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In this paper, we propose an image matting framework called Salient Image Matting to estimate the per-pixel opacity value of the most salient foreground in an image. To deal with a large amount of semantic diversity in images, a trimap is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Rahul Deora , Rishab Sharma , Dinesh Samuel Sathia Raj

Bridging global context interactions correctly is important for high-fidelity image completion with large masks. Previous methods attempting this via deep or large receptive field (RF) convolutions cannot escape from the dominance of nearby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Chuanxia Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

Infrared and visible image fusion, a hot topic in the field of image processing, aims at obtaining fused images keeping the advantages of source images. This paper proposes a novel auto-encoder (AE) based fusion network. The core idea is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Zixiang Zhao , Shuang Xu , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu , Pengfei Li , Jiangshe Zhang

In recent years, deep learning has become a very active research tool which is used in many image processing fields. In this paper, we propose an effective image fusion method using a deep learning framework to generate a single image which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Image matting is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. Most existing matting methods leverage a user-supplied trimap as an auxiliary input to produce good alpha matte. However, obtaining high-quality trimap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tianyi Wei , Dongdong Chen , Wenbo Zhou , Jing Liao , Hanqing Zhao , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

The fusion of visible light and infrared images has garnered significant attention in the field of imaging due to its pivotal role in various applications, including surveillance, remote sensing, and medical imaging. Therefore, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xu Song , Yongbiao Xiao , Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Jun Sun , Vasile Palade

Most deep learning based image inpainting approaches adopt autoencoder or its variants to fill missing regions in images. Encoders are usually utilized to learn powerful representational spaces, which are important for dealing with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Xin Ma , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Huaibo Huang , Zhenhua Chai , Xiaolin Wei , Ran He

In this work, we propose a novel unsupervised deep learning model to address multi-focus image fusion problem. First, we train an encoder-decoder network in unsupervised manner to acquire deep feature of input images. And then we utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Boyuan Ma , Xiaojuan Ban , Haiyou Huang , Yu Zhu

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is an important task in image processing that aims to generate well-exposed images in scenes with varying illumination. Although existing multi-exposure fusion methods have achieved impressive results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jun Xiao , Qian Ye , Tianshan Liu , Cong Zhang , Kin-Man Lam

Over the past decades, numerous Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models have emerged, aiming to predict the perceptual quality of images. However, individual models are often biased toward certain types of image content or distortions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhongling Wang , Raymond Zhou , Shahrukh Athar , Wenbo Yang , Zhou Wang

Computer vision is difficult, partly because the desired mathematical function connecting input and output data is often complex, fuzzy and thus hard to learn. Coarse-to-fine (C2F) learning is a promising direction, but it remains unclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xutong Ren , Lingxi Xie , Chen Wei , Siyuan Qiao , Chi Su , Jiaying Liu , Qi Tian , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

Conventional techniques to establish dense correspondences across visually or semantically similar images focused on designing a task-specific matching prior, which is difficult to model. To overcome this, recent learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Sunghwan Hong , Seungryong Kim

We present a novel two-view geometry estimation framework which is based on a differentiable robust loss function fitting. We propose to treat the robust fundamental matrix estimation as an implicit layer, which allows us to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Vladislav Pyatov , Iaroslav Koshelev , Stamatis Lefkimmiatis

Image matching, which aims to identify corresponding pixel locations between images, is crucial in a wide range of scientific disciplines, aiding in image registration, fusion, and analysis. In recent years, deep learning-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xingyi He , Hao Yu , Sida Peng , Dongli Tan , Zehong Shen , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

Visual compatibility is critical for fashion analysis, yet is missing in existing fashion image synthesis systems. In this paper, we propose to explicitly model visual compatibility through fashion image inpainting. To this end, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Xintong Han , Zuxuan Wu , Weilin Huang , Matthew R. Scott , Larry S. Davis

In this paper, we present a novel deep learning architecture for infrared and visible images fusion problem. In contrast to conventional convolutional networks, our encoding network is combined by convolutional layers, fusion layer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

Image matting is an important computer vision problem. Many existing matting methods require a hand-made trimap to provide auxiliary information, which is very expensive and limits the real world usage. Recently, some trimap-free methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Hang Cheng , Shugong Xu , Xiufeng Jiang , Rongrong Wang

Models for image representation learning are typically designed for either recognition or generation. Various forms of contrastive learning help models learn to convert images to embeddings that are useful for classification, detection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthew Gwilliam , Xiao Wang , Xuefeng Hu , Zhenheng Yang

Understanding the mechanisms underlying deep neural networks remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning and computer vision. One promising, yet only preliminarily explored approach, is feature inversion, which attempts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jan Rathjens , Shirin Reyhanian , David Kappel , Laurenz Wiskott

We introduce in-context matting, a novel task setting of image matting. Given a reference image of a certain foreground and guided priors such as points, scribbles, and masks, in-context matting enables automatic alpha estimation on a batch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 He Guo , Zixuan Ye , Zhiguo Cao , Hao Lu