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Multispectral images (e.g. visible and infrared) may be particularly useful when detecting objects with the same model in different environments (e.g. day/night outdoor scenes). To effectively use the different spectra, the main technical…

Scene observation from multiple perspectives would bring a more comprehensive visual experience. However, in the context of acquiring multiple views in the dark, the highly correlated views are seriously alienated, making it challenging to…

Object detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision, aiming at locating and classifying objects in image. Although current devices can easily take very high-resolution images, current approaches of object detection seldom consider…

Existing methods detect the keypoints in a non-differentiable way, therefore they can not directly optimize the position of keypoints through back-propagation. To address this issue, we present a partially differentiable keypoint detection…

Real-world image matting is essential for applications in content creation and augmented reality. However, it remains challenging due to the complex nature of scenes and the scarcity of high-quality datasets. To address these limitations,…

Medical image segmentation has witnessed significant advancements with the emergence of deep learning. However, the reliance of most neural network models on a substantial amount of annotated data remains a challenge for medical image…

Enhancing low-light traffic images is crucial for reliable perception in autonomous driving, intelligent transportation, and urban surveillance systems. Nighttime and dimly lit traffic scenes often suffer from poor visibility due to low…

Self-supervised detection and segmentation of foreground objects aims for accuracy without annotated training data. However, existing approaches predominantly rely on restrictive assumptions on appearance and motion. For scenes with dynamic…

In industrial imaging, accurately detecting and distinguishing surface defects from noise is critical and challenging, particularly in complex environments with noisy data. This paper presents a hybrid framework that integrates both…

Spotting camouflaged objects that are visually assimilated into the background is tricky for both object detection algorithms and humans who are usually confused or cheated by the perfectly intrinsic similarities between the foreground…

Deep-learning based salient object detection methods achieve great progress. However, the variable scale and unknown category of salient objects are great challenges all the time. These are closely related to the utilization of multi-level…

3D object detection from monocular image(s) is a challenging and long-standing problem of computer vision. To combine information from different perspectives without troublesome 2D instance tracking, recent methods tend to aggregate…

Restoring images affected by various types of degradation, such as noise, blur, or improper exposure, remains a significant challenge in computer vision. While recent trends favor complex monolithic all-in-one architectures, these models…

The features used in many image analysis-based applications are frequently of very high dimension. Feature extraction offers several advantages in high-dimensional cases, and many recent studies have used multi-task feature extraction…

Convolutional neural network (CNN) based image enhancement methods such as super-resolution and detail enhancement have achieved remarkable performances. However, amounts of operations including convolution and parameters within the…

A major challenge for high dynamic range (HDR) image reconstruction from multi-exposed low dynamic range (LDR) images, especially with dynamic scenes, is the extraction and merging of relevant contextual features in order to suppress any…

Despite the growing success of Convolution neural networks (CNN) in the recent past in the task of scene segmentation, the standard models lack some of the important features that might result in sub-optimal segmentation outputs. The widely…

Fine-grained visual classification is a challenging task due to the high similarity between categories and distinct differences among data within one single category. To address the challenges, previous strategies have focused on localizing…

Occlusion is still a severe problem in the video-based Re-IDentification (Re-ID) task, which has a great impact on the success rate. The attention mechanism has been proved to be helpful in solving the occlusion problem by a large number of…

Nowadays, the majority of state of the art monocular depth estimation techniques are based on supervised deep learning models. However, collecting RGB images with associated depth maps is a very time consuming procedure. Therefore, recent…