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Existing GAN inversion and editing methods work well for aligned objects with a clean background, such as portraits and animal faces, but often struggle for more difficult categories with complex scene layouts and object occlusions, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Gaurav Parmar , Yijun Li , Jingwan Lu , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Krishna Kumar Singh

We introduce multi-modal, attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) models which incorporate visual features into different parts of both the encoder and the decoder. We utilise global image features extracted using a pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Iacer Calixto , Qun Liu , Nick Campbell

Dark environment becomes a challenge for computer vision algorithms owing to insufficient photons and undesirable noise. To enhance object detection in a dark environment, we propose a novel multitask auto encoding transformation (MAET)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Ziteng Cui , Guo-Jun Qi , Lin Gu , Shaodi You , Zenghui Zhang , Tatsuya Harada

Multimodal MR-US registration is critical for prostate cancer diagnosis. However, this task remains challenging due to significant modality discrepancies. Existing methods often fail to align critical boundaries while being overly sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xudong Ma , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Stefanos Bolomytis , Alin Achim

The rapid advancement of generative models has significantly enhanced the quality of AI-generated images, raising concerns about misinformation and the erosion of public trust. Detecting AI-generated images has thus become a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yakun Niu , Yingjian Chen , Lei Zhang

Natural image matting is a fundamental and challenging computer vision task. Conventionally, the problem is formulated as an underconstrained problem. Since the problem is ill-posed, further assumptions on the data distribution are required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Rui Wang , Jun Xie , Jiacheng Han , Dezhen Qi

Transformer-based methods have demonstrated impressive results in medical image restoration, attributed to the multi-head self-attention (MSA) mechanism in the spatial dimension. However, the majority of existing Transformers conduct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Zhiwen Yang , Haowei Chen , Ziniu Qian , Yang Zhou , Hui Zhang , Dan Zhao , Bingzheng Wei , Yan Xu

Existing self-supervised learning methods based on contrastive learning and masked image modeling have demonstrated impressive performances. However, current masked image modeling methods are mainly utilized in natural images, and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Xiangtao Wang , Ruizhi Wang , Biao Tian , Jiaojiao Zhang , Shuo Zhang , Junyang Chen , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Zhenghua Xu

Human instance matting aims to estimate an alpha matte for each human instance in an image, which is challenging as it easily fails in complex cases requiring disentangling mingled pixels belonging to multiple instances along hairy and thin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Siyi Jiao , Wenzheng Zeng , Yerong Li , Huayu Zhang , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Mike Zheng Shou

Recent progress in large-scale pre-training has led to the development of advanced vision-language models (VLMs) with remarkable proficiency in comprehending and generating multimodal content. Despite the impressive ability to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hang Hua , Jing Shi , Kushal Kafle , Simon Jenni , Daoan Zhang , John Collomosse , Scott Cohen , Jiebo Luo

Recent advances in diffusion models (DMs) have achieved exceptional visual quality in image editing tasks. However, the global denoising dynamics of DMs inherently conflate local editing targets with the full-image context, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Wei Chow , Linfeng Li , Lingdong Kong , Zefeng Li , Qi Xu , Hang Song , Tian Ye , Xian Wang , Jinbin Bai , Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Junting Pan , Shaoteng Liu , Ran Zhou , Tianshu Yang , Songhua Liu

Establishing correspondences is a fundamental task in variety of image processing and computer vision applications. In particular, finding the correspondences between a non-linearly deformed image pair induced by different modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Seungchul Ryu

We propose Masked-Attention Transformers for Surgical Instrument Segmentation (MATIS), a two-stage, fully transformer-based method that leverages modern pixel-wise attention mechanisms for instrument segmentation. MATIS exploits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Nicolás Ayobi , Alejandra Pérez-Rondón , Santiago Rodríguez , Pablo Arbeláez

Image matting is generally modeled as a space transform from the color space to the alpha space. By estimating the alpha factor of the model, the foreground of an image can be extracted. However, there is some dimensional information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xuelong Li , Kang Liu , Yongsheng Dong , Dacheng Tao

Image reconstruction including image restoration and denoising is a challenging problem in the field of image computing. We present a new method, called X-GANs, for reconstruction of arbitrary corrupted resource based on a variant of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Longfei Liu , Sheng Li , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang

Deep image matting methods have achieved increasingly better results on benchmarks (e.g., Composition-1k/alphamatting.com). However, the robustness, including robustness to trimaps and generalization to images from different domains, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yutong Dai , Brian Price , He Zhang , Chunhua Shen

As generative techniques become increasingly accessible, authentic visuals are frequently subjected to iterative alterations by various individuals employing a variety of tools. Currently, to avoid misinformation and ensure accountability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhiya Tan , Xin Zhang , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Cameras are increasingly being deployed in cities, enterprises and roads world-wide to enable many applications in public safety, intelligent transportation, retail, healthcare and manufacturing. Often, after initial deployment of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Sibendu Paul , Kunal Rao , Giuseppe Coviello , Murugan Sankaradas , Oliver Po , Y. Charlie Hu , Srimat Chakradhar

Recovering governing equations from data is central to scientific discovery, yet existing methods often break down under noisy, partial observations, or rely on black-box latent dynamics that obscure mechanism. We introduce MAAT (Model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Luca Muscarnera , Silas Ruhrberg Estévez , Samuel Holt , Evgeny Saveliev , Mihaela van der Schaar

Leveraging the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for medical image segmentation remains challenging due to its limited adaptability across diverse medical domains. Although fine-tuned variants, such as MedSAM, improve performance in scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jianghao Wu , Yicheng Wu , Yutong Xie , Wenjia Bai , You Zhang , Feilong Tang , Yulong Li , Imran Razzak , Daniel F Schmidt , Yasmeen George