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Recently, face super-resolution (FSR) methods either feed whole face image into convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or utilize extra facial priors (e.g., facial parsing maps, facial landmarks) to focus on facial structure, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yuanzhi Wang , Tao Lu , Yanduo Zhang , Junjun Jiang , Jiaming Wang , Zhongyuan Wang , Jiayi Ma

Recent years have witnessed great success of convolutional neural network (CNN) for various problems both in low and high level visions. Especially noteworthy is the residual network which was originally proposed to handle high-level vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Yudong Liang , Ze Yang , Kai Zhang , Yihui He , Jinjun Wang , Nanning Zheng

Face deblurring aims to restore a clear face image from a blurred input image with more explicit structure and facial details. However, most conventional image and face deblurring methods focus on the whole generated image resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Xian Zhang , Hao Zhang , Jiancheng Lv , Xiaojie Li

Face super-resolution aims to reconstruct a high-resolution face image from a low-resolution face image. Previous methods typically employ an encoder-decoder structure to extract facial structural features, where the direct downsampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Wenjie Li , Heng Guo , Xuannan Liu , Kongming Liang , Jiani Hu , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Recent non-local self-attention methods have proven to be effective in capturing long-range dependencies for semantic segmentation. These methods usually form a similarity map of RC*C (by compressing spatial dimensions) or RHW*HW (by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Qi Song , Jie Li , Chenghong Li , Hao Guo , Rui Huang

Super-resolution and denoising are ill-posed yet fundamental image restoration tasks. In blind settings, the degradation kernel or the noise level are unknown. This makes restoration even more challenging, notably for learning-based…

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Accurately segmenting blood vessels in retinal fundus images is crucial in the early screening, diagnosing, and evaluating some ocular diseases, yet it poses a nontrivial uncertainty for the segmentation task due to various factors such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Yuanyuan Peng , Pengpeng Luan , Zixu Zhang

We introduce SparseNeuS, a novel neural rendering based method for the task of surface reconstruction from multi-view images. This task becomes more difficult when only sparse images are provided as input, a scenario where existing neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Xiaoxiao Long , Cheng Lin , Peng Wang , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang

Deep learning based image Super-Resolution (SR) has shown rapid development due to its ability of big data digestion. Generally, deeper and wider networks can extract richer feature maps and generate SR images with remarkable quality.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Zhi-Song Liu , Li-Wen Wang , Chu-Tak Li , Wan-Chi Siu , Yui-Lam Chan

Deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) present optimization difficulties for gradient-based approaches due to discrete binary activation and complex spatial-temporal dynamics. Considering the huge success of ResNet in deep learning, it would…

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High-resolution representations are essential for position-sensitive vision problems, such as human pose estimation, semantic segmentation, and object detection. Existing state-of-the-art frameworks first encode the input image as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Jingdong Wang , Ke Sun , Tianheng Cheng , Borui Jiang , Chaorui Deng , Yang Zhao , Dong Liu , Yadong Mu , Mingkui Tan , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu , Bin Xiao

The task of point cloud upsampling aims to acquire dense and uniform point sets from sparse and irregular point sets. Although significant progress has been made with deep learning models, state-of-the-art methods require ground-truth dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xinhai Liu , Xinchen Liu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

State-of-the-art face super-resolution methods employ deep convolutional neural networks to learn a mapping between low- and high- resolution facial patterns by exploring local appearance knowledge. However, most of these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xiaobin Hu , Wenqi Ren , John LaMaster , Xiaochun Cao , Xiaoming Li , Zechao Li , Bjoern Menze , Wei Liu

The key success factor of the video deblurring methods is to compensate for the blurry pixels of the mid-frame with the sharp pixels of the adjacent video frames. Therefore, mainstream methods align the adjacent frames based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Huicong Zhang , Haozhe Xie , Hongxun Yao

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a pivotal role in a broad spectrum of mission-critical applications, including maritime surveillance, military search and rescue, early warning systems, and precision-guided strikes, all of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yingming Zhang , Wuqi Su , Qing Xiao , Yonggang Yang

Visual attention has proven to be effective in improving the performance of person re-identification. Most existing methods apply visual attention heuristically by learning an additional attention map to re-weight the feature maps for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Yifan Chen , Han Wang , Xiaolu Sun , Bin Fan , Chu Tang

The spatial attention mechanism captures long-range dependencies by aggregating global contextual information to each query location, which is beneficial for semantic segmentation. In this paper, we present a sparse spatial attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mengyu Liu , Hujun Yin

Attention-based graph neural networks have made great progress in feature matching learning. However, insight of how attention mechanism works for feature matching is lacked in the literature. In this paper, we rethink cross- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yuxin Deng , Jiayi Ma

Super-resolution reconstruction techniques entail the utilization of software algorithms to transform one or more sets of low-resolution images captured from the same scene into high-resolution images. In recent years, considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Hao Yan , Zixiang Wang , Zhengjia Xu , Zhuoyue Wang , Zhizhong Wu , Ranran Lyu

Pansharpening aims to generate high-resolution multispectral (HRMS) images by fusing low-resolution multispectral (LRMS) and high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) images. Although deep learning has advanced this field, mainstream…

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