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We study the problem of extracting biometric information of individuals by looking at shadows of objects cast on diffuse surfaces. We show that the biometric information leakage from shadows can be sufficient for reliable identity inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Safa C. Medin , Amir Weiss , Frédo Durand , William T. Freeman , Gregory W. Wornell

Shadows are often under-considered or even ignored in image editing applications, limiting the realism of the edited results. In this paper, we introduce MetaShadow, a three-in-one versatile framework that enables detection, removal, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Tianyu Wang , Jianming Zhang , Haitian Zheng , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Zhe Lin , Wei Xiong , Chi-Wing Fu , Luis Figueroa , Soo Ye Kim

Ultrasound-based bone surface segmentation is crucial in computer-assisted orthopedic surgery. However, ultrasound images have limitations, including a low signal-to-noise ratio, and acoustic shadowing, which make interpretation difficult.…

Ultrasound image compression by preserving speckle-based key information is a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce an ultrasound image compression framework with the ability to retain realism of speckle appearance despite achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Debarghya China , Francis Tom , Sumanth Nandamuri , Aupendu Kar , Mukundhan Srinivasan , Pabitra Mitra , Debdoot Sheet

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are mostly reliant on LiDAR sensors which enable spatial perception of their surroundings and help make driving decisions. Recent works demonstrated attacks that aim to hide objects from AV perception, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Zhongyuan Hau , Soteris Demetriou , Emil C. Lupu

Instance shadow detection, crucial for applications such as photo editing and light direction estimation, has undergone significant advancements in predicting shadow instances, object instances, and their associations. The extension of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Zhenghao Xing , Tianyu Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Haoran Wu , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Shadows often create unwanted artifacts in photographs, and removing them can be very challenging. Previous shadow removal methods often produce de-shadowed regions that are visually inconsistent with the rest of the image. In this work we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Liqian Ma , Jue Wang , Eli Shechtman , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Shimin Hu

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection has become a popular method to detect pathologies in medical images as it does not require supervision or labels for training. Most commonly, the anomaly detection model generates a "normal" version of an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Felix Meissen , Johannes Paetzold , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Intrinsic image decomposition, which is an essential task in computer vision, aims to infer the reflectance and shading of the scene. It is challenging since it needs to separate one image into two components. To tackle this, conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu

This work proposes a component based model for the raw ultrasound signals acquired by the transducer elements. Based on this approach, before undergoing the standard digital processing chain, every sampled raw signal is first decomposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Yael Yankelevsky , Zvi Friedman , Arie Feuer

Witnessing the success of deep learning neural networks in natural image processing, an increasing number of studies have been proposed to develop deep-learning-based frameworks for medical image segmentation. However, since the pixel-wise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Yuexiang Li , Jiawei Chen , Xinpeng Xie , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Ultrasound (US) images usually contain identifying information outside the ultrasound fan area and manual annotations placed by the sonographers during exams. For those images to be exploitable in a Deep Learning framework, one needs to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Hind Dadoun , Hervé Delingette , Anne-Laure Rousseau , Eric de Kerviler , Nicholas Ayache

We provide a new perspective on shadow tomography by demonstrating its deep connections with the general theory of measurement frames. By showing that the formalism of measurement frames offers a natural framework for shadow tomography --…

Anomaly detection is the problem of recognizing abnormal inputs based on the seen examples of normal data. Despite recent advances of deep learning in recognizing image anomalies, these methods still prove incapable of handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Nina Shvetsova , Bart Bakker , Irina Fedulova , Heinrich Schulz , Dmitry V. Dylov

Accurate segmentation of ultrasound (US) images of the cervical muscles is crucial for precision healthcare. The demand for automatic computer-assisted methods is high. However, the scarcity of labeled data hinders the development of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Fangyijie Wang , Kathleen M. Curran , Guénolé Silvestre

Accurately annotated ultrasonic images are vital components of a high-quality medical report. Hospitals often have strict guidelines on the types of annotations that should appear on imaging results. However, manually inspecting these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Yuanheng Zhang , Nan Jiang , Zhaoheng Xie , Junying Cao , Yueyang Teng

Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography (UOT) is a technique that images optical contrast deep inside scattering media. Heterodyne holography is a promising tool able to detect the UOT tagged photons with high efficiency. In this work, we…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-02-27 M Gross

In many ultrasonic imaging systems, data acquisition and image formation are performed on separate computing devices. Data transmission is becoming a bottleneck, thus, efficient data compression is essential. Compression rates can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-02 Georgios Pilikos , Lars Horchens , Kees Joost Batenburg , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

Shadow removal is an essential task in computer vision and computer graphics. Recent shadow removal approaches all train convolutional neural networks (CNN) on real paired shadow/shadow-free or shadow/shadow-free/mask image datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Naoto Inoue , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Conventional image processing for particle shadow image is usually time-consuming and suffers degraded image segmentation when dealing with the images consisting of complex-shaped and clustered particles with varying backgrounds. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Jiaqi Li , Siyao Shao , Jiarong Hong