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While single task image restoration (IR) has achieved significant successes, it remains a challenging issue to train a single model which can tackle multiple IR tasks. In this work, we investigate in-depth the multiple-in-one (MiO) IR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xiangtao Kong , Chao Dong , Lei Zhang

Object detection in sonar images is a key technology in underwater detection systems. Compared to natural images, sonar images contain fewer texture details and are more susceptible to noise, making it difficult for non-experts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chengzhou Li , Ping Guo , Guanchen Meng , Qi Jia , Jinyuan Liu , Zhu Liu , Xiaokang Liu , Yu Liu , Zhongxuan Luo , Xin Fan

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an important image retrieval paradigm that enables users to retrieve a target image using a multimodal query that consists of a reference image and modification text. Although research on CIR has made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zixu Li , Yupeng Hu , Zhiheng Fu , Zhiwei Chen , Yongqi Li , Liqiang Nie

The real human attention is an interactive activity between our visual system and our brain, using both low-level visual stimulus and high-level semantic information. Previous image salient object detection (SOD) works conduct their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Zhenyu Wu , Shuai Li , Chenglizhao Chen , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

Image restoration (IR) seeks to recover high-quality images from degraded observations caused by a wide range of factors, including noise, blur, compression, and adverse weather. While traditional IR methods have made notable progress by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Junjun Jiang , Zengyuan Zuo , Gang Wu , Kui Jiang , Xianming Liu

The widespread misuse of image generation technologies has raised security concerns, driving the development of AI-generated image detection methods. However, generalization has become a key challenge and open problem: existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yongkang Hu , Yu Cheng , Yushuo Zhang , Yuan Xie , Zhaoxia Yin

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) excel in multimodal tasks, commonly encoding images as embedding vectors for storage in databases and retrieval via approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS). However, these models struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ofer Idan , Vladi Vexler , Gil Lederman , Dima Sivov , Aviad Cohen Zada , Shir Niego Komforti

Vision-based industrial inspection (VII) aims to locate defects quickly and accurately. Supervised learning under a close-set setting and industrial anomaly detection, as two common paradigms in VII, face different problems in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Zilong Zhang , Chang Niu , Zhibin Zhao , Xingwu Zhang , Xuefeng Chen

In recent years, attention mechanisms have been exploited in single image super-resolution (SISR), achieving impressive reconstruction results. However, these advancements are still limited by the reliance on simple training strategies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yuxuan Jiang , Chengxi Zeng , Siyue Teng , Fan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zhu , Joel Sole , David Bull

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

The goal of this paper is to enhance pretrained Vision Transformer (ViT) models for focus-oriented image retrieval with visual prompting. In real-world image retrieval scenarios, both query and database images often exhibit complexity, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yuji Nozawa , Yu-Chieh Lin , Kazumoto Nakamura , Youyang Ng

The recent COCO object detection dataset presents several new challenges for object detection. In particular, it contains objects at a broad range of scales, less prototypical images, and requires more precise localization. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Sergey Zagoruyko , Adam Lerer , Tsung-Yi Lin , Pedro O. Pinheiro , Sam Gross , Soumith Chintala , Piotr Dollár

Object detection has achieved a huge breakthrough with deep neural networks and massive annotated data. However, current detection methods cannot be directly transferred to the scenario where the annotated data is scarce due to the severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Qihan Huang , Haofei Zhang , Mengqi Xue , Jie Song , Mingli Song

Few-shot object detection aims to detect instances of specific categories in a query image with only a handful of support samples. Although this takes less effort than obtaining enough annotated images for supervised object detection, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Hojun Lee , Myunggi Lee , Nojun Kwak

To accommodate rapid changes in the real world, the cognition system of humans is capable of continually learning concepts. On the contrary, conventional deep learning models lack this capability of preserving previously learned knowledge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Can Peng , Kun Zhao , Sam Maksoud , Tianren Wang , Brian C. Lovell

Multispectral object detection, utilizing RGB and TIR (thermal infrared) modalities, is widely recognized as a challenging task. It requires not only the effective extraction of features from both modalities and robust fusion strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Chen Zhou , Peng Cheng , Junfeng Fang , Yifan Zhang , Yibo Yan , Xiaojun Jia , Yanyan Xu , Kun Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an emerging yet challenging task that allows users to search for target images using a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a modification text specifying the user's desired changes to the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuemeng Song , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Bohan Hou , Mingzhu Xu , Liqiang Nie

Training Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR) models using pixel-based regression losses can achieve high distortion metrics scores (e.g., PSNR and SSIM), but often results in blurry images due to insufficient recovery of high-frequency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Qiwen Zhu , Yanjie Wang , Shilv Cai , Liqun Chen , Jiahuan Zhou , Luxin Yan , Sheng Zhong , Xu Zou

The progress of composed image retrieval (CIR), a popular research direction in image retrieval, where a combined visual and textual query is used, is held back by the absence of high-quality training and evaluation data. We introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bill Psomas , George Retsinas , Nikos Efthymiadis , Panagiotis Filntisis , Yannis Avrithis , Petros Maragos , Ondrej Chum , Giorgos Tolias

In remote sensing field, there are many applications of object detection in recent years, which demands a great number of labeled data. However, we may be faced with some cases where only limited data are available. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Zixuan Xiao , Wei Xue , Ping Zhong