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Deep convolutional neural networks have been proven to be very effective in image related analysis and tasks, such as image segmentation, image classification, image generation, etc. Recently many sophisticated CNN based architectures have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Eshal Zahra , Bostan Ali , Wajahat Siddique

Generative diffusion models learn probability densities over diverse image datasets by estimating the score with a neural network trained to remove noise. Despite their remarkable success in generating high-quality images, the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Stéphane Mallat , Eero Simoncelli

Image inpainting is a key technique in image processing task to predict the missing regions and generate realistic images. Given the advancement of existing generative inpainting models with feature extraction, propagation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Jireh Jam , Connah Kendrick , Vincent Drouard , Kevin Walker , Moi Hoon Yap

Stage-wise audio-visual encoders propagate fused intermediate states across layers, making the formation of later representations depend on the readiness of earlier fusion states. Strong local audio-visual agreement provides useful…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xinmeng Xu , Haoran Xie , S. Joe Qin , Lin Li , Xiaohui Tao , Fu Lee Wang

Deep neural networks as image priors have been recently introduced for problems such as denoising, super-resolution and inpainting with promising performance gains over hand-crafted image priors such as sparsity and low-rank. Unlike learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Gauri Jagatap , Chinmay Hegde

It is a challenging task to accurately perform semantic segmentation due to the complexity of real picture scenes. Many semantic segmentation methods based on traditional deep learning insufficiently captured the semantic and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Haitong Tang , Shuang He , Mengduo Yang , Xia Lu , Qin Yu , Kaiyue Liu , Hongjie Yan , Nizhuan Wang

With the great success of diffusion models in image generation, diffusion-based image compression is attracting increasing interests. However, due to the random noise introduced in the diffusion learning, they usually produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Zhenyu Du , Yanbo Gao , Shuai Li , Yiyang Li , Hui Yuan , Mao Ye

We propose a novel training-free image generation algorithm that precisely controls the occlusion relationships between objects in an image. Existing image generation methods typically rely on prompts to influence occlusion, which often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaohang Zhan , Dingming Liu

Diffusion models emerged as a leading approach in text-to-image generation, producing high-quality images from textual descriptions. However, attempting to achieve detailed control to get a desired image solely through text remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Pablo Domingo-Gregorio , Javier Ruiz-Hidalgo

Image patch matching, which is the process of identifying corresponding patches across images, has been used as a subroutine for many computer vision and image processing tasks. State -of-the-art patch matching techniques take image patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Akila Pemasiri , Kien Nguyen , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

We present TokenCompose, a Latent Diffusion Model for text-to-image generation that achieves enhanced consistency between user-specified text prompts and model-generated images. Despite its tremendous success, the standard denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zirui Wang , Zhizhou Sha , Zheng Ding , Yilin Wang , Zhuowen Tu

In material science, image segmentation is of great significance for quantitative analysis of microstructures. Here, we propose a novel Weighted Propagation Convolution Neural Network based on U-Net (WPU-Net) to detect boundary in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Wei Liu , Jiahao Chen , Chuni Liu , Xiaojuan Ban , Boyuan Ma , Hao Wang , Weihua Xue , Yu Guo

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful technique for text-to-image (T2I) generation, creating high-quality, diverse images across various domains. However, a common limitation in these models is the incomplete display of objects, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Haoyang Xu , Tianhao Zhao , Sibei Yang , Yutian Lin

Supervised learning-based methods yield robust denoising results, yet they are inherently limited by the need for large-scale clean/noisy paired datasets. The use of unsupervised denoisers, on the other hand, necessitates a more detailed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Nahyun Kim , Donggon Jang , Sunhyeok Lee , Bomi Kim , Dae-Shik Kim

Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images is essential for preventive screening and clinical diagnosis, yet remains challenging due to low contrast, blurry boundaries, and significant scale variations. Although existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chen Wang , Yixin Zhu , Yongbin Zhu , Fengyuan Shi , Qi Li , Jun Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Keli Hu

This paper aims to explore the evolution of image denoising in a pedagological way. We briefly review classical methods such as Fourier analysis and wavelet bases, highlighting the challenges they faced until the emergence of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jean-Eric Campagne

Adversarial generative model have successfully manifest itself in image synthesis. However, the performance deteriorate and unstable, because discriminator is far stable than generator, and it is hard to control the game between the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Wu Jionghao

Single image dehazing is a challenging ill-posed restoration problem. Various prior-based and learning-based methods have been proposed. Most of them follow a classic atmospheric scattering model which is an elegant simplified physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Kangfu Mei , Aiwen Jiang , Juncheng Li , Mingwen Wang

Deep generative models have demonstrated great performance in image synthesis. However, results deteriorate in case of spatial deformations, since they generate images of objects directly, rather than modeling the intricate interplay of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Patrick Esser , Ekaterina Sutter , Björn Ommer

U-Net has become one of the state-of-the-art deep learning-based approaches for modern computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation, super resolution, image denoising, and inpainting. Previous extensions of U-Net have focused mainly…

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