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Ultra-high-resolution text-to-image generation is increasingly vital for applications requiring fine-grained textures and global structural fidelity, yet state-of-the-art text-to-image diffusion models such as FLUX and SD3 remain confined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yuyao Zhang , Yu-Wing Tai

The importance of hierarchical image organization has been witnessed by a wide spectrum of applications in computer vision and graphics. Different from image segmentation with the spatial whole-part consideration, this work designs a modern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Fu Yuanbin , Guoxiaojie , Hu Qiming , Lin Di , Ma Jiayi , Ling Haibin

Standard single-image super-resolution (SR) upsamples and restores entire images. Yet several real-world applications require higher resolutions only in specific regions, such as license plates or faces, making the super-resolution of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Bo Ji , Angela Yao

In real-world applications of image recognition tasks, such as human pose estimation, cameras often capture objects, like human bodies, at low resolutions. This scenario poses a challenge in extracting and leveraging multi-scale features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Xiangyong Lu , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Recently, deep convolutional neural network methods have achieved an excellent performance in image superresolution (SR), but they can not be easily applied to embedded devices due to large memory cost. To solve this problem, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Huapeng Wu , Jie Gui , Jun Zhang , James T. Kwok , Zhihui Wei

Although the lightweight Vision Transformer has significantly advanced image super-resolution (SR), it faces the inherent challenge of a limited receptive field due to the window-based self-attention modeling. The quadratic computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Wenyang Liu , Chen Cai , Jianjun Gao , Kejun Wu , Yi Wang , Kim-Hui Yap , Lap-Pui Chau

Spatial attention mechanism has been widely incorporated into deep neural networks (DNNs), significantly lifting the performance in computer vision tasks via long-range dependency modeling. However, it may perform poorly in medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Xiaoqing Zhang , Zunjie Xiao , Xiao Wu , Yanlin Chen , Jilu Zhao , Yan Hu , Jiang Liu

Image super-resolution (SR) is a technique to recover lost high-frequency information in low-resolution (LR) images. Spatial-domain information has been widely exploited to implement image SR, so a new trend is to involve frequency-domain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 Jing Fang , Yinbo Yu , Zhongyuan Wang , Xin Ding , Ruimin Hu

High-quality pixel-level annotations of medical images are essential for supervised segmentation tasks, but obtaining such annotations is costly and requires medical expertise. To address this challenge, we propose a novel coarse-to-fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Anghong Du , Nay Aung , Theodoros N. Arvanitis , Stefan K. Piechnik , Joao A C Lima , Steffen E. Petersen , Le Zhang

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is intensively implemented to solve super resolution (SR) tasks because of its superior performance. However, the problem of super resolution is still challenging due to the lack of prior knowledge and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Yuxin Zhang , Zuquan Zheng , Roland Hu

Learning continuous image representations is recently gaining popularity for image super-resolution (SR) because of its ability to reconstruct high-resolution images with arbitrary scales from low-resolution inputs. Existing methods mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Jiezhang Cao , Qin Wang , Yongqin Xian , Yawei Li , Bingbing Ni , Zhiming Pi , Kai Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Recently, there have been significant advancements in Image Restoration based on CNN and transformer. However, the inherent characteristics of the Image Restoration task are often overlooked in many works. They, instead, tend to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Dongqi Fan , Ting Yue , Xin Zhao , Renjing Xu , Liang Chang

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels typically uses Class Activation Maps (CAM) to achieve dense predictions. Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has provided an alternative to generate localization maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Zhiwei Yang , Yucong Meng , Kexue Fu , Shuo Wang , Zhijian Song

Intra-class variations in the open world lead to various challenges in classification tasks. To overcome these challenges, fine-grained classification was introduced, and many approaches were proposed. Some rely on locating and using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Salwa Al Khatib , Mohamed El Amine Boudjoghra , Jameel Hassan

Image-to-point cloud registration aims to determine the relative camera pose between an RGB image and a reference point cloud, serving as a general solution for locating 3D objects from 2D observations. Matching individual points with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Gongxin Yao , Yixin Xuan , Yiwei Chen , Yu Pan

Superpixel segmentation is becoming ubiquitous in computer vision. In practice, an object can either be represented by a number of segments in finer levels of detail or included in a surrounding region at coarser levels of detail, and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Xing Wei , Qingxiong Yang , Yihong Gong , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Narendra Ahuja

This paper tackles the problem of motion deblurring of dynamic scenes. Although end-to-end fully convolutional designs have recently advanced the state-of-the-art in non-uniform motion deblurring, their performance-complexity trade-off is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Maitreya Suin , Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan

This work tackles the fidelity objective in the perceptual super-resolution~(SR). Specifically, we address the shortcomings of pixel-level $L_\text{p}$ loss ($\mathcal{L}_\text{pix}$) in the GAN-based SR framework. Since $L_\text{pix}$ is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 MinKyu Lee , Sangeek Hyun , Woojin Jun , Jae-Pil Heo

Local and non-local attention-based methods have been well studied in various image restoration tasks while leading to promising performance. However, most of the existing methods solely focus on one type of attention mechanism (local or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Chong Mou , Jian Zhang , Xiaopeng Fan , Hangfan Liu , Ronggang Wang

The recent use of diffusion prior, enhanced by pre-trained text-image models, has markedly elevated the performance of image super-resolution (SR). To alleviate the huge computational cost required by pixel-based diffusion SR, latent-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Feng Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Jun Zhang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang