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We present a method for highly efficient landmark detection that combines deep convolutional neural networks with well established model-based fitting algorithms. Motivated by established model-based fitting methods such as active shapes,…

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Heatmap regression methods have dominated face alignment area in recent years while they ignore the inherent relation between different landmarks. In this paper, we propose a Sparse Local Patch Transformer (SLPT) for learning the inherent…

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Diffusion models have been used extensively for high quality image and video generation tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel conditional diffusion model with spatial attention and latent embedding (cDAL) for medical image segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Behzad Hejrati , Soumyanil Banerjee , Carri Glide-Hurst , Ming Dong

Facial landmark detection has been studied over decades. Numerous neural network (NN)-based approaches have been proposed for detecting landmarks, especially the convolutional neural network (CNN)-based approaches. In general, CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chih-Fan Hsu , Chia-Ching Lin , Ting-Yang Hung , Chin-Laung Lei , Kuan-Ta Chen

The generation of high-quality images has become widely accessible and is a rapidly evolving process. As a result, anyone can generate images that are indistinguishable from real ones. This leads to a wide range of applications, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Sergey Sinitsa , Ohad Fried

Text-to-image generative models have made remarkable advancements in generating high-quality images. However, generated images often contain undesirable artifacts or other errors due to model limitations. Existing techniques to fine-tune…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Peyman Gholami , Robert Xiao

Medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate clinical diagnoses, yet it faces challenges such as low contrast between lesions and normal tissues, unclear boundaries, and high variability across patients. Deep learning has improved…

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Identifying subtle phenotypic variations in cellular images is critical for advancing biological research and accelerating drug discovery. These variations are often masked by the inherent cellular heterogeneity, making it challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Anis Bourou , Biel Castaño Segade , Thomas Boyer , Valérie Mezger , Auguste Genovesio

Landmark detection for clothes is a fundamental problem for many applications. In this paper, a new training scheme for clothes landmark detection: $\textit{Aggregation and Finetuning}$, is proposed. We investigate the homogeneity among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Tzu-Heng Lin

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated images necessitates effective watermarking techniques to protect intellectual property and detect fraudulent content. While existing training-based watermarking methods show promise, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Lu Zhang , Liang Zeng

Ambiguity in medical image segmentation calls for models that capture full conditional distributions rather than a single point estimate. We present Prior-Guided Residual Diffusion (PGRD), a diffusion-based framework that learns voxel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Fuyou Mao , Beining Wu , Yanfeng Jiang , Han Xue , Yan Tang , Hao Zhang

In medical imaging, surface registration is extensively used for performing systematic comparisons between anatomical structures, with a prime example being the highly convoluted brain cortical surfaces. To obtain a meaningful registration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yuchen Guo , Qiguang Chen , Gary P. T. Choi , Lok Ming Lui

Due to the high complexity and technical requirements of industrial production processes, surface defects will inevitably appear, which seriously affects the quality of products. Although existing lightweight detection networks are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xuyi Yu

Recent studies emphasize the crucial role of data augmentation in enhancing the performance of object detection models. However,existing methodologies often struggle to effectively harmonize dataset diversity with semantic coordination.To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sen Nie , Zhuo Wang , Xinxin Wang , Kun He

This paper explores the utility of diffusion-based models for anomaly detection, focusing on their efficacy in identifying deviations in both compact and high-resolution datasets. Diffusion-based architectures, including Denoising Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Aryan Bhosale , Samrat Mukherjee , Biplab Banerjee , Fabio Cuzzolin

Diffusion probabilistic models have quickly become a major approach for generative modeling of images, 3D geometry, video and other domains. However, to adapt diffusion generative modeling to these domains the denoising network needs to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Peiye Zhuang , Samira Abnar , Jiatao Gu , Alex Schwing , Joshua M. Susskind , Miguel Ángel Bautista

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) images are widely used for cardiac diagnosis and ventricular assessment. Extracting specific landmarks like the right ventricular insertion points is of importance for spatial alignment and 3D modeling. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Sven Koehler , Lalith Sharan , Julian Kuhm , Arman Ghanaat , Jelizaveta Gordejeva , Nike K. Simon , Niko M. Grell , Florian André , Sandy Engelhardt

Digital pathology plays a vital role across modern medicine, offering critical insights for disease diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. However, histopathology images often contain artifacts introduced during slide preparation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhenzhen Wang , Zhongliang Zhou , Zhuoyu Wen , Jeong Hwan Kook , John B Wojcik , John Kang

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark can survive various image manipulations. However, the rise of powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques poses a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yunyi Ni , Finn Carter , Ze Niu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

This article proposes an active learning method for high dimensional data, based on intrinsic data geometries learned through diffusion processes on graphs. Diffusion distances are used to parametrize low-dimensional structures on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Mauro Maggioni , James M. Murphy