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The increasing difficulty in accurately detecting forged images generated by AIGC(Artificial Intelligence Generative Content) poses many risks, necessitating the development of effective methods to identify and further locate forged areas.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yang Liu , Xiaofei Li , Jun Zhang , Shengze Hu , Jun Lei

Image super-resolution (SR) methods essentially lead to a loss of some high-frequency (HF) information when predicting high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) images without using external references. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Sifeng Xia , Wenhan Yang , Jiaying Liu , Zongming Guo

Decoders play significant roles in recovering scene depths. However, the decoders used in previous works ignore the propagation of multilevel lossless fine-grained information, cannot adaptively capture local and global information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Fei Wang , Jun Cheng

Blind face restoration (BFR) aims to recover high-quality facial images from degraded inputs, yet its inherently ill-posed nature leads to ambiguous and uncontrollable solutions. Recent diffusion-based BFR methods improve perceptual quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chenxin Zhu , Yushun Fang , Lu Liu , Shibo Yin , Xiaohong Liu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Qiang Hu , Guangtao Zhai

In this paper, we present a deep learning based image feature extraction method designed specifically for face images. To train the feature extraction model, we construct a large scale photo-realistic face image dataset with ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Boyi Jiang , Juyong Zhang , Bailin Deng , Yudong Guo , Ligang Liu

Background: Coronary angiography (CAG) is the cornerstone imaging modality for evaluating coronary artery stenosis and guiding interventional decision-making. However, interpretation based on single-frame angiographic images remains highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Jingsong Xia

Deep neural networks usually benefit from unsupervised pre-training, e.g. auto-encoders. However, the classifier further needs supervised fine-tuning methods for good discrimination. Besides, due to the limits of full-connection, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Hailin Shi , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhen Lei , Shengcai Liao , Stan Z. Li

Blind face restoration is a challenging task due to the unknown and complex degradation. Although face prior-based methods and reference-based methods have recently demonstrated high-quality results, the restored images tend to contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Guojing Ge , Qi Song , Guibo Zhu , Yuting Zhang , Jinglu Chen , Miao Xin , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Taking full advantage of the excellent performance of StyleGAN, style transfer-based face swapping methods have been extensively investigated recently. However, these studies require separate face segmentation and blending modules for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Chenhao Lin , Pengbin Hu , Chao Shen , Qian Li

Dual encoders and cross encoders have been widely used for image-text retrieval. Between the two, the dual encoder encodes the image and text independently followed by a dot product, while the cross encoder jointly feeds image and text as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Jie Lei , Xinlei Chen , Ning Zhang , Mengjiao Wang , Mohit Bansal , Tamara L. Berg , Licheng Yu

Blind face restoration aims at recovering high-quality face images from those with unknown degradations. Current algorithms mainly introduce priors to complement high-quality details and achieve impressive progress. However, most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhouxia Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Tianshui Chen , Wenping Wang , Ping Luo

We propose a novel couple mappings method for low resolution face recognition using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). The proposed architecture consists of two branches of DCNNs to map the high and low resolution face images into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Erfan Zangeneh , Mohammad Rahmati , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Hyperspectral change detection (HCD) is one of the core applications of remote sensing images, holding significant research value in fields like environmental monitoring and disaster assessment. However, existing methods often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mingshuai Sheng , Bhatti Uzair Aslam , Junfeng Zhang , Siling Feng , Yonis Gulzar

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) aims at matching face images captured across different sensing modalities, such as thermal-to-visible or near-infrared-to-visible, enhancing the usability of face recognition systems in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

We address the problem of restoring a high-resolution face image from a blurry low-resolution input. This problem is difficult as super-resolution and deblurring need to be tackled simultaneously. Moreover, existing algorithms cannot handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Yibing Song , Jiawei Zhang , Lijun Gong , Shengfeng He , Linchao Bao , Jinshan Pan , Qingxiong Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The challenge of Multimodal Deformable Image Registration (MDIR) lies in the conversion and alignment of features between images of different modalities. Generative models (GMs) cannot retain the necessary information enough from the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Mingrui Ma , Weijie Wang , Jie Ning , Jianfeng He , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

Recent medical image segmentation methods apply implicit neural representation (INR) to the decoder for achieving a continuous coordinate decoding to tackle the drawback of conventional discrete grid-based data representations. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jiahao Yu , Li Chen

Recent studies have explored using pretrained Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) such as DINO for generative autoencoders, showing strong generative performance. Unfortunately, existing approaches often suffer from limited reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hun Chang , Byunghee Cha , Jong Chul Ye

With advancements of deep learning techniques, it is now possible to generate super-realistic images and videos, i.e., deepfakes. These deepfakes could reach mass audience and result in adverse impacts on our society. Although lots of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Mengnan Du , Shiva Pentyala , Yuening Li , Xia Hu

End-to-end speech recognition generally uses hand-engineered acoustic features as input and excludes the feature extraction module from its joint optimization. To extract learnable and adaptive features and mitigate information loss, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Max W. Y. Lam , Jun Wang , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Dong Yu