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Recovering textures under shadows has remained a challenging problem due to the difficulty of inferring shadow-free scenes from shadow images. In this paper, we propose the use of diffusion models as they offer a promising approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kangfu Mei , Luis Figueroa , Zhe Lin , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Vishal M. Patel

Advanced diffusion models (DMs) perform impressively in image super-resolution (SR), but the high memory and computational costs hinder their deployment. Binarization, an ultra-compression algorithm, offers the potential for effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zheng Chen , Haotong Qin , Yong Guo , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Neuron segmentation in electron microscopy (EM) aims to reconstruct the complete neuronal connectome; however, current deep learning-based methods are limited by their reliance on large-scale training data and extensive, time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Liuyun Jiang , Yanchao Zhang , Jinyue Guo , Yizhuo Lu , Ruining Zhou , Hua Han

The widespread use of face retouching on social media platforms raises concerns about the authenticity of face images. While existing methods focus on detecting face retouching, how to accurately recover the original faces from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jiaxin Liu , Qichao Ying , Zhenxing Qian , Sheng Li , Runqi Zhang , Jian Liu , Xinpeng Zhang

Hyperspectral image change detection (HSI-CD) has emerged as a crucial research area in remote sensing due to its ability to detect subtle changes on the earth's surface. Recently, diffusional denoising probabilistic models (DDPM) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xiangrong Zhang , Shunli Tian , Guanchun Wang , Huiyu Zhou , Licheng Jiao

Image classification serves as the cornerstone of computer vision, traditionally achieved through discriminative models based on deep neural networks. Recent advancements have introduced classification methods derived from generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Chunxiao Li , Xiaoxiao Wang , Boming Miao , Chuanlong Xie , Zizhe Wang , Yao Zhu

Deep image restoration models aim to learn a mapping from degraded image space to natural image space. However, they face several critical challenges: removing degradation, generating realistic details, and ensuring pixel-level consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xinqi Lin , Fanghua Yu , Jinfan Hu , Zhiyuan You , Wu Shi , Jimmy S. Ren , Jinjin Gu , Chao Dong

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) must handle complex degradations and inherent reconstruction ambiguities. While generative models have improved perceptual quality, a key trade-off remains with computational cost. One-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yun Kai Zhuang

In this work, we address the limitations of denoising diffusion models (DDMs) in image restoration tasks, particularly the shape and color distortions that can compromise image quality. While DDMs have demonstrated a promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Xinlong Cheng , Tiantian Cao , Guoan Cheng , Bangxuan Huang , Xinghan Tian , Ye Wang , Xiaoyu He , Weixin Li , Tianfan Xue , Xuan Dong

I explored adapting Stable Diffusion v1.5 for generating domain-specific satellite and aerial images in remote sensing. Recognizing the limitations of existing models like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, trained primarily on natural RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Kunal Sunil Kasodekar

The intersection of Astronomy and AI encounters significant challenges related to issues such as noisy backgrounds, lower resolution (LR), and the intricate process of filtering and archiving images from advanced telescopes like the James…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mohammed Talha Alam , Raza Imam , Mohsen Guizani , Fakhri Karray

Reference-based Image Super-Resolution (RefSR) aims to restore a low-resolution (LR) image by utilizing the semantic and texture information from an additional reference high-resolution (reference HR) image. Existing diffusion-based RefSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zhenning Shi , Zizheng Yan , Yuhang Yu , Clara Xue , Jingyu Zhuang , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Tao Li , Qingnan Fan

Ultra-high resolution images are desirable in photon counting CT (PCCT), but resolution is physically limited by interactions such as charge sharing. Deep learning is a possible method for super-resolution (SR), but sourcing paired training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Christopher Wiedeman , Chuang Niu , Mengzhou Li , Bruno De Man , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

Ultrasound image reconstruction can be approximately cast as a linear inverse problem that has traditionally been solved with penalized optimization using the $l_1$ or $l_2$ norm, or wavelet-based terms. However, such regularization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

While recent advancements in Image Super-Resolution (SR) using diffusion models have shown promise in improving overall image quality, their application to scene text images has revealed limitations. These models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Keren Ye , Ignacio Garcia Dorado , Michalis Raptis , Mauricio Delbracio , Irene Zhu , Peyman Milanfar , Hossein Talebi

Reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) has the potential to build bridges across spatial and temporal resolutions of remote sensing images. However, existing RefSR methods are limited by the faithfulness of content reconstruction and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Runmin Dong , Shuai Yuan , Bin Luo , Mengxuan Chen , Jinxiao Zhang , Lixian Zhang , Weijia Li , Juepeng Zheng , Haohuan Fu

Diffusion models have recently gained unprecedented attention in the field of image synthesis due to their remarkable generative capabilities. Notwithstanding their prowess, these models often incur substantial computational costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xinyin Ma , Gongfan Fang , Xinchao Wang

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental computer vision task with important applications in 3D vision. The current mainstream MDE methods employ an encoder-decoder architecture with multi-level/scale feature processing. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Huibin Bai , Shuai Li , Hanxiao Zhai , Yanbo Gao , Chong Lv , Yibo Wang , Haipeng Ping , Wei Hua , Xingyu Gao

Clouds are a common phenomenon that distorts optical satellite imagery, which poses a challenge for remote sensing. However, in the literature cloudless analysis is often performed where cloudy images are excluded from machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Marco Stricker , Masakazu Iwamura , Koichi Kise

Cloud detection plays a very important role in the process of remote sensing images. This paper designs a super-pixel level cloud detection method based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and deep forest. Firstly, remote sensing images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Han Liu , Dan Zeng , Qi Tian