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Deployment of machine learning algorithms into real-world practice is still a difficult task. One of the challenges lies in the unpredictable variability of input data, which may differ significantly among individual users, institutions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Roman Stoklasa

Image harmonization aims to produce visually harmonious composite images by adjusting the foreground appearance to be compatible with the background. When the composite image has photographic foreground and painterly background, the task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Junyan Cao , Yan Hong , Li Niu

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

Image synthesis from corrupted contrasts increases the diversity of diagnostic information available for many neurological diseases. Recently the image-to-image translation has experienced significant levels of interest within medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Toan Duc Bui , Manh Nguyen , Ngan Le , Khoa Luu

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive imaging technique that can indirectly infer the microstructure of tissues and provide metrics which are subject to normal variability across subjects. Potentially abnormal values or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Samuel St-Jean , Max A. Viergever , Alexander Leemans

Image harmonization aims to improve the quality of image compositing by matching the "appearance" (\eg, color tone, brightness and contrast) between foreground and background images. However, collecting large-scale annotated datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Yifan Jiang , He Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Yilin Wang , Zhe Lin , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Simon Chen , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Sarah Kong , Zhangyang Wang

Vision-language contrastive learning frameworks such as CLIP enable learning representations from natural language supervision and provide strong zero-shot classification capabilities. However, due to the nature of the supervisory signal in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mohammed Baharoon , Jonathan Klein , Dominik L. Michels

The volume estimation of brain regions from MRI data is a key problem in many clinical applications, where the acquisition of data at high spatial resolution is desirable. While parallel MRI and constrained image reconstruction algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Aniket Pramanik , Xiaodong Wu , Mathews Jacob

The variability introduced by differences in MRI scanner models, acquisition protocols, and imaging sites hinders consistent analysis and generalizability across multicenter studies. We present a novel image-based harmonization framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Luca Caldera , Lara Cavinato , Francesca Ieva

Image composition is a fundamental operation in image editing field. However, unharmonious foreground and background downgrade the quality of composite image. Image harmonization, which adjusts the foreground to improve the consistency, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Wenyan Cong , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Jing Liang , Liqing Zhang

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used neuroimaging technique that can provide images of different contrasts (i.e., modalities). Fusing this multi-modal data has proven particularly effective for boosting model performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Tao Zhou , Huazhu Fu , Geng Chen , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Image color harmonization algorithm aims to automatically match the color distribution of foreground and background images captured in different conditions. Previous deep learning based models neglect two issues that are critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Ben Xue , Shenghui Ran , Quan Chen , Rongfei Jia , Binqiang Zhao , Xing Tang

Image alignment across domains has recently become one of the realistic and popular topics in the research community. In this problem, a deep learning-based image alignment method is usually trained on an available largescale database.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Thanh-Dat Truong , Khoa Luu , Chi Nhan Duong , Ngan Le , Minh-Triet Tran

Blind image restoration remains a significant challenge in low-level vision tasks. Recently, denoising diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis. Guided diffusion models, leveraging the potent generative priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jun Xiao , Zihang Lyu , Hao Xie , Cong Zhang , Yakun Ju , Changjian Shui , Kin-Man Lam

Previous harmonization methods focus on adjusting one inharmonious region in an image based on an input mask. They may face problems when dealing with different perturbations on different semantic regions without available input masks. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Xuqian Ren , Yifan Liu

This paper proposes the first non-flow-based deep framework for high dynamic range (HDR) imaging of dynamic scenes with large-scale foreground motions. In state-of-the-art deep HDR imaging, input images are first aligned using optical flows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Shangzhe Wu , Jiarui Xu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is central to the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, where the identification of biomarkers such as the central vein sign benefits from high-resolution images. However, most clinical brain MRI scans are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Matteo Cannas , Alice Mariottini , Luca Massacesi , Federica Porta , Simone Rebegoldi , Andrea Sebastiani

Traditional blind image SR methods need to model real-world degradations precisely. Consequently, current research struggles with this dilemma by assuming idealized degradations, which leads to limited applicability to actual user data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Brian B. Moser , Ahmed Anwar , Federico Raue , Stanislav Frolov , Andreas Dengel

Purpose: In the present work we describe the correction of diffusion-weighted MRI for site and scanner biases using a novel method based on invariant representation. Theory and Methods: Pooled imaging data from multiple sources are subject…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-04 Daniel Moyer , Greg Ver Steeg , Chantal M. W. Tax , Paul M. Thompson

Despite significant advancements in network-based image harmonization techniques, there still exists a domain disparity between typical training pairs and real-world composites encountered during inference. Most existing methods are trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Chris Careaga , S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh , Yağız Aksoy