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Due to the disparity between real-world degradations in user-generated content(UGC) images and synthetic degradations, traditional super-resolution methods struggle to generalize effectively, necessitating a more robust approach to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yiwen Wang , Ying Liang , Yuxuan Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Yingsheng Qin , Yucai Yang , Rong Xie , Li Song

This paper studies causal discovery in irregularly sampled time series-a key challenge in risk-sensitive domains like finance, healthcare, and climate science, where missing data and inconsistent sampling frequencies distort causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weihong Li , Baohong Li , Anpeng Wu , Zhihan Li , Ming Ma , Keting Yin , Kun Kuang

Object-centric representation learning offers the potential to overcome limitations of image-level representations by explicitly parsing image scenes into their constituent components. While image-level representations typically lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Nathan Drenkow , Mathias Unberath

Causal inference on time series data is a challenging problem, especially in the presence of unobserved confounders. This work focuses on estimating the causal effect between two time series that are confounded by a third, unobserved time…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-19 Felix Schur , Jonas Peters

Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in clinical decision-making, enabling precise localization of lesions and guiding interventions. Despite significant advances in segmentation accuracy, the black-box nature of most deep models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Limai Jiang , Ruitao Xie , Bokai Yang , Huazhen Huang , Juan He , Yufu Huo , Zikai Wang , Yang Wei , Yunpeng Cai

Causal Representation Learning (CRL) aims to uncover the data-generating process and identify the underlying causal variables and relations, whose evaluation remains inherently challenging due to the requirement of known ground-truth causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guangyi Chen , Yunlong Deng , Peiyuan Zhu , Yan Li , Yifan Shen , Zijian Li , Kun Zhang

Causal models bring many benefits to decision-making systems (or agents) by making them interpretable, sample-efficient, and robust to changes in the input distribution. However, spurious correlations can lead to wrong causal models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Sergei Volodin , Nevan Wichers , Jeremy Nixon

Existing real-world super-resolution (RSR) methods based on generative priors have achieved remarkable progress in producing high-quality and globally consistent reconstructions. However, they often struggle to recover fine-grained details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zixin Guo , Kai Zhao , Luyan Zhang

For decades, researchers in fields, such as the natural and social sciences, have been verifying causal relationships and investigating hypotheses that are now well-established or understood as truth. These causal mechanisms are properties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Trent Kyono , Mihaela van der Schaar

To perform counterfactual reasoning in Structural Causal Models (SCMs), one needs to know the causal mechanisms, which provide factorizations of conditional distributions into noise sources and deterministic functions mapping realizations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Guy Lorberbom , Daniel D. Johnson , Chris J. Maddison , Daniel Tarlow , Tamir Hazan

The causalimages R package enables causal inference with image and image sequence data, providing new tools for integrating novel data sources like satellite and bio-medical imagery into the study of cause and effect. One set of functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Connor T. Jerzak , Adel Daoud

With the advent of perceptual loss functions, new possibilities in super-resolution have emerged, and we currently have models that successfully generate near-photorealistic high-resolution images from their low-resolution observations. Up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Michael Hirsch , Bernhard Schölkopf

Deep CNNs have achieved significant successes in image processing and its applications, including single image super-resolution (SR). However, conventional methods still resort to some predetermined integer scaling factors, e.g., x2 or x4.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Sanghyun Son , Kyoung Mu Lee

Image Super-Resolution (ISR) has seen significant progress with the introduction of remarkable generative models. However, challenges such as the trade-off issues between fidelity and realism, as well as computational complexity, have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Real-scene image super-resolution aims to restore real-world low-resolution images into their high-quality versions. A typical RealSR framework usually includes the optimization of multiple criteria which are designed for different image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Yukai Shi , Hao Li , Sen Zhang , Zhijing Yang , Xiao Wang

Diffusion-based methods, endowed with a formidable generative prior, have received increasing attention in Image Super-Resolution (ISR) recently. However, as low-resolution (LR) images often undergo severe degradation, it is challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Jinhua Hao , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Deep neural networks can obtain impressive performance on various tasks under the assumption that their training domain is identical to their target domain. Performance can drop dramatically when this assumption does not hold. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Gaël Gendron , Michael Witbrock , Gillian Dobbie

This paper considers the problem of unsupervised 3D object reconstruction from in-the-wild single-view images. Due to ambiguity and intrinsic ill-posedness, this problem is inherently difficult to solve and therefore requires strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Weiyang Liu , Zhen Liu , Liam Paull , Adrian Weller , Bernhard Schölkopf

Counterfactual explanation is one branch of interpretable machine learning that produces a perturbation sample to change the model's original decision. The generated samples can act as a recommendation for end-users to achieve their desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Tri Dung Duong , Qian Li , Guandong Xu

In computed tomography (CT), achieving high image quality while minimizing radiation exposure remains a key clinical challenge. This paper presents CAPRI-CT, a novel causal-aware deep learning framework for Causal Analysis and Predictive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Sneha George Gnanakalavathy , Hairil Abdul Razak , Robert Meertens , Jonathan E. Fieldsend , Xujiong Ye , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea