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Fast and invariant feature extraction is crucial in certain computer vision applications where the computation time is constrained in both training and testing phases of the classifier. In this paper, we propose a nature-inspired…

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Understanding the mechanisms underlying deep neural networks remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning and computer vision. One promising, yet only preliminarily explored approach, is feature inversion, which attempts to…

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In recent years, deep learning-based image compression, particularly through generative models, has emerged as a pivotal area of research. Despite significant advancements, challenges such as diminished sharpness and quality in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Ryugo Morita , Hitoshi Nishimura , Ko Watanabe , Andreas Dengel , Jinjia Zhou

The aim of multispectral image fusion is to combine object or scene features of images with different spectral characteristics to increase the perceptual quality. In this paper, we present a novel learning-based solution to image fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ferhat Can Ataman , Gözde Bozdaği Akar

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of computational imaging (CI) techniques and their transformative impact on computer vision (CV) applications. Conventional imaging methods often fail to deliver high-fidelity visual data in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Humera Shaikh , Kaur Jashanpreet

Low-light image enhancement is a classical computer vision problem aiming to recover normal-exposure images from low-light images. However, convolutional neural networks commonly used in this field are good at sampling low-frequency local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yunliang Zhuang , Zhuoran Zheng , Chen Lyu

Depth information provides valuable insights into the 3D structure especially the outline of objects, which can be utilized to improve the semantic segmentation tasks. However, a naive fusion of depth information can disrupt feature and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wei Sun , Yuan Li , Qixiang Ye , Jianbin Jiao , Yanzhao Zhou

In this paper, we introduce a novel deep neural network suitable for multi-scale analysis and propose efficient model-agnostic methods that help the network extract information from high-frequency domains to reconstruct clearer images. Our…

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Prosthetic vision is being applied to partially recover the retinal stimulation of visually impaired people. However, the phosphenic images produced by the implants have very limited information bandwidth due to the poor resolution and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Melani Sanchez-Garcia , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Jose J. Guerrero

Spiral phase contrast is an important and convenient imaging processing technology in edge detection, and a broader field-of-view (FOV) of imaging is a long-pursuing aim to see more regions of the illumination objects. Compared with…

Infrared image helps improve the perception capabilities of autonomous driving in complex weather conditions such as fog, rain, and low light. However, infrared image often suffers from low contrast, especially in non-heat-emitting targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Siyuan Chai , Xiaodong Guo , Tong Liu

One of the most powerful approaches to imaging at the nanometer or subnanometer length scale is coherent diffraction imaging using X-ray sources. For amorphous (non-crystalline) samples, the raw data can be interpreted as the modulus of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Alexander Barnett , Charles L. Epstein , Leslie Greengard , Jeremy Magland

Images captured under low-light conditions present significant limitations in many applications, as poor lighting can obscure details, reduce contrast, and hide noise. Removing the illumination effects and enhancing the quality of such…

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The great advances of learning-based approaches in image processing and computer vision are largely based on deeply nested networks that compose linear transfer functions with suitable non-linearities. Interestingly, the most frequently…

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High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is an important task in image processing that aims to generate well-exposed images in scenes with varying illumination. Although existing multi-exposure fusion methods have achieved impressive results,…

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Transfer learning is a machine learning technique designed to improve generalization performance by using pre-trained parameters obtained from other learning tasks. For image recognition tasks, many previous studies have reported that, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Aiga Suzuki , Hidenori Sakanashi , Shoji Kido , Hayaru Shouno

We consider image transformation problems, where an input image is transformed into an output image. Recent methods for such problems typically train feed-forward convolutional neural networks using a \emph{per-pixel} loss between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Justin Johnson , Alexandre Alahi , Li Fei-Fei

The ill-posed problem of phase retrieval in optics, using one or more intensity measurements, has a multitude of applications using electromagnetic or matter waves. Many phase retrieval algorithms are computed on pixel arrays using discrete…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 J. A. Pollock , K. S. Morgan , L. C. P. Croton , M. K. Croughan , G. Ruben , N. Yagi , H. Sekiguchi , M. J. Kitchen

This paper presents a novel and efficient image enhancement method based on pigment representation. Unlike conventional methods where the color transformation is restricted to pre-defined color spaces like RGB, our method dynamically adapts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Se-Ho Lee , Keunsoo Ko , Seung-Wook Kim

Diffusion-based image compression methods have achieved notable progress, delivering high perceptual quality at low bitrates. However, their practical deployment is hindered by significant inference latency and heavy computational overhead,…

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