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Magnetic resonance imaging plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis and brain exploration. However, limited by hardware, scanning time and cost, it's challenging to acquire high-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance (MR) image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Senrong You , Yong Liu , Baiying Lei , Shuqiang Wang

Recently, most of state-of-the-art single image super-resolution (SISR) methods have attained impressive performance by using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). The existing SR methods have limited performance due to a fixed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Rao Muhammad Umer , Asad Munir , Christian Micheloni

Deep learning algorithms produces state-of-the-art results for different machine learning and computer vision tasks. To perform well on a given task, these algorithms require large dataset for training. However, deep learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Talha Iqbal , Hazrat Ali

Blind face restoration usually relies on facial priors, such as facial geometry prior or reference prior, to restore realistic and faithful details. However, very low-quality inputs cannot offer accurate geometric prior while high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Xintao Wang , Yu Li , Honglun Zhang , Ying Shan

Despite generative adversarial networks (GANs) can hallucinate photo-realistic high-resolution (HR) faces from low-resolution (LR) faces, they cannot guarantee preserving the identities of hallucinated HR faces, making the HR faces poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Wen Lin , Weng-Tai Su , Gene Cheung

Multi-domain data are widely leveraged in vision applications taking advantage of complementary information from different modalities, e.g., brain tumor segmentation from multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, due to…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn enormous attention due to the simple yet effective training mechanism and superior image generation quality. With the ability to generate photo-realistic high-resolution (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ming Liu , Yuxiang Wei , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Existing face restoration researches typically relies on either the degradation prior or explicit guidance labels for training, which often results in limited generalization ability over real-world images with heterogeneous degradations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Lingbo Yang , Chang Liu , Pan Wang , Shanshe Wang , Peiran Ren , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

In recent years, due to the emergence of deep learning, face recognition has achieved exceptional success. However, many of these deep face recognition models perform relatively poorly in handling profile faces compared to frontal faces.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Fariborz Taherkhani , Veeru Talreja , Jeremy Dawson , Matthew C. Valenti , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Generating and manipulating human facial images using high-level attributal controls are important and interesting problems. The models proposed in previous work can solve one of these two problems (generation or manipulation), but not both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Weidong Yin , Yanwei Fu , Leonid Sigal , Xiangyang Xue

Anatomical landmark segmentation and pathology localization are important steps in automated analysis of medical images. They are particularly challenging when the anatomy or pathology is small, as in retinal images and cardiac MRI, or when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Behzad Bozorgtabar

Despite the breakthroughs in quality of image enhancement, an end-to-end solution for simultaneous recovery of the finer texture details and sharpness for degraded images with low resolution is still unsolved. Some existing approaches focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Soumya Shubhra Ghosh , Yang Hua , Sankha Subhra Mukherjee , Neil Robertson

Multi-view frame reconstruction is an important problem particularly when multiple frames are missing and past and future frames within the camera are far apart from the missing ones. Realistic coherent frames can still be reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Tahmida Mahmud , Mohammad Billah , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

GAN-based techniques that generate and synthesize realistic faces have caused severe social concerns and security problems. Existing methods for detecting GAN-generated faces can perform well on limited public datasets. However, images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hui Guo , Shu Hu , Xin Wang , Ming-Ching Chang , Siwei Lyu

We address the problem of restoring a high-resolution face image from a blurry low-resolution input. This problem is difficult as super-resolution and deblurring need to be tackled simultaneously. Moreover, existing algorithms cannot handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Yibing Song , Jiawei Zhang , Lijun Gong , Shengfeng He , Linchao Bao , Jinshan Pan , Qingxiong Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image generation has been heavily investigated in computer vision, where one core research challenge is to generate images from arbitrarily complex distributions with little supervision. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as an implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Hui Ying , He Wang , Tianjia Shao , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou

Image reconstruction including image restoration and denoising is a challenging problem in the field of image computing. We present a new method, called X-GANs, for reconstruction of arbitrary corrupted resource based on a variant of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Longfei Liu , Sheng Li , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang

This paper addresses 2 challenging tasks: improving the quality of low resolution facial images and accurately locating the facial landmarks on such poor resolution images. To this end, we make the following 5 contributions: (a) we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

In recent years, deep learning has achieved remarkable success in the field of image restoration. However, most convolutional neural network-based methods typically focus on a single scale, neglecting the incorporation of multi-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Jiatao Jiang , Zhen Cui , Chunyan Xu , Jian Yang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been successfully used to synthesize realistically looking images of faces, scenery and even medical images. Unfortunately, they usually require large training datasets, which are often scarce in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Christoph Baur , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab