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Given a composite image, image harmonization aims to adjust the foreground illumination to be consistent with background. Previous methods have explored transforming foreground features to achieve competitive performance. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Li Niu , Linfeng Tan , Xinhao Tao , Junyan Cao , Fengjun Guo , Teng Long , Liqing Zhang

Hyperspectral and multispectral images fusion aims at integrating a low-resolution hyperspectral image (LR-HSI) and a high-resolution multispectral image (HR-MSI) to construct a high-resolution hyperspectral image (HR-HSI). It is generally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Ying Gao , Michael K. Ng , Chunfeng cui

Recent works on image harmonization solve the problem as a pixel-wise image translation task via large autoencoders. They have unsatisfactory performances and slow inference speeds when dealing with high-resolution images. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Zhanghan Ke , Chunyi Sun , Lei Zhu , Ke Xu , Rynson W. H. Lau

Retrospective MRI harmonization is limited by poor scalability across modalities and reliance on traveling subject datasets. To address these challenges, we introduce IHF-Harmony, a unified invertible hierarchy flow framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pengli Zhu , Yitao Zhu , Haowen Pang , Anqi Qiu

Image harmonization targets at adjusting the foreground in a composite image to make it compatible with the background, producing a more realistic and harmonious image. Training deep image harmonization network requires abundant training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Haoxu Huang , Li Niu

Image harmonization aims to generate a more realistic appearance of foreground and background for a composite image. Existing methods perform the same harmonization process for the whole foreground. However, the implanted foreground always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Jinlong Peng , Zekun Luo , Liang Liu , Boshen Zhang , Tao Wang , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Weiyao Lin

Content generation and manipulation approaches based on deep learning methods have seen significant advancements, leading to an increased need for techniques to detect whether an image has been generated or edited. Another area of research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Philip Wootaek Shin , Jack Sampson , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Andres Marquez , Mahantesh Halappanavar

Aggregating multi-site brain MRI data can enhance deep learning model training, but also introduces non-biological heterogeneity caused by site-specific variations (e.g., differences in scanner vendors, acquisition parameters, and imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Mengqi Wu , Yongheng Sun , Qianqian Wang , Pew-Thian Yap , Mingxia Liu

The ability to combine data across scanners and studies is vital for neuroimaging, to increase both statistical power and the representation of biological variability. However, combining datasets across sites leads to two challenges: first,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Nicola K Dinsdale , Mark Jenkinson , Ana IL Namburete

Purpose: Combining multi-site diffusion MRI (dMRI) data is hindered by inter-scanner variability, which confounds subsequent analysis. Previous harmonization methods require large, matched or traveling human subjects from multiple sites,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hwihun Jeong , Qiang Liu , Kathryn E. Keenan , Elisabeth A. Wilde , Walter Schneider , Sudhir Pathak , Anthony Zuccolotto , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Lipeng Ning , Yogesh Rathi

Image harmonization aims to adjust the foreground illumination in a composite image to make it harmonious. The existing harmonization methods can only produce one deterministic result for a composite image, ignoring that a composite image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xinhao Tao , Tianyuan Qiu , Junyan Cao , Li Niu

Image harmonization has been significantly advanced with large-scale harmonization dataset. However, the current way to build dataset is still labor-intensive, which adversely affects the extendability of dataset. To address this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Junyan Cao , Wenyan Cong , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Liqing Zhang

While remarkable advances have been made in Computed Tomography (CT), most of the existing efforts focus on imaging enhancement while reducing radiation dose. How to harmonize CT image data captured using different scanners is vital in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Md Selim , Jie Zhang , Baowei Fei , Guo-Qiang Zhang , Gary Yeeming Ge , Jin Chen

We propose a zero-shot approach to image harmonization, aiming to overcome the reliance on large amounts of synthetic composite images in existing methods. These methods, while showing promising results, involve significant training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jianqi Chen , Yilan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Keyan Chen , Zhenwei Shi

Image harmonization is an important preprocessing strategy to address domain shifts arising from data acquired using different machines and scanning protocols in medical imaging. However, benchmarking the effectiveness of harmonization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Abhijeet Parida , Zhifan Jiang , Roger J. Packer , Robert A. Avery , Syed M. Anwar , Marius G. Linguraru

In this paper we propose a new problem scenario in image processing, wide-range image blending, which aims to smoothly merge two different input photos into a panorama by generating novel image content for the intermediate region between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Chia-Ni Lu , Ya-Chu Chang , Wei-Chen Chiu

Deep learning holds immense promise for transforming medical image analysis, yet its clinical generalization remains profoundly limited. A major barrier is data heterogeneity. This is particularly true in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mehmet Yigit Avci , Pedro Borges , Virginia Fernandez , Paul Wright , Mehmet Yigitsoy , Sebastien Ourselin , Jorge Cardoso

In this paper, a fresh procedure to handle image mixtures by means of blind signal separation relying on a combination of second order and higher order statistics techniques are introduced. The problem of blind signal separation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Felipe P. do Carmo , Joaquim T. de Assis , Vania V. Estrela , Alessandra M. Coelho

Image harmonization is an important step in photo editing to achieve visual consistency in composite images by adjusting the appearances of foreground to make it compatible with background. Previous approaches to harmonize composites are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Konstantin Sofiiuk , Polina Popenova , Anton Konushin

Inharmonious region localization aims to localize the region in a synthetic image which is incompatible with surrounding background. The inharmony issue is mainly attributed to the color and illumination inconsistency produced by image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Jing Liang , Li Niu , Penghao Wu , Fengjun Guo , Teng Long