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Image compression is one of the most fundamental techniques and commonly used applications in the image and video processing field. Earlier methods built a well-designed pipeline, and efforts were made to improve all modules of the pipeline…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Yueyu Hu , Wenhan Yang , Zhan Ma , Jiaying Liu

Deep learning-based image enhancement methods face a fundamental trade-off between computational efficiency and representational capacity. For example, although a conventional three-dimensional Look-Up Table (3D LUT) can process a degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Liubing Hu , Chen Wu , Anrui Wang , Dianjie Lu , Guijuan Zhang , Zhuoran Zheng

In this paper, we present a ranking-based underwater image quality assessment (UIQA) method, abbreviated as URanker. The URanker is built on the efficient conv-attentional image Transformer. In terms of underwater images, we specially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chunle Guo , Ruiqi Wu , Xin Jin , Linghao Han , Zhi Chai , Weidong Zhang , Chongyi Li

Underwater object detection faces the problem of underwater image degradation, which affects the performance of the detector. Underwater object detection methods based on noise reduction and image enhancement usually do not provide images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhuoyan Liu , Bo Wang , Ye Li , Jiaxian He , Yunfeng Li

In recent years, pre-trained visual-linguistic models have demonstrated tremendous potential, becoming a crucial foundational framework for numerous downstream tasks. However, the information density between text and images is not uniformly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mengyuan Tian , Qiyan Zhao , Yanan Wang , Da-Han Wang

Underwater image understanding is crucial for both submarine navigation and seabed exploration. However, the low illumination in underwater environments degrades the imaging quality, which in turn seriously deteriorates the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xin Zuo , Jiaran Jiang , Jifeng Shen , Wankou Yang

Interpretable-by-design models are gaining traction in computer vision because they provide faithful explanations for their predictions. In image classification, these models typically recover human-interpretable concepts from an image and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nghia Nguyen , Tianjiao Ding , René Vidal

Raw underwater images are degraded due to wavelength dependent light attenuation and scattering, limiting their applicability in vision systems. Another factor that makes enhancing underwater images particularly challenging is the diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Pritish Uplavikar , Zhenyu Wu , Zhangyang Wang

Single underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a challenging ill-posed problem, but its development is hindered by two major issues: (1) The labels in underwater reference datasets are pseudo labels, relying on these pseudo ground truths in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhi Zhang , Minfu Li , Lu Li , Daoyi Chen

The core of cross-modal matching is to accurately measure the similarity between different modalities in a unified representation space. However, compared to textual descriptions of a certain perspective, the visual modality has more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Wenzhang Wei , Zhipeng Gui , Changguang Wu , Anqi Zhao , Dehua Peng , Huayi Wu

We consider the generic deep image enhancement problem where an input image is transformed into a perceptually better-looking image. Recent methods for image enhancement consider the problem by performing style transfer and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Indra Deep Mastan , Shanmuganathan Raman

With the tremendous success of deep learning in visual tasks, the representations extracted from intermediate layers of learned models, that is, deep features, attract much attention of researchers. Previous empirical analysis shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Qi Qian , Juhua Hu , Hao Li

This article presents Holistically-Attracted Wireframe Parsing (HAWP), a method for geometric analysis of 2D images containing wireframes formed by line segments and junctions. HAWP utilizes a parsimonious Holistic Attraction (HAT) field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Nan Xue , Tianfu Wu , Song Bai , Fu-Dong Wang , Gui-Song Xia , Liangpei Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr

With the rapid development of multimodal learning, the image-text matching task, as a bridge connecting vision and language, has become increasingly important. Based on existing research, this study proposes an innovative visual semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Wenjing Chen

To interpret deep neural networks, one main approach is to dissect the visual input and find the prototypical parts responsible for the classification. However, existing methods often ignore the hierarchical relationship between these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Sadaf Gulshad , Teng Long , Nanne van Noord

We introduce a new task called Defeasible Visual Entailment (DVE), where the goal is to allow the modification of the entailment relationship between an image premise and a text hypothesis based on an additional update. While this concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yue Zhang , Liqiang Jing , Vibhav Gogate

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

Hyperspectral unmixing (HU) plays a fundamental role in a wide range of hyperspectral applications. It is still challenging due to the common presence of outlier channels and the large solution space. To address the above two issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Feiyun Zhu , Ying Wang , Bin Fan , Gaofeng Meng , Chunhong Pan

We introduce RIPE, an innovative reinforcement learning-based framework for weakly-supervised training of a keypoint extractor that excels in both detection and description tasks. In contrast to conventional training regimes that depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Johannes Künzel , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

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…