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The recent increase in the extensive use of digital imaging technologies has brought with it a simultaneous demand for higher-resolution images. We develop a novel edge-informed approach to single image super-resolution (SISR). The SISR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Kamyar Nazeri , Harrish Thasarathan , Mehran Ebrahimi

This paper revisits recognition of natural image pleasantness by employing deep convolutional neural networks and affordable eye trackers. There exist several approaches to recognize image pleasantness: (1) computer vision, and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Hamed R. Tavakoli , Jorma Laaksonen , Esa Rahtu

Faithfully reconstructing 3D geometry and generating novel views of scenes are critical tasks in 3D computer vision. Despite the widespread use of image augmentations across computer vision applications, their potential remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Juan C. Pérez , Sara Rojas , Jesus Zarzar , Bernard Ghanem

In this study, importance of user inputs is studied in the context of personalizing human activity recognition models using incremental learning. Inertial sensor data from three body positions are used, and the classification is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Pekka Siirtola , Heli Koskimäki , Juha Röning

In this paper, we present a novel method of no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA), which is to predict the perceptual quality score of a given image without using any reference image. The proposed method harnesses three functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Diqi Chen , Yizhou Wang , Tianfu Wu , Wen Gao

By leveraging the blur-noise trade-off, imaging with non-uniform exposures largely extends the image acquisition flexibility in harsh environments. However, the limitation of conventional cameras in perceiving intra-frame dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mingyuan Lin , Jian Liu , Chi Zhang , Zibo Zhao , Chu He , Lei Yu

Neural networks are prone to overfitting and memorizing data patterns. To avoid over-fitting and enhance their generalization and performance, various methods have been suggested in the literature, including dropout, regularization, label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Humza Naveed , Saeed Anwar , Munawar Hayat , Kashif Javed , Ajmal Mian

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are widely used for modeling continuous 2D images, enabling high-fidelity reconstruction, super-resolution, and compression. Architectures such as SIREN, WIRE, and FINER demonstrate their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Weronika Jakubowska , Mikołaj Zieliński , Rafał Tobiasz , Krzysztof Byrski , Maciej Zięba , Dominik Belter , Przemysław Spurek

Convolutional neural networks rely on image texture and structure to serve as discriminative features to classify the image content. Image enhancement techniques can be used as preprocessing steps to help improve the overall image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Vivek Sharma , Ali Diba , Davy Neven , Michael S. Brown , Luc Van Gool , Rainer Stiefelhagen

We propose a deep learning approach for user-guided image colorization. The system directly maps a grayscale image, along with sparse, local user "hints" to an output colorization with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Rather than using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Phillip Isola , Xinyang Geng , Angela S. Lin , Tianhe Yu , Alexei A. Efros

Advances in text-based image generation and editing have revolutionized content creation, enabling users to create impressive content from imaginative text prompts. However, existing methods are not designed to work well with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tiancheng Shen , Jun Hao Liew , Long Mai , Lu Qi , Jiashi Feng , Jiaya Jia

Revolutionary advancements in text-to-image models have unlocked new dimensions for sophisticated content creation, such as text-conditioned image editing, enabling the modification of existing images based on textual guidance. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haoyu Zheng , Wenqiao Zhang , Yaoke Wang , Juncheng Li , Zheqi Lv , Xin Min , Mengze Li , Dongping Zhang , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Exposure to disturbing imagery can significantly impact individuals, especially professionals who encounter such content as part of their work. This paper presents a user study, involving 107 participants, predominantly journalists and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ioannis Sarridis , Jochen Spangenberg , Olga Papadopoulou , Symeon Papadopoulos

Conditional image editing aims to modify a source image according to textual prompts and optional reference guidance. Such editing is crucial in scenarios requiring strict structural control (i.e., anomaly insertion in driving scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhan Pu , Hao Zheng , Ziqian Mo , Hill Zhang , Tianyi Fan , Shuhong Wu , Jiaheng Wei

In this project we have designed and described a model which colourize a gray-scale image, with no human intervention. We propose a fully automatic process of colouring and re-colouring faded or gray-scale image with vibrant and pragmatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Aditya Parikh

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving images matching a reference image augmented with a text, where the text describes changes to the reference image in natural language. Traditionally, models designed for CIR have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yiqun Duan , Sameera Ramasinghe , Stephen Gould , Ajanthan Thalaiyasingam

Drag-based image editing has recently gained popularity for its interactivity and precision. However, despite the ability of text-to-image models to generate samples within a second, drag editing still lags behind due to the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Joonghyuk Shin , Daehyeon Choi , Jaesik Park

Noise, an unwanted component in an image, can be the reason for the degradation of Image at the time of transmission or capturing. Noise reduction from images is still a challenging task. Digital Image Processing is a component of Digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Sahil Ali Akbar , Ananya Verma

Real-world low-light images captured by imaging devices suffer from poor visibility and require a domain-specific enhancement to produce artifact-free outputs that reveal details. In this paper, we propose an unpaired low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Aupendu Kar , Sobhan K. Dhara , Debashis Sen , Prabir K. Biswas

Modern digital cameras rely on the sequential execution of separate image processing steps to produce realistic images. The first two steps are usually related to denoising and demosaicking where the former aims to reduce noise from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis