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Image inpainting is a fundamental task in computer vision, aiming to restore missing or corrupted regions in images realistically. While recent deep learning approaches have significantly advanced the state-of-the-art, challenges remain in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Benjamin Fein-Ashley

Video inpainting is the task of filling a region in a video in a visually convincing manner. It is very challenging due to the high dimensionality of the data and the temporal consistency required for obtaining convincing results. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nicolas Cherel , Andrés Almansa , Yann Gousseau , Alasdair Newson

Recently, text-to-image denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have demonstrated impressive image generation capabilities and have also been successfully applied to image inpainting. However, in practice, users often require more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Shiyuan Yang , Xiaodong Chen , Jing Liao

Despite the fact that DeepFake forgery detection algorithms have achieved impressive performance on known manipulations, they often face disastrous performance degradation when generalized to an unseen manipulation. Some recent works show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Chuer Yu , Xuhong Zhang , Yuxuan Duan , Senbo Yan , Zonghui Wang , Yang Xiang , Shouling Ji , Wenzhi Chen

Video inpainting, which aims to restore corrupted video content, has experienced substantial progress. Despite these advances, existing methods, whether propagating unmasked region pixels through optical flow and receptive field priors, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yuxuan Bian , Zhaoyang Zhang , Xuan Ju , Mingdeng Cao , Liangbin Xie , Ying Shan , Qiang Xu

E-commerce image generation has always been one of the core demands in the e-commerce field. The goal is to restore the missing background that matches the main product given. In the post-AIGC era, diffusion models are primarily used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Guandong Li

We present a deep learning approach for high resolution face completion with multiple controllable attributes (e.g., male and smiling) under arbitrary masks. Face completion entails understanding both structural meaningfulness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Zeyuan Chen , Shaoliang Nie , Tianfu Wu , Christopher G. Healey

Video inpainting, which aims at filling in missing regions of a video, remains challenging due to the difficulty of preserving the precise spatial and temporal coherence of video contents. In this work we propose a novel flow-guided video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Rui Xu , Xiaoxiao Li , Bolei Zhou , Chen Change Loy

Face image quality is an important factor in facial recognition systems as its verification and recognition accuracy is highly dependent on the quality of image presented. Rejecting low quality images can significantly increase the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Vishal Agarwal

Recent progress in face restoration has shifted from visual fidelity to identity fidelity, driving a transition from reference-free to reference-based paradigms that condition restoration on reference images of the same person. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Teer Song , Yue Zhang , Yu Tian , Ziyang Wang , Xianlin Zhang , Guixuan Zhang , Xuan Liu , Xueming Li , Yasen Zhang

Image inpainting has achieved fundamental advances with deep learning. However, almost all existing inpainting methods aim to process natural images, while few target Thermal Infrared (TIR) images, which have widespread applications. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zeyu Wang , Haibin Shen , Changyou Men , Quan Sun , Kejie Huang

In the past decades, automated high-content microscopy demonstrated its ability to deliver large quantities of image-based data powering the versatility of phenotypic drug screening and systems biology applications. However, as the sizes of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Vaibhav Sharma , Artur Yakimovich

Blind Face Restoration aims to recover high-fidelity, detail-rich facial images from unknown degraded inputs, presenting significant challenges in preserving both identity and detail. Pre-trained diffusion models have been increasingly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Huu-Phu Do , Yu-Wei Chen , Yi-Cheng Liao , Chi-Wei Hsiao , Han-Yang Wang , Wei-Chen Chiu , Ching-Chun Huang

Face retrieval has received much attention over the past few decades, and many efforts have been made in retrieving face images against pose, illumination, and expression variations. However, the conventional works fail to meet the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 BingZhang Hu , Feng Zheng , Ling Shao

Recent image inpainting methods show promising results due to the power of deep learning, which can explore external information available from a large training dataset. However, many state-of-the-art inpainting networks are still limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Eunhye Lee , Jeongmu Kim , Jisu Kim , Tae Hyun Kim

Facial attribute editing plays a crucial role in synthesizing realistic faces with specific characteristics while maintaining realistic appearances. Despite advancements, challenges persist in achieving precise, 3D-aware attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yu-Kai Huang , Yutong Zheng , Yen-Shuo Su , Anudeepsekhar Bolimera , Han Zhang , Fangyi Chen , Marios Savvides

Face frontalization refers to the process of synthesizing the frontal view of a face from a given profile. Due to self-occlusion and appearance distortion in the wild, it is extremely challenging to recover faithful results and preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Jie Cao , Yibo Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

This paper proposes a mask optimization method for improving the quality of object removal using image inpainting. While many inpainting methods are trained with a set of random masks, a target for inpainting may be an object, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kodai Shimosato , Norimichi Ukita

In recent years, groundbreaking advancements in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) have triggered a transformative paradigm shift, significantly influencing various domains. In this work, we specifically explore an integrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Felipe Rodrigues Perche-Mahlow , André Felipe-Zanella , William Alberto Cruz-Castañeda , Marcellus Amadeus

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