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Recent advances in transformer-based models have drawn attention to exploring these techniques in medical image segmentation, especially in conjunction with the U-Net model (or its variants), which has shown great success in medical image…

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Transformers have recently gained increasing attention in computer vision. However, existing studies mostly use Transformers for feature representation learning, e.g. for image classification and dense predictions, and the generalizability…

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Fine-grained image recognition is challenging because discriminative clues are usually fragmented, whether from a single image or multiple images. Despite their significant improvements, most existing methods still focus on the most…

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Deep convolutional neural networks perform better on images containing spatially invariant degradations, also known as synthetic degradations; however, their performance is limited on real-degraded photographs and requires multiple-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes , Lars Petersson

The core problem of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the trade off between acceleration and image quality. Image reconstruction and super-resolution are two crucial techniques in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Current methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Chun-Mei Feng , Yunlu Yan , Huazhu Fu , Li Chen , Yong Xu

This paper introduces an approach, named DFormer, for universal image segmentation. The proposed DFormer views universal image segmentation task as a denoising process using a diffusion model. DFormer first adds various levels of Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Hefeng Wang , Jiale Cao , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Jin Xie , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Yanwei Pang

We propose an end-to-end image compression and analysis model with Transformers, targeting to the cloud-based image classification application. Instead of placing an existing Transformer-based image classification model directly after an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Yuanchao Bai , Xu Yang , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Xiangyang Ji , Wen Gao

Transformer-based Learned Image Compression (LIC) suffers from a suboptimal trade-off between decoding latency and rate-distortion (R-D) performance. Moreover, the critical role of the FeedForward Network (FFN)-based channel aggregation…

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Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in image restoration tasks, such as image super-resolution and denoising. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Xiangtao Kong , Yu Qiao , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong

Blind face restoration aims at recovering high-quality face images from those with unknown degradations. Current algorithms mainly introduce priors to complement high-quality details and achieve impressive progress. However, most of these…

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Attention mechanisms have been very popular in deep neural networks, where the Transformer architecture has achieved great success in not only natural language processing but also visual recognition applications. Recently, a new Transformer…

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Incomplete multi-view clustering is a hot and emerging topic. It is well known that unavoidable data incompleteness greatly weakens the effective information of multi-view data. To date, existing incomplete multi-view clustering methods…

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Recovering the 3D shape of transparent objects using a small number of unconstrained natural images is an ill-posed problem. Complex light paths induced by refraction and reflection have prevented both traditional and deep multiview stereo…

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Due to various and complicated snow degradations, single image desnowing is a challenging image restoration task. As prior arts can not handle it ideally, we propose a novel transformer, SnowFormer, which explores efficient cross-attentions…

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Many real-world solutions for image restoration are learning-free and based on handcrafted image priors such as self-similarity. Recently, deep-learning methods that use training data have achieved state-of-the-art results in various image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-07 Indra Deep Mastan , Shanmuganathan Raman

Blind image decomposition aims to decompose all components present in an image, typically used to restore a multi-degraded input image. While fully recovering the clean image is appealing, in some scenarios, users might want to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zeyu Zhang , Junlin Han , Chenhui Gou , Hongdong Li , Liang Zheng

The ability to recover MRI signal from noise is key to achieve fast acquisition, accurate quantification, and high image quality. Past work has shown convolutional neural networks can be used with abundant and paired low and high-SNR images…

Image demoir\'eing remains a challenging task due to the complex interplay between texture corruption and color distortions caused by moir\'e patterns. Existing methods, especially those relying on direct image-to-image restoration, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiaoyang Liu , Bolin Qiu , Jiezhang Cao , Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

Images captured in challenging environments often experience various forms of degradation, including noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. These effects significantly reduce image quality, hindering their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Abbas Anwar , Mohammad Shullar , Ali Arshad Nasir , Mudassir Masood , Saeed Anwar

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

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