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Recent conditional image synthesis approaches provide high-quality synthesized images. However, it is still challenging to accurately adjust image contents such as the positions and orientations of objects, and synthesized images often have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Jaebong Jeong , Janghun Jo , Jingdong Wang , Sunghyun Cho , Jaesik Park

Existing image simplification techniques often rely on Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR), transforming photographs into stylized sketches, cartoons, or paintings. While effective at reducing visual complexity, such approaches typically…

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This paper presents a novel and efficient image enhancement method based on pigment representation. Unlike conventional methods where the color transformation is restricted to pre-defined color spaces like RGB, our method dynamically adapts…

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Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

Image generation technology can synthesize condition-specific images to supplement real-world industrial anomaly data and enhance anomaly detection model performance. Existing generation techniques rarely account for the pose and…

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Image generation from a single image using generative adversarial networks is quite interesting due to the realism of generated images. However, recent approaches need improvement for such realistic and diverse image generation, when the…

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This paper proposes a novel pseudo multi-exposure image fusion method based on a single image. Multi-exposure image fusion is used to produce images without saturation regions, by using photos with different exposures. However, it is…

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We consider the problem of trustworthy image restoration, taking the form of a constrained optimization over the prior density. To this end, we develop generative models for the task of image super-resolution that respect the degradation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Andreas Floros , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Synthetic data used for scene text detection and recognition tasks have proven effective. However, there are still two problems: First, the color schemes used for text coloring in the existing methods are relatively fixed color key-value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Shao Wei Wang , Guan Jie Huang , Xiang Yu Luo

Image acquisition in low-light conditions suffers from poor quality and significant degradation in visual aesthetics. This affects the visual perception of the acquired image and the performance of various computer vision and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sumit Shekhar , Max Reimann , Amir Semmo , Sebastian Pasewaldt , Jürgen Döllner , Matthias Trapp

Capturing images under extremely low-light conditions poses significant challenges for the standard camera pipeline. Images become too dark and too noisy, which makes traditional enhancement techniques almost impossible to apply. Recently,…

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Synthetic polyp generation is a good alternative to overcome the privacy problem of medical data and the lack of various polyp samples. In this study, we propose a deep learning-based polyp image generation framework that generates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Hemin Ali Qadir , Ilangko Balasingham , Younghak Shin

We develop a framework for rendering photographic images, taking into account display limitations, so as to optimize perceptual similarity between the rendered image and the original scene. We formulate this as a constrained optimization…

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Creative generation is the synthesis of new, surprising, and valuable samples that reflect user intent yet cannot be envisioned in advance. This task aims to extend human imagination, enabling the discovery of visual concepts that exist in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shelly Golan , Yotam Nitzan , Zongze Wu , Or Patashnik

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

A head-mounted display (HMD) could be an important component of augmented reality system. However, as the upper face region is seriously occluded by the device, the user experience could be affected in applications such as telecommunication…

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When one captures images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility. This poor quality may significantly degrade the performance of many computer vision and multimedia algorithms that are primarily designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Xiaojie Guo

This paper presents a novel method to deal with the challenging task of generating photographic images conditioned on semantic image descriptions. Our method introduces accompanying hierarchical-nested adversarial objectives inside the…

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We introduce an inversion based method, denoted as IMAge-Guided model INvErsion (IMAGINE), to generate high-quality and diverse images from only a single training sample. We leverage the knowledge of image semantics from a pre-trained…

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