Abstract:Image super-resolution reconstruction aims to generate high resolution images containing high-frequency details from low resolution images. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence in recent years, the super-resolution reconstruction algorithm based on deep learning has made a breakthrough. However, underwater optical images usually have many degradation problems, such as serious color distortion, missing details, contrast reduction and blurring, which makes the reconstruction difficulty much higher than that of conventional natural optical images. At present, there is no systematic review of underwater optical image super-resolution reconstruction based on deep learning. First of all, the natural image degradation methods and data sets are classified and summarized. Combining the latest research, the single image super-resolution reconstruction algorithm based on deep learning is summarized from three aspects: general degradation method, non-blind multiple degradation method, and blind multiple degradation method, which provides reference for underwater application scenarios. Then, the degradation mode of underwater optical image is introduced, the common open data sets are summarized, and the latest progress of underwater optical image super-resolution reconstruction is summarized and analyzed. Finally, the possible future development trend of this field is prospected.