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Foundation models like ChatGPT and Sora that are trained on a huge scale of data have made a revolutionary social impact. However, it is extremely challenging for sensors in many different fields to collect similar scales of natural images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Chenyang Lei , Liyi Chen , Jun Cen , Xiao Chen , Zhen Lei , Felix Heide , Ziwei Liu , Qifeng Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang

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

Unwanted nonlinear gamma distortion frequently occurs in a great diversity of images during the procedures of image acquisition, processing, and/or display. And the gamma distortion often varies with capture setup change and luminance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Yong Lee , Shaohua Zhang , Miao Li , Xiaoyu He

The most recent efforts in video matting have focused on eliminating trimap dependency since trimap annotations are expensive and trimap-based methods are less adaptable for real-time applications. Despite the latest tripmap-free methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chung-Ching Lin , Jiang Wang , Kun Luo , Kevin Lin , Linjie Li , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu

This paper introduces LAFT, a novel feature transformation method designed to incorporate user knowledge and preferences into anomaly detection using natural language. Accurately modeling the boundary of normality is crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 EungGu Yun , Heonjin Ha , Yeongwoo Nam , Bryan Dongik Lee

Natural image matting separates the foreground from background in fractional occupancy which can be caused by highly transparent objects, complex foreground (e.g., net or tree), and/or objects containing very fine details (e.g., hairs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yanan Sun , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

In this paper, we address the challenge of image resolution variation for the Segment Anything Model (SAM). SAM, known for its zero-shot generalizability, exhibits a performance degradation when faced with datasets with varying image sizes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yiran Song , Qianyu Zhou , Xiangtai Li , Deng-Ping Fan , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

Image matting is a fundamental computer vision problem and has many applications. Previous algorithms have poor performance when an image has similar foreground and background colors or complicated textures. The main reasons are prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Ning Xu , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Thomas Huang

Usually, lesions are not isolated but are associated with the surrounding tissues. For example, the growth of a tumour can depend on or infiltrate into the surrounding tissues. Due to the pathological nature of the lesions, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Lin Wang , Xiufen Ye , Donghao Zhang , Wanji He , Lie Ju , Yi Luo , Huan Luo , Xin Wang , Wei Feng , Kaimin Song , Xin Zhao , Zongyuan Ge

Parametric body models offer expressive 3D representation of humans across a wide range of poses, shapes, and facial expressions, typically derived by learning a basis over registered 3D meshes. However, existing human mesh modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Jinhyung Park , Javier Romero , Shunsuke Saito , Fabian Prada , Takaaki Shiratori , Yichen Xu , Federica Bogo , Shoou-I Yu , Kris Kitani , Rawal Khirodkar

This paper introduces an innovative approach for image matting that redefines the traditional regression-based task as a generative modeling challenge. Our method harnesses the capabilities of latent diffusion models, enriched with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhixiang Wang , Baiang Li , Jian Wang , Yu-Lun Liu , Jinwei Gu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Shin'ichi Satoh

Optical absorption is a primary, label-defining contrast across biology, pathology, and materials science, yet three-dimensional quantitative absorption imaging has remained largely inaccessible to the brightfield microscopes used in…

Natural image matting aims to estimate the alpha matte of the foreground from a given image. Various approaches have been explored to address this problem, such as interactive matting methods that use guidance such as click or trimap, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Qinglin Liu , Xiaoqian Lv , Wei Yu , Changyong Guo , Shengping Zhang

We propose a novel method for unsupervised image-to-image translation, which incorporates a new attention module and a new learnable normalization function in an end-to-end manner. The attention module guides our model to focus on more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Junho Kim , Minjae Kim , Hyeonwoo Kang , Kwanghee Lee

Transformer-based approaches have revolutionized image super-resolution by modeling long-range dependencies. However, the quadratic computational complexity of vanilla self-attention mechanisms poses significant challenges, often leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Dinh Phu Tran , Thao Do , Saad Wazir , Seongah Kim , Seon Kwon Kim , Daeyoung Kim

Recently, large foundation models trained on vast datasets have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in feature extraction and general feature representation. The ongoing advancements in deep learning-driven large models have shown great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Meiqi Hu , Lingzhi Lu , Chengxi Han , Xiaoping Liu

We propose a novel cost aggregation network, called Cost Aggregation Transformers (CATs), to find dense correspondences between semantically similar images with additional challenges posed by large intra-class appearance and geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Seokju Cho , Sunghwan Hong , Sangryul Jeon , Yunsung Lee , Kwanghoon Sohn , Seungryong Kim

Most matting researches resort to advanced semantics to achieve high-quality alpha mattes, and direct low-level features combination is usually explored to complement alpha details. However, we argue that appearance-agnostic integration can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yu Qiao , Yuhao Liu , Ziqi Wei , Yuxin Wang , Qiang Cai , Guofeng Zhang , Xin Yang

Active Appearance Model (AAM) is a commonly used method for facial image analysis with applications in face identification and facial expression recognition. This paper proposes a new approach based on image alignment for AAM fitting called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Ali Mollahosseini , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Natural image matting algorithms aim to predict the transparency map (alpha-matte) with the trimap guidance. However, the production of trimap often requires significant labor, which limits the widespread application of matting algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Lang Ye , Wenyu Liu