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This paper introduces an online motion rate adaptation scheme for learned video compression, with the aim of achieving content-adaptive coding on individual test sequences to mitigate the domain gap between training and test data. It…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Chih-Hsuan Lin , Yi-Hsin Chen , Wen-Hsiao Peng

Image matting is a longstanding problem in computational photography. Although, it has been studied for more than two decades, yet there is a challenge of developing an automatic matting algorithm which does not require any human efforts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Vikas Gupta , Shanmuganathan Raman

We propose a novel method to accurately reconstruct a set of images representing a single scene from few linear multi-view measurements. Each observed image is modeled as the sum of a background image and a foreground one. The background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Gilles Puy , Pierre Vandergheynst

Image matting aims to obtain an alpha matte that separates foreground objects from the background accurately. Recently, trimap-free matting has been well studied because it requires only the original image without any extra input. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Leo Shan Wenzhang Zhou Grace Zhao

Slow motion videos are becoming increasingly popular, but capturing high-resolution videos at extremely high frame rates requires professional high-speed cameras. To mitigate this problem, current techniques increase the frame rate of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Avinash Paliwal , Nima Khademi Kalantari

Image frames obtained in darkness are special. Just multiplying by a constant doesn't restore the image. Shot noise, quantization effects and camera non-linearities mean that colors and relative light levels are estimated poorly. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Sara Aghajanzadeh , David Forsyth

Human matting is a foundation task in image and video processing, where human foreground pixels are extracted from the input. Prior works either improve the accuracy by additional guidance or improve the temporal consistency of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Chuong Huynh , Seoung Wug Oh , Abhinav Shrivastava , Joon-Young Lee

High resolution images can be acquired using a non-regular sampling sensor which consists of an underlying low resolution sensor that is covered with a non-regular sampling mask. The reconstructed high resolution image is then obtained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Markus Jonscher , Karina Jaskolka , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Quarter sampling is a novel sensor design that allows for an acquisition of higher resolution images without increasing the number of pixels. When being used for video data, one out of four pixels is measured in each frame. Effectively,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Simon Grosche , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

It is now well understood that (1) it is possible to reconstruct sparse signals exactly from what appear to be highly incomplete sets of linear measurements and (2) that this can be done by constrained L1 minimization. In this paper, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-11-13 Emmanuel J. Candes , Michael B. Wakin , Stephen P. Boyd

Assessing the quality of aperture synthesis maps is relevant for benchmarking image reconstruction algorithms, for the scientific exploitation of data from optical long-baseline interferometers, and for the design/upgrade of new/existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Nuno Gomes , Paulo J. V. Garcia , Éric Thiébaut

In this paper, we propose an image matting framework called Salient Image Matting to estimate the per-pixel opacity value of the most salient foreground in an image. To deal with a large amount of semantic diversity in images, a trimap is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Rahul Deora , Rishab Sharma , Dinesh Samuel Sathia Raj

Recent advances in video super-resolution have shown that convolutional neural networks combined with motion compensation are able to merge information from multiple low-resolution (LR) frames to generate high-quality images. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Matthew Brown

Most current single image camera calibration methods rely on specific image features or user input, and cannot be applied to natural images captured in uncontrolled settings. We propose directly inferring camera calibration parameters from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Jonathan Eisenmann , Matt Fisher , Emiliano Gambaretto , Sunil Hadap , Jean-François Lalonde

Image matting refers to predicting the alpha values of unknown foreground areas from natural images. Prior methods have focused on propagating alpha values from known to unknown regions. However, not all natural images have a specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Huanqia Cai , Fanglei Xue , Lele Xu , Lili Guo

Video matting has broad applications, from adding interesting effects to casually captured movies to assisting video production professionals. Matting with associated effects such as shadows and reflections has also attracted increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Geng Lin , Chen Gao , Jia-Bin Huang , Changil Kim , Yipeng Wang , Matthias Zwicker , Ayush Saraf

Supervised and unsupervised homography estimation methods depend on image pairs tailored to specific modalities to achieve high accuracy. However, their performance deteriorates substantially when applied to unseen modalities. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jinkun You , Jiaxin Cheng , Jie Zhang , Yicong Zhou

Video reconstruction from a single motion-blurred image is a challenging problem, which can enhance the capabilities of existing cameras. Recently, several works addressed this task using conventional imaging and deep learning. Yet, such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Erez Yosef , Shay Elmalem , Raja Giryes

Video matting has traditionally been limited by the lack of high-quality ground-truth data. Most existing video matting datasets provide only human-annotated imperfect alpha and foreground annotations, which must be composited to background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yongtao Ge , Kangyang Xie , Guangkai Xu , Mingyu Liu , Li Ke , Longtao Huang , Hui Xue , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

We present a method for generating alpha mattes using a limited data source. We pretrain a novel transformerbased model (StyleMatte) on portrait datasets. We utilize this model to provide image-mask pairs for the StyleGAN3-based network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sergej Chicherin , Karen Efremyan