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In this paper, we introduce a novel deep neural network suitable for multi-scale analysis and propose efficient model-agnostic methods that help the network extract information from high-frequency domains to reconstruct clearer images. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Hyungmin Roh , Myungjoo Kang

Enhancing low-light images while maintaining natural colors is a challenging problem due to camera processing variations and limited access to photos with ground-truth lighting conditions. The latter is a crucial factor for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wojciech Kozłowski , Michał Szachniewicz , Michał Stypułkowski , Maciej Zięba

We present Decomposer, a semi-supervised reconstruction model that decomposes distorted image sequences into their fundamental building blocks - the original image and the applied augmentations, i.e., shadow, light, and occlusions. To solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Boris Meinardus , Mariusz Trzeciakiewicz , Tim Herzig , Monika Kwiatkowski , Simon Matern , Olaf Hellwich

Transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance in natural language processing and computer vision. However, existing vision Transformers struggle to learn from limited medical data and are unable to generalize on diverse medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Di Liu , Zhennan Yan , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Underwater images often suffer from severe degradation, such as color distortion, low contrast, and blurred details, due to light absorption and scattering in water. While learning-based methods like CNNs and Transformers have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tejeswar Pokuri , Shivarth Rai

Ultra-Wide-Field (UWF) retinal imaging has revolutionized retinal diagnostics by providing a comprehensive view of the retina. However, it often suffers from quality-degrading factors such as blurring and uneven illumination, which obscure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Weicheng Liao , Zan Chen , Jianyang Xie , Yalin Zheng , Yuhui Ma , Yitian Zhao

Removing multiple degradations, such as haze, rain, and blur, from real-world images poses a challenging and illposed problem. Recently, unified models that can handle different degradations have been proposed and yield promising results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yongheng Zhang , Danfeng Yan , Yuanqiang Cai

Nowadays underwater vision systems are being widely applied in ocean research. However, the largest portion of the ocean - the deep sea - still remains mostly unexplored. Only relatively few image sets have been taken from the deep sea due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yifan Song , David Nakath , Mengkun She , Furkan Elibol , Kevin Köser

Underwater image restoration attracts significant attention due to its importance in unveiling the underwater world. This paper elaborates on a novel method that achieves state-of-the-art results for underwater image restoration based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Junlin Han , Mehrdad Shoeiby , Tim Malthus , Elizabeth Botha , Janet Anstee , Saeed Anwar , Ran Wei , Lars Petersson , Mohammad Ali Armin

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS), which focuses on segmenting new classes in images using only a limited number of annotated examples, has recently progressed in data-scarce domains. However, in this work, we show that the existing FSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhuohao Li , Zhicheng Huang , Wenchao Liu , Zhuxin Zhang , Jianming Miao

Recently, a variety of vision transformers have been developed as their capability of modeling long-range dependency. In current transformer-based backbones for medical image segmentation, convolutional layers were replaced with pure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Huimin Huang , Shiao Xie1 , Lanfen Lin , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xianhua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Ruofeng Tong

Deep learning has been successfully applied to many classification problems including underwater challenges. However, a long-standing issue with deep learning is the need for large and consistently labeled datasets. Although current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Lars Schmarje , Johannes Brünger , Monty Santarossa , Simon-Martin Schröder , Rainer Kiko , Reinhard Koch

Despite recent strides made by AI in image processing, the issue of mixed exposure, pivotal in many real-world scenarios like surveillance and photography, remains inadequately addressed. Traditional image enhancement techniques and current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Eashan Adhikarla , Kai Zhang , Rosaura G. VidalMata , Manjushree Aithal , Nikhil Ambha Madhusudhana , John Nicholson , Lichao Sun , Brian D. Davison

The Low frequency analysis and recording (LOFAR) spectrum is one of the key features of the under water target, which can be used for underwater target recognition. However, the underwater environment noise is complicated and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Jie Chen , Jie Liu , Chang Liu , Jian Zhang , Bing Han

Due to the unique characteristics of underwater environments, accurate 3D reconstruction of underwater objects poses a challenging problem in tasks such as underwater exploration and mapping. Traditional methods that rely on multiple sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zeyu Chen , Jingyi Tang , Gu Wang , Shengquan Li , Xinghui Li , Xiangyang Ji , Xiu Li

Aerial Image Segmentation is a top-down perspective semantic segmentation and has several challenging characteristics such as strong imbalance in the foreground-background distribution, complex background, intra-class heterogeneity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Kashu Yamazaki , Taisei Hanyu , Minh Tran , Adrian de Luis , Roy McCann , Haitao Liao , Chase Rainwater , Meredith Adkins , Jackson Cothren , Ngan Le

Underwater optical imaging is severely degraded by light absorption, scattering, and color distortion, hindering visibility and accurate image analysis. This paper presents an adaptive enhancement framework integrating illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yuezhe Tian , Kangchen Yao , Xiaoyang Yu

Underwater image quality is affected by fluorescence, low illumination, absorption, and scattering. Recent works in underwater image enhancement have proposed different deep network architectures to handle these problems. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Pranjali Singh , Prithwijit Guha

Underwater video analysis is particularly challenging due to factors such as low lighting, color distortion, and turbidity, which compromise visual data quality and directly impact the performance of perception modules in robotic…

Surface defect inspection is of great importance for industrial manufacture and production. Though defect inspection methods based on deep learning have made significant progress, there are still some challenges for these methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xiaoheng Jiang , Kaiyi Guo , Yang Lu , Feng Yan , Hao Liu , Jiale Cao , Mingliang Xu , Dacheng Tao