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Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Yang Jiao , Mei Yang , Mo Weng

Thermal infrared imaging offers the advantage of all-weather capability, enabling non-intrusive measurement of an object's surface temperature. Consequently, thermal infrared images are employed to reconstruct 3D models that accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Kun Yang , Yuxiang Liu , Zeyu Cui , Yu Liu , Maojun Zhang , Shen Yan , Qing Wang

Existing deep learning-based object detection models perform well under daytime conditions but face significant challenges at night, primarily because they are predominantly trained on daytime images. Additionally, training with nighttime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yunxiang Yang , Hao Zhen , Yongcan Huang , Jidong J. Yang

Illumination variation has been a long-term challenge in real-world facial expression recognition(FER). Under uncontrolled or non-visible light conditions, Near-infrared (NIR) can provide a simple and alternative solution to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Bingjun Luo , Zewen Wang , Jinpeng Wang , Junjie Zhu , Xibin Zhao , Yue Gao

In many visual systems, visual tracking often bases on RGB image sequences, in which some targets are invalid in low-light conditions, and tracking performance is thus affected significantly. Introducing other modalities such as depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Chenglong Li , Tianhao Zhu , Lei Liu , Xiaonan Si , Zilin Fan , Sulan Zhai

Nighttime surveillance suffers from degradation due to poor illumination and arduous human annotations. It is challengable and remains a security risk at night. Existing methods rely on multi-spectral images to perceive objects in the dark,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Guanzhou Lan , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Integrating multispectral data in object detection, especially visible and infrared images, has received great attention in recent years. Since visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) images can provide complementary information to handle light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Maoxun Yuan , Yinyan Wang , Xingxing Wei

This study addresses the issue of fusing infrared and visible images that appear differently for object detection. Aiming at generating an image of high visual quality, previous approaches discover commons underlying the two modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Zhanbo Huang , Guanyao Wu , Risheng Liu , Wei Zhong , Zhongxuan Luo

This paper proposes Pix2Next, a novel image-to-image translation framework designed to address the challenge of generating high-quality Near-Infrared (NIR) images from RGB inputs. Our approach leverages a state-of-the-art Vision Foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Youngwan Jin , Incheol Park , Hanbin Song , Hyeongjin Ju , Yagiz Nalcakan , Shiho Kim

Illumination effects in images, specifically cast shadows and shading, have been shown to decrease the performance of deep neural networks on a large number of vision-based detection, recognition and segmentation tasks in urban driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Alexandra Carlson , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

The usage of both off-the-shelf and end-to-end trained deep networks have significantly improved performance of visual tracking on RGB videos. However, the lack of large labeled datasets hampers the usage of convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Lichao Zhang , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Joost van de Weijer , Martin Danelljan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Infrared dim and small target detection presents a significant challenge due to dynamic multi-frame scenarios and weak target signatures in the infrared modality. Traditional low-rank plus sparse models often fail to capture dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pei Liu , Yisi Luo , Wenzhen Wang , Xiangyong Cao

Enhancing low-light traffic images is crucial for reliable perception in autonomous driving, intelligent transportation, and urban surveillance systems. Nighttime and dimly lit traffic scenes often suffer from poor visibility due to low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Siddiqua Namrah

Recent progress in computational photography has shown that we can acquire near-infrared (NIR) information in addition to the normal visible (RGB) band, with only slight modifications to standard digital cameras. Due to the proximity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Neda Salamati , Diane Larlus , Gabriela Csurka , Sabine Süsstrunk

We present a scheme for fast environment light estimation from the RGBD appearance of individual objects and their local image areas. Conventional inverse rendering is too computationally demanding for real-time applications, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Xin Wei , Guojun Chen , Yue Dong , Stephen Lin , Xin Tong

Thermal imaging in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) improves road safety with superior perception in low-light and harsh weather conditions compared to traditional RGB cameras. However, research in this area faces challenges due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kaili Wang , Leonardo Ravaglia , Roberto Longo , Lore Goetschalckx , David Van Hamme , Julie Moeyersoms , Ben Stoffelen , Tom De Schepper

Thermal infrared (TIR) image has proven effectiveness in providing temperature cues to the RGB features for multispectral pedestrian detection. Most existing methods directly inject the TIR modality into the RGB-based framework or simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Xiaoxiao Yang , Yeqian Qiang , Huijie Zhu , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Advances in lightweight neural networks have revolutionized computer vision in a broad range of IoT applications, encompassing remote monitoring and process automation. However, the detection of small objects, which is crucial for many of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Liam Boyle , Nicolas Baumann , Seonyeong Heo , Michele Magno

Autonomous cars are an emergent technology which has the capacity to change human lives. The current sensor systems which are most capable of perception are based on optical sensors. For example, deep neural networks show outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Marcel Sheeny

Visual domain gaps often impact object detection performance. Image-to-image translation can mitigate this effect, where contrastive approaches enable learning of the image-to-image mapping under unsupervised regimes. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Danai Triantafyllidou , Sarah Parisot , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh