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Exploiting light field data makes it possible to obtain dense and accurate depth map. However, synthetic scenes with limited disparity range cannot contain the diversity of real scenes. By training in synthetic data, current learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Kunyuan Li , Jun Zhang , Jun Gao , Meibin Qi

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers affordable access to diagnostic imaging but faces challenges such as prolonged acquisition times and reduced image quality. Although accelerated imaging via k-space undersampling helps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Daniel Tweneboah Anyimadu , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea , Ahmed Karam Eldaly

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) requires precise positional and environmental information to produce well-focused output during the image reconstruction step. However, errors in these measurements are commonly present resulting in defocused…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 Isaac Gerg , Vishal Monga

Coherent microscopy techniques provide an unparalleled multi-scale view of materials across scientific and technological fields, from structural materials to quantum devices, from integrated circuits to biological cells. Driven by the…

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation and editing tasks. Inversion within these models aims to recover the latent noise representation for a real or generated image, enabling reconstruction, editing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zixiang Li , Haoyu Wang , Wei Wang , Chuangchuang Tan , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao

Cross-subject motor imagery (CS-MI) classification in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) is a challenging task due to the significant variability in Electroencephalography (EEG) patterns across different individuals. This variability often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ahmed G. Habashi , Ahmed M. Azab , Seif Eldawlatly , Gamal M. Aly

Infrared and visible image fusion, a hot topic in the field of image processing, aims at obtaining fused images keeping the advantages of source images. This paper proposes a novel auto-encoder (AE) based fusion network. The core idea is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Zixiang Zhao , Shuang Xu , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu , Pengfei Li , Jiangshe Zhang

Diffusion models are a special type of generative model, capable of synthesising new data from a learnt distribution. We introduce DISPR, a diffusion-based model for solving the inverse problem of three-dimensional (3D) cell shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Dominik J. E. Waibel , Ernst Röell , Bastian Rieck , Raja Giryes , Carsten Marr

Advances in the motor imagery (MI)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) allow control of several applications by decoding neurophysiological phenomena, which are usually recorded by electroencephalography (EEG) using a non-invasive…

We present a method to estimate dense depth by optimizing a sparse set of points such that their diffusion into a depth map minimizes a multi-view reprojection error from RGB supervision. We optimize point positions, depths, and weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Numair Khan , Min H. Kim , James Tompkin

Microstructure characterisation has been greatly enhanced through the use of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), where rich maps are generated through analysis of the crystal phase and orientation in the scanning electron microscope…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-15 Vivian S Tong , Alexander J Knowles , David Dye , T Ben Britton

This paper presents an edge-based defocus blur estimation method from a single defocused image. We first distinguish edges that lie at depth discontinuities (called depth edges, for which the blur estimate is ambiguous) from edges that lie…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Ali Karaali , Naomi Harte , Claudio Rosito Jung

Edge detection in images is the foundation of many complex tasks in computer graphics. Due to the feature loss caused by multi-layer convolution and pooling architectures, learning-based edge detection models often produce thick edges and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Qinghui Hong , Haoyou Jiang , Pingdan Xiao , Sichun Du , Tao Li

Automation in optical microscopy is critical for enabling high-throughput imaging across a wide range of biomedical applications. Among the essential components of automated systems, robust autofocusing plays a pivotal role in maintaining…

The task of aesthetic quality assessment is complicated due to its subjectivity. In recent years, the target representation of image aesthetic quality has changed from a one-dimensional binary classification label or numerical score to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Xin Jin , Xiqiao Li , Heng Huang , Xiaodong Li , Xinghui Zhou

Diffusion models face significant challenges when employed for large-scale medical image reconstruction in real practice such as 3D Computed Tomography (CT). Due to the demanding memory, time, and data requirements, it is difficult to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bowen Song , Jason Hu , Zhaoxu Luo , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Liyue Shen

Diffusion-based inpainting can reconstruct missing image areas with high quality from sparse data, provided that their location and their values are well optimised. This is particularly useful for applications such as image compression,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Pascal Peter , Karl Schrader , Tobias Alt , Joachim Weickert

The patient with ischemic stroke can benefit most from the earliest possible definitive diagnosis. While the high quality medical resources are quite scarce across the globe, an automated diagnostic tool is expected in analyzing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Zhiyang Liu , Chen Cao , Shuxue Ding , Tong Han , Hong Wu , Sheng Liu

Ultrahigh field (UHF) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides a higher signal-to-noise ratio and, thereby, higher spatial resolution. However, UHF MRI introduces challenges such as transmit radiofrequency (RF) field (B1+) inhomogeneities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zhengyi Lu , Hao Liang , Xiao Wang , Xinqiang Yan , Yuankai Huo

Purpose: To propose a domain-conditioned and temporal-guided diffusion modeling method, termed dynamic Diffusion Modeling (dDiMo), for accelerated dynamic MRI reconstruction, enabling diffusion process to characterize spatiotemporal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Liping Zhang , Iris Yuwen Zhou , Sydney B. Montesi , Li Feng , Fang Liu