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Considerable work has been dedicated to hyperspectral single image super-resolution to improve the spatial resolution of hyperspectral images and fully exploit their potential. However, most of these methods are supervised and require some…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Xinxin Xu , Yann Gousseau , Christophe Kervazo , Saïd Ladjal

We introduce light diffusion, a novel method to improve lighting in portraits, softening harsh shadows and specular highlights while preserving overall scene illumination. Inspired by professional photographers' diffusers and scrims, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 David Futschik , Kelvin Ritland , James Vecore , Sean Fanello , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Brian Curless , Daniel Sýkora , Rohit Pandey

Self-supervised learning is crucial for super-resolution because ground-truth images are usually unavailable for real-world settings. Existing methods derive self-supervision from low-resolution images by creating pseudo-pairs or by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yuehan Zhang , Angela Yao

We develop a new unsupervised symmetry learning method that starts with raw data and provides the minimal generator of an underlying Lie group of symmetries, together with a symmetry-equivariant representation of the data, which turns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Efe , Arkadas Ozakin

While raw images have distinct advantages over sRGB images, e.g., linearity and fine-grained quantization levels, they are not widely adopted by general users due to their substantial storage requirements. Very recent studies propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Large intra-class variation is the result of changes in multiple object characteristics. Images, however, only show the superposition of different variable factors such as appearance or shape. Therefore, learning to disentangle and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Dominik Lorenz , Leonard Bereska , Timo Milbich , Björn Ommer

Understanding how images of objects and scenes behave in response to specific ego-motions is a crucial aspect of proper visual development, yet existing visual learning methods are conspicuously disconnected from the physical source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Dinesh Jayaraman , Kristen Grauman

Learning sensorimotor control policies from high-dimensional images crucially relies on the quality of the underlying visual representations. Prior works show that structured latent space such as visual keypoints often outperforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Boyuan Chen , Pieter Abbeel , Deepak Pathak

In multimodal unsupervised image-to-image translation tasks, the goal is to translate an image from the source domain to many images in the target domain. We present a simple method that produces higher quality images than current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yazeed Alharbi , Neil Smith , Peter Wonka

We propose a novel end-to-end semi-supervised adversarial framework to generate photorealistic face images of new identities with wide ranges of expressions, poses, and illuminations conditioned by a 3D morphable model. Previous adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Baris Gecer , Binod Bhattarai , Josef Kittler , Tae-Kyun Kim

Learning visual representations of medical images (e.g., X-rays) is core to medical image understanding but its progress has been held back by the scarcity of human annotations. Existing work commonly relies on fine-tuning weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yuhao Zhang , Hang Jiang , Yasuhide Miura , Christopher D. Manning , Curtis P. Langlotz

Most invariance-based self-supervised methods rely on single object-centric images (e.g., ImageNet images) for pretraining, learning features that invariant to geometric transformation. However, when images are not object-centric, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Taeho Kim , Jong-Min Lee

Few-shot learning is a challenging task since only few instances are given for recognizing an unseen class. One way to alleviate this problem is to acquire a strong inductive bias via meta-learning on similar tasks. In this paper, we show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Person re-identification (ReID) aims at searching the same identity person among images captured by various cameras. Unsupervised person ReID attracts a lot of attention recently, due to it works without intensive manual annotation and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Bo Pang , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

Unsupervised learning methods based on contrastive learning have drawn increasing attention and achieved promising results. Most of them aim to learn representations invariant to instance-level variations, which are provided by different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Feng Wang , Huaping Liu , Di Guo , Fuchun Sun

Most learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods aim to recover high-resolution (HR) image from a given low-resolution (LR) image via learning on LR-HR image pairs. The SR methods learned on synthetic data do not perform well in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Dong Gong , Wei Sun , Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Yanning Zhang

The present phase of Machine Learning is characterized by supervised learning algorithms relying on large sets of labeled examples ($n \to \infty$). The next phase is likely to focus on algorithms capable of learning from very few labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Fabio Anselmi , Joel Z. Leibo , Lorenzo Rosasco , Jim Mutch , Andrea Tacchetti , Tomaso Poggio

This paper proposes an efficient unsupervised method for detecting relevant changes between two temporally different images of the same scene. A convolutional neural network (CNN) for semantic segmentation is implemented to extract…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Kevin Louis de Jong , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

Recent image-to-image translation works have been transferred from supervised to unsupervised settings due to the expensive cost of capturing or labeling large amounts of paired data. However, current unsupervised methods using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Pan Zhang , Jianmin Bao , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

A major goal of unsupervised learning is to discover data representations that are useful for subsequent tasks, without access to supervised labels during training. Typically, this involves minimizing a surrogate objective, such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Luke Metz , Niru Maheswaranathan , Brian Cheung , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein