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Image harmonization is an essential step in image composition that adjusts the appearance of composite foreground to address the inconsistency between foreground and background. Existing methods primarily operate in correlated $RGB$ color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Linfeng Tan , Jiangtong Li , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

Visible images offer rich texture details, while infrared images emphasize salient targets. Fusing these complementary modalities enhances scene understanding, particularly for advanced vision tasks under challenging conditions. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Beining Xu , Junxian Li

Image-text retrieval (ITR) is a challenging task in the field of multimodal information processing due to the semantic gap between different modalities. In recent years, researchers have made great progress in exploring the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jie Guo , Meiting Wang , Yan Zhou , Bin Song , Yuhao Chi , Wei Fan , Jianglong Chang

Image composition plays a common but important role in photo editing. To acquire photo-realistic composite images, one must adjust the appearance and visual style of the foreground to be compatible with the background. Existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Jun Ling , Han Xue , Li Song , Rong Xie , Xiao Gu

Image harmonization has been significantly advanced with large-scale harmonization dataset. However, the current way to build dataset is still labor-intensive, which adversely affects the extendability of dataset. To address this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Junyan Cao , Wenyan Cong , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Liqing Zhang

We propose FineGAN, a novel unsupervised GAN framework, which disentangles the background, object shape, and object appearance to hierarchically generate images of fine-grained object categories. To disentangle the factors without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Krishna Kumar Singh , Utkarsh Ojha , Yong Jae Lee

Dealing with the inconsistency between a foreground object and a background image is a challenging task in high-fidelity image composition. State-of-the-art methods strive to harmonize the composed image by adapting the style of foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu , Changgong Zhang , Feiying Ma , Xuansong Xie

Shadows often create unwanted artifacts in photographs, and removing them can be very challenging. Previous shadow removal methods often produce de-shadowed regions that are visually inconsistent with the rest of the image. In this work we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Liqian Ma , Jue Wang , Eli Shechtman , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Shimin Hu

Recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown great potentials in realistic image synthesis whereas most existing works address synthesis realism in either appearance space or geometry space but few in both. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Fangneng Zhan , Hongyuan Zhu , Shijian Lu

Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Deep learning approaches heavily rely on high-quality human supervision which is nonetheless expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone, especially for image segmentation task. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yu Yang , Hakan Bilen , Qiran Zou , Wing Yin Cheung , Xiangyang Ji

As a common image editing operation, image composition (object insertion) aims to combine the foreground from one image and another background image, to produce a composite image. However, there are many issues that could make the composite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Li Niu , Wenyan Cong , Liu Liu , Yan Hong , Bo Zhang , Jing Liang , Liqing Zhang

Synthesizing high dynamic range (HDR) images from multiple low-dynamic range (LDR) exposures in dynamic scenes is challenging. There are two major problems caused by the large motions of foreground objects. One is the severe misalignment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Yuzhen Niu , Jianbin Wu , Wenxi Liu , Wenzhong Guo , Rynson W. H. Lau

Image color harmonization algorithm aims to automatically match the color distribution of foreground and background images captured in different conditions. Previous deep learning based models neglect two issues that are critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Ben Xue , Shenghui Ran , Quan Chen , Rongfei Jia , Binqiang Zhao , Xing Tang

We propose GAN-Supervised Learning, a framework for learning discriminative models and their GAN-generated training data jointly end-to-end. We apply our framework to the dense visual alignment problem. Inspired by the classic Congealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 William Peebles , Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang , Antonio Torralba , Alexei A. Efros , Eli Shechtman

Ensuring data privacy and protection has become paramount in the era of deep learning. Unlearnable examples are proposed to mislead the deep learning models and prevent data from unauthorized exploration by adding small perturbations to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Ruohan Meng , Chenyu Yi , Yi Yu , Siyuan Yang , Bingquan Shen , Alex C. Kot

Image composition is a fundamental operation in image editing field. However, unharmonious foreground and background downgrade the quality of composite image. Image harmonization, which adjusts the foreground to improve the consistency, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Wenyan Cong , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Jing Liang , Liqing Zhang

Lighting is a determining factor in photography that affects the style, expression of emotion, and even quality of images. Creating or finding satisfying lighting conditions, in reality, is laborious and time-consuming, so it is of great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Zuo-Liang Zhu , Zhen Li , Rui-Xun Zhang , Chun-Le Guo , Ming-Ming Cheng

Building facial analysis systems that generalize to extreme variations in lighting and facial expressions is a challenging problem that can potentially be alleviated using natural-looking synthetic data. Towards that, we propose LEGAN, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Sandipan Banerjee , Ajjen Joshi , Prashant Mahajan , Sneha Bhattacharya , Survi Kyal , Taniya Mishra

Modern cameras have limited dynamic ranges and often produce images with saturated or dark regions using a single exposure. Although the problem could be addressed by taking multiple images with different exposures, exposure fusion methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Sheng-Yeh Chen , Yung-Yu Chuang