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Single image de-raining is an extremely challenging problem since the rainy image may contain rain streaks which may vary in size, direction and density. Previous approaches have attempted to address this problem by leveraging some prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M. Patel

We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires monocular endoscopic videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Xingtong Liu , Ayushi Sinha , Masaru Ishii , Gregory D. Hager , Austin Reiter , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

Precise delineation of organs at risk (OAR) is a crucial task in radiotherapy treatment planning, which aims at delivering high dose to the tumour while sparing healthy tissues. In recent years algorithms showed high performance and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Tobias Fechter , Sonja Adebahr , Dimos Baltas , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers , Jose Dolz

Detecting slender, overlapping structures remains a challenge in computational microscopy. While recent coordinate-based approaches improve detection, they often produce less accurate splines than pixel-based methods. We introduce a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Frans Zdyb , Albert Alonso , Julius B. Kirkegaard

This study's objective was to segment spinal metastases in diagnostic MR images using a deep learning-based approach. Segmentation of such lesions can present a pivotal step towards enhanced therapy planning and validation, as well as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Georg Hille , Johannes Steffen , Max Dünnwald , Mathias Becker , Sylvia Saalfeld , Klaus Tönnies

In this work we present a method to train a plane-aware convolutional neural network for dense depth and surface normal estimation as well as plane boundaries from a single indoor $360^\circ$ image. Using our proposed loss function, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Marc Eder , Pierre Moulon , Li Guan

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distances offer an efficient method for comparing high-dimensional probability measures by projecting them onto multiple 1-dimensional probability distributions. However, identifying informative slicing directions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Darian Salehi , Xinran Liu , Soheil Kolouri

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is known to have reduced signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) at lower field strengths, leading to signal degradation when producing a low-field MRI image from a high-field one. Therefore, reconstructing a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Zhuo-Xu Cui , Congcong Liu , Chentao Cao , Yuanyuan Liu , Jing Cheng , Qingyong Zhu , Yanjie Zhu , Haifeng Wang , Dong Liang

In this paper, we propose deformable deep convolutional neural networks for generic object detection. This new deep learning object detection framework has innovations in multiple aspects. In the proposed new deep architecture, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Xingyu Zeng , Shi Qiu , Ping Luo , Yonglong Tian , Hongsheng Li , Shuo Yang , Zhe Wang , Chen-Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

We present a deep, fully convolutional neural network that learns to route a circuit layout net with appropriate choice of metal tracks and wire class combinations. Inputs to the network are the encoded layouts containing spatial location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Sambhav R. Jain , Kye Okabe

Spiral acquisitions are preferred in real-time MRI because of their time efficiency. A fundamental limitation of spirals is image blurring due to off-resonance, which degrades image quality significantly at air-tissue boundaries. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Yongwan Lim , Shrikanth S Narayanan , Krishna S Nayak

This paper considers the problem of single image depth estimation. The employment of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has recently brought about significant advancements in the research of this problem. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Junjie Hu , Mete Ozay , Yan Zhang , Takayuki Okatani

Background and objective: Combined evaluation of lumbosacral structures (e.g. nerves, bone) on multimodal radiographic images is routinely conducted prior to spinal surgery and interventional procedures. Generally, magnetic resonance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Guoxin Fan , Huaqing Liu , Zhenhua Wu , Yufeng Li , Chaobo Feng , Dongdong Wang , Jie Luo , Xiaofei Guan , William M. Wells , Shisheng He

The reliable segmentation of retinal vasculature can provide the means to diagnose and monitor the progression of a variety of diseases affecting the blood vessel network, including diabetes and hypertension. We leverage the power of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Zhengyuan Liu , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

By adopting popular pixel-wise loss, existing methods for defocus deblurring heavily rely on well aligned training image pairs. Although training pairs of ground-truth and blurry images are carefully collected, e.g., DPDD dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yu Li , Dongwei Ren , Xinya Shu , Wangmeng Zuo

Traditional methods for motion estimation estimate the motion field F between a pair of images as the one that minimizes a predesigned cost function. In this paper, we propose a direct method and train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Aria Ahmadi , Ioannis Patras

Delineation of curvilinear structures is an important problem in Computer Vision with multiple practical applications. With the advent of Deep Learning, many current approaches on automatic delineation have focused on finding more powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Agata Mosinska , Pablo Marquez-Neila , Mateusz Kozinski , Pascal Fua

Monocular depth estimation is a challenging task in complex compositions depicting multiple objects of diverse scales. Albeit the recent great progress thanks to the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the state-of-the-art monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Bo Li , Yuchao Dai , Mingyi He

In most medical image processing tasks, the orientation of an image would affect computing result. However, manually reorienting images wastes time and effort. In this paper, we study the problem of recognizing orientation in cardiac MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Houxin Zhou