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We present a novel task and dataset for evaluating the ability of vision and language models to conduct visio-linguistic compositional reasoning, which we call Winoground. Given two images and two captions, the goal is to match them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tristan Thrush , Ryan Jiang , Max Bartolo , Amanpreet Singh , Adina Williams , Douwe Kiela , Candace Ross

Photo composition is an important factor affecting the aesthetics in photography. However, it is a highly challenging task to model the aesthetic properties of good compositions due to the lack of globally applicable rules to the wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Yi-Ling Chen , Jan Klopp , Min Sun , Shao-Yi Chien , Kwan-Liu Ma

Cutting out an object and estimating its opacity mask, known as image matting, is a key task in many image editing applications. Deep learning approaches have made significant progress by adapting the encoder-decoder architecture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Marco Forte , François Pitié

Deep learning-based alpha matting showed tremendous improvements in recent years, yet, feature film production studios still rely on classical chroma keying including costly post-production steps. This perceived discrepancy can be explained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Hendrik Hachmann , Bodo Rosenhahn

Generative image composition aims to regenerate the given foreground object in the background image to produce a realistic composite image. Some high-authenticity methods can adjust foreground pose/view to be compatible with background,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jingyuan Wang , Li Niu

Given a composite image, image harmonization aims to adjust the foreground illumination to be consistent with background. Previous methods have explored transforming foreground features to achieve competitive performance. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Li Niu , Linfeng Tan , Xinhao Tao , Junyan Cao , Fengjun Guo , Teng Long , Liqing Zhang

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Image generation models trained on large datasets can synthesize high-quality images but often produce spatially inconsistent and distorted images due to limited information about the underlying structures and spatial layouts. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hyundo Lee , Suhyung Choi , Inwoo Hwang , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Deep learning models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in learning complex patterns and concepts from training data. However, recent findings indicate that these models tend to rely heavily on simple and easily discernible features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Raha Ahmadi , Mohammad Javad Rajabi , Mohammad Khalooie , Mohammad Sabokrou

Image harmonization aims to adjust the foreground illumination in a composite image to make it harmonious. The existing harmonization methods can only produce one deterministic result for a composite image, ignoring that a composite image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xinhao Tao , Tianyuan Qiu , Junyan Cao , Li Niu

High-precision scene parsing tasks, including image matting and dichotomous segmentation, aim to accurately predict masks with extremely fine details (such as hair). Most existing methods focus on salient, single foreground objects. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Haipeng Zhou , Zhaohu Xing , Hongqiu Wang , Jun Ma , Ping Li , Lei Zhu

Existing text-to-image diffusion models, while excelling at subject synthesis, exhibit a persistent foreground bias that treats the background as a passive and under-optimized byproduct. This imbalance compromises global scene coherence and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yang Deng , David Mould , Paul L. Rosin , Yu-Kun Lai

Natural image matting is an important problem in computer vision and graphics. It is an ill-posed problem when only an input image is available without any external information. While the recent deep learning approaches have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Qiqi Hou , Feng Liu

Image harmonization task aims at harmonizing different composite foreground regions according to specific background image. Previous methods would rather focus on improving the reconstruction ability of the generator by some internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jingtang Liang , Chi-Man Pun

The fine-tuning of deep pre-trained models has revealed compositional properties, with multiple specialized modules that can be arbitrarily composed into a single, multi-task model. However, identifying the conditions that promote…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Angelo Porrello , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Pietro Buzzega , Monica Millunzi , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

Modeling various aspects that make a music piece unique is a challenging task, requiring the combination of multiple sources of information. Deep learning is commonly used to obtain representations using various sources of information, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Andres Ferraro , Xavier Favory , Konstantinos Drossos , Yuntae Kim , Dmitry Bogdanov

Composition is a cornerstone of visual aesthetics, influencing the appeal of an image. While its principles operate independently of specific content, in practice, composition is often coupled with semantics. As a result, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Kai Zou , Zhiwei Zhao , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu

Image composition is an important operation in image processing, but the inconsistency between foreground and background significantly degrades the quality of composite image. Image harmonization, aiming to make the foreground compatible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wenyan Cong , Jianfu Zhang , Li Niu , Liu Liu , Zhixin Ling , Weiyuan Li , Liqing Zhang

The goal of image composition is merging a foreground object into a background image to obtain a realistic composite image. Recently, generative composition methods are built on large pretrained diffusion models, due to their unprecedented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Lingxiao Lu , Jiangtong Li , Bo Zhang , Li Niu