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Standard Adjacency Spectral Embedding (ASE) relies on a global low-rank assumption often incompatible with the sparse, transitive structure of real-world networks, causing local geometric features to be 'smeared'. To address this, we…

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Instruction-based image editing (IIE) aims to modify images according to textual instructions while preserving irrelevant content. Despite recent advances in diffusion transformers, existing methods often suffer from over-editing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jingxuan He , Xiyu Wang , Mengyu Zheng , Xiangyu Zeng , Yunke Wang , Chang Xu

Recently, we have witnessed great progress in the field of medical imaging classification by adopting deep neural networks. However, the recent advanced models still require accessing sufficiently large and representative datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Haoliang Li , YuFei Wang , Renjie Wan , Shiqi Wang , Tie-Qiang Li , Alex C. Kot

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a meaningful but challenging task, and many learning-based UIE methods have been proposed in recent years. Although much progress has been made, these methods still exist two issues: (1) There exists a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhengyong Wang , Liquan Shen , Yihan Yu , Yuan Hui

Benefiting from the vigorous development of deep learning, many CNN-based image super-resolution methods have emerged and achieved better results than traditional algorithms. However, it is difficult for most algorithms to adaptively adjust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yuxi Cai , Huicheng Lai , Zhenghong Jia

Enhancing the visibility of nighttime hazy images is challenging due to the complex degradation distributions. Existing methods mainly address a single type of degradation (e.g., haze or low-light) at a time, ignoring the interplay of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Chen Zhu , Huiwen Zhang , Mu He , Yujie Li , Xiaotian Qiao

Image restoration is the task of recovering a clean image from a degraded version. In most cases, the degradation is spatially varying, and it requires the restoration network to both localize and restore the affected regions. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Maitreya Suin , Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan

Regularization techniques are crucial to improving the generalization performance and training efficiency of deep neural networks. Many deep learning algorithms rely on weight decay, dropout, batch/layer normalization to converge faster and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Peng Lu , Ahmad Rashid , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Philippe Langlais

This paper presents a detailed examination of low-light visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) pipelines, focusing on the integration of state-of-the-art (SOTA) low-light image enhancement algorithms with standard and…

Ultra-high resolution image segmentation has raised increasing interests in recent years due to its realistic applications. In this paper, we innovate the widely used high-resolution image segmentation pipeline, in which an ultra-high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Wenxi Liu , Qi Li , Xindai Lin , Weixiang Yang , Shengfeng He , Yuanlong Yu

Building facial analysis systems that generalize to extreme variations in lighting and facial expressions is a challenging problem that can potentially be alleviated using natural-looking synthetic data. Towards that, we propose LEGAN, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Sandipan Banerjee , Ajjen Joshi , Prashant Mahajan , Sneha Bhattacharya , Survi Kyal , Taniya Mishra

Light adaptation or brightness correction is a key step in improving the contrast and visual appeal of an image. There are multiple light-related tasks (for example, low-light enhancement and exposure correction) and previous studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Kai-Fu Yang , Cheng Cheng , Shi-Xuan Zhao , Xian-Shi Zhang , Yong-Jie Li

Images captured in weak illumination conditions could seriously degrade the image quality. Solving a series of degradation of low-light images can effectively improve the visual quality of images and the performance of high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiang Hai , Zhu Xuan , Songchen Han , Ren Yang , Yutong Hao , Fengzhu Zou , Fang Lin

Image enhancement is a common technique used to mitigate issues such as severe noise, low brightness, low contrast, and color deviation in low-light images. However, providing an optimal high-light image as a reference for low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Junde Wu , Rao Fu , Yong Li , Yue Wang , Yanwu Xu , Guohui Yang , Chunhui Wang

Generalization in medical segmentation models is challenging due to limited annotated datasets and imaging variability. To address this, we propose Retinal Layout-Aware Diffusion (RLAD), a novel diffusion-based framework for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jonathan Fhima , Jan Van Eijgen , Lennert Beeckmans , Thomas Jacobs , Moti Freiman , Luis Filipe Nakayama , Ingeborg Stalmans , Chaim Baskin , Joachim A. Behar

Seeing clearly with high resolution is a foundation of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), which has been proven to be vital for visual perception and reasoning. Existing works usually employ a straightforward resolution upscaling method, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yi-Fan Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Chaoyou Fu , Xue Wang , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Rong Jin

Digital artists often improve the aesthetic quality of digital photographs through manual retouching. Beyond global adjustments, professional image editing programs provide local adjustment tools operating on specific parts of an image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Sean Moran , Pierre Marza , Steven McDonagh , Sarah Parisot , Gregory Slabaugh

Vision language models (VLMs) have seen growing adoption in recent years, but many still struggle with basic spatial reasoning errors. We hypothesize that this is due to VLMs adopting pre-trained vision backbones, specifically vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ian Covert , Tony Sun , James Zou , Tatsunori Hashimoto

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

Face recognition remains a challenging task in unconstrained scenarios, especially when faces are partially occluded. To improve the robustness against occlusion, augmenting the training images with artificial occlusions has been proved as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mingjie He , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan , Xiao Liu , Zhongqin Wu , Xilin Chen