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In this paper, we tackle the problem of enhancing real-world low-light images with significant noise in an unsupervised fashion. Conventional unsupervised learning-based approaches usually tackle the low-light image enhancement problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Wei Xiong , Ding Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

We introduce Adaptive Guided Upsampling (AGU), an efficient method for upscaling low-light images capable of optimizing multiple image quality characteristics at the same time, such as reducing noise and increasing sharpness. It is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Angela Vivian Dcosta , Chunbo Song , Rafael Radkowski

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Recently image-to-image translation has received increasing attention, which aims to map images in one domain to another specific one. Existing methods mainly solve this task via a deep generative model, and focus on exploring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Songyao Jiang , Zhiqiang Tao , Yun Fu

In the field of medical image analysis, there is a substantial need for high-resolution (HR) images to improve diagnostic accuracy. However, it is a challenging task to obtain HR medical images, as it requires advanced instruments and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Alireza Aghelan , Modjtaba Rouhani

This paper proposed a retinal image segmentation method based on conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) to segment optic disc. The proposed model consists of two successive networks: generator and discriminator. The generator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Vivek Kumar Singh , Hatem Rashwan , Farhan Akram , Nidhi Pandey , Md. Mostaf Kamal Sarker , Adel Saleh , Saddam Abdulwahab , Najlaa Maaroof , Santiago Romani , Domenec Puig

Imputation of missing images via source-to-target modality translation can improve diversity in medical imaging protocols. A pervasive approach for synthesizing target images involves one-shot mapping through generative adversarial networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Muzaffer Özbey , Onat Dalmaz , Salman UH Dar , Hasan A Bedel , Şaban Özturk , Alper Güngör , Tolga Çukur

Our research is motivated by the urgent global issue of a large population affected by retinal diseases, which are evenly distributed but underserved by specialized medical expertise, particularly in non-urban areas. Our primary objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Deependra Singh , Saksham Agarwal , Subhankar Mishra

Retinal fundus photographs have been used in the diagnosis of many ocular diseases such as glaucoma, pathological myopia, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. With the development of computer science, computer aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Jun Cheng , Zhengguo Li , Zaiwang Gu , Huazhu Fu , Damon Wing Kee Wong , Jiang Liu

State-of-the-art techniques in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in image-to-image translation from peer domain X to domain Y using paired image data. However, obtaining abundant paired data is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Xuewen Yang , Dongliang Xie , Xin Wang

The quality of a fundus image can be compromised by numerous factors, many of which are challenging to be appropriately and mathematically modeled. In this paper, we introduce a novel diffusion model based framework, named Learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Puijin Cheng , Li Lin , Yijin Huang , Huaqing He , Wenhan Luo , Xiaoying Tang

Unsupervised image-to-image translation aims to learn the translation between two visual domains without paired data. Despite the recent progress in image translation models, it remains challenging to build mappings between complex domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Shuai Yang , Liming Jiang , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Ultra-Wide-Field (UWF) retinal imaging has revolutionized retinal diagnostics by providing a comprehensive view of the retina. However, it often suffers from quality-degrading factors such as blurring and uneven illumination, which obscure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Weicheng Liao , Zan Chen , Jianyang Xie , Yalin Zheng , Yuhui Ma , Yitian Zhao

Despite the breakthroughs in quality of image enhancement, an end-to-end solution for simultaneous recovery of the finer texture details and sharpness for degraded images with low resolution is still unsolved. Some existing approaches focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Soumya Shubhra Ghosh , Yang Hua , Sankha Subhra Mukherjee , Neil Robertson

Recent advancements in ophthalmology foundation models such as RetFound have demonstrated remarkable diagnostic capabilities but require massive datasets for effective pre-training, creating significant barriers for development and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Qingshan Hou , Meng Wang , Peng Cao , Zou Ke , Xiaoli Liu , Huazhu Fu , Osmar R. Zaiane

We present an approach to enhancing the realism of synthetic images. The images are enhanced by a convolutional network that leverages intermediate representations produced by conventional rendering pipelines. The network is trained via a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Stephan R. Richter , Hassan Abu AlHaija , Vladlen Koltun

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have remarkably advanced in diverse domains, especially image generation and editing. However, the misuse of GANs for generating deceptive images, such as face replacement, raises significant security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Lei Zhang , Hao Chen , Shu Hu , Bin Zhu , Ching Sheng Lin , Xi Wu , Jinrong Hu , Xin Wang

In many unpaired image domain translation problems, e.g., style transfer or super-resolution, it is important to keep the translated image similar to its respective input image. We propose the extremal transport (ET) which is a mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Milena Gazdieva , Alexander Korotin , Daniil Selikhanovych , Evgeny Burnaev

This paper is on image and face super-resolution. The vast majority of prior work for this problem focus on how to increase the resolution of low-resolution images which are artificially generated by simple bilinear down-sampling (or in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Adrian Bulat , Jing Yang , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Diabetic retinopathy is the most important complication of diabetes. Early diagnosis of retinal lesions helps to avoid visual loss or blindness. Due to high-resolution and small-size lesion regions, applying existing methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Zizheng Yan , Xiaoguang Han , Changmiao Wang , Yuda Qiu , Zixiang Xiong , Shuguang Cui