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Capturing an all-in-focus image with a single camera is difficult since the depth of field of the camera is usually limited. An alternative method to obtain the all-in-focus image is to fuse several images focusing at different depths.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Haoyu Ma , Qingmin Liao , Juncheng Zhang , Shaojun Liu , Jing-Hao Xue

To achieve visual consistency in composite images, recent image harmonization methods typically summarize the appearance pattern of global background and apply it to the global foreground without location discrepancy. However, for a real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Ziyue Zhu , Zhao Zhang , Zheng Lin , Ruiqi Wu , Zhi Chai , Chun-Le Guo

Haze limits the visibility of outdoor images, due to the existence of fog, smoke and dust in the atmosphere. Image dehazing methods try to recover haze-free image by removing the effect of haze from a given input image. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Sanchayan Santra , Ranjan Mondal , Pranoy Panda , Nishant Mohanty , Shubham Bhuyan

In image editing, the most common task is pasting objects from one image to the other and then eventually adjusting the manifestation of the foreground object with the background object. This task is called image compositing. But image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shivangi Aneja , Soham Mazumder

We present a novel, purely affinity-based natural image matting algorithm. Our method relies on carefully defined pixel-to-pixel connections that enable effective use of information available in the image. We control the information flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Yağız Aksoy , Tunç Ozan Aydın , Marc Pollefeys

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has greatly advanced neuroscience research and clinical diagnostics. However, imaging data collected across different scanners, acquisition protocols, or imaging sites often exhibit substantial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Qinqin Yang , Firoozeh Shomal-Zadeh , Ali Gholipour

In recent years, image blending has gained popularity for its ability to create visually stunning content. However, the current image blending algorithms mainly have the following problems: manually creating image blending masks requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Haochen Xue , Mingyu Jin , Chong Zhang , Yuxuan Huang , Qian Weng , Xiaobo Jin

Infrared and visible image fusion, as a hot topic in image processing and image enhancement, aims to produce fused images retaining the detail texture information in visible images and the thermal radiation information in infrared images. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Kai Sun , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu

Image forgery is a topic that has been studied for many years. Before the breakthrough of deep learning, forged images were detected using handcrafted features that did not require training. These traditional methods failed to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Eren Tahir , Mert Bal

Natural image matting is a fundamental and challenging computer vision task. It has many applications in image editing and composition. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have achieved great improvements in image matting. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Guowei Chen , Yi Liu , Jian Wang , Juncai Peng , Yuying Hao , Lutao Chu , Shiyu Tang , Zewu Wu , Zeyu Chen , Zhiliang Yu , Yuning Du , Qingqing Dang , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu

Multi-modality image fusion (MMIF) combines complementary information from different image modalities to provide a comprehensive and objective interpretation of scenes. However, existing fusion methods cannot resist different weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xilai Li , Wuyang Liu , Xiaosong Li , Fuqiang Zhou , Huafeng Li , Feiping Nie

This paper introduces an innovative approach for image matting that redefines the traditional regression-based task as a generative modeling challenge. Our method harnesses the capabilities of latent diffusion models, enriched with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhixiang Wang , Baiang Li , Jian Wang , Yu-Lun Liu , Jinwei Gu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Shin'ichi Satoh

Image denoising can be described as the problem of mapping from a noisy image to a noise-free image. The best currently available denoising methods approximate this mapping with cleverly engineered algorithms. In this work we attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Harold Christopher Burger , Christian J. Schuler , Stefan Harmeling

Synthesizing a densely sampled light field from a single image is highly beneficial for many applications. The conventional method reconstructs a depth map and relies on physical-based rendering and a secondary network to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Andre Ivan , Williem , In Kyu Park

This paper proposes a deep learning based method for colored transparent object matting from a single image. Existing approaches for transparent object matting often require multiple images and long processing times, which greatly hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Jamal Ahmed Rahim , Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong

In recent years, deep learning has become a very active research tool which is used in many image processing fields. In this paper, we propose an effective image fusion method using a deep learning framework to generate a single image which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Depth imaging is a crucial area in Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS), as it plays a key role in detecting and measuring objects in the vehicle's surroundings. However, a significant challenge in this domain arises from missing information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mohamad Mofeed Chaar , Jamal Raiyn , Galia Weidl

Intrinsic imaging or intrinsic image decomposition has traditionally been described as the problem of decomposing an image into two layers: a reflectance, the albedo invariant color of the material; and a shading, produced by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Elena Garces , Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo , Dan Casas , Jorge Lopez-Moreno

The spread of social networking services has created an increasing demand for selecting, editing, and generating impressive images. This trend increases the importance of evaluating image aesthetics as a complementary function of automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Lijie Wang , Xueting Wang , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Existing image-to-image transformation approaches primarily focus on synthesizing visually pleasing data. Generating images with correct identity labels is challenging yet much less explored. It is even more challenging to deal with image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Wei Xiong , Yutong He , Yixuan Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Lin Ma , Jiebo Luo