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For satellite images, the presence of clouds presents a problem as clouds obscure more than half to two-thirds of the ground information. This problem causes many issues for reliability in a noise-free environment to communicate data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Dale Chen-Song , Erfan Khalaji , Vaishali Rani

The search for refining 3D LiDAR data has attracted growing interest motivated by recent techniques such as supervised learning or generative model-based methods. Existing approaches have shown the possibilities for using diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Sander Elias Magnussen Helgesen , Kazuto Nakashima , Jim Tørresen , Ryo Kurazume

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results on many modalities including images, speech, and video. However, existing models are not tailored to support remote sensing data, which is widely used in important applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Samar Khanna , Patrick Liu , Linqi Zhou , Chenlin Meng , Robin Rombach , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Scene extrapolation -- the idea of generating novel views by flying into a given image -- is a promising, yet challenging task. For each predicted frame, a joint inpainting and 3D refinement problem has to be solved, which is ill posed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Shengqu Cai , Eric Ryan Chan , Songyou Peng , Mohamad Shahbazi , Anton Obukhov , Luc Van Gool , Gordon Wetzstein

The emergence of generative models has revolutionized the field of remote sensing (RS) image generation. Despite generating high-quality images, existing methods are limited in relying mainly on text control conditions, and thus do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Datao Tang , Xiangyong Cao , Xingsong Hou , Zhongyuan Jiang , Junmin Liu , Deyu Meng

Addressing gaps caused by cloud cover and the long revisit cycle of satellites is vital for providing essential data to support remote sensing applications. This paper tackles the challenges of missing optical data synthesis, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Chenxi Duan

Cloud removal is an essential task in remote sensing data analysis. As the image sensors are distant from the earth ground, it is likely that part of the area of interests is covered by cloud. Moreover, the atmosphere in between creates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yi Guo , Feng Li , Zhuo Wang

This paper presents a neural-network-based solution to recover pixels occluded by clouds in satellite images. We leverage radio frequency (RF) signals in the ultra/super-high frequency band that penetrate clouds to help reconstruct the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Mingmin Zhao , Peder A. Olsen , Ranveer Chandra

We present Diff3F as a simple, robust, and class-agnostic feature descriptor that can be computed for untextured input shapes (meshes or point clouds). Our method distills diffusion features from image foundational models onto input shapes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Niladri Shekhar Dutt , Sanjeev Muralikrishnan , Niloy J. Mitra

In the realm of high-resolution (HR), fine-grained image segmentation, the primary challenge is balancing broad contextual awareness with the precision required for detailed object delineation, capturing intricate details and the finest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qian Yu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

In this paper, we present a novel shape reconstruction method leveraging diffusion model to generate 3D sparse point cloud for the object captured in a single RGB image. Recent methods typically leverage global embedding or local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yan Di , Chenyangguang Zhang , Pengyuan Wang , Guangyao Zhai , Ruida Zhang , Fabian Manhardt , Benjamin Busam , Xiangyang Ji , Federico Tombari

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as the go-to generative framework for solving inverse problems in imaging. A critical concern regarding these models is their performance on out-of-distribution tasks, which remains an under-explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Riccardo Barbano , Alexander Denker , Hyungjin Chung , Tae Hoon Roh , Simon Arridge , Peter Maass , Bangti Jin , Jong Chul Ye

Fine-grained clustering is a practical yet challenging task, whose essence lies in capturing the subtle differences between instances of different classes. Such subtle differences can be easily disrupted by data augmentation or be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Ruohong Yang , Peng Hu , Xi Peng , Xiting Liu , Yunfan Li

The challenge of the cloud removal task can be alleviated with the aid of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images that can penetrate cloud cover. However, the large domain gap between optical and SAR images as well as the severe speckle noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Fang Xu , Yilei Shi , Patrick Ebel , Lei Yu , Gui-Song Xia , Wen Yang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Diffusion models has underpinned much recent advances of dataset augmentation in various computer vision tasks. However, when involving generating multi-object images as real scenarios, most existing methods either rely entirely on text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Haoyu Wang , Lei Zhang , Wei Wei , Chen Ding , Yanning Zhang

Satellites are widely used to estimate and monitor ground cover, providing critical information to address the challenges posed by climate change. High-resolution satellite images help to identify smaller features on the ground and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Jhanavi Hegde

Optical remote sensing imagery is indispensable for Earth observation, yet persistent cloud occlusion limits its downstream utility. Most cloud removal (CR) methods are optimized for low-level fidelity and can over-smooth textures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zaiyan Zhang , Jie Li , Shaowei Shi , Qiangqiang Yuan

Face video restoration (FVR) is a challenging but important problem where one seeks to recover a perceptually realistic face videos from a low-quality input. While diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have been shown to achieve remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zihao Zou , Jiaming Liu , Shirin Shoushtari , Yubo Wang , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs degraded by complex, unknown processes. While many Stable Diffusion (SD)-based Real-ISR methods have achieved remarkable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Bin Chen , Gehui Li , Rongyuan Wu , Xindong Zhang , Jie Chen , Jian Zhang , Lei Zhang

Image classification is a well-studied task in computer vision, and yet it remains challenging under high-uncertainty conditions, such as when input images are corrupted or training data are limited. Conventional classification approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Omer Belhasin , Shelly Golan , Ran El-Yaniv , Michael Elad