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This paper proposes a novel deep learning-based video object matting method that can achieve temporally coherent matting results. Its key component is an attention-based temporal aggregation module that maximizes image matting networks'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Yunke Zhang , Chi Wang , Miaomiao Cui , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie , Xian-sheng Hua , Hujun Bao , Qixing Huang , Weiwei Xu

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in low-level vision tasks, such as image super-resolution. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through attribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Jiantao Zhou , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Medical images like CT and MRI provide detailed information about the internal structure of the body, and identifying key anatomical structures from these images plays a crucial role in clinical workflows. Current methods treat it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xiaoyu Bai , Yong Xia

In addition to low light, night images suffer degradation from light effects (e.g., glare, floodlight, etc). However, existing nighttime visibility enhancement methods generally focus on low-light regions, which neglects, or even amplifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shufan Pei , Junhong Lin , Wenxi Liu , Tiesong Zhao , Chia-Wen Lin

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

Imaging through dense fog presents unique challenges, with essential visual information crucial for applications like object detection and recognition obscured, thereby hindering conventional image processing methods. Despite improvements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Libang Chen , Jinyan Lin , Qihang Bian , Yikun Liu , Jianying Zhou

Semantic segmentation in very high resolution (VHR) aerial images is one of the most challenging tasks in remote sensing image understanding. Most of the current approaches are based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Ruigang Niu , Xian Sun , Yu Tian , Wenhui Diao , Kaiqiang Chen , Kun Fu

End-to-end scene text spotting, which unifies text detection and recognition within a single framework, has witnessed remarkable progress driven by deep learning advances. However, most existing approaches still suffer from incomplete mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Antonio Colombo , Giovanni Bianchi

Deep hashing methods have been proved to be effective for the large-scale medical image search assisting reference-based diagnosis for clinicians. However, when the salient region plays a maximal discriminative role in ophthalmic image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Jiansheng Fang , Yanwu Xu , Xiaoqing Zhang , Yan Hu , Jiang Liu

Single image dehazing is a challenging ill-posed restoration problem. Various prior-based and learning-based methods have been proposed. Most of them follow a classic atmospheric scattering model which is an elegant simplified physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Kangfu Mei , Aiwen Jiang , Juncheng Li , Mingwen Wang

Existing image enhancement methods fall short of expectations because with them it is difficult to improve global and local image contrast simultaneously. To address this problem, we propose a histogram equalization-based method that adapts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Xiaomeng Wu , Takahito Kawanishi , Kunio Kashino

Advances in high dynamic range (HDR) lighting estimation from a single image have opened new possibilities for augmented reality (AR) applications. Predicting complex lighting environments from a single input image allows for the realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zitian Zhang , Joshua Urban Davis , Jeanne Phuong Anh Vu , Jiangtao Kuang , Jean-François Lalonde

Image dehazing is a crucial task that involves the enhancement of degraded images to recover their sharpness and textures. While vision Transformers have exhibited impressive results in diverse dehazing tasks, their quadratic complexity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xiongfei Su , Siyuan Li , Yuning Cui , Miao Cao , Yulun Zhang , Zheng Chen , Zongliang Wu , Zedong Wang , Yuanlong Zhang , Xin Yuan

This paper proposes an unsupervised bottom-up saliency detection approach by aggregating complementary background template with refinement. Feature vectors are extracted from each superpixel to cover regional color, contrast and texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Chenxing Xia , Hanling Zhang , Xiuju Gao

Mask-guided matting networks have achieved significant improvements and have shown great potential in practical applications in recent years. However, simply learning matting representation from synthetic and lack-of-real-world-diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Weihao Jiang , Zhaozhi Xie , Yuxiang Lu , Longjie Qi , Jingyong Cai , Hiroyuki Uchiyama , Bin Chen , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu

Image-text retrieval (ITR) is a challenging task in the field of multimodal information processing due to the semantic gap between different modalities. In recent years, researchers have made great progress in exploring the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jie Guo , Meiting Wang , Yan Zhou , Bin Song , Yuhao Chi , Wei Fan , Jianglong Chang

Multimodal hateful content detection is a challenging task that requires complex reasoning across visual and textual modalities. Therefore, creating a meaningful multimodal representation that effectively captures the interplay between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Eftekhar Hossain , Omar Sharif , Mohammed Moshiul Hoque , Sarah M. Preum

Global context information is vital in visual understanding problems, especially in pixel-level semantic segmentation. The mainstream methods adopt the self-attention mechanism to model global context information. However, pixels belonging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Yanwen Chong , Congchong Nie , Yulong Tao , Xiaoshu Chen , Shaoming Pan

Although deep learning has yielded impressive performance for face recognition, many studies have shown that different networks learn different feature maps: while some networks are more receptive to pose and illumination others appear to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Navaneeth Bodla , Jingxiao Zheng , Hongyu Xu , Jun-Cheng Chen , Carlos Castillo , Rama Chellappa

We present a lightweight model for high resolution portrait matting. The model does not use any auxiliary inputs such as trimaps or background captures and achieves real time performance for HD videos and near real time for 4K. Our model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yatao Zhong , Ilya Zharkov