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Image inpainting is a restoration method that reconstructs missing image parts. However, a carefully selected mask of known pixels that yield a high quality inpainting can also act as a sparse image representation. This challenging spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Pascal Peter

Representation learning is the foundation of natural language processing (NLP). This work presents new methods to employ visual information as assistant signals to general NLP tasks. For each sentence, we first retrieve a flexible number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zhuosheng Zhang , Kehai Chen , Rui Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

We present a unified framework for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using video-inpainting diffusion transformer models. Unlike existing methods that devise specialized strategies for either forward or inverse problems under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Edward Li , Zichen Wang , Jiahe Huang , Jeong Joon Park

Deep convolutional networks (CNNs) have exhibited their potential in image inpainting for producing plausible results. However, in most existing methods, e.g., context encoder, the missing parts are predicted by propagating the surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Zhaoyi Yan , Xiaoming Li , Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Shiguang Shan

Image inpainting is the task of reconstructing missing or damaged parts of an image in a way that seamlessly blends with the surrounding content. With the advent of advanced generative models, especially diffusion models and generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xingzhong Hou , Jie Wu , Boxiao Liu , Yi Zhang , Guanglu Song , Yunpeng Liu , Yu Liu , Haihang You

Image inpainting is the process of regenerating lost parts of the image. Supervised algorithm-based methods have shown excellent results but have two significant drawbacks. They do not perform well when tested with unseen data. They fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Shubham Gupta , Rahul Kunigal Ravishankar , Madhoolika Gangaraju , Poojasree Dwarkanath , Natarajan Subramanyam

Unsupervised image-to-image translation aims to learn the translation between two visual domains without paired data. Despite the recent progress in image translation models, it remains challenging to build mappings between complex domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Shuai Yang , Liming Jiang , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Generative models have made significant progress in the tasks of modeling complex data distributions such as natural images. The introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and auto-encoders lead to the possibility of training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Tobias Hinz , Stefan Wermter

Accurate volumetric image registration is highly relevant for clinical routines and computer-aided medical diagnosis. Recently, researchers have begun to use transformers in learning-based methods for medical image registration, and have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ahsan Raza Siyal , Astrid Ellen Grams , Markus Haltmeier

Image inpainting is an underdetermined inverse problem, which naturally allows diverse contents to fill up the missing or corrupted regions realistically. Prevalent approaches using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yingchen Yu , Fangneng Zhan , Rongliang Wu , Jianxiong Pan , Kaiwen Cui , Shijian Lu , Feiying Ma , Xuansong Xie , Chunyan Miao

The fusion of input and guidance images that have a tradeoff in their information (e.g., hyperspectral and RGB image fusion or pansharpening) can be interpreted as one general problem. However, previous studies applied a task-specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-24 Tatsumi Uezato , Danfeng Hong , Naoto Yokoya , Wei He

Image generation remains a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence in general and deep learning in specific. The generative adversarial network (GAN) was successful in generating high quality samples of natural images. We propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hanock Kwak , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Recently, text-to-image denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have demonstrated impressive image generation capabilities and have also been successfully applied to image inpainting. However, in practice, users often require more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Shiyuan Yang , Xiaodong Chen , Jing Liao

Learning to generate natural scenes has always been a daunting task in computer vision. This is even more laborious when generating images with very different views. When the views are very different, the view fields have little overlap or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Hao Ding , Songsong Wu , Hao Tang , Fei Wu , Guangwei Gao , Xiao-Yuan Jing

The advent of deep learning in the past decade has significantly helped advance image inpainting. Although achieving promising performance, deep learning-based inpainting algorithms still struggle from the distortion caused by the fusion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Kangdi Shi , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Jun Chen

Humans are capable of building holistic representations for images at various levels, from local objects, to pairwise relations, to global structures. The interpretation of structures involves reasoning over repetition and symmetry of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jiayuan Mao , Xiuming Zhang , Yikai Li , William T. Freeman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

Image outpainting gains increasing attention since it can generate the complete scene from a partial view, providing a valuable solution to construct {360\textdegree} panoramic images. As image outpainting suffers from the intrinsic issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Kang Liao , Xiangyu Xu , Chunyu Lin , Wenqi Ren , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao

We propose a novel image sampling method for differentiable image transformation in deep neural networks. The sampling schemes currently used in deep learning, such as Spatial Transformer Networks, rely on bilinear interpolation, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Wei Jiang , Weiwei Sun , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Eduard Trulls , Kwang Moo Yi

When adopting a model-based formulation, solving inverse problems encountered in multiband imaging requires to define spatial and spectral regularizations. In most of the works of the literature, spectral information is extracted from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Min Zhao , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jie Chen

Recent GAN-based (Generative adversarial networks) inpainting methods show remarkable improvements and generate plausible images using multi-stage networks or Contextual Attention Modules (CAM). However, these techniques increase the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mohamed Abbas Hedjazi , Yakup Genc