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Near-infrared (NIR) image spectrum translation is a challenging problem with many promising applications. Existing methods struggle with the mapping ambiguity between the NIR and the RGB domains, and generalize poorly due to the limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Xingxing Yang , Jie Chen , Zaifeng Yang

Unpaired image-to-image translation is to translate an image from a source domain to a target domain without paired training data. By utilizing CNN in extracting local semantics, various techniques have been developed to improve the…

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Clouds are a major obstacle in Earth observation, limiting the usability and reliability of critical remote sensing applications such as fire disaster response, urban heat island monitoring, and snow and ice cover mapping. Therefore, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alexis Apostolakis , Vasileios Botsos , Niklas Wölki , Andrea Spichtinger , Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos , Ioannis Papoutsis , Panayiotis Tsanakas

Recent efforts have explored leveraging visible light images to enrich texture details in infrared (IR) super-resolution. However, this direct adaptation approach often becomes a double-edged sword, as it improves texture at the cost of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Yongsong Huang , Tomo Miyazaki , Xiaofeng Liu , Yafei Dong , Shinichiro Omachi

Recently image-to-image translation has received increasing attention, which aims to map images in one domain to another specific one. Existing methods mainly solve this task via a deep generative model, and focus on exploring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Songyao Jiang , Zhiqiang Tao , Yun Fu

Getting rid of the fundamental limitations in fitting to the paired training data, recent unsupervised low-light enhancement methods excel in adjusting illumination and contrast of images. However, for unsupervised low light enhancement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Hanli Wang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

Automotive scene understanding under adverse weather conditions raises a realistic and challenging problem attributable to poor outdoor scene visibility (e.g. foggy weather). However, because most contemporary scene understanding approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Naif Alshammari , Samet Akcay , Toby P. Breckon

This work presents a new depth- and semantics-aware conditional generative model, named TITAN-Next, for cross-domain image-to-image translation in a multi-modal setup between LiDAR and camera sensors. The proposed model leverages scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Tiago Cortinhal , Eren Erdal Aksoy

Underexposure regions are vital to construct a complete perception of the surroundings for safe autonomous driving. The availability of thermal cameras has provided an essential alternate to explore regions where other optical sensors lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Farzeen Munir , Shoaib Azam , Muhammd Aasim Rafique , Ahmad Muqeem Sheri , Moongu Jeon , Witold Pedrycz

Unsupervised image translation, which aims in translating two independent sets of images, is challenging in discovering the correct correspondences without paired data. Existing works build upon Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Shuang Ma , Jianlong Fu , Chang Wen Chen , Tao Mei

Nighttime satellite imagery has been applied in a wide range of fields. However, our limited understanding of how observed light intensity is formed and whether it can be simulated greatly hinders its further application. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Xiao Huang , Dong Xu , Zhenlong Li , Cuizhen Wang

Inpainting involves filling in missing pixels or areas in an image, a crucial technique employed in Mixed Reality environments for various applications, particularly in Diminished Reality (DR) where content is removed from a user's visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ankan Dash , Jingyi Gu , Guiling Wang

Many surveillance cameras switch between daytime and nighttime modes based on illuminance levels. During the day, the camera records ordinary RGB images through an enabled IR-cut filter. At night, the filter is disabled to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Muyao Niu , Zhuoxiao Li , Yifan Zhan , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen , Yinqiang Zheng

Traffic sign identification using camera images from vehicles plays a critical role in autonomous driving and path planning. However, the front camera images can be distorted due to blurriness, lighting variations and vandalism which can…

Image colorization is a well-known problem in computer vision. However, due to the ill-posed nature of the task, image colorization is inherently challenging. Though several attempts have been made by researchers to make the colorization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Subhankar Ghosh , Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Inverse Tone Mapping (ITM) methods attempt to reconstruct High Dynamic Range (HDR) information from Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image content. The dynamic range of well-exposed areas must be expanded and any missing information due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Demetris Marnerides , Thomas Bashford-Rogers , Kurt Debattista

Autonomous vehicles and robots often struggle with reliable visual perception at night due to the low illumination and motion blur caused by the long exposure time of RGB cameras. Existing methods address this challenge by sequentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ling Wang , Chen Wu , Lin Wang

Transient imaging has recently made a huge impact in the computer graphics and computer vision fields. By capturing, reconstructing, or simulating light transport at extreme temporal resolutions, researchers have proposed novel techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Adrian Jarabo , Belen Masia , Julio Marco , Diego Gutierrez

Infrared dim and small target detection presents a significant challenge due to dynamic multi-frame scenarios and weak target signatures in the infrared modality. Traditional low-rank plus sparse models often fail to capture dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pei Liu , Yisi Luo , Wenzhen Wang , Xiangyong Cao

Currently, semantic segmentation shows remarkable efficiency and reliability in standard scenarios such as daytime scenes with favorable illumination conditions. However, in face of adverse conditions such as the nighttime, semantic…

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