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Image inpainting aims at restoring missing region of corrupted images, which has many applications such as image restoration and object removal. However, current GAN-based inpainting models fail to explicitly consider the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Ang Li , Jianzhong Qi , Rui Zhang , Ramamohanarao Kotagiri

Automated defect inspection is critical for effective and efficient maintenance, repair, and operations in advanced manufacturing. On the other hand, automated defect inspection is often constrained by the lack of defect samples, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Gongjie Zhang , Kaiwen Cui , Tzu-Yi Hung , Shijian Lu

Learning a good image prior is a long-term goal for image restoration and manipulation. While existing methods like deep image prior (DIP) capture low-level image statistics, there are still gaps toward an image prior that captures rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Xingang Pan , Xiaohang Zhan , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy , Ping Luo

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have attained photo-realistic quality in image generation. However, how to best control the image content remains an open challenge. We introduce LatentKeypointGAN, a two-stage GAN which is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

In recent years, deep generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), has grabbed significant attention in the field of computer vision. This project focuses on the application of GAN in image deblurring with the aim of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Zhengdong Li

Color correction for underwater images has received increasing interests, due to its critical role in facilitating available mature vision algorithms for underwater scenarios. Inspired by the stunning success of deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Xiaodong Liu , Zhi Gao , Ben M. Chen

The degradation in the underwater images is due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, scattering, and to the diversity of the water types in which they are captured. Deep neural networks take a step in this field, providing autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Niki Martinel

Image denoising plays a critical role in biomedical and microscopy imaging, especially when acquiring wide-field fluorescence-stained images. This task faces challenges in multiple fronts, including limitations in image acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Qijun Yang , Yating Huang , Lintao Xiang , Hujun Yin

We propose Image2StyleGAN++, a flexible image editing framework with many applications. Our framework extends the recent Image2StyleGAN in three ways. First, we introduce noise optimization as a complement to the $W^+$ latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Rameen Abdal , Yipeng Qin , Peter Wonka

Real-world image manipulation has achieved fantastic progress in recent years. GAN inversion, which aims to map the real image to the latent code faithfully, is the first step in this pipeline. However, existing GAN inversion methods fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Bangrui Jiang , Zhenhua Guo , Yujiu Yang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are expected to replace human in hazardous tasks of surface inspection due to their flexibility in operating space and capability of collecting high quality visual data. In this study, we propose enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Qiuchen Zhu , Manh Duong Phung , Quang Ha

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, UAVs have become crucial for measurement and tracking in patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied areas, satellite-based localization methods are prone to failure. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tao Liu , Kan Ren , Qian Chen

Electrical tomography techniques have been widely employed for multiphase-flow monitoring owing to their non invasive nature, intrinsic safety, and low cost. Nevertheless, conventional reconstructions struggle to capture fine details, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Wejian Yan

Recently, UAVs endowed with high mobility, low cost, and remote control have promoted the development of UAV-assisted real-time video/image acquisition applications, which have a high demand for both transmission rate and image resolution.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Tang Xiao-Wei , Huang Xin-Lin Huang

Digitally retouching images has become a popular trend, with people posting altered images on social media and even magazines posting flawless facial images of celebrities. Further, with advancements in Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Anubhav Jain , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa

While cloud/sky image segmentation has extensive real-world applications, a large amount of labelled data is needed to train a highly accurate models to perform the task. Scarcity of such volumes of cloud/sky images with corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Mayank Jain , Conor Meegan , Soumyabrata Dev

Urban forests play a key role in enhancing environmental quality and supporting biodiversity in cities. Mapping and monitoring these green spaces are crucial for urban planning and conservation, yet accurately detecting trees is challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Alessandro dos Santos Ferreira , Ana Paula Marques Ramos , José Marcato Junior , Wesley Nunes Gonçalves

Despite the recent success in applying supervised deep learning to medical imaging tasks, the problem of obtaining large and diverse expert-annotated datasets required for the development of high performant models remains particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Amirata Ghorbani , Vivek Natarajan , David Coz , Yuan Liu

When imaging through a semi-reflective medium such as glass, the reflection of another scene can often be found in the captured images. It degrades the quality of the images and affects their subsequent analyses. In this paper, a novel deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Tingtian Li , Yuk-Hee Chan , Daniel P. K. Lun

To ensure flight safety of aircraft structures, it is necessary to have regular maintenance using visual and nondestructive inspection (NDI) methods. In this paper, we propose an automatic image-based aircraft defect detection using Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Touba Malekzadeh , Milad Abdollahzadeh , Hossein Nejati , Ngai-Man Cheung