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High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging aims to reproduce the wide range of brightness levels present in natural scenes, which the human visual system can perceive but conventional digital cameras often fail to capture due to their limited dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Kumbha Nagaswetha

Image super-resolution (SR) in resource-constrained scenarios demands lightweight models balancing performance and latency. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) offer low latency but lack non-local feature capture, while Transformers excel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Quanwei Hu , Yinggan Tang , Xuguang Zhang

Natural image matting is an important problem in computer vision and graphics. It is an ill-posed problem when only an input image is available without any external information. While the recent deep learning approaches have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Qiqi Hou , Feng Liu

This study proposes a lightweight method for building image super-resolution using a Dilated Contextual Feature Modulation Network (DCFMN). The process includes obtaining high-resolution images, down-sampling them to low-resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yi Zhang

Cutting out an object and estimating its opacity mask, known as image matting, is a key task in many image editing applications. Deep learning approaches have made significant progress by adapting the encoder-decoder architecture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Marco Forte , François Pitié

Despite recent progress on semantic segmentation, there still exist huge challenges in medical ultra-resolution image segmentation. The methods based on multi-branch structure can make a good balance between computational burdens and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Tong Wu , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Bicheng Dai , Shuxin Chen

Multi-exposure High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging is a challenging task when facing truncated texture and complex motion. Existing deep learning-based methods have achieved great success by either following the alignment and fusion pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Lingtong Kong , Bo Li , Yike Xiong , Hao Zhang , Hong Gu , Jinwei Chen

Like other applications in computer vision, medical image segmentation has been most successfully addressed using deep learning models that rely on the convolution operation as their main building block. Convolutions enjoy important…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Davood Karimi , Serge Vasylechko , Ali Gholipour

Image smoothing represents a fundamental component of many disparate computer vision and graphics applications. In this paper, we present a unified unsupervised (label-free) learning framework that facilitates generating flexible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , David Wipf , Baoquan Chen , Xin Tong

Natural image matting aims to estimate the alpha matte of the foreground from a given image. Various approaches have been explored to address this problem, such as interactive matting methods that use guidance such as click or trimap, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Qinglin Liu , Xiaoqian Lv , Wei Yu , Changyong Guo , Shengping Zhang

Semantic segmentation necessitates approaches that learn high-level characteristics while dealing with enormous amounts of data. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can learn unique and adaptive features to achieve this aim. However, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Hasan AlMarzouqi , Lyes Saad Saoud

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has achieved great success on image super-resolution (SR). However, most deep CNN-based SR models take massive computations to obtain high performance. Downsampling features for multi-resolution fusion is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Bin Sun , Yulun Zhang , Songyao Jiang , Yun Fu

Custom and natural lighting conditions can be emulated in images of the scene during post-editing. Extraordinary capabilities of the deep learning framework can be utilized for such purpose. Deep image relighting allows automatic photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Sourya Dipta Das , Nisarg A. Shah , Saikat Dutta , Himanshu Kumar

Human matting, high quality extraction of humans from natural images, is crucial for a wide variety of applications. Since the matting problem is severely under-constrained, most previous methods require user interactions to take user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Quan Chen , Tiezheng Ge , Yanyu Xu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Xinxin Yang , Kun Gai

Recent advancements in image restoration methods employing global modeling have shown promising results. However, these approaches often incur substantial memory requirements, particularly when processing ultra-high-definition (UHD) images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chen Wu , Zhuoran Zheng , Yuning Cui , Wenqi Ren

Photo retouching aims at enhancing the aesthetic visual quality of images that suffer from photographic defects such as over/under exposure, poor contrast, inharmonious saturation. Practically, photo retouching can be accomplished by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Jingwen He , Yihao Liu , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Recent progress in deep learning-based models has improved photo-realistic (or perceptual) single-image super-resolution significantly. However, despite their powerful performance, many methods are difficult to apply to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Namhyuk Ahn , Byungkon Kang , Kyung-Ah Sohn

Aiming at the problems that the convolutional neural networks neglect to capture the inherent attributes of natural images and extract features only in a single scale in the field of image super-resolution reconstruction, a network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Jiawen Lyn , Sen Yan

Predicting accurate normal maps of objects from two-dimensional images in regions of complex structure and spatial material variations is challenging using photometric stereo methods due to the influence of surface reflection properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kai Luo , Yakun Ju , Lin Qi , Kaixuan Wang , Junyu Dong

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely employed for image Super-Resolution (SR) in recent years. Various techniques enhance SR performance by altering CNN structures or incorporating improved self-attention mechanisms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Qizhou Chen , Qing Shao