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We propose a new approach for the image super-resolution (SR) task that progressively restores a high-resolution (HR) image from an input low-resolution (LR) image on the basis of a neural ordinary differential equation. In particular, we…

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Unmanned underwater image analysis for marine monitoring faces two key challenges: (i) degraded image quality due to light attenuation and (ii) hardware storage constraints limiting high-resolution image collection. Existing methods…

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Spatio-temporal compression of videos, utilizing networks such as Variational Autoencoders (VAE), plays a crucial role in OpenAI's SORA and numerous other video generative models. For instance, many LLM-like video models learn the…

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This paper presents a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) based image compression framework via scalable auto-encoder (SAE). Specifically, our SAE based deep image codec consists of hierarchical coding layers, each of which is an…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Chuanmin Jia , Zhaoyi Liu , Yao Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

We consider the problem of image representation for the tasks of unsupervised learning and semi-supervised learning. In those learning tasks, the raw image vectors may not provide enough representation for their intrinsic structures due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang , Yong Liu

In this paper, we introduce a novel implicit neural network for the task of single image super-resolution at arbitrary scale factors. To do this, we represent an image as a decoding function that maps locations in the image along with their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Quan H. Nguyen , William J. Beksi

In this work we test the ability of deep learning methods to provide an end-to-end mapping between low and high resolution images applying it to the iris recognition problem. Here, we propose the use of two deep learning single-image…

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Impressive results on real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) have been achieved by employing pre-trained stable diffusion (SD) models. However, one critical issue of such methods lies in their poor reconstruction of image fine…

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While pre-trained image autoencoders are increasingly utilized in computer vision, the application of inverse graphics in 2D latent spaces has been under-explored. Yet, besides reducing the training and rendering complexity, applying…

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Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is known as a widely used approach to reduce radiation dose while accelerating imaging through lowered projection views and correlated calculations. However, its severe imaging noise and streaking…

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In real-world traffic surveillance, vehicle images captured under adverse weather, poor lighting, or high-speed motion often suffer from severe noise and blur. Such degradations significantly reduce the accuracy of license plate recognition…

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Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently emerged as a key strategy for building foundation models in remote sensing, where the scarcity of annotated data limits the applicability of fully supervised approaches. In this work, we introduce…

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While diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in Image Super-Resolution (SR), their prohibitive computational and memory demands restrict their training and inference to fixed-size inputs. The standard workaround to…

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Sensor fusion can significantly improve the performance of many computer vision tasks. However, traditional fusion approaches are either not data-driven and cannot exploit prior knowledge nor find regularities in a given dataset or they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Fabian Duffhauss , Ngo Anh Vien , Hanna Ziesche , Gerhard Neumann

Recently, machine learning based single image super resolution (SR) approaches focus on jointly learning representations for high-resolution (HR) and low-resolution (LR) image patch pairs to improve the quality of the super-resolved images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Yukai Shi , Keze Wang , Li Xu , Liang Lin

Image super-resolution (SR) has attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications. However, current SR methods generally suffer from over-smoothing and artifacts, and most work only with fixed magnifications. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sicheng Gao , Xuhui Liu , Bohan Zeng , Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Xiaoyan Luo , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Baochang Zhang

Super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed problem, which means that infinitely many high-resolution (HR) images can be degraded to the same low-resolution (LR) image. To study the one-to-many stochastic SR mapping, we implicitly represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Hangqi Zhou , Chao Huang , Shangqi Gao , Xiahai Zhuang

Image warping aims to reshape images defined on rectangular grids into arbitrary shapes. Recently, implicit neural functions have shown remarkable performances in representing images in a continuous manner. However, a standalone multi-layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jaewon Lee , Kwang Pyo Choi , Kyong Hwan Jin

While mel-spectrograms have been widely utilized as intermediate representations in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), their inherent redundancy leads to inefficiency in learning text-speech alignment. Compact VAE-based latent representations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Zhikang Niu , Shujie Hu , Jeongsoo Choi , Yushen Chen , Peining Chen , Pengcheng Zhu , Yunting Yang , Bowen Zhang , Jian Zhao , Chunhui Wang , Xie Chen

Recent research on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on implicit representation has shown promising results in indoor environments. However, there are still some challenges: the limited scene representation capability of…

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