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Previous approaches for blind image super-resolution (SR) have relied on degradation estimation to restore high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts. However, accurate degradation estimation poses significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Haochen Sun , Yan Yuan , Lijuan Su , Haotian Shao

While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods have shown impressive outcomes with synthetic degradation scenarios such as bicubic downsampling, they frequently struggle to perform well on real-world images that feature complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hyeonjae Kim , Dongjin Kim , Eugene Jin , Tae Hyun Kim

License plate recognition (LPR) is important for traffic law enforcement, crime investigation, and surveillance. However, license plate areas in dash cam images often suffer from low resolution, motion blur, and glare, which make accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Kihyun Na , Junseok Oh , Youngkwan Cho , Bumjin Kim , Sungmin Cho , Jinyoung Choi , Injung Kim

In recent years, face super-resolution (FSR) methods have achieved remarkable progress, generally maintaining high image fidelity and identity (ID) consistency under standard settings. However, in extreme degradation scenarios (e.g., scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jiarui Yang , Hang Guo , Wen Huang , Tao Dai , Shutao Xia

Most semantic segmentation models treat semantic segmentation as a pixel-wise classification task and use a pixel-wise classification error as their optimization criterions. However, the pixel-wise error ignores the strong dependencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Shuai Zhao , Boxi Wu , Wenqing Chu , Yao Hu , Deng Cai

Super-resolution (SR) and landmark localization of tiny faces are highly correlated tasks. On the one hand, landmark localization could obtain higher accuracy with faces of high-resolution (HR). On the other hand, face SR would benefit from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yu Yin , Joseph P. Robinson , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu

Recent advances in self-supervised learning, predominantly studied in high-level visual tasks, have been explored in low-level image processing. This paper introduces a novel self-supervised constraint for single image super-resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Gang Wu , Junjun Jiang , Kui Jiang , Xianming Liu

Limited by the cost and technology, the resolution of depth map collected by depth camera is often lower than that of its associated RGB camera. Although there have been many researches on RGB image super-resolution (SR), a major problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Chuhua Xian , Kun Qian , Zitian Zhang , Charlie C. L. Wang

Guided depth map super-resolution (GDSR), which aims to reconstruct a high-resolution (HR) depth map from a low-resolution (LR) observation with the help of a paired HR color image, is a longstanding and fundamental problem, it has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhiwei Zhong , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Debin Zhao , Xiangyang Ji

In real-world traffic surveillance, vehicle images captured under adverse weather, poor lighting, or high-speed motion often suffer from severe noise and blur. Such degradations significantly reduce the accuracy of license plate recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Cuong Nguyen , Dung T. Tran , Hong Nguyen , Xuan-Vu Phan , Nam-Phong Nguyen

Single image super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed problem which aims to recover high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) observations. The crux of this problem lies in learning the complex mapping between low-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Ding Liu , Zhaowen Wang , Nasser Nasrabadi , Thomas Huang

Automatic License Plate Recognition is a frequent research topic due to its wide-ranging practical applications. While recent studies use synthetic images to improve License Plate Recognition (LPR) results, there remain several limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Rayson Laroca , Valter Estevam , Gladston J. P. Moreira , Rodrigo Minetto , David Menotti

In this paper, we present an algorithm for real-world license plate recognition (LPR) from a low-quality image. Our method is built upon a framework that includes denoising and rectification, and each task is conducted by Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Younkwan Lee , Juhyun Lee , Hoyeon Ahn , Moongu Jeon

Reliable and accurate 3D object detection is a necessity for safe autonomous driving. Although LiDAR sensors can provide accurate 3D point cloud estimates of the environment, they are also prohibitively expensive for many settings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Rui Qian , Divyansh Garg , Yan Wang , Yurong You , Serge Belongie , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Wei-Lun Chao

Image registration is a fundamental task for medical imaging. Resampling of the intensity values is required during registration and better spatial resolution with finer and sharper structures can improve the resampling performance and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

Although most current license plate (LP) recognition applications have been significantly advanced, they are still limited to ideal environments where training data are carefully annotated with constrained scenes. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Younkwan Lee , Jiwon Jun , Yoojin Hong , Moongu Jeon

Image super-resolution (SR) is an effective way to enhance the spatial resolution and detail information of remote sensing images, to obtain a superior visual quality. As SR is severely ill-conditioned, effective image priors are necessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jing Sun , Huanfeng Shen , Qiangqiang Yuan , Liangpei Zhang

Reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) has gained considerable success in the field of super-resolution with the addition of high-resolution reference images to reconstruct low-resolution (LR) inputs with more high-frequency details,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Xiaoyong Mei , Yi Yang , Ming Li , Changqin Huang , Kai Zhang , Pietro Lió

Most image super-resolution (SR) methods are developed on synthetic low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image pairs that are constructed by a predetermined operation, e.g., bicubic downsampling. As existing methods typically learn…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Sanghyun Son , Jaeha Kim , Wei-Sheng Lai , Ming-Husan Yang , Kyoung Mu Lee

Plenoptic cameras offer a cost effective solution to capture light fields by multiplexing multiple views on a single image sensor. However, the high angular resolution is achieved at the expense of reducing the spatial resolution of each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Reuben A. Farrugia , C. Guillemot