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Existing face relighting methods often struggle with two problems: maintaining the local facial details of the subject and accurately removing and synthesizing shadows in the relit image, especially hard shadows. We propose a novel deep…

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Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is a rapidly growing field seeking to form images of objects outside the field of view, with potential applications in search and rescue, reconnaissance, and even medical imaging. The critical challenge of…

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a novel computational coherent imaging technique for high space-bandwidth product imaging. Mathematically, Fourier ptychographic (FP) reconstruction can be implemented as a phase retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Liheng Bian , Jinli Suo , Jaebum Chung , Xiaoze Ou , Changhuei Yang , Feng Chen , Qionghai Dai

We present a novel method for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) foreground removal based on deep learning techniques. This method employs a Transformer model, referred to as \texttt{TCMB}, which is specifically designed to effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Yang Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li

Camera calibration is a crucial prerequisite in many applications of computer vision. In this paper, a new, geometry-based camera calibration technique is proposed, which resolves two main issues associated with the widely used Zhang's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Jen-Hui Chuang , Chih-Hui Ho , Ardian Umam , HsinYi Chen , Mu-Tien Lu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Tai-An Chen

Fourier imaging is an indirect imaging method which records the diffraction pattern of the object scene coherently in the focal plane of the imaging system and reconstructs the image using computational resources. The spatial resolution,…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-05 Hui Yuan , Alvydas Lisauskas , Mark D. Thomson , Hartmut G. Roskos

We present a comprehensive simulation-based study of the BayesEoR code for 21 cm power spectrum recovery when analytically marginalizing over foreground parameters. To account for covariance between the 21 cm signal and contaminating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 Jacob Burba , Peter H. Sims , Jonathan C. Pober

We address the problem of line confusion in intensity mapping surveys and explore the possibility to mitigate line foreground contamination by progressively masking the brightest pixels in the observed map. We consider experiments targeting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-24 Patrick C. Breysse , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski

The 21 cm brightness temperature during the Epoch of Reionisation is widely modelled using semi-numeric simulations, used for their computational speed and flexibility in testing astrophysical and cosmological parameters. However, it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Jennifer Feron , Emma Chapman

Automotive cameras, particularly surround-view cameras, tend to get soiled by mud, water, snow, etc. For higher levels of autonomous driving, it is necessary to have a soiling detection algorithm which will trigger an automatic cleaning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Arindam Das , Pavel Krizek , Ganesh Sistu , Fabian Burger , Sankaralingam Madasamy , Michal Uricar , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

Fourier ptychography (FP), as a computational imaging method, is a powerful tool to improve imaging resolution. Camera-scanning Fourier ptychography extends the application of FP from micro to macro creatively. Due to the non-ideal scanning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Baiqi Cui , Shaohui Zhang , Yechao Wang , Yao Hu , Qun Hao

Person re-identification is a crucial task of identifying pedestrians of interest across multiple surveillance camera views. In person re-identification, a pedestrian is usually represented with features extracted from a rectangular image…

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Most existing approaches for visual localization either need a detailed 3D model of the environment or, in the case of learning-based methods, must be retrained for each new scene. This can either be very expensive or simply impossible for…

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Most deraining works focus on rain streaks removal but they cannot deal adequately with heavy rain images. In heavy rain, streaks are strongly visible, dense rain accumulation or rain veiling effect significantly washes out the image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Ruotent Li , Loong Fah Cheong , Robby T. Tan

Instance segmentation for low-light imagery remains largely unexplored due to the challenges imposed by such conditions, for example shot noise due to low photon count, color distortions and reduced contrast. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Joanne Lin , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David Bull

Foreground segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, encompassing various subdivision tasks. Previous research has typically designed task-specific architectures for each task, leading to a lack of unification. Moreover, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zuyao You , Lingyu Kong , Lingchen Meng , Zuxuan Wu

In 21cm intensity mapping of the large-scale structure (LSS), regions in Fourier space could be compromised by foreground contamination. In interferometric observations, this contamination, known as the foreground wedge, is exacerbated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Qian Li , Xin Wang , Xiaodong Li , Jiacheng Ding , Tiancheng Luan , Xiaolin Luo

We present a description of our method to process a set of autocollimator-based deflectometer 1-dimensional line-scans taken over a large optical surface and reconstruct them to a best-fit conic-section surface. The challenge with our task…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-28 Samantha J. Thompson , Richard Lang , Paul Rees , Gareth W. Roberts

Background: Tumour budding is an independent predictor of metastasis and prognosis in colorectal cancer and is a vital part of the pathology specification report. In a conventional pathological section observation process, pathologists have…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Yiyan Su , Ruiqing Sun , Yajing Wang , Yanfeng xi , Shaohui Zhang

Pose-invariant face recognition has become a challenging problem for modern AI-based face recognition systems. It aims at matching a profile face captured in the wild with a frontal face registered in a database. Existing methods perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Nikolay Stanishev , Yuhang Lu , Touradj Ebrahimi