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Although remarkable progress has been made, existing methods for enhancing underexposed photos tend to produce visually unpleasing results due to the existence of visual artifacts (e.g., color distortion, loss of details and uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Qing Zhang , Yongwei Nie , Lei Zhu , Chunxia Xiao , Wei-Shi Zheng

This study introduces a novel framework for enhancing domain generalization in medical imaging, specifically focusing on utilizing unlabelled multi-view colour fundus photographs. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on single-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ze Chen , Gongyu Zhang , Jiayu Huo , Joan Nunez do Rio , Charalampos Komninos , Yang Liu , Rachel Sparks , Sebastien Ourselin , Christos Bergeles , Timothy Jackson

For medical diagnosis based on retinal images, a clear understanding of 3D structure is often required but due to the 2D nature of images captured, we cannot infer that information. However, by utilizing 3D reconstruction methods, we can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Peyman Tahghighi , Reza A. Zoroofi , Sare Safi , Alireza Ramezani

Retinal fundus photography is indispensable for ophthalmic screening and diagnosis, yet image quality is often degraded by noise, artifacts, and uneven illumination. Recent GAN- and diffusion-based enhancement methods improve perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yujian Xiong , Xuanzhao Dong , Wenhui Zhu , Xin Li , Oana Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

Deep learning-based image restoration methods generally struggle with faithfully preserving the structures of the original image. In this work, we propose a novel Residual-Conditioned Optimal Transport (RCOT) approach, which models image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaole Tang , Xin Hu , Xiang Gu , Jian Sun

High fidelity segmentation of both macro and microvascular structure of the retina plays a pivotal role in determining degenerative retinal diseases, yet it is a difficult problem. Due to successive resolution loss in the encoding phase…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sharif Amit Kamran , Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , Stewart Lee Zuckerbrod , Kenton M. Sanders , Salah A. Baker

We propose a unified Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for controllable image-to-image translation, i.e., transferring an image from a source to a target domain guided by controllable structures. In addition to conditioning on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Hao Tang , Hong Liu , Nicu Sebe

Image captured under low-light conditions presents unpleasing artifacts, which debilitate the performance of feature extraction for many upstream visual tasks. Low-light image enhancement aims at improving brightness and contrast, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Zhijian Luo , Jiahui Tang , Yueen Hou , Zihan Huang , Yanzeng Gao

Generative models are widely employed to enhance the photorealism of visual synthetic data for training computer vision algorithms. However, they often introduce visual artifacts that degrade the accuracy of these algorithms and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Stefanos Pasios , Nikos Nikolaidis

Image-to-Image Translation is a vital area of computer vision that focuses on transforming images from one visual domain to another while preserving their core content and structure. However, this field faces two major challenges: first,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Wanchen Zhao

Deep learning based image enhancement models have largely improved the readability of fundus images in order to decrease the uncertainty of clinical observations and the risk of misdiagnosis. However, due to the difficulty of acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Erjian Guo , Huazhu Fu , Luping Zhou , Dong Xu

Recently, much progress has been made in unsupervised denoising learning. However, existing methods more or less rely on some assumptions on the signal and/or degradation model, which limits their practical performance. How to construct an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Wei Wang , Fei Wen , Zeyu Yan , Peilin Liu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of unsupervised machine learning algorithms that can produce realistic images from randomly-sampled vectors in a multi-dimensional space. Until recently, it was not possible to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Andrew Beers , James Brown , Ken Chang , J. Peter Campbell , Susan Ostmo , Michael F. Chiang , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

Restoring images from low-light data is a challenging problem. Most existing deep-network based algorithms are designed to be trained with pairwise images. Due to the lack of real-world datasets, they usually perform poorly when generalized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Yangyang Qu , Chao liu , Yongsheng Ou

Fine-grained text to image synthesis involves generating images from texts that belong to different categories. In contrast to general text to image synthesis, in fine-grained synthesis there is high similarity between images of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xu Ouyang , Ying Chen , Kaiyue Zhu , Gady Agam

The performance of diagnostic Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems for retinal diseases depends on the quality of the retinal images being screened. Thus, many studies have been developed to evaluate and assess the quality of such retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Saif Khalid , Hatem A. Rashwan , Saddam Abdulwahab , Mohamed Abdel-Nasser , Facundo Manuel Quiroga , Domenec Puig

Ophthalmologists have used fundus images to screen and diagnose eye diseases. However, different equipments and ophthalmologists pose large variations to the quality of fundus images. Low-quality (LQ) degraded fundus images easily lead to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Zhuo Deng , Yuanhao Cai , Lu Chen , Zheng Gong , Qiqi Bao , Xue Yao , Dong Fang , Shaochong Zhang , Lan Ma

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have ushered in a revolution in image-to-image translation. The development and proliferation of GANs raises an interesting question: can we train a GAN to remove an object, if present, from an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-30 Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee , Zongwei Zhou , Nima Tajbakhsh , Ruibin Feng , Michael B. Gotway , Yoshua Bengio , Jianming Liang

In Fluorescein Angiography (FA), an exogenous dye is injected in the bloodstream to image the vascular structure of the retina. The injected dye can cause adverse reactions such as nausea, vomiting, anaphylactic shock, and even death. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Sharif Amit Kamran , Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , Stewart Lee Zuckerbrod , Salah A. Baker

Segmentation of retinal vessels from retinal fundus images is the key step in the automatic retinal image analysis. In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised automatic method to segment the retinal vessels from retinal fundus images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Renoh Johnson Chalakkal , Waleed Abdulla