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Recent advancements in diffusion models have showcased their impressive capacity to generate visually striking images. Nevertheless, ensuring a close match between the generated image and the given prompt remains a persistent challenge. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yupeng Zhou , Daquan Zhou , Zuo-Liang Zhu , Yaxing Wang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Lensless cameras provide a framework to build thin imaging systems by replacing the lens in a conventional camera with an amplitude or phase mask near the sensor. Existing methods for lensless imaging can recover the depth and intensity of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-19 Yucheng Zheng , Yi Hua , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , M. Salman Asif

We present a minimalistic but effective neural network that computes dense facial correspondences in highly unconstrained RGB images. Our network learns a per-pixel flow and a matchability mask between 2D input photographs of a person and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Ronald Yu , Shunsuke Saito , Haoxiang Li , Duygu Ceylan , Hao Li

Existing face relighting methods often struggle with two problems: maintaining the local facial details of the subject and accurately removing and synthesizing shadows in the relit image, especially hard shadows. We propose a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Andrew Hou , Ze Zhang , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Yiying Tong , Xiaoming Liu

Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Rangel Daroya , Luisa Vieira Lucchese , Travis Simmons , Punwath Prum , Tamlin Pavelsky , John Gardner , Colin J. Gleason , Subhransu Maji

Recognising and locating image patches or sets of image features is an important task underlying much work in computer vision. Traditionally this has been accomplished using template matching. However, template matching is notoriously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 M. W. Spratling

Image inpainting, the task of reconstructing missing segments in corrupted images using available data, faces challenges in ensuring consistency and fidelity, especially under information-scarce conditions. Traditional evaluation methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Tianyi Chen , Jianfu Zhang , Yan Hong , Yiyi Zhang , Liqing Zhang

Image completion is a task that aims to fill in the missing region of a masked image with plausible contents. However, existing image completion methods tend to fill in the missing region with the surrounding texture instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Jinoh Cho , Minguk Kang , Vibhav Vineet , Jaesik Park

Recently, masked image modeling (MIM) has gained considerable attention due to its capacity to learn from vast amounts of unlabeled data and has been demonstrated to be effective on a wide variety of vision tasks involving natural images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Zekai Chen , Devansh Agarwal , Kshitij Aggarwal , Wiem Safta , Samit Hirawat , Venkat Sethuraman , Mariann Micsinai Balan , Kevin Brown

Cutting out an object and estimating its opacity mask, known as image matting, is a key task in image and video editing. Due to the highly ill-posed issue, additional inputs, typically user-defined trimaps or scribbles, are usually needed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Jiawei Wu , Changqing Zhang , Zuoyong Li , Huazhu Fu , Xi Peng , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Object recognition has seen significant progress in the image domain, with focus primarily on 2D perception. We propose to leverage existing large-scale datasets of 3D models to understand the underlying 3D structure of objects seen in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Weicheng Kuo , Anelia Angelova , Tsung-Yi Lin , Angela Dai

The use of AI systems in healthcare for the early screening of diseases is of great clinical importance. Deep learning has shown great promise in medical imaging, but the reliability and trustworthiness of AI systems limit their deployment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Ke Zou , Zhihao Chen , Xuedong Yuan , Xiaojing Shen , Meng Wang , Huazhu Fu

Masking strategies commonly employed in natural language processing are still underexplored in vision tasks such as concept learning, where conventional methods typically rely on full images. However, using masked images diversifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuwei Sun , Lu Mi , Ippei Fujisawa , Ruiqiao Mei , Jimin Chen , Siyu Zhu , Ryota Kanai

Uncertainty estimation has been widely studied in medical image segmentation as a tool to provide reliability, particularly in deep learning approaches. However, previous methods generally lack effective supervision in uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuzhu Li , An Sui , Fuping Wu , Xiahai Zhuang

Supervised masking approaches in the time-frequency domain aim to employ deep neural networks to estimate a multiplicative mask to extract clean speech. This leads to a single estimate for each input without any guarantees or measures of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Huajian Fang , Dennis Becker , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

Most image restoration problems are ill-conditioned or ill-posed and hence involve significant uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty is crucial for reliably interpreting experimental results, particularly when reconstructed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jasper M. Everink , Bernardin Tamo Amougou , Marcelo Pereyra

In Visual Place Recognition (VPR) the pose of a query image is estimated by comparing the image to a map of reference images with known reference poses. As is typical for image retrieval problems, a feature extractor maps the query and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mubariz Zaffar , Liangliang Nan , Julian F. P. Kooij

Recently neural scene representations have provided very impressive results for representing 3D scenes visually, however, their study and progress have mainly been limited to visualization of virtual models in computer graphics or scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Yassine Ahmine , Arnab Dey , Andrew I. Comport

Aleatoric uncertainty is an intrinsic property of ill-posed inverse and imaging problems. Its quantification is vital for assessing the reliability of relevant point estimates. In this paper, we propose an efficient framework for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Chen Zhang , Bangti Jin

Uncertainty estimation is essential to make neural networks trustworthy in real-world applications. Extensive research efforts have been made to quantify and reduce predictive uncertainty. However, most existing works are designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Myong Chol Jung , He Zhao , Joanna Dipnall , Belinda Gabbe , Lan Du