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Under-display cameras have been proposed in recent years as a way to reduce the form factor of mobile devices while maximizing the screen area. Unfortunately, placing the camera behind the screen results in significant image distortions,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Miao Qi , Yuqi Li , Wolfgang Heidrich

We aim to generate high resolution shallow depth-of-field (DoF) images from a single all-in-focus image with controllable focal distance and aperture size. To achieve this, we propose a novel neural network model comprised of a depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Lijun Wang , Xiaohui Shen , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Zhe Lin , Chih-Yao Hsieh , Sarah Kong , Huchuan Lu

Most of current display devices are with eight or higher bit-depth. However, the quality of most multimedia tools cannot achieve this bit-depth standard for the generating images. De-quantization can improve the visual quality of low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Yang Zhang , Changhui Hu , Xiaobo Lu

Learning a good image prior is a long-term goal for image restoration and manipulation. While existing methods like deep image prior (DIP) capture low-level image statistics, there are still gaps toward an image prior that captures rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Xingang Pan , Xiaohang Zhan , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy , Ping Luo

Dense pixel-wise image prediction has been advanced by harnessing the capabilities of Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs). One central issue of FCNs is the limited capacity to handle joint upsampling. To address the problem, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Huikai Wu , Shuai Zheng , Junge Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Depth from focus (DFF) is one of the classical ill-posed inverse problems in computer vision. Most approaches recover the depth at each pixel based on the focal setting which exhibits maximal sharpness. Yet, it is not obvious how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Caner Hazirbas , Sebastian Georg Soyer , Maximilian Christian Staab , Laura Leal-Taixé , Daniel Cremers

This study delves into the enhancement of Under-Display Camera (UDC) image restoration models, focusing on their robustness against adversarial attacks. Despite its innovative approach to seamless display integration, UDC technology faces…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Zhenbo Song , Zhenyuan Zhang , Kaihao Zhang , Zhaoxin Fan , Jianfeng Lu

When imaging through a semi-reflective medium such as glass, the reflection of another scene can often be found in the captured images. It degrades the quality of the images and affects their subsequent analyses. In this paper, a novel deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Tingtian Li , Yuk-Hee Chan , Daniel P. K. Lun

Image restoration is a typical ill-posed problem, and it contains various tasks. In the medical imaging field, an ill-posed image interrupts diagnosis and even following image processing. Both traditional iterative and up-to-date deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Moran Xu , Dianlin Hu , Weifei Wu , Weiwen Wu

Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown promising performance for single-image super-resolution. In this paper, we propose Deep Artifact-Free Residual (DAFR) network which uses the merits of both residual learning and usage of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Hamdollah Nasrollahi , Kamran Farajzadeh , Vahid Hosseini , Esmaeil Zarezadeh , Milad Abdollahzadeh

Endoscopic surgery relies on intraoperative video, making image quality a decisive factor for surgical safety and efficacy. Yet, endoscopic videos are often degraded by uneven illumination, tissue scattering, occlusions, and motion blur,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Handing Xu , Zhenguo Nie , Tairan Peng , Huimin Pan , Xin-Jun Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) techniques have recently enabled high-quality 3D scene reconstruction and real-time novel view synthesis. These approaches, however, are limited by the pinhole camera model and lack effective modeling of defocus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yujie Wang , Praneeth Chakravarthula , Baoquan Chen

Ultra-high-definition (UHD) images often suffer from severe degradations such as blur, haze, rain, or low-light conditions, which pose significant challenges for image restoration due to their high resolution and computational demands. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 S. Zhao , W. Lu , B. Wang , T. Wang , K. Zhang , H. Zhao

We introduce Adaptive Guided Upsampling (AGU), an efficient method for upscaling low-light images capable of optimizing multiple image quality characteristics at the same time, such as reducing noise and increasing sharpness. It is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Angela Vivian Dcosta , Chunbo Song , Rafael Radkowski

Under-display cameras (UDCs) allow for full-screen designs by positioning the imaging sensor underneath the display. Nonetheless, light diffraction and scattering through the various display layers result in spatially varying and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Daehyun Kim , Youngmin Kim , Yoon Ju Oh , Tae Hyun Kim

Depth maps captured by modern depth cameras such as Kinect and Time-of-Flight (ToF) are usually contaminated by missing data, noises and suffer from being of low resolution. In this paper, we present a robust method for high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Wei Liu , Yun Gu , Chunhua Shen , Xiaogang Chen , Qiang Wu , Jie Yang

This study introduces LRDif, a novel diffusion-based framework designed specifically for facial expression recognition (FER) within the context of under-display cameras (UDC). To address the inherent challenges posed by UDC's image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

Image deep features extracted by pre-trained networks are known to contain rich and informative representations. In this paper, we present Deep Degradation Response (DDR), a method to quantify changes in image deep features under varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Juncheng Wu , Zhangkai Ni , Hanli Wang , Wenhan Yang , Yuyin Zhou , Shiqi Wang

Images obtained in real-world low-light conditions are not only low in brightness, but they also suffer from many other types of degradation, such as color distortion, unknown noise, detail loss and halo artifacts. In this paper, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Xinxu Wei , Xianshi Zhang , Shisen Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yanlin Huang , Kaifu Yang , Yongjie Li

Underwater images are severely degraded by wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering, resulting in color distortion, low contrast, and loss of fine details that hinder vision-based underwater applications. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Afrah Shaahid , Muzammil Behzad