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One of the core components in online multiple object tracking (MOT) frameworks is associating new detections with existing tracklets, typically done via a scoring function. Despite the great advances in MOT, designing a reliable scoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Fatemeh Saleh , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Mathieu Salzmann , Stephen Gould

Image inpainting is the task of filling in missing or masked region of an image with semantically meaningful contents. Recent methods have shown significant improvement in dealing with large-scale missing regions. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Wanglong Lu , Xianta Jiang , Xiaogang Jin , Yong-Liang Yang , Minglun Gong , Tao Wang , Kaijie Shi , Hanli Zhao

Image inpainting is the art of predicting damaged regions of an image. The manual way of image inpainting is a time consuming. Therefore, there must be an automatic digital method for image inpainting that recovers the image from the…

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Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced generative deep learning for image processing. Measurement conditioned models have also been applied to inverse problems such as CT reconstruction. However, the conventional approach,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Matthew Tivnan , Dufan Wu , Quanzheng Li

Metal artifact reduction (MAR) in computed tomography (CT) is a notoriously challenging task because the artifacts are structured and non-local in the image domain. However, they are inherently local in the sinogram domain. Thus, one…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Yuanyuan Lyu , Wei-An Lin , Haofu Liao , Jingjing Lu , S. Kevin Zhou

Recent advances in machine learning have greatly benefited object detection and 6D pose estimation. However, textureless and metallic objects still pose a significant challenge due to few visual cues and the texture bias of CNNs. To address…

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Filtered back projection (FBP) is the most widely used method for image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners. The presence of hyper-dense materials in a scene, such as metals, can strongly attenuate X-rays, producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Muhammad Usman Ghani , W. Clem Karl

Medical image reconstruction with pre-trained score-based generative models (SGMs) has advantages over other existing state-of-the-art deep-learned reconstruction methods, including improved resilience to different scanner setups and…

This study introduces a novel method for inpainting normal maps using a generative adversarial network (GAN). Normal maps, often derived from a lightstage, are crucial in performance capture but can have obscured areas due to movement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hancheng Zuo , Bernard Tiddeman

Image inpainting is one of the important tasks in computer vision which focuses on the reconstruction of missing regions in an image. The aim of this paper is to introduce an image inpainting model based on Wasserstein Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Daniel Vašata , Tomáš Halama , Magda Friedjungová

Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a powerful tool for biomedical studies. It achieves 3D visualization of mesoscopic biological samples with high spatial resolution using conventional tomographic-reconstruction algorithms. However,…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 Yan Liu , Jonathan Dong , Thanh-an Pham , François Marelli , Michael Unser

In the presence of metal implants, metal artifacts are introduced to x-ray CT images. Although a large number of metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods have been proposed in the past decades, MAR is still one of the major problems in…

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We propose a system for surface completion and inpainting of 3D shapes using generative models, learnt on local patches. Our method uses a novel encoding of height map based local patches parameterized using 3D mesh quadrangulation of the…

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Metal artifacts in Dental CBCT severely obscure anatomical structures, hindering diagnosis. Current deep learning for Metal Artifact Reduction (MAR) faces limitations: supervised methods suffer from spectral blurring due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Zhi Li , Yaqi Wang , Bingtao Ma , Yifan Zhang , Huiyu Zhou , Shuai Wang

In several image acquisition and processing steps of X-ray radiography, knowledge of the existence of metal implants and their exact position is highly beneficial (e.g. dose regulation, image contrast adjustment). Another application which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Fuxin Fan , Ludwig Ritschl , Marcel Beister , Ramyar Biniazan , Björn Kreher , Tristan M. Gottschalk , Steffen Kappler , Andreas Maier

The presence of metallic implants often introduces severe metal artifacts in the X-ray CT images, which could adversely influence clinical diagnosis or dose calculation in radiation therapy. In this work, we present a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Lequan Yu , Zhicheng Zhang , Xiaomeng Li , Hongyi Ren , Wei Zhao , Lei Xing

Motion artifacts can compromise the diagnostic value of computed tomography (CT) images. Motion correction approaches require a per-scan estimation of patient-specific motion patterns. In this work, we train a score-based model to act as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Mareike Thies , Noah Maul , Siyuan Mei , Laura Pfaff , Nastassia Vysotskaya , Mingxuan Gu , Jonas Utz , Dennis Possart , Lukas Folle , Fabian Wagner , Andreas Maier

Recent GAN-based image inpainting approaches adopt an average strategy to discriminate the generated image and output a scalar, which inevitably lose the position information of visual artifacts. Moreover, the adversarial loss and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Ruisong Zhang , Weize Quan , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Dong-Ming Yan

This paper presents a novel approach to inpainting 3D regions of a scene, given masked multi-view images, by distilling a 2D diffusion model into a learned 3D scene representation (e.g. a NeRF). Unlike 3D generative methods that explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Kira Prabhu , Jane Wu , Lynn Tsai , Peter Hedman , Dan B Goldman , Ben Poole , Michael Broxton

The aim of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of removing the image Moire artifacts caused by system inaccuracies in grating-based x-ray interferometry imaging system via convolutional neural network (CNN) technique. Instead of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jianwei Chen , Jiongtao Zhu , Wei Shi , Hairong Zheng , Dong Liang , Yongshuai Ge