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Blind face restoration aims at recovering high-quality face images from those with unknown degradations. Current algorithms mainly introduce priors to complement high-quality details and achieve impressive progress. However, most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhouxia Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Tianshui Chen , Wenping Wang , Ping Luo

Transformer, the model of choice for natural language processing, has drawn scant attention from the medical imaging community. Given the ability to exploit long-term dependencies, transformers are promising to help atypical convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Hong-Yu Zhou , Jiansen Guo , Yinghao Zhang , Lequan Yu , Liansheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Convolutional neural networks and attention mechanisms have greatly benefited remote sensing change detection (RSCD) because of their outstanding discriminative ability. Existent RSCD methods often follow a paradigm of using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xiaowen Ma , Zhenkai Wu , Mengting Ma , Mengjiao Zhao , Fan Yang , Zhenhong Du , Wei Zhang

Since convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well at learning generalizable image priors from large-scale data, these models have been extensively applied to image restoration and related tasks. Recently, another class of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The CNN-based methods have achieved impressive results in medical image segmentation, but they failed to capture the long-range dependencies due to the inherent locality of the convolution operation. Transformer-based methods are recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Xiaohong Huang , Zhifang Deng , Dandan Li , Xueguang Yuan

Attention mechanisms have been very popular in deep neural networks, where the Transformer architecture has achieved great success in not only natural language processing but also visual recognition applications. Recently, a new Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Zhi Hou , Baosheng Yu , Chaoyue Wang , Yibing Zhan , Dacheng Tao

Accurately modeling the effects of illumination and shadows during head rotation is critical in computer vision for enhancing image realism and reducing artifacts. This study delves into the latent space of denoising diffusion models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Andrea Asperti , Gabriele Colasuonno , Antonio Guerra

Panoramic image enables deeper understanding and more holistic perception of $360^\circ$ surrounding environment, which can naturally encode enriched scene context information compared to standard perspective image. Previous work has made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yuan Dong , Chuan Fang , Liefeng Bo , Zilong Dong , Ping Tan

Image restoration tasks traditionally rely on convolutional neural networks. However, given the local nature of the convolutional operator, they struggle to capture global information. The promise of attention mechanisms in Transformers is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Amirhosein Ghasemabadi , Muhammad Kamran Janjua , Mohammad Salameh , Chunhua Zhou , Fengyu Sun , Di Niu

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

In this paper, we propose a novel low-light image enhancement method aimed at improving the performance of recognition models. Despite recent advances in deep learning, the recognition of images under low-light conditions remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

While local-window self-attention performs notably in vision tasks, it suffers from limited receptive field and weak modeling capability issues. This is mainly because it performs self-attention within non-overlapped windows and shares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Qiang Chen , Qiman Wu , Jian Wang , Qinghao Hu , Tao Hu , Errui Ding , Jian Cheng , Jingdong Wang

Shadow removal aims to restore images that are partially degraded by shadows, where the degradation is spatially localized and non-uniform. Unlike general restoration tasks that assume global degradation, shadow removal can leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Linhao Li , Boya Jin , Zizhe Li , Lanqing Guo , Hao Cheng , Bo Li , Yongfeng Dong

Image restoration is a long-standing low-level vision problem that aims to restore high-quality images from low-quality images (e.g., downscaled, noisy and compressed images). While state-of-the-art image restoration methods are based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Jingyun Liang , Jiezhang Cao , Guolei Sun , Kai Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Convolutional neural networks have made significant progresses in edge detection by progressively exploring the context and semantic features. However, local details are gradually suppressed with the enlarging of receptive fields. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Mengyang Pu , Yaping Huang , Yuming Liu , Qingji Guan , Haibin Ling

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is critical for the effective analysis and interpretation of hyperspectral data. However, simultaneously modeling global and local features is rarely explored to enhance HSI denoising. In this letter, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Shuai Hu , Feng Gao , Xiaowei Zhou , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Illumination degradation image restoration (IDIR) techniques aim to improve the visibility of degraded images and mitigate the adverse effects of deteriorated illumination. Among these algorithms, diffusion model (DM)-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunming He , Chengyu Fang , Yulun Zhang , Tian Ye , Kai Li , Longxiang Tang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li , Sina Farsiu

The depth completion task is a critical problem in autonomous driving, involving the generation of dense depth maps from sparse depth maps and RGB images. Most existing methods employ a spatial propagation network to iteratively refine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ming Yuan , Chuang Zhang , Lei He , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

Data-driven depth estimation methods struggle with the generalization outside their training scenes due to the immense variability of the real-world scenes. This problem can be partially addressed by utilising synthetically generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Maxim Maximov , Kevin Galim , Laura Leal-Taixé

Mesh denoising, aimed at removing noise from input meshes while preserving their feature structures, is a practical yet challenging task. Despite the remarkable progress in learning-based mesh denoising methodologies in recent years, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji