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Stereo matching plays an indispensable part in autonomous driving, robotics and 3D scene reconstruction. We propose a novel deep learning architecture, which called CFP-Net, a Cross-Form Pyramid stereo matching network for regressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Zhidong Zhu , Mingyi He , Yuchao Dai , Zhibo Rao , Bo Li

Recovering 3D face models from 2D in-the-wild images has gained considerable attention in the computer vision community due to its wide range of potential applications. However, the lack of ground-truth labeled datasets and the complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Danling Cao

Non-local attention module has been proven to be crucial for image restoration. Conventional non-local attention processes features of each layer separately, so it risks missing correlation between features among different layers. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Yancheng Wang , Ning Xu , Yingzhen Yang

Single image deraining is a crucial problem because rain severely degenerates the visibility of images and affects the performance of computer vision tasks like outdoor surveillance systems and intelligent vehicles. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Hao-Hsiang Yang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Recently, it has been demonstrated that the performance of a deep convolutional neural network can be effectively improved by embedding an attention module into it. In this work, a novel lightweight and effective attention method named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Hu Zhang , Keke Zu , Jian Lu , Yuru Zou , Deyu Meng

Transformers, with their self-attention mechanisms for modeling long-range dependencies, have become a dominant paradigm in image restoration tasks. However, the high computational cost of self-attention limits scalability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Hanzhou Liu , Binghan Li , Chengkai Liu , Mi Lu

In the literature, coarse-to-fine or scale-recurrent approach i.e. progressively restoring a clean image from its low-resolution versions has been successfully employed for single image deblurring. However, a major disadvantage of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Praveen Kandula , Rajagopalan. A. N

Change detection, i.e. identification per pixel of changes for some classes of interest from a set of bi-temporal co-registered images, is a fundamental task in the field of remote sensing. It remains challenging due to unrelated forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Foivos I. Diakogiannis , François Waldner , Peter Caccetta

Transformers have sprung up in the field of computer vision. In this work, we explore whether the core self-attention module in Transformer is the key to achieving excellent performance in image recognition. To this end, we build an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chuanxin Tang , Yucheng Zhao , Guangting Wang , Chong Luo , Wenxuan Xie , Wenjun Zeng

Outdoor images often suffer from severe degradation due to rain, haze, and noise, impairing image quality and challenging high-level tasks. Current image restoration methods struggle to handle complex degradation while maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Huan Zhang , Xu Zhang , Nian Cai , Jianglei Di , Yun Zhang

Image restoration is a low-level vision task, most CNN methods are designed as a black box, lacking transparency and internal aesthetics. Although some methods combining traditional optimization algorithms with DNNs have been proposed, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiao Feng Zhang , Chao Chen Gu , Shan Ying Zhu

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) has seen significant advancements through the integration of deep learning. However, the substantial computational and memory requirements of existing methods often limit their practical application.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xin Xu , Jinman Park , Paul Fieguth

Self-attention networks have shown remarkable progress in computer vision tasks such as image classification. The main benefit of the self-attention mechanism is the ability to capture long-range feature interactions in attention-maps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Andong Tan , Duc Tam Nguyen , Maximilian Dax , Matthias Nießner , Thomas Brox

Unsupervised domain adaptation is critical in various computer vision tasks, such as object detection, instance segmentation, and semantic segmentation, which aims to alleviate performance degradation caused by domain-shift. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Congcong Li , Dawei Du , Libo Zhang , Longyin Wen , Tiejian Luo , Yanjun Wu , Pengfei Zhu

Visual place recognition is challenging in the urban environment and is usually viewed as a large scale image retrieval task. The intrinsic challenges in place recognition exist that the confusing objects such as cars and trees frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Yingying Zhu , Jiong Wang , Lingxi Xie , Liang Zheng

Semi-dense feature matching methods have been significantly advanced by leveraging attention mechanisms to extract discriminative descriptors. However, most existing approaches treat all pixels equally during attention computations, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Dongyue Li

The captured images under low light conditions often suffer insufficient brightness and notorious noise. Hence, low-light image enhancement is a key challenging task in computer vision. A variety of methods have been proposed for this task,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-22 Cheng Zhang , Qingsen Yan , Yu zhu , Xianjun Li , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Transformer-based models have emerged as a leading architecture for natural language processing, natural language generation, and image generation tasks. A fundamental element of the transformer architecture is self-attention, which allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Venmugil Elango

We propose a method of aligning a source image to a target image, where the transform is specified by a dense vector field. The two images are encoded as feature hierarchies by siamese convolutional nets. Then a hierarchy of aligner modules…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Eric Mitchell , Stefan Keselj , Sergiy Popovych , Davit Buniatyan , H. Sebastian Seung

In recent years, learning-based methods have achieved significant advancements in multi-exposure image fusion. However, two major stumbling blocks hinder the development, including pixel misalignment and inefficient inference. Reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhu Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Guanyao Wu , Zihang Chen , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu