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Modern digital cameras rely on the sequential execution of separate image processing steps to produce realistic images. The first two steps are usually related to denoising and demosaicking where the former aims to reduce noise from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Videos captured by consumer cameras often exhibit temporal variations in color and tone that are caused by camera auto-adjustments like white-balance and exposure. When such videos are sub-sampled to play fast-forward, as in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Xuaner Cecilia Zhang , Joon-Young Lee , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Zhaowen Wang

Binarization plays a key role in the automatic information retrieval from document images. This process is usually performed in the first stages of documents analysis systems, and serves as a basis for subsequent steps. Hence it has to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Antonio-Javier Gallego

Image noise is ubiquitous in photography. However, image noise is not compressible nor desirable, thus attempting to convey the noise in compressed image bitstreams yields sub-par results in both rate and distortion. We propose to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Benoit Brummer , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Image harmonization aims to modify the color of the composited region with respect to the specific background. Previous works model this task as a pixel-wise image-to-image translation using UNet family structures. However, the model size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jingtang Liang , Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun , Jue Wang

When it comes to image compression in digital cameras, denoising is traditionally performed prior to compression. However, there are applications where image noise may be necessary to demonstrate the trustworthiness of the image, such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Mateen Ulhaq , Hyomin Choi , Ivan V. Bajić

Image hazing aims to render a hazy image from a given clean one, which could be applied to a variety of practical applications such as gaming, filming, photographic filtering, and image dehazing. To generate plausible haze, we study two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Boyun Li , Yijie Lin , Xiao Liu , Peng Hu , Jiancheng Lv , Xi Peng

Video composition aims to generate a composite video by combining the foreground of one video with the background of another video, but the inserted foreground may be incompatible with the background in terms of color and illumination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xinyuan Lu , Shengyuan Huang , Li Niu , Wenyan Cong , Liqing Zhang

Image enhancement aims at improving the information content of original image for a specific purpose. This purpose could be for visual interpretation or for effective extraction of required details. Nevertheless, some acquired images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 E Onyedinma , I Onyenwe , H Inyiama

Learning-based image harmonization techniques are usually trained to undo synthetic random global transformations applied to a masked foreground in a single ground truth photo. This simulated data does not model many of the important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ke Wang , Michaël Gharbi , He Zhang , Zhihao Xia , Eli Shechtman

Presence of haze in images obscures underlying information, which is undesirable in applications requiring accurate environment information. To recover such an image, a dehazing algorithm should localize and recover affected regions while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Pranjay Shyam , Kuk-Jin Yoon , Kyung-Soo Kim

Traditional dehazing techniques, as a well studied topic in image processing, are now widely used to eliminate the haze effects from individual images. However, even the state-of-the-art dehazing algorithms may not provide sufficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Meihua Wang , Jiaming Mai , Yun Liang , Tom Z. J. Fu , Zhenjie Zhang , Ruichu Cai

Accurate and fast sea horizon detection is vital for tasks in autonomous navigation and maritime security, such as video stabilization, target region reduction, precise tracking, and obstacle avoidance. This paper introduces a novel sea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yassir Zardoua , Boulaala Mohammed , Mhamed El Mrabet , Astito Abdelali

Unifying visual understanding and generation within a single multimodal framework remains a significant challenge, as the two inherently heterogeneous tasks require representations at different levels of granularity. Current approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Lumin Xu , Sheng Jin , Zhonghua Wu , Qingyi Tao , Wentao Liu , Wei Li , Chen Change Loy

Nighttime image dehazing remains a challenging low-level vision problem due to the joint presence of haze, glow, non-uniform illumination, color distortion, and sensor noise, which often invalidate assumptions commonly used in daytime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mohammad Heydari , Wei Dong , Shahram Shirani , Jun Chen , Han Zhou

Accurately capturing dynamic scenes with wide-ranging motion and light intensity is crucial for many vision applications. However, acquiring high-speed high dynamic range (HDR) video is challenging because the camera's frame rate restricts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Caixin Wang , Jie Zhang , Matthew A. Wilson , Ralph Etienne-Cummings

With the inexorable digitalisation of the modern world, every subset in the field of technology goes through major advancements constantly. One such subset is digital images which are ever so popular. Images can not always be as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Prashanth Venkataraman

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm to directly restore a clear image from a hazy input. The proposed algorithm hinges on an end-to-end trainable neural network that consists of an encoder and a decoder. The encoder is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Wenqi Ren , Lin Ma , Jiawei Zhang , Jinshan Pan , Xiaochun Cao , Wei Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

High dynamic range (HDR) video reconstruction from sequences captured with alternating exposures is a very challenging problem. Existing methods often align low dynamic range (LDR) input sequence in the image space using optical flow, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Guanying Chen , Chaofeng Chen , Shi Guo , Zhetong Liang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Lei Zhang

We introduce harmonization, an ensembling method that combines several "noisy" decoders to generate highly accurate decoding predictions. Harmonized ensembles of MWPM-based decoders achieve lower logical error rates than their individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Noah Shutty , Michael Newman , Benjamin Villalonga