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Underwater image enhancement algorithms have attracted much attention in underwater vision task. However, these algorithms are mainly evaluated on different data sets and different metrics. In this paper, we set up an effective and pubic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Hanyu Li , Jingjing Li , Wei Wang

New advancements for the detection of synthetic images are critical for fighting disinformation, as the capabilities of generative AI models continuously evolve and can lead to hyper-realistic synthetic imagery at unprecedented scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Pantelis Dogoulis , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

Contrastive self-supervised learning has attracted significant research attention recently. It learns effective visual representations from unlabeled data by embedding augmented views of the same image close to each other while pushing away…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yichen Zhang , Yifang Yin , Ying Zhang , Roger Zimmermann

Low-light image enhancement (LLE) remains challenging due to the unfavorable prevailing low-contrast and weak-visibility problems of single RGB images. In this paper, we respond to the intriguing learning-related question -- if leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Dong Liang , Ling Li , Mingqiang Wei , Shuo Yang , Liyan Zhang , Wenhan Yang , Yun Du , Huiyu Zhou

In recent years, a variety of contrastive learning based unsupervised visual representation learning methods have been designed and achieved great success in many visual tasks. Generally, these methods can be roughly classified into four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wenbin Li , Meihao Kong , Xuesong Yang , Lei Wang , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

Image retrieval is a crucial research topic in computer vision, with broad application prospects ranging from online product searches to security surveillance systems. In recent years, the accuracy and efficiency of image retrieval have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Kim Jinwoo

Perceiving the similarity between images has been a long-standing and fundamental problem underlying various visual generation tasks. Predominant approaches measure the inter-image distance by computing pointwise absolute deviations, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Fangneng Zhan , Jiahui Zhang , Yingchen Yu , Rongliang Wu , Shijian Lu

Deep learning-based methods for low-light image enhancement typically require enormous paired training data, which are impractical to capture in real-world scenarios. Recently, unsupervised approaches have been explored to eliminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Feng Zhang , Yuanjie Shao , Yishi Sun , Kai Zhu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

We consider the problem of obtaining image quality representations in a self-supervised manner. We use prediction of distortion type and degree as an auxiliary task to learn features from an unlabeled image dataset containing a mixture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Pavan C. Madhusudana , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Recent progress in diffusion models significantly advances various image generation tasks. However, the current mainstream approach remains focused on building task-specific models, which have limited efficiency when supporting a wide range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Zhong-Yu Li , Ruoyi Du , Juncheng Yan , Le Zhuo , Qilong Wu , Zhen Li , Peng Gao , Zhanyu Ma , Ming-Ming Cheng

The human visual system is remarkably adept at adapting to changes in the input distribution; a capability modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) still struggle to match. Drawing inspiration from the developmental trajectory of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ankita Raj , Kaashika Prajaapat , Tapan Kumar Gandhi , Chetan Arora

Contrast is subject to dramatic changes across the visual field, depending on the source of light and scene configurations. Hence, the human visual system has evolved to be more sensitive to contrast than absolute luminance. This feature is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Arash Akbarinia , Karl R. Gegenfurtner

Image dehazing techniques aim to enhance contrast and restore details, which are essential for preserving visual information and improving image processing accuracy. Existing methods rely on a single manual prior, which cannot effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Minglong Xue , Shuaibin Fan , Shivakumara Palaiahnakote , Mingliang Zhou

Blind and universal image denoising consists of using a unique model that denoises images with any level of noise. It is especially practical as noise levels do not need to be known when the model is developed or at test time. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Majed El Helou , Sabine Süsstrunk

Pre-training vision-language models with contrastive objectives has shown promising results that are both scalable to large uncurated datasets and transferable to many downstream applications. Some following works have targeted to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Janghyeon Lee , Jongsuk Kim , Hyounguk Shon , Bumsoo Kim , Seung Hwan Kim , Honglak Lee , Junmo Kim

Image-to-image translation aims to learn a mapping between different groups of visually distinguishable images. While recent methods have shown impressive ability to change even intricate appearance of images, they still rely on domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Hanbit Lee , Jinseok Seol , Sang-goo Lee

As the quality of synthetic images improves, identifying the underlying concepts of model-generated images is becoming increasingly crucial for copyright protection and ensuring model transparency. Existing methods achieve this attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zongfang Liu , Guangyi Chen , Boyang Sun , Tongliang Liu , Kun Zhang

Low-light image enhancement, such as recovering color and texture details from low-light images, is a complex and vital task. For automated driving, low-light scenarios will have serious implications for vision-based applications. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yangyang Qu , Kai Chen , Chao Liu , Yongsheng Ou

This paper proposes a self-supervised low light image enhancement method based on deep learning, which can improve the image contrast and reduce noise at the same time to avoid the blur caused by pre-/post-denoising. The method contains two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Bin Zhang , Qingyan Li , Shiyu Yan , Chunhui Wang

Current text conditioned image generation methods output realistic looking images, but they fail to capture specific styles. Simply finetuning them on the target style datasets still struggles to grasp the style features. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Serkan Ozturk , Samet Hicsonmez , Pinar Duygulu