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In recent years, the use of deep learning is becoming increasingly popular in computer vision. However, the effective training of deep architectures usually relies on huge sets of annotated data. This is critical in the medical field where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Paolo Andreini , Simone Bonechi , Monica Bianchini , Alessandro Mecocci , Franco Scarselli , Andrea Sodi

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

We propose Dual Attention Networks (DANs) which jointly leverage visual and textual attention mechanisms to capture fine-grained interplay between vision and language. DANs attend to specific regions in images and words in text through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Hyeonseob Nam , Jung-Woo Ha , Jeonghee Kim

2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have attracted significant attention for hyperspectral image super-resolution tasks. However, a key limitation is their reliance on local neighborhoods, which leads to a lack of global contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Usman Muhammad , Jorma Laaksonen

Despite data augmentation being a de facto technique for boosting the performance of deep neural networks, little attention has been paid to developing augmentation strategies for generative adversarial networks (GANs). To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Prateek Katiyar , Anna Khoreva

In this paper, we address the task of semantic-guided image generation. One challenge common to most existing image-level generation methods is the difficulty in generating small objects and detailed local textures. To address this, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Hao Tang , Ling Shao , Philip H. S. Torr , Nicu Sebe

Extracting image semantics effectively and assigning corresponding labels to multiple objects or attributes for natural images is challenging due to the complex scene contents and confusing label dependencies. Recent works have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Leilei Ma , Dengdi Sun , Lei Wang , Haifeng Zhao , Bin Luo

Informative features play a crucial role in the single image super-resolution task. Channel attention has been demonstrated to be effective for preserving information-rich features in each layer. However, channel attention treats each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Ben Niu , Weilei Wen , Wenqi Ren , Xiangde Zhang , Lianping Yang , Shuzhen Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Xiaochun Cao , Haifeng Shen

Recently deep learning methods, in particular, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have led to a massive breakthrough in the range of computer vision. Also, the large-scale annotated dataset is the essential key to a successful training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Chang Qi , Junyang Chen , Guizhi Xu , Zhenghua Xu , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Yang Liu

Scene text recognition is a challenging task due to the complex backgrounds and diverse variations of text instances. In this paper, we propose a novel Semantic GAN and Balanced Attention Network (SGBANet) to recognize the texts in scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Dajian Zhong , Shujing Lyu , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara , Bing Yin , Jiajia Wu , Umapada Pal , Yue Lu

Semantic image synthesis aims to generate high-quality images given semantic conditions, i.e. segmentation masks and style reference images. Existing methods widely adopt generative adversarial networks (GANs). GANs take all conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Feng Liu , Xiaobin Chang

Semantic image synthesis aims to generate photo realistic images given a semantic segmentation map. Despite much recent progress, training them still requires large datasets of images annotated with per-pixel label maps that are extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Marlène Careil , Jakob Verbeek , Stéphane Lathuilière

The need for large amounts of training and validation data is a huge concern in scaling AI algorithms for autonomous driving. Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS), or label-to-image translation, promises to address this issue by translating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 George Eskandar , Diandian Guo , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

Medical anomaly detection is a critical research area aimed at recognizing abnormal images to aid in diagnosis.Most existing methods adopt synthetic anomalies and image restoration on normal samples to detect anomaly. The unlabeled data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Zerui Zhang , Zhichao Sun , Zelong Liu , Bo Du , Rui Yu , Zhou Zhao , Yongchao Xu

Most existing text-to-image synthesis tasks are static single-turn generation, based on pre-defined textual descriptions of images. To explore more practical and interactive real-life applications, we introduce a new task - Interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Yitong Li , Jingjing Liu , Jianfeng Gao

Coupling the high-fidelity generation capabilities of label-conditional image synthesis methods with the flexibility of unconditional generative models, we propose a semantic bottleneck GAN model for unconditional synthesis of complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Samaneh Azadi , Michael Tschannen , Eric Tzeng , Sylvain Gelly , Trevor Darrell , Mario Lucic

Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) point clouds have complex structures, and their 3D semantic labeling has been a challenging task. It has three problems: (1) the difficulty of classifying point clouds around boundaries of objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Li Chen , Zewei Xu , Yongjian Fu , Haozhe Huang , Shaowen Wang , Haifeng Li

Domain adaptation is of huge interest as labeling is an expensive and error-prone task, especially when labels are needed on pixel-level like in semantic segmentation. Therefore, one would like to be able to train neural networks on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Annika Mütze , Matthias Rottmann , Hanno Gottschalk

Synthesising a text-to-image model of high-quality images by guiding the generative model through the Text description is an innovative and challenging task. In recent years, AttnGAN based on the Attention mechanism to guide GAN training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Mingyu Jin , Chong Zhang , Qinkai Yu , Haochen Xue , Xiaobo Jin , Xi Yang

In this paper, we focus on generating realistic images from text descriptions. Current methods first generate an initial image with rough shape and color, and then refine the initial image to a high-resolution one. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Minfeng Zhu , Pingbo Pan , Wei Chen , Yi Yang