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For applications including facial identification, forensic analysis, photographic improvement, and medical imaging diagnostics, facial image deblurring is an essential chore in computer vision allowing the restoration of high-quality images…
MRI with multiple protocols is commonly used for diagnosis, but it suffers from a long acquisition time, which yields the image quality vulnerable to say motion artifacts. To accelerate, various methods have been proposed to reconstruct…
State-of-the-art deep neural network models have reached near perfect face recognition accuracy rates on controlled high-resolution face images. However, their performance is drastically degraded when they are tested with very…
Blind face restoration (BFR) aims to recover high-quality facial images from degraded inputs, yet its inherently ill-posed nature leads to ambiguous and uncontrollable solutions. Recent diffusion-based BFR methods improve perceptual quality…
Robust face detection is one of the most important pre-processing steps to support facial expression analysis, facial landmarking, face recognition, pose estimation, building of 3D facial models, etc. Although this topic has been intensely…
Face restoration is important in face image processing, and has been widely studied in recent years. However, previous works often fail to generate plausible high quality (HQ) results for real-world low quality (LQ) face images. In this…
Recent works based on deep learning and facial priors have succeeded in super-resolving severely degraded facial images. However, the prior knowledge is not fully exploited in existing methods, since facial priors such as landmark and…
Image Representation learning via input reconstruction is a common technique in machine learning for generating representations that can be effectively utilized by arbitrary downstream tasks. A well-established approach is using…
MeshFace photos have been widely used in many Chinese business organizations to protect ID face photos from being misused. The occlusions incurred by random meshes severely degenerate the performance of face verification systems, which…
Adverse weather image restoration strives to recover clear images from those affected by various weather types, such as rain, haze, and snow. Each weather type calls for a tailored degradation removal approach due to its unique impact on…
Recently, deep learning methods have gained remarkable achievements in the field of image restoration for remote sensing (RS). However, most existing RS image restoration methods focus mainly on conventional first-order degradation models,…
Learning a dense 3D model with fine-scale details from a single facial image is highly challenging and ill-posed. To address this problem, many approaches fit smooth geometries through facial prior while learning details as additional…
State-of-the-art face recognition systems are based on deep (convolutional) neural networks. Therefore, it is imperative to determine to what extent face templates derived from deep networks can be inverted to obtain the original face…
Strong light sources in nighttime photography frequently produce flares in images, significantly degrading visual quality and impacting the performance of downstream tasks. While some progress has been made, existing methods continue to…
Recent works achieve excellent results in defocus deblurring task based on dual-pixel data using convolutional neural network (CNN), while the scarcity of data limits the exploration and attempt of vision transformer in this task. In…
The rise of deepfake technology brings forth new questions about the authenticity of various forms of media found online today. Videos and images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) have become increasingly more difficult to…
This paper proposes a non-data-driven deep neural network for spectral image recovery problems such as denoising, single hyperspectral image super-resolution, and compressive spectral imaging reconstruction. Unlike previous methods, the…
Understanding semantic information is an essential step in knowing what is being learned in both full-reference (FR) and no-reference (NR) image quality assessment (IQA) methods. However, especially for many severely distorted images, even…
The core challenge in Camouflage Object Detection (COD) lies in the indistinguishable similarity between targets and backgrounds in terms of color, texture, and shape. This causes existing methods to either lose edge details (such as…
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…