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In the field of remote sensing, the scarcity of stereo-matched and particularly lack of accurate ground truth data often hinders the training of deep neural networks. The use of synthetically generated images as an alternative, alleviates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Vasudha Venkatesan , Daniel Panangian , Mario Fuentes Reyes , Ksenia Bittner

Image-to-image translation is a common task in computer vision and has been rapidly increasing the impact on the field of medical imaging. Deep learning-based methods that employ conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs), such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 Wentao Chen , Xichen Xu , Jie Luo , Weimin Zhou

Low-light images, characterized by inadequate illumination, pose challenges of diminished clarity, muted colors, and reduced details. Low-light image enhancement, an essential task in computer vision, aims to rectify these issues by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hossein Shakibania , Sina Raoufi , Hassan Khotanlou

Thermal infrared (TIR) images typically lack detailed features and have low contrast, making it challenging for conventional feature extraction models to capture discriminative target characteristics. As a result, trackers are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ruoyan Xiong , Huanbin Zhang , Shentao Wang , Hui He , Yuke Hou , Yue Zhang , Yujie Cui , Huipan Guan , Shang Zhang

Images acquired in low-light environments present significant obstacles for computer vision systems and human perception, especially for applications requiring accurate object recognition and scene analysis. Such images typically manifest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

This study aims to learn a translation from visible to infrared imagery, bridging the domain gap between the two modalities so as to improve accuracy on downstream tasks including object detection. Previous approaches attempt to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Prahlad Anand , Qiranul Saadiyean , Aniruddh Sikdar , Nalini N , Suresh Sundaram

Thermal infrared (TIR) target tracking methods often adopt the correlation filter (CF) framework due to its computational efficiency. However, the low resolution of TIR images, along with tracking interference, significantly limits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shang Zhang , Xiaobo Ding , Huanbin Zhang , Ruoyan Xiong , Yue Zhang

This work addresses the problem of semantic image segmentation of nighttime scenes. Although considerable progress has been made in semantic image segmentation, it is mainly related to daytime scenarios. This paper proposes a novel method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

This paper presents a novel network structure with illumination-aware gamma correction and complete image modelling to solve the low-light image enhancement problem. Low-light environments usually lead to less informative large-scale dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yinglong Wang , Zhen Liu , Jianzhuang Liu , Songcen Xu , Shuaicheng Liu

Image-to-image translation, which translates input images to a different domain with a learned one-to-one mapping, has achieved impressive success in recent years. The success of translation mainly relies on the network architecture to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Wenju Xu , Shawn Keshmiri , Guanghui Wang

Semantic segmentation of night-time images holds significant importance in computer vision, particularly for applications like night environment perception in autonomous driving systems. However, existing methods tend to parse night-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yuwen Pan , Rui Sun , Naisong Luo , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

The target representation learned by convolutional neural networks plays an important role in Thermal Infrared (TIR) tracking. Currently, most of the top-performing TIR trackers are still employing representations learned by the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jingxian Sun , Lichao Zhang , Yufei Zha , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Peng Zhang , Wei Huang , Yanning Zhang

Infrared (IR) images are essential to improve the visibility of dark or camouflaged objects. Object recognition and segmentation based on a neural network using IR images provide more accuracy and insight than color visible images. But the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-29 Kyongsik Yun , Kevin Yu , Joseph Osborne , Sarah Eldin , Luan Nguyen , Alexander Huyen , Thomas Lu

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in the unsupervised image to image (I2I) translation. However, due to the imbalance in the data, learning joint distribution for various domains is still very challenging. Although existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Jihye Back

The performance of nighttime semantic segmentation is restricted by the poor illumination and a lack of pixel-wise annotation, which severely limit its application in autonomous driving. Existing works, e.g., using the twilight as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Huan Gao , Jichang Guo , Guoli Wang , Qian Zhang

Autonomous cars are an emergent technology which has the capacity to change human lives. The current sensor systems which are most capable of perception are based on optical sensors. For example, deep neural networks show outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Marcel Sheeny

Unsupervised image-to-image translation is a central task in computer vision. Current translation frameworks will abandon the discriminator once the training process is completed. This paper contends a novel role of the discriminator by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Runfa Chen , Wenbing Huang , Binghui Huang , Fuchun Sun , Bin Fang

Image-to-image (i2i) networks struggle to capture local changes because they do not affect the global scene structure. For example, translating from highway scenes to offroad, i2i networks easily focus on global color features but ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Anthony Dell'Eva , Fabio Pizzati , Massimo Bertozzi , Raoul de Charette

Object detection in road scenes is necessary to develop both autonomous vehicles and driving assistance systems. Even if deep neural networks for recognition task have shown great performances using conventional images, they fail to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Rachel Blin , Samia Ainouz , Stéphane Canu , Fabrice Meriaudeau

Unsupervised image-to-image translation has gained considerable attention due to the recent impressive progress based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, previous methods often fail in challenging cases, in particular, when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Sangwoo Mo , Minsu Cho , Jinwoo Shin