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Deep learning approaches in image processing predominantly resort to supervised learning. A majority of methods for image denoising are no exception to this rule and hence demand pairs of noisy and corresponding clean images. Only recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Priyatham Kattakinda , A. N. Rajagopalan

Medical image acquisition is often intervented by unwanted noise that corrupts the information content. This paper introduces an unsupervised medical image denoising technique that learns noise characteristics from the available images and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Swati Rai , Jignesh S. Bhatt , S. K. Patra

Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS) is a subclass of image-to-image translation where a photorealistic image is synthesized from a segmentation mask. SIS has mostly been addressed as a supervised problem. However, state-of-the-art methods depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 George Eskandar , Mohamed Abdelsamad , Karim Armanious , Bin Yang

The recently advanced unsupervised learning approaches use the siamese-like framework to compare two "views" from the same image for learning representations. Making the two views distinctive is a core to guarantee that unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Zhuang Liu , Marios Savvides , Trevor Darrell , Eric Xing

By leveraging contrastive learning, clustering, and other pretext tasks, unsupervised methods for learning image representations have reached impressive results on standard benchmarks. The result has been a crowded field - many methods with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Matthew Gwilliam , Abhinav Shrivastava

Image compression has been applied in the fields of image storage and video broadcasting. However, it's formidably tough to distinguish the subtle quality differences between those distorted images generated by different algorithms. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kaiqun Wu , Xiaoling Jiang , Rui Yu , Yonggang Luo , Tian Jiang , Xi Wu , Peng Wei

Performance of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) models has been significantly boosted by end-to-end optimization of feature engineering and quality regression. Nevertheless, due to the distributional shift between images simulated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Weixia Zhang , Kede Ma , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang

Unpaired Medical Image Enhancement (UMIE) aims to transform a low-quality (LQ) medical image into a high-quality (HQ) one without relying on paired images for training. While most existing approaches are based on Pix2Pix/CycleGAN and are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Chunming He , Kai Li , Guoxia Xu , Jiangpeng Yan , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Xiu Li , Yaowei Wang

Arbitrary neural style transfer is a vital topic with great research value and wide industrial application, which strives to render the structure of one image using the style of another. Recent researches have devoted great efforts on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hangwei Chen , Feng Shao , Xiongli Chai , Yuese Gu , Qiuping Jiang , Xiangchao Meng , Yo-Sung Ho

Current image compression models often require separate models for each quality level, making them resource-intensive in terms of both training and storage. To address these limitations, we propose an innovative approach that utilizes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Ayman A. Ameen , Thomas Richter , André Kaup

In this work we investigate the use of deep learning for distortion-generic blind image quality assessment. We report on different design choices, ranging from the use of features extracted from pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Simone Bianco , Luigi Celona , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

Discriminative self-supervised learning allows training models on any random group of internet images, and possibly recover salient information that helps differentiate between the images. Applied to ImageNet, this leads to object centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Priya Goyal , Quentin Duval , Isaac Seessel , Mathilde Caron , Ishan Misra , Levent Sagun , Armand Joulin , Piotr Bojanowski

Most of the achievements in artificial intelligence so far were accomplished by supervised learning which requires numerous annotated training data and thus costs innumerable manpower for labeling. Unsupervised learning is one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Mingxiang Chen , Zhanguo Chang , Haonan Lu , Bitao Yang , Zhuang Li , Liufang Guo , Zhecheng Wang

In this paper, we address the well-known image quality assessment problem but in contrast from existing approaches that predict image quality independently for every images, we propose to jointly model different images depicting the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Marcelin Tworski , Stéphane Lathuilière

Masked image modeling has demonstrated great potential to eliminate the label-hungry problem of training large-scale vision Transformers, achieving impressive performance on various downstream tasks. In this work, we propose a unified view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Hangbo Bao , Qixiang Ye , Furu Wei

Deep neural network based methods are the state of the art in various image restoration problems. Standard supervised learning frameworks require a set of noisy measurement and clean image pairs for which a distance between the output of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Rihuan Ke , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The task of single image super-resolution (SISR) aims at reconstructing a high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) image. Although significant progress has been made by deep learning models, they are trained on synthetic paired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Zhen Han , Enyan Dai , Xu Jia , Xiaoying Ren , Shuaijun Chen , Chunjing Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Qi Tian

Compressed image quality assessment plays an important role in image services, especially in image compression applications, which can be utilized as a guidance to optimize image processing algorithms. In this paper, we propose an objective…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-17 Xinfeng Zhang , Sam Kwong , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Contemporary Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) techniques have made notable advancements in preserving image details and enhancing contrast, achieving commendable results on specific datasets. Nevertheless, these approaches encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xiaofeng Liu , Jiaxin Gao , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

A wide range of systems exhibit high dimensional incomplete data. Accurate estimation of the missing data is often desired, and is crucial for many downstream analyses. Many state-of-the-art recovery methods involve supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Adrian V. Dalca , John Guttag , Mert R. Sabuncu