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Edge-preserving image smoothing is a fundamental procedure for many computer vision and graphic applications. There is a tradeoff between the smoothing quality and the processing speed: the high smoothing quality usually requires a high…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Wei Liu , Pingping Zhang , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Given an image, we wish to produce an image of larger size with significantly more pixels and higher image quality. This is generally known as the Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) problem. The idea is that with sufficient training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Yaniv Romano , John Isidoro , Peyman Milanfar

Recovering the missing regions of an image is a task that is called image inpainting. Depending on the shape of missing areas, different methods are presented in the literature. One of the challenges of this problem is extracting features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Ghazale Ghorbanzade , Zahra Nabizadeh , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Point cloud upsampling aims to generate dense and uniformly distributed point sets from sparse point clouds. Existing point cloud upsampling methods typically approach the task as an interpolation problem. They achieve upsampling by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Ziming Nie , Qiao Wu , Chenlei Lv , Siwen Quan , Zhaoshuai Qi , Muze Wang , Jiaqi Yang

Existing image inpainting methods often produce artifacts when dealing with large holes in real applications. To address this challenge, we propose an iterative inpainting method with a feedback mechanism. Specifically, we introduce a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yu Zeng , Zhe Lin , Jimei Yang , Jianming Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Huchuan Lu

In recent years, image blending has gained popularity for its ability to create visually stunning content. However, the current image blending algorithms mainly have the following problems: manually creating image blending masks requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Haochen Xue , Mingyu Jin , Chong Zhang , Yuxuan Huang , Qian Weng , Xiaobo Jin

This paper introduces a new type of image enhancement problem. Compared to traditional image enhancement methods, which mostly deal with pixel-wise modifications of a given photo, our proposed task is to crop an image which is embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Aaron Ott , Amir Mazaheri , Niels D. Lobo , Mubarak Shah

As a hybrid imaging technology, photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) imaging suffers from noise due to the maximum permissible exposure of laser intensity, attenuation of ultrasound in the tissue, and the inherent noise of the transducer.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Da He , Jiasheng Zhou , Xiaoyu Shang , Jiajia Luo , Sung-Liang Chen

In the process of parametric optical image amplification, images are formed at new frequencies in addition to the amplified original image. We show that the parametric multiplexing of optical images can be used to produce an image with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 D. A. Balakin , A. S. Chirkin

The noise in absorption imaging of cold atoms significantly impacts measurement accuracy across a range of applications with ultracold atoms. It is crucial to adopt an approach that offers effective denoising capabilities without…

Conditional diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in image manipulation tasks. The general pipeline involves adding noise to the image and then denoising it. However, this method faces a trade-off problem: adding too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Luozhou Wang , Shuai Yang , Shu Liu , Ying-cong Chen

Image classification has been a popular task due to its feasibility in real-world applications. Training neural networks by feeding them RGB images has demonstrated success over it. Nevertheless, improving the classification accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tianhao Bu , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

Image extrapolation aims at expanding the narrow field of view of a given image patch. Existing models mainly deal with natural scene images of homogeneous regions and have no control of the content generation process. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yijun Li , Lu Jiang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In this paper, we tackle the problem of enhancing real-world low-light images with significant noise in an unsupervised fashion. Conventional unsupervised learning-based approaches usually tackle the low-light image enhancement problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Wei Xiong , Ding Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

We present an improved model for MRF-based depth upsampling, guided by image- as well as 3D surface normal features. By exploiting the underlying camera model we define a novel regularization term that implicitly evaluates the planarity of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Sascha Wirges , Björn Roxin , Eike Rehder , Tilman Kühner , Martin Lauer

Noise, an unwanted component in an image, can be the reason for the degradation of Image at the time of transmission or capturing. Noise reduction from images is still a challenging task. Digital Image Processing is a component of Digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Sahil Ali Akbar , Ananya Verma

Various algorithms have been proposed for dictionary learning. Among those for image processing, many use image patches to form dictionaries. This paper focuses on whole-image recovery from corrupted linear measurements. We address the open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Yangyang Xu , Wotao Yin

In this article, a new method for segmentation and restoration of images on two-dimensional surfaces is given. Active contour models for image segmentation are extended to images on surfaces. The evolving curves on the surfaces are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Heike Benninghoff , Harald Garcke

In modern display technology and visualization tools, downscaling images is one of the most important activities. This procedure aims to maintain both visual authenticity and structural integrity while reducing the dimensions of an image at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Suvrojit Mitra , G B Kevin Arjun , Sanjay Ghosh

In this paper, we present a new image segmentation method based on the concept of sparse subset selection. Starting with an over-segmentation, we adopt local spectral histogram features to encode the visual information of the small segments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Fariba Zohrizadeh , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Farhad Kamangar