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The assessment of face image quality is crucial to ensure reliable face recognition. In order to provide data subjects and operators with explainable and actionable feedback regarding captured face images, relevant quality components have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Laurin Jonientz , Johannes Merkle , Christian Rathgeb , Benjamin Tams , Georg Merz

The lossy compression techniques produce various artifacts like blurring, distortion at block bounders, ringing and contouring effects on outputs especially at low bit rates. To reduce those compression artifacts various Convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-01 K. R. Rao , Ninad Gorey

Although deep convolutional neural network has been proved to efficiently eliminate coding artifacts caused by the coarse quantization of traditional codec, it's difficult to train any neural network in front of the encoder for gradient's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Lijun Zhao , Huihui Bai , Anhong Wang , Yao Zhao

Although the video compression ratio nowadays becomes higher, the video coders such as H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, H.266/VVC always suffer from the video artifacts. In this paper, we design a neural network to enhance the quality of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Trinh Man Hoang , Jinjia Zhou

Learning-based image compression methods have improved in recent years and started to outperform traditional codecs. However, neural-network approaches can unexpectedly introduce visual artifacts in some images. We therefore propose methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Daria Tsereh , Mark Mirgaleev , Ivan Molodetskikh , Roman Kazantsev , Dmitriy Vatolin

We present a comprehensive study and evaluation of existing single image compression artifacts removal algorithms, using a new 4K resolution benchmark including diversified foreground objects and background scenes with rich structures,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Jiaying Liu , Dong Liu , Wenhan Yang , Sifeng Xia , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Yuanying Dai

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end mixed-resolution image compression framework with convolutional neural networks. Firstly, given one input image, feature description neural network (FDNN) is used to generate a new representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Lijun Zhao , Huihui Bai , Feng Li , Anhong Wang , Yao Zhao

Training a single deep blind model to handle different quality factors for JPEG image artifacts removal has been attracting considerable attention due to its convenience for practical usage. However, existing deep blind methods usually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Jiaxi Jiang , Kai Zhang , Radu Timofte

As one of most fascinating machine learning techniques, deep neural network (DNN) has demonstrated excellent performance in various intelligent tasks such as image classification. DNN achieves such performance, to a large extent, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Zihao Liu , Tao Liu , Wujie Wen , Lei Jiang , Jie Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Gang Quan

In the era of AIGC, the fast development of visual content generation technologies, such as diffusion models, bring potential security risks to our society. Existing generated image detection methods suffer from performance drop when faced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zheling Meng , Bo Peng , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

In this paper, we present a general framework for low-level vision tasks including image compression artifacts reduction and image denoising. Under this framework, a novel concatenated attention neural network (CANet) is specifically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Tian YingJie , Wang YiQi , Yang LinRui , Qi ZhiQuan

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising have recently attracted increasing research interest. However, plain networks cannot recover fine details for a complex task, such as real noisy images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Wangmeng Zuo , Bo Du , Chia-Wen Lin , David Zhang

In JPEG (DCT based) compresses image data by representing the original image with a small number of transform coefficients. It exploits the fact that for typical images a large amount of signal energy is concentrated in a small number of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Sukhpal Singh

Endoscopic images typically contain several artifacts. The artifacts significantly impact image analysis result in computer-aided diagnosis. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a type of deep learning, can removes such artifacts. Various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Taira Watanabe , Kensuke Tanioka , Satoru Hiwa , Tomoyuki Hiroyasu

With the benefit of deep learning techniques, recent researches have made significant progress in image compression artifacts reduction. Despite their improved performances, prevailing methods only focus on learning a mapping from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Li Ma , Yifan Zhao , Peixi Peng , Yonghong Tian

JPEG is one of the widely used lossy compression methods. JPEG-compressed images usually suffer from compression artifacts including blocking and blurring, especially at low bit-rates. Soft decoding is an effective solution to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Honggang Chen , Xiaohai He , Linbo Qing , Shuhua Xiong , Truong Q. Nguyen

We develop and evaluate a neural network-based method for Gibbs artifact and noise removal. A convolutional neural network (CNN) was designed for artifact removal in diffusion-weighted imaging data. Two implementations were considered: one…

JPEG is a widely used compression scheme to efficiently reduce the volume of transmitted images. The artifacts appear among blocks due to the information loss, which not only affects the quality of images but also harms the subsequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Long Peng , Yang Cao , Yuejin Sun , Yang Wang

In recent years, much research has been conducted on image super-resolution (SR). To the best of our knowledge, however, few SR methods were concerned with compressed images. The SR of compressed images is a challenging task due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Honggang Chen , Xiaohai He , Chao Ren , Linbo Qing , Qizhi Teng

Purpose: The suppression of motion artefacts from MR images is a challenging task. The purpose of this paper is to develop a standalone novel technique to suppress motion artefacts from MR images using a data-driven deep learning approach.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Kamlesh Pawar , Zhaolin Chen , N. Jon Shah , Gary F. Egan