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We address the problem of image translation between domains or modalities for which no direct paired data is available (i.e. zero-pair translation). We propose mix and match networks, based on multiple encoders and decoders aligned in such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Yaxing Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Luis Herranz

The way features propagate in Fully Convolutional Networks is of momentous importance to capture multi-scale contexts for obtaining precise segmentation masks. This paper proposes a novel series-parallel hybrid paradigm called the Chained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Quan Tang , Fagui Liu , Tong Zhang , Jun Jiang , Yu Zhang

Due to the difficulty of solving the matting problem, lots of methods use some kinds of assistance to acquire high quality alpha matte. Green screen matting methods rely on physical equipment. Trimap-based methods take manual interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jinlin Liu

Bilinear pooling has been recently proposed as a feature encoding layer, which can be used after the convolutional layers of a deep network, to improve performance in multiple vision tasks. Different from conventional global average pooling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Mengran Gou , Fei Xiong , Octavia Camps , Mario Sznaier

Two factors have proven to be very important to the performance of semantic segmentation models: global context and multi-level semantics. However, generating features that capture both factors always leads to high computational complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Qi Song , Kangfu Mei , Rui Huang

Vision-language large models are moving toward the unification of visual understanding and visual generation tasks. However, whether generation can enhance understanding is still under-explored on large data scale. In this work, we analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Fengjiao Chen , Minhao Jing , Weitao Lu , Yan Feng , Xiaoyu Li , Xuezhi Cao

Natural image matting separates the foreground from background in fractional occupancy which can be caused by highly transparent objects, complex foreground (e.g., net or tree), and/or objects containing very fine details (e.g., hairs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yanan Sun , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

Semantic segmentation is challenging as it requires both object-level information and pixel-level accuracy. Recently, FCN-based systems gained great improvement in this area. Unlike classification networks, combining features of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Haiming Sun , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

Unsupervised meta-learning aims to learn feature representations from unsupervised datasets that can transfer to downstream tasks with limited labeled data. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to unsupervised meta-learning that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Anna Vettoruzzo , Lorenzo Braccaioli , Joaquin Vanschoren , Marlena Nowaczyk

Deep networks for stereo matching typically leverage 2D or 3D convolutional encoder-decoder architectures to aggregate cost and regularize the cost volume for accurate disparity estimation. Due to content-insensitive convolutions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Changjiang Cai , Philippos Mordohai

This paper aims to learn a compact representation of a video for video face recognition task. We make the following contributions: first, we propose a meta attention-based aggregation scheme which adaptively and fine-grained weighs the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Zhaoxiang Liu , Huan Hu , Jinqiang Bai , Shaohua Li , Shiguo Lian

Modern cameras are equipped with a wide array of sensors that enable recording the geospatial context of an image. Taking advantage of this, we explore depth estimation under the assumption that the camera is geocalibrated, a problem we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Scott Workman , Hunter Blanton

Recently, plain vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance on various computer vision tasks, thanks to their strong modeling capacity and large-scale pretraining. However, they have not yet conquered the problem of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Shusheng Yang , Baoyuan Wang

Increasingly many real world tasks involve data in multiple modalities or views. This has motivated the development of many effective algorithms for learning a common latent space to relate multiple domains. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Tanmoy Mukherjee , Makoto Yamada , Timothy M. Hospedales

Recent work in neural machine translation has demonstrated both the necessity and feasibility of using inter-sentential context -- context from sentences other than those currently being translated. However, while many current methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Patrick Fernandes , Kayo Yin , Graham Neubig , André F. T. Martins

Recent enhancements of deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) empowered by enormous amounts of labeled data have closed the gap with human performance for many object recognition tasks. These impressive results have generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Aysegul Dundar , Ignacio Garcia-Dorado

Image-text retrieval requires the system to bridge the heterogenous gap between vision and language for accurate retrieval while keeping the network lightweight-enough for efficient retrieval. Existing trade-off solutions mainly study from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiamin Zhuang , Jing Yu , Yang Ding , Xiangyan Qu , Yue Hu

Standard neural machine translation (NMT) is on the assumption of document-level context independent. Most existing document-level NMT methods are satisfied with a smattering sense of brief document-level information, while this work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Shu Jiang , Hai Zhao , Zuchao Li , Bao-Liang Lu

Image matting is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. Most existing matting methods leverage a user-supplied trimap as an auxiliary input to produce good alpha matte. However, obtaining high-quality trimap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tianyi Wei , Dongdong Chen , Wenbo Zhou , Jing Liao , Hanqing Zhao , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

The Non-Local Network (NLNet) presents a pioneering approach for capturing long-range dependencies within an image, via aggregating query-specific global context to each query position. However, through a rigorous empirical analysis, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Yue Cao , Jiarui Xu , Stephen Lin , Fangyun Wei , Han Hu