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Semantic segmentation is a challenging task since it requires excessively more low-level spatial information of the image compared to other computer vision problems. The accuracy of pixel-level classification can be affected by many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Zülfiye Kütük , Görkem Algan

Recent interest in on-orbit servicing and Active Debris Removal (ADR) missions have driven the need for technologies to enable non-cooperative rendezvous manoeuvres. Such manoeuvres put heavy burden on the perception capabilities of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Maxwell Hogan , Duarte Rondao , Nabil Aouf , Olivier Dubois-Matra

In robot vision, thermal cameras hold great potential for recognizing humans even in complete darkness. However, their application to multi-person tracking (MPT) has been limited due to data scarcity and the inherent difficulty of…

This study aims to learn a translation from visible to infrared imagery, bridging the domain gap between the two modalities so as to improve accuracy on downstream tasks including object detection. Previous approaches attempt to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Prahlad Anand , Qiranul Saadiyean , Aniruddh Sikdar , Nalini N , Suresh Sundaram

Image translation is a burgeoning field in computer vision where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image. However, most recent methods require multiple generators for modeling different domain mappings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Xiaoming Yu , Xing Cai , Zhenqiang Ying , Thomas Li , Ge Li

Image to image translation is an active area of research in the field of computer vision, enabling the generation of new images with different styles, textures, or resolutions while preserving their characteristic properties. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Gaurav Kumar , Soham Satyadharma , Harpreet Singh

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enable operations in remote and hazardous environments, yet the visible-spectrum, camera-based navigation systems often relied upon by UAVs struggle in low-visibility conditions. Thermal cameras, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Mia Thomas , Trevor Ablett , Jonathan Kelly

With the advent of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), a finer level of control in manipulating various features of an image has become possible. One example of such fine manipulation is changing the position of the light source in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Paul Gafton , Erick Maraz

Thermal images have various applications in security, medical and industrial domains. This paper proposes a practical deep-learning approach for thermal image classification. Accurate and efficient classification of thermal images poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Prosenjit Chatterjee , ANK Zaman

Thermal cameras capture environmental data through heat emission, a fundamentally different mechanism compared to visible light cameras, which rely on pinhole imaging. As a result, traditional visual relocalization methods designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yu Liu , Yangtao Meng , Xianfei Pan , Jie Jiang , Changhao Chen

We propose a unified Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for controllable image-to-image translation, i.e., transferring an image from a source to a target domain guided by controllable structures. In addition to conditioning on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Hao Tang , Hong Liu , Nicu Sebe

Object detection in natural scenes can be a challenging task. In many real-life situations, the visible spectrum is not suitable for traditional computer vision tasks. Moving outside the visible spectrum range, such as the thermal spectrum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Md Osman Gani , Somenath Kuiry , Alaka Das , Mita Nasipuri , Nibaran Das

The inspection of wind turbine blades (WTBs) is crucial for ensuring their structural integrity and operational efficiency. Traditional inspection methods can be dangerous and inefficient, prompting the use of unmanned aerial vehicles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Serhii Svystun , Oleksandr Melnychenko , Pavlo Radiuk , Oleg Savenko , Anatoliy Sachenko , Andrii Lysyi

In this work we demonstrate that generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to generate realistic pervasive changes in remote sensing imagery, even in an unpaired training setting. We investigate some transformation quality metrics…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Christopher X. Ren , Amanda Ziemann , James Theiler , Alice M. S. Durieux

Convolutional neural network (CNN) have proven its success for semantic segmentation, which is a core task of emerging industrial applications such as autonomous driving. However, most progress in semantic segmentation of urban scenes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Jiawei Chen , Yuexiang Li , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Recovering the past from present observations is an intriguing challenge with potential applications in forensics and scene analysis. Thermal imaging, operating in the infrared range, provides access to otherwise invisible information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Kebin Contreras , Luis Toscano-Palomino , Mauro Dalla Mura , Jorge Bacca

Collecting overhead imagery using an event camera is desirable due to the energy efficiency of the image sensor compared to standard cameras. However, event cameras complicate downstream image processing, especially for complex tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Darryl Hannan , Ragib Arnab , Gavin Parpart , Garrett T. Kenyon , Edward Kim , Yijing Watkins

Text-to-Image translation has been an active area of research in the recent past. The ability for a network to learn the meaning of a sentence and generate an accurate image that depicts the sentence shows ability of the model to think more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Satya Krishna Gorti , Jeremy Ma

The lack of effective target regions makes it difficult to perform several visual functions in low intensity light, including pedestrian recognition, and image-to-image translation. In this situation, with the accumulation of high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Devarsh Patel , Sarthak Patel , Megh Patel

Vision-language models (VLMs) often fail under low illumination because their visual grounding is learned predominantly from RGB imagery, whereas thermal infrared preserves complementary scene structure when visible cues degrade. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Rusiru Thushara , Yasiru Ranasinghe , Jay Paranjape , Vishal M. Patel