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In this paper, we present a novel image inpainting technique using frequency domain information. Prior works on image inpainting predict the missing pixels by training neural networks using only the spatial domain information. However,…

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When approaching a novel visual recognition problem in a specialized image domain, a common strategy is to start with a pre-trained deep neural network and fine-tune it to the specialized domain. If the target domain covers a smaller visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Frederick Tung , Srikanth Muralidharan , Greg Mori

In the field of fusing multi-spectral and panchromatic images (Pan-sharpening), the impressive effectiveness of deep neural networks has been recently employed to overcome the drawbacks of traditional linear models and boost the fusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Yancong Wei , Qiangqiang Yuan , Huanfeng Shen , Liangpei Zhang

Infrared and visible image fusion, as a hot topic in image processing and image enhancement, aims to produce fused images retaining the detail texture information in visible images and the thermal radiation information in infrared images. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Kai Sun , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu

Also recently, exciting strides forward have been made in the area of image restoration, particularly for image denoising and single image super-resolution. Deep learning techniques contributed to this significantly. The top methods differ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Jiqing Wu , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

We present Decomposer, a semi-supervised reconstruction model that decomposes distorted image sequences into their fundamental building blocks - the original image and the applied augmentations, i.e., shadow, light, and occlusions. To solve…

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This paper presents a new method for shadow removal using unpaired data, enabling us to avoid tedious annotations and obtain more diverse training samples. However, directly employing adversarial learning and cycle-consistency constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xiaowei Hu , Yitong Jiang , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Although deep learning has enabled a huge leap forward in image inpainting, current methods are often unable to synthesize realistic high-frequency details. In this paper, we propose applying super-resolution to coarsely reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Soo Ye Kim , Kfir Aberman , Nori Kanazawa , Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Huiwen Chang , Nikhil Karnad , Munchurl Kim , Orly Liba

We present a unified framework tackling two problems: class-specific 3D reconstruction from a single image, and generation of new 3D shape samples. These tasks have received considerable attention recently; however, most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Paul Henderson , Vittorio Ferrari

Image inpainting is a restoration method that reconstructs missing image parts. However, a carefully selected mask of known pixels that yield a high quality inpainting can also act as a sparse image representation. This challenging spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Pascal Peter

Global pandemic due to the spread of COVID-19 has post challenges in a new dimension on facial recognition, where people start to wear masks. Under such condition, the authors consider utilizing machine learning in image inpainting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhengyang Han , Zehao Jiang , Yuan Ju

Model fusion seeks to combine independently trained neural networks into a single model without retraining, but is complicated by representational divergence arising from permutation invariance, random initialization, and heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Phoomraphee Luenam , Andreas Spanopoulos , Amit Sant , Thomas Hofmann , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Sidak Pal Singh

The single image super-resolution(SISR) algorithms under deep learning currently have two main models, one based on convolutional neural networks and the other based on Transformer. The former uses the stacking of convolutional layers with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Li Ke , Liu Yukai

Intrinsic Image Decomposition is an open problem of generating the constituents of an image. Generating reflectance and shading from a single image is a challenging task specifically when there is no ground truth. There is a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Harshana Weligampola , Gihan Jayatilaka , Suren Sritharan , Parakrama Ekanayake , Roshan Ragel , Vijitha Herath , Roshan Godaliyadda

Shadows are a common factor degrading image quality. Single-image shadow removal (SR), particularly under challenging indirect illumination, is hampered by non-uniform content degradation and inherent ambiguity. Consequently, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yu-Fan Lin , Chia-Ming Lee , Chih-Chung Hsu

Image inpainting is an important task in computer vision. As admirable methods are presented, the inpainted image is getting closer to reality. However, the result is still not good enough in the reconstructed texture and structure based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Tsung-Jung Liu , Bo-Wei Chen , Kuan-Hsien Liu

Deep learning based fusion methods have been achieving promising performance in image fusion tasks. This is attributed to the network architecture that plays a very important role in the fusion process. However, in general, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hui Li , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Jiwen Lu , Josef Kittler

Diffusion-based inpainting can reconstruct missing image areas with high quality from sparse data, provided that their location and their values are well optimised. This is particularly useful for applications such as image compression,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Pascal Peter , Karl Schrader , Tobias Alt , Joachim Weickert

In this paper, we make the first attempt to align diffusion models for image inpainting with human aesthetic standards via a reinforcement learning framework, significantly improving the quality and visual appeal of inpainted images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kendong Liu , Zhiyu Zhu , Chuanhao Li , Hui Liu , Huanqiang Zeng , Junhui Hou

Previous works have shown that convolutional neural networks can achieve good performance in image denoising tasks. However, limited by the local rigid convolutional operation, these methods lead to oversmoothing artifacts. A deeper network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Meng Chang , Qi Li , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu