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In this article, we propose a novel regularization method for a class of nonlinear inverse problems that is inspired by an application in quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI). The latter is a special instance of a general…

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Humans can infer the missing parts of an occluded object by leveraging prior knowledge and visible cues. However, enabling deep learning models to accurately predict such occluded regions remains a challenging task. De-occlusion addresses…

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In AI, generalization refers to a model's ability to perform well on out-of-distribution data related to the given task, beyond the data it was trained on. For an AI agent to excel, it must also possess the continual learning capability,…

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Medical images often incorporate doctor-added markers that can hinder AI-based diagnosis. This issue highlights the need of inpainting techniques to restore the corrupted visual contents. However, existing methods require manual mask…

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Eliminating image blur produced by various kinds of motion has been a challenging problem. Dominant approaches rely heavily on model capacity to remove blurring by reconstructing residual from blurry observation in feature space. These…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Chengxu Liu , Xuan Wang , Xiangyu Xu , Ruhao Tian , Shuai Li , Xueming Qian , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Low-complexity non-smooth convex regularizers are routinely used to impose some structure (such as sparsity or low-rank) on the coefficients for linear predictors in supervised learning. Model consistency consists then in selecting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Jalal Fadili , Guillaume Garrigos , Jérome Malick , Gabriel Peyré

Near-infrared imaging can capture haze-free near-infrared gray images and visible color images, according to physical scattering models, e.g., Rayleigh or Mie models. However, there exist serious discrepancies in brightness and image…

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Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) is a challenging task in computer vision due to the high similarity between camouflaged objects and their surroundings. Existing COD methods primarily employ semantic segmentation, which suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zhongxi Chen , Ke Sun , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

Anomaly segmentation is a critical task for driving applications, and it is approached traditionally as a per-pixel classification problem. However, reasoning individually about each pixel without considering their contextual semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Shyam Nandan Rai , Fabio Cermelli , Dario Fontanel , Carlo Masone , Barbara Caputo

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has achieved impressive representative performance with the aim of reconstructing randomly masked images. Despite the empirical success, most previous works have neglected the important fact that it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Junde Xu , Zikai Lin , Donghao Zhou , Yaodong Yang , Xiangyun Liao , Bian Wu , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Diffusion models have established new state of the art in a multitude of computer vision tasks, including image restoration. Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers generate reconstructions of exceptional visual quality from heavily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Image colourisation is an ill-posed problem, with multiple correct solutions which depend on the context and object instances present in the input datum. Previous approaches attacked the problem either by requiring intense user interactions…

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Existing Masked Image Modeling methods apply fixed mask patterns to guide the self-supervised training. As those mask patterns resort to different criteria to depict image contents, sticking to a fixed pattern leads to a limited vision cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhanzhou Feng , Shiliang Zhang

Amodal segmentation aims to predict segmentation masks for both the visible and occluded regions of an object. Most existing works formulate this as a supervised learning problem, requiring manually annotated amodal masks or synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jae Joong Lee , Bedrich Benes , Raymond A. Yeh

While recent model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have demonstrated human-level effectiveness in gaming environments, their success in everyday tasks like visual navigation has been limited, particularly under significant…

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Removing the undesired reflections from images taken through the glass is of broad application to various computer vision tasks. Non-learning based methods utilize different handcrafted priors such as the separable sparse gradients caused…

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Deep learning-based video inpainting has yielded promising results and gained increasing attention from researchers. Generally, these methods usually assume that the corrupted region masks of each frame are known and easily obtained.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhiliang Wu , Hanyu Xuan , Changchang Sun , Kang Zhang , Yan Yan

Towards intelligent image editing, object removal should eliminate both the target object and its causal visual artifacts, such as shadows and reflections. However, existing image appearance-based methods either follow strictly mask-aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zixin Zhu , Haoxiang Li , Xuelu Feng , He Wu , Chunming Qiao , Junsong Yuan

Image retargeting aims at altering an image size while preserving important content and minimizing noticeable distortions. However, previous image retargeting methods create outputs that suffer from artifacts and distortions. Besides, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Mohammad Reza Naderi , Mohammad Hossein Givkashi , Nader Karimi , Shahram Shirani , Shadrokh Samavi

Recent self-supervised methods for image representation learning are based on maximizing the agreement between embedding vectors from different views of the same image. A trivial solution is obtained when the encoder outputs constant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Adrien Bardes , Jean Ponce , Yann LeCun