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Blind pansharpening addresses the problem of generating a high spatial-resolution multi-spectral (HRMS) image given a low spatial-resolution multi-spectral (LRMS) image with the guidance of its associated spatially misaligned high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Lantao Yu , Dehong Liu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

Accurate and fast extraction of the foreground object is one of the most significant issues to be solved due to its important meaning for object tracking and recognition in video surveillance. Although many foreground object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Dongdong Zeng , Ming Zhu , Hang Yang

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) methods have demonstrated impressive novel view synthesis performance. The core approach is to render individual rays by querying a neural network at points sampled along the ray to obtain the density and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Relja Arandjelović , Andrew Zisserman

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) achieves remarkable performance in various downstream tasks through the alignment of image and text input embeddings and holds great promise for anomaly detection. However, our empirical…

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Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radar (ROSAR) can generate a 360$^\circ$ image of its surrounding environment using the collected data from a single moving track. Due to its non-linear track, the Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA) is commonly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Wei Zhao , Cai Wen , Quan Yuan , Rong Zheng

Aesthetic image cropping aims to enhance the aesthetic quality of an image by improving its composition through spatial cropping. Previous methods often rely on saliency prediction or retrieval augmentation, ignoring the task's core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhitong Dong , Chao Li , Jie Yu , Hao Chen

Blur is an image degradation that is difficult to remove. Invariants with respect to blur offer an alternative way of a~description and recognition of blurred images without any deblurring. In this paper, we present an original unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jan Flusser , Matej Lebl , Matteo Pedone , Filip Sroubek , Jitka Kostkova

Blind image deblurring is a long standing challenging problem in image processing and low-level vision. Recently, sophisticated priors such as dark channel prior, extreme channel prior, and local maximum gradient prior, have shown promising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Fei Wen , Rendong Ying , Yipeng Liu , Peilin Liu , Trieu-Kien Truong

Multi-contrast image registration is a challenging task due to the complex intensity relationships between different imaging contrasts. Conventional image registration methods are typically based on iterative optimizations for each input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yinsong Wang , Siyi Du , Shaoming Zheng , Xinzhe Luo , Chen Qin

Given a really low-resolution input image of a face (say 16x16 or 8x8 pixels), the goal of this paper is to reconstruct a high-resolution version thereof. This, by itself, is an ill-posed problem, as the high-frequency information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Kaili Wang , Jose Oramas , Tinne Tuytelaars

Recent deep image-to-image translation techniques allow fast generation of face images from freehand sketches. However, existing solutions tend to overfit to sketches, thus requiring professional sketches or even edge maps as input. To…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Shu-Yu Chen , Wanchao Su , Lin Gao , Shihong Xia , Hongbo Fu

We present a technique for synthesizing a motion blurred image from a pair of unblurred images captured in succession. To build this system we motivate and design a differentiable "line prediction" layer to be used as part of a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Tim Brooks , Jonathan T. Barron

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models excel at understanding image-text relationships but struggle with adapting to new data without forgetting prior knowledge. To address this, models are typically fine-tuned using both new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ryan King , Gang Li , Bobak Mortazavi , Tianbao Yang

Deep learning based methods have dominated super-resolution (SR) field due to their remarkable performance in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. Most of these methods assume that the blur kernel during downsampling is predefined/known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Jinjin Gu , Hannan Lu , Wangmeng Zuo , Chao Dong

The primary challenge in accelerating image super-resolution lies in reducing computation while maintaining performance and adaptability. Motivated by the observation that high-frequency regions (e.g., edges and textures) are most critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Wei Shang , Dongwei Ren , Wanying Zhang , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Wangmeng Zuo

Real-time novel-view image synthesis on mobile devices is prohibitive due to the limited computational power and storage. Using volumetric rendering methods, such as NeRF and its derivatives, on mobile devices is not suitable due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Aarush Gupta , Junli Cao , Chaoyang Wang , Ju Hu , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren , László A Jeni

We address the problem of soft color segmentation, defined as decomposing a given image into several RGBA layers, each containing only homogeneous color regions. The resulting layers from decomposition pave the way for applications that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Naofumi Akimoto , Huachun Zhu , Yanghua Jin , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Recently, the face recognizers based on linear representations have been shown to deliver state-of-the-art performance. In real-world applications, however, face images usually suffer from expressions, disguises and random occlusions. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Hanxi Li , Chunhua Shen , Yongsheng Gao

We present a novel approach to leverage prior knowledge encapsulated in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models for blind super-resolution (SR). Specifically, by employing our time-aware encoder, we can achieve promising restoration…

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