  20. Heterogeneous 2D/1D Signal Representation Fusion for Underwater Acoustic Modulation Recognition Under Distribution Shift

    Jun 8, 2026Ronglai Qian, Liang An, Xiaoyan Wang +3Multimodal RobustnessMultimodal Fusion

    Key Laboratory of Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing of the Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

  21. Parameter-efficient Dual-encoder Architecture with Differentiable Choquet Integral Fusion for Underwater Acoustic Classification

    Jun 1, 2026Amirmohammad Mohammadi, Joshua Peeples, Alexandra Van DineUnderwater AcousticsMultimodal Fusion

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA · Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts, 02421, USA

  22. Neural Radiated-Noise Fields for Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Noise Spectrum Prediction in Three-Dimensional Scenes

    May 29, 2026Yan Wu, Yang Yang, Jun Fan +1Implicit Neural RepresentationsUnderwater Acoustics

    Key Laboratory of Marine Intelligent Equipment and System, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, PR China

  23. Hearing the Ocean: Bio-inspired Gammatone-CNN framework for Robust Underwater Acoustic Target Classification

    May 6, 2026Rajeshwar Tripathi, Sandeep Kumar, Monika Aggarwal +1Convolutional Neural NetworksAudio Classification

    Central Research Laboratory, Bharat Electronics Limited, Ghaziabad, India · Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE), IIT Delhi, India

  24. E2E-WAVE: End-to-End Learned Waveform Generation for Underwater Video Multicasting

    Apr 18, 2026Khizar Anjum, Tingcong Jiang, Dario PompiliSemantic CommunicationWireless Communications

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, NJ, USA

  25. Analytical Exploration of Spatial Audio Cues: A Differentiable Multi-Sphere Scattering Model

    Mar 2, 2026Siminfar Samakoush Galougah, Pranav Pulijala, Ramani DuraiswamiUnderwater AcousticsSpatial Audio

    Perceptual Intelligence & Reality Lab, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

  26. Linear probing enables Ship-Radiated Noise recognition with pretrained audio embeddings

    Jan 13, 2026Hilde I. Hummel, Sandjai Bhulai, Rob D. van der Mei +1Audio Representation LearningLinear Probing

    Centre of Mathematics and Computer Science, Stochastics group, Science Park 123, Amsterdam, 1098 XG, Netherlands · Vrije Universiteit, Department of Mathematics, De Boelelaan 1111, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands · Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, Leiden, 2333 CR, Netherlands