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We propose a new approach for high resolution semantic image synthesis. It consists of one base image generator and multiple class-specific generators. The base generator generates high quality images based on a segmentation map. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yuheng Li , Yijun Li , Jingwan Lu , Eli Shechtman , Yong Jae Lee , Krishna Kumar Singh

Deep image generation is becoming a tool to enhance artists and designers creativity potential. In this paper, we aim at making the generation process more structured and easier to interact with. Inspired by vector graphics systems, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Othman Sbai , Camille Couprie , Mathieu Aubry

Generative image modeling techniques such as GAN demonstrate highly convincing image generation result. However, user interaction is often necessary to obtain the desired results. Existing attempts add interactivity but require either…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Toby Chong Long Hin , I-Chao Shen , Issei Sato , Takeo Igarashi

Images captured in low-light environment often suffer from complex degradation. Simply adjusting light would inevitably result in burst of hidden noise and color distortion. To seek results with satisfied lighting, cleanliness, and realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Qiming Hu , Xiaojie Guo

This paper proposes an explicit way to optimize the super-resolution network for generating visually pleasing images. The previous approaches use several loss functions which is hard to interpret and has the implicit relationships to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Tomoki Yoshida , Kazutoshi Akita , Muhammad Haris , Norimichi Ukita

A resolution-enhanced dark-field microscope by structured light illumination is proposed to improve resolution and contrast. A set of phase-shifted fringes are projected to the sample plane at large angle to capture modulated dark-field…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Shaobai Li , Bofan Song , Rongguang Liang

In this paper we show how certain techniques of image processing, having different scopes, can be joined together under a common "algebraic roof".

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-05 Ciro Russo

The quality of modern astronomical data, the power of modern computers and the agility of current image-processing software enable the creation of high-quality images in a purely digital form. The combination of these technological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. A. Rector , Z. G. Levay , L. M. Frattare , J. English , K. Pu'uohau-Pummill

In this paper, we propose a novel low-light image enhancement method aimed at improving the performance of recognition models. Despite recent advances in deep learning, the recognition of images under low-light conditions remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

Existing unpaired low-light image enhancement approaches prefer to employ the two-way GAN framework, in which two CNN generators are deployed for enhancement and degradation separately. However, such data-driven models ignore the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jize Zhang , Haolin Wang , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

Real-world dark images commonly exhibit not only low visibility and contrast but also complex noise and blur, posing significant restoration challenges. Existing methods often rely on paired data or fail to model dynamic illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wei Dong , Han Zhou , Junwei Lin , Jun Chen

To address the issue of feature descriptors being ineffective in representing grayscale feature information when images undergo high affine transformations, leading to a rapid decline in feature matching accuracy, this paper proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Shaojie Zhang , Yinghui Wang , Bin Nan , Wei Li , Jinlong Yang , Tao Yan , Yukai Wang , Liangyi Huang , Mingfeng Wang , Ibragim R. Atadjanov

Significant progress has been made by the advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for image generation. However, there lacks enough understanding of how a realistic image is generated by the deep representations of GANs from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Bolei Zhou

We present a framework that uses GAN-augmented images to complement certain specific attributes, usually underrepresented, for machine learning model training. This allows us to improve inference quality over those attributes for the facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Shuo Cheng , Guoxian Song , Wan-Chun Ma , Chao Wang , Linjie Luo

Treating images as data has become increasingly popular in political science. While existing classifiers for images reach high levels of accuracy, it is difficult to systematically assess the visual features on which they base their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Stefan Scholz , Nils B. Weidmann , Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld , Eda Keremoğlu , Bastian Goldlücke

Casual photography is often performed in uncontrolled lighting that can result in low quality images and degrade the performance of downstream processing. We consider the problem of estimating surface normal and reflectance maps of scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhihao Xia , Jason Lawrence , Supreeth Achar

Image segmentation is one of the principal approaches of image processing. The choice of the most appropriate Binarization algorithm for each case proved to be a very interesting procedure itself. In this paper, we have done the comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Aroop Mukherjee , Soumen Kanrar

Principle objective of Image enhancement is to process an image so that result is more suitable than original image for specific application. Digital image enhancement techniques provide a multitude of choices for improving the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Raman Maini , Himanshu Aggarwal

In this paper, we describe how to apply image-to-image translation techniques to medical blood smear data to generate new data samples and meaningfully increase small datasets. Specifically, given the segmentation mask of the microscopy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Oleksandr Bailo , DongShik Ham , Young Min Shin

Generative models have made it possible to synthesize highly realistic images, potentially providing an abundant data source for training machine learning models. Despite the advantages of these synthesizable data sources, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shentong Mo , Sukmin Yun