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Modern face recognition (FR) models excel in constrained scenarios, but often suffer from decreased performance when deployed in unconstrained (real-world) environments due to uncertainties surrounding the quality of the captured facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Žiga Babnik , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

The latest developments in Face Restoration have yielded significant advancements in visual quality through the utilization of diverse diffusion priors. Nevertheless, the uncertainty of face identity introduced by identity-obscure inputs…

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Recent advances in imaging and high-performance computing have made it possible to image the entire human brain at the cellular level. This is the basis to study the multi-scale architecture of the brain regarding its subdivision into brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Jan-Oliver Kropp , Christian Schiffer , Katrin Amunts , Timo Dickscheid

Long-tailed imbalance distribution is a common issue in practical computer vision applications. Previous works proposed methods to address this problem, which can be categorized into several classes: re-sampling, re-weighting, transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Pengxiao Han , Changkun Ye , Jieming Zhou , Jing Zhang , Jie Hong , Xuesong Li

Blind face restoration from low-quality (LQ) images is a challenging task that requires not only high-fidelity image reconstruction but also the preservation of facial identity. While diffusion models like Stable Diffusion have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Runyi Li , Bin Chen , Jian Zhang , Radu Timofte

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved promising performance in image restoration but haven't been explored for stereo images. The application of DM in stereo image restoration is confronted with a series of challenges. The need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Huiyun Cao , Yuan Shi , Bin Xia , Xiaoyu Jin , Wenming Yang

Free-form image inpainting is the task of reconstructing parts of an image specified by an arbitrary binary mask. In this task, it is typically desired to generalize model capabilities to unseen mask types, rather than learning certain mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Moein Heidari , Alireza Morsali , Tohid Abedini , Samin Heydarian

Diffusion models (DM) have achieved remarkable promise in image super-resolution (SR). However, most of them are tailored to solving non-blind inverse problems with fixed known degradation settings, limiting their adaptability to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Feng Li , Yixuan Wu , Zichao Liang , Runmin Cong , Huihui Bai , Yao Zhao , Meng Wang

Atmospheric turbulence introduces severe spatial and geometric distortions, challenging traditional image restoration methods. We propose the Probabilistic Prior Turbulence Removal Network (PPTRN), which combines probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Guodong Sun , Qixiang Ma , Liqiang Zhang , Hongwei Wang , Zixuan Gao , Haotian Zhang

Recovering degraded low-resolution text images is challenging, especially for Chinese text images with complex strokes and severe degradation in real-world scenarios. Ensuring both text fidelity and style realness is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yuzhe Zhang , Jiawei Zhang , Hao Li , Zhouxia Wang , Luwei Hou , Dongqing Zou , Liheng Bian

Deep learning-based automated diagnosis of lung cancer has emerged as a crucial advancement that enables healthcare professionals to detect and initiate treatment earlier. However, these models require extensive training datasets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Aryan Goyal , Ashish Mittal , Pranav Rao , Manoj Tadepalli , Preetham Putha

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

Diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) recently becomes one of the hottest topic in computer vision. Its image generation application such as Imagen, Latent Diffusion Models and Stable Diffusion have shown impressive generation capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Junde Wu , Rao Fu , Huihui Fang , Yu Zhang , Yehui Yang , Haoyi Xiong , Huiying Liu , Yanwu Xu

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a time-efficient approach to quantitative MRI, enabling the mapping of multiple tissue properties from a single, accelerated scan. However, achieving accurate reconstructions remains challenging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Perla Mayo , Carolin M. Pirkl , Alin Achim , Bjoern H. Menze , Mohammad Golbabaee

Face restoration under complex degradations still remains an ill-posed inverse problem due to severe information loss. Although diffusion models benefit from strong generative priors, most methods still condition only on low-quality inputs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zirui Wang , Xianhui Lin , Yi Dong , Bo Wei , Gangjian Zhang , Siteng Ma , Zebiao Zheng , Xing Liu , Hong Gu , Minjing Dong

Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) is a sensitive optical imaging technology widely used in biomedical research. However, the ill-posedness of the inverse problem poses a huge challenge to FMT reconstruction. Although end-to-end deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Peng Zhang , Qianqian Xue , Xingyu Liu , Guanglei Zhang , Wenjian Wang , Jiye Liang

The Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) has recently gained popularity in the field of computer vision, thanks to its image generation applications, such as Imagen, Latent Diffusion Models, and Stable Diffusion, which have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Junde Wu , Wei Ji , Huazhu Fu , Min Xu , Yueming Jin , Yanwu Xu

Blind face restoration usually synthesizes degraded low-quality data with a pre-defined degradation model for training, while more complex cases could happen in the real world. This gap between the assumed and actual degradation hurts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhixin Wang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ziying Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Mingyuan Zhou , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Although many long-range imaging systems are designed to support extended vision applications, a natural obstacle to their operation is degradation due to atmospheric turbulence. Atmospheric turbulence causes significant degradation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

This work focuses on the problem of reconstructing a 3D human body mesh from a given 2D image. Despite the inherent ambiguity of the task of human mesh recovery, most existing works have adopted a method of regressing a single output. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hanbyel Cho , Junmo Kim