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Face super-resolution is a challenging and highly ill-posed problem since a low-resolution (LR) face image may correspond to multiple high-resolution (HR) ones during the hallucination process and cause a dramatic identity change for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Nitin Balachandran , Jun-Cheng Chen , Rama Chellappa

In this paper, we introduce deep learning technology to tackle two traditional low-level image processing problems, companding and inverse halftoning. We make two main contributions. First, to the best knowledge of the authors, this is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Xianxu Hou , Guoping Qiu

An approach to incorporate deep learning within an iterative image reconstruction framework to reconstruct images from severely incomplete measurement data is presented. Specifically, we utilize a convolutional neural network (CNN) as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Brendan Kelly , Thomas P. Matthews , Mark A. Anastasio

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of separating the reflectance and shading layers of an image, which is a challenging and underdetermined problem. In this paper, we propose to systematically address this problem using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Sai Bi , Nima Khademi Kalantari , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Most existing methods usually formulate the non-blind deconvolution problem into a maximum-a-posteriori framework and address it by manually designing kinds of regularization terms and data terms of the latent clear images. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Pin-Hung Kuo , Jinshan Pan , Shao-Yi Chien , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Discriminative model learning for image denoising has been recently attracting considerable attentions due to its favorable denoising performance. In this paper, we take one step forward by investigating the construction of feed-forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Yunjin Chen , Deyu Meng , Lei Zhang

Low-dose CT denoising is a challenging task that has been studied by many researchers. Some studies have used deep neural networks to improve the quality of low-dose CT images and achieved fruitful results. In this paper, we propose a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-28 Maryam Gholizadeh-Ansari , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

Most of the face hallucination methods are designed for complete inputs. They will not work well if the inputs are very tiny or contaminated by large occlusion. Inspired by this fact, we propose an obscured face hallucination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Lianping Yang , Bin Shao , Ting Sun , Song Ding , Xiangde Zhang

In this paper, we address the problem of face hallucination by proposing a novel multi-scale generative adversarial network (GAN) architecture optimized for face verification. First, we propose a multi-scale generator architecture for face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Hadi Kazemi , Fariborz Taherkhani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Most face super-resolution methods assume that low-resolution and high-resolution manifolds have similar local geometrical structure, hence learn local models on the lowresolution manifolds (e.g. sparse or locally linear embedding models),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Reuben Farrugia , Christine Guillemot

Face recognition (FR) methods report significant performance by adopting the convolutional neural network (CNN) based learning methods. Although CNNs are mostly trained by optimizing the softmax loss, the recent trend shows an improvement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Abul Hasnat , Julien Bohné , Jonathan Milgram , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

Face hallucination is a domain-specific super-resolution problem with the goal to generate high-resolution (HR) faces from low-resolution (LR) input images. In contrast to existing methods that often learn a single patch-to-patch mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Qingxing Cao , Liang Lin , Yukai Shi , Xiaodan Liang , Guanbin Li

We present an effective blind image deblurring method based on a data-driven discriminative prior.Our work is motivated by the fact that a good image prior should favor clear images over blurred images.In this work, we formulate the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Lerenhan Li , Jinshan Pan , Wei-Sheng Lai , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

To solve the ill-posed problem of hyperspectral image super-resolution (HSISR), an usually method is to use the prior information of the hyperspectral images (HSIs) as a regularization term to constrain the objective function. Model-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Qing Ma , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma

Recent deep learning based face recognition methods have achieved great performance, but it still remains challenging to recognize very low-resolution query face like 28x28 pixels when CCTV camera is far from the captured subject. Such face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Hanyang Kong , Jian Zhao , Xiaoguang Tu , Junliang Xing , Shengmei Shen , Jiashi Feng

This paper presents a new variational inference framework for image restoration and a convolutional neural network (CNN) structure that can solve the restoration problems described by the proposed framework. Earlier CNN-based image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

This paper proposes a learning-based denoising method called FlashLight CNN (FLCNN) that implements a deep neural network for image denoising. The proposed approach is based on deep residual networks and inception networks and it is able to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Pham Huu Thanh Binh , Cristóvão Cruz , Karen Egiazarian

Face super-resolution (FSR), also known as face hallucination, which is aimed at enhancing the resolution of low-resolution (LR) face images to generate high-resolution (HR) face images, is a domain-specific image super-resolution problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Junjun Jiang , Chenyang Wang , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma

In compressed sensing (CS) MRI, model-based methods are pivotal to achieving accurate reconstruction. One of the main challenges in model-based methods is finding an effective prior to describe the statistical distribution of the target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Tao Hong , Zhaoyi Xu , Se Young Chun , Luis Hernandez-Garcia , Jeffrey A. Fessler

We propose a novel couple mappings method for low resolution face recognition using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). The proposed architecture consists of two branches of DCNNs to map the high and low resolution face images into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Erfan Zangeneh , Mohammad Rahmati , Yalda Mohsenzadeh