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Deep convolution neural networks (CNNs) play a critical role in single image super-resolution (SISR) since the amazing improvement of high performance computing. However, most of the super-resolution (SR) methods only focus on recovering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Dong Huo , Yee-Hong Yang

Digital images are often degraded by soft effects such as lens flare, haze, shadows, and reflections, which reduce aesthetics even though the underlying pixels remain partially visible. The prevailing works address these degradations in…

Achieving high-quality shadow removal with strong generalizability is challenging in scenes with complex global illumination. Due to the limited diversity in shadow removal datasets, current methods are prone to overfitting training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiamin Xu , Yuxin Zheng , Zelong Li , Chi Wang , Renshu Gu , Weiwei Xu , Gang Xu

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

To overcome inherent hardware limitations of hyperspectral imaging systems with respect to their spatial resolution, fusion-based hyperspectral image (HSI) super-resolution is attracting increasing attention. This technique aims to fuse a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Xiuheng Wang , Jie Chen , Cédric Richard

Illumination effects in images, specifically cast shadows and shading, have been shown to decrease the performance of deep neural networks on a large number of vision-based detection, recognition and segmentation tasks in urban driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Alexandra Carlson , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Segment Anything (SAM), an advanced universal image segmentation model trained on an expansive visual dataset, has set a new benchmark in image segmentation and computer vision. However, it faced challenges when it came to distinguishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiao Feng Zhang , Tian Yi Song , Jia Wei Yao

Super-Resolution from a single motion Blurred image (SRB) is a severely ill-posed problem due to the joint degradation of motion blurs and low spatial resolution. In this paper, we employ events to alleviate the burden of SRB and propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lei Yu , Bishan Wang , Xiang Zhang , Haijian Zhang , Wen Yang , Jianzhuang Liu , Gui-Song Xia

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xinjie Li , Yang Zhao , Dong Wang , Yuan Chen , Li Cao , Xiaoping Liu

A key challenge of real-world image super-resolution (SR) is to recover the missing details in low-resolution (LR) images with complex unknown degradations (e.g., downsampling, noise and compression). Most previous works restore such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Chaofeng Chen , Xinyu Shi , Yipeng Qin , Xiaoming Li , Xiaoguang Han , Tao Yang , Shihui Guo

The main challenge of single image super resolution (SISR) is the recovery of high frequency details such as tiny textures. However, most of the state-of-the-art methods lack specific modules to identify high frequency areas, causing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Yuan Liu , Yuancheng Wang , Nan Li , Xu Cheng , Yifeng Zhang , Yongming Huang , Guojun Lu

Document shadow removal is a crucial task in the field of document image enhancement. However, existing methods tend to remove shadows with constant color background and ignore color shadows. In this paper, we first design a diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Wenjie Liu , Bingshu Wang , Ze Wang , C. L. Philip Chen

The restoration of images affected by blur and noise has been widely studied and has broad potential for applications including in medical imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT). Although the blur and noise in CT images can be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yijie Yuan , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman

In the process of performing image super-resolution processing, the processing of complex localized information can have a significant impact on the quality of the image generated. Fractal features can capture the rich details of both micro…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Lianping Yang , Peng Jiao , Jinshan Pan , Hegui Zhu , Su Guo

Generative diffusion models (DM) have been extensively utilized in image super-resolution (ISR). Most of the existing methods adopt the denoising loss from DDPMs for model optimization. We posit that introducing reward feedback learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xiaopeng Sun , Qinwei Lin , Yu Gao , Yujie Zhong , Chengjian Feng , Dengjie Li , Zheng Zhao , Jie Hu , Lin Ma

Blind face restoration usually synthesizes degraded low-quality data with a pre-defined degradation model for training, while more complex cases could happen in the real world. This gap between the assumed and actual degradation hurts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhixin Wang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ziying Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Mingyuan Zhou , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Deep neural networks have greatly promoted the performance of single image super-resolution (SISR). Conventional methods still resort to restoring the single high-resolution (HR) solution only based on the input of image modality. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Chenxi Ma , Bo Yan , Qing Lin , Weimin Tan , Siming Chen

We propose a novel deep learning method for shadow removal. Inspired by physical models of shadow formation, we use a linear illumination transformation to model the shadow effects in the image that allows the shadow image to be expressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Recent advancements in deep learning have yielded promising results for the image shadow removal task. However, most existing methods rely on binary pre-generated shadow masks. The binary nature of such masks could potentially lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xinrui Wang , Lanqing Guo , Xiyu Wang , Siyu Huang , Bihan Wen

Intrinsic image decomposition, which is an essential task in computer vision, aims to infer the reflectance and shading of the scene. It is challenging since it needs to separate one image into two components. To tackle this, conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu