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This paper proposes the first pure Transformer structure inversion network called SwinStyleformer, which can compensate for the shortcomings of the CNNs inversion framework by handling long-range dependencies and learning the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jiawei Mao , Guangyi Zhao , Xuesong Yin , Yuanqi Chang

Image matting aims to predict alpha values of elaborate uncertainty areas of natural images, like hairs, smoke, and spider web. However, existing methods perform poorly when faced with highly transparent foreground objects due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Huanqia Cai , Fanglei Xue , Lele Xu , Lili Guo

The effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks stems in large part from their ability to exploit the translation invariance that is inherent in many learning problems. Recently, it was shown that CNNs can exploit other invariances, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Emiel Hoogeboom , Jorn W. T. Peters , Taco S. Cohen , Max Welling

The translation equivariance of convolutional layers enables convolutional neural networks to generalize well on image problems. While translation equivariance provides a powerful inductive bias for images, we often additionally desire…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-25 Marc Finzi , Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Spherical image processing has been widely applied in many important fields, such as omnidirectional vision for autonomous cars, global climate modelling, and medical imaging. It is non-trivial to extend an algorithm developed for flat…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Jianfei Li , Chaoyan Huang , Raymond Chan , Han Feng , Micheal Ng , Tieyong Zeng

The Transformer architecture has achieved significant success in natural language processing, motivating its adaptation to computer vision tasks. Unlike convolutional neural networks, vision transformers inherently capture long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zherui Zhang , Rongtao Xu , Jie Zhou , Changwei Wang , Xingtian Pei , Wenhao Xu , Jiguang Zhang , Li Guo , Longxiang Gao , Wenbo Xu , Shibiao Xu

Controllable spherical panoramic image generation holds substantial applicative potential across a variety of domains.However, it remains a challenging task due to the inherent spherical distortion and geometry characteristics, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Tao Wu , Xuewei Li , Zhongang Qi , Di Hu , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Xi Li

In recent years the use of convolutional layers to encode an inductive bias (translational equivariance) in neural networks has proven to be a very fruitful idea. The successes of this approach have motivated a line of research into…

Simple image rotations significantly reduce the accuracy of deep neural networks. Moreover, training with all possible rotations increases the data set, which also increases the training duration. In this work, we address trainable rotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Wolfgang Fuhl , Enkelejda Kasneci

Convolutional networks are successful due to their equivariance/invariance under translations. However, rotatable data such as images, volumes, shapes, or point clouds require processing with equivariance/invariance under rotations in cases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Luca Della Libera , Vladimir Golkov , Yue Zhu , Arman Mielke , Daniel Cremers

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

Rotation invariance has been studied in the computer vision community primarily in the context of small in-plane rotations. This is usually achieved by building invariant image features. However, the problem of achieving invariance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lokesh Boominathan , Suraj Srinivas , R. Venkatesh Babu

Image optimization problems encompass many applications such as spectral fusion, deblurring, deconvolution, dehazing, matting, reflection removal and image interpolation, among others. With current image sizes in the order of megabytes, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Majed El Helou , Frederike Dümbgen , Radhakrishna Achanta , Sabine Süsstrunk

The Transformer architecture has revolutionized the field of deep learning over the past several years in diverse areas, including natural language processing, code generation, image recognition, time series forecasting, etc. We propose to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Hyosun Park , Yongsik Jo , Seokun Kang , Taehwan Kim , M. James Jee

We introduce the Convolutional Set Transformer (CST), a novel neural architecture designed to process image sets of arbitrary cardinality that are visually heterogeneous yet share high-level semantics - such as a common category, scene, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Federico Chinello , Giacomo Boracchi

Recovering the shape and appearance of real-world objects from natural 2D images is a long-standing and challenging inverse rendering problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid differentiable rendering method to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiangyang Zhu , Yiling Pan , Bailin Deng , Bin Wang

Restoring images captured under adverse weather conditions is a fundamental task for many computer vision applications. However, most existing weather restoration approaches are only capable of handling a specific type of degradation, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Ruoxi Zhu , Zhengzhong Tu , Jiaming Liu , Alan C. Bovik , Yibo Fan

The remarkable performance of the Transformer architecture in natural language processing has recently also triggered broad interest in Computer Vision. Among other merits, Transformers are witnessed as capable of learning long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Moein Heidari , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Amirali Molaei , Yiwei Jia , Abin Jose , Rijo Roy , Dorit Merhof

360{\deg} omnidirectional images have gained research attention due to their immersive and interactive experience, particularly in AR/VR applications. However, they suffer from lower angular resolution due to being captured by fisheye…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Xiaopeng Sun , Weiqi Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Qiufang Ma , Xuhan Sheng , Ming Cheng , Haoyu Ma , Shijie Zhao , Jian Zhang , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

We introduce inverse transport networks as a learning architecture for inverse rendering problems where, given input image measurements, we seek to infer physical scene parameters such as shape, material, and illumination. During training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Chengqian Che , Fujun Luan , Shuang Zhao , Kavita Bala , Ioannis Gkioulekas