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High-quality photography in extreme low-light conditions is challenging but impactful for digital cameras. With advanced computing hardware, traditional camera image signal processor (ISP) algorithms are gradually being replaced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Amber Yijia Zheng , Yu Zhang , Jun Hu , Raymond A. Yeh , Chen Chen

Event cameras or dynamic vision sensors (DVS) record asynchronous response to brightness changes instead of conventional intensity frames, and feature ultra-high sensitivity at low bandwidth. The new mechanism demonstrates great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Bo Zhang , Yuqi Han , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

Event cameras generate asynchronous and sparse event streams capturing changes in light intensity. They offer significant advantages over conventional frame-based cameras, such as a higher dynamic range and an extremely faster data rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yi Tian , Juan Andrade-Cetto

This paper presents a novel Two-Stage Diffusion Model (TS-Diff) for enhancing extremely low-light RAW images. In the pre-training stage, TS-Diff synthesizes noisy images by constructing multiple virtual cameras based on a noise space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yi Li , Zhiyuan Zhang , Jiangnan Xia , Jianghan Cheng , Qilong Wu , Junwei Li , Yibin Tian , Hui Kong

The extraction of a clean background image by removing foreground occlusion holds immense practical significance, but it also presents several challenges. Presently, the majority of de-occlusion research focuses on addressing this issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Jiyuan Zhang , Shiyan Chen , Yajing Zheng , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Spike cameras offer unique sensing capabilities but their sparse, asynchronous output challenges semantic understanding, especially for Spike Video-Language Alignment (Spike-VLA) where models like CLIP underperform due to modality mismatch.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yongchang Gao , Meiling Jin , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang , Guozhang Chen

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) reconstructs a super-resolved image from multiple raw images captured with different illumination patterns; hence, acquisition speed is limited, making it unsuitable for dynamic scenes. We propose a…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiming Cao , Fanglin Linda Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Laura Waller

Novel View Synthesis plays a crucial role by generating new 2D renderings from multi-view images of 3D scenes. However, capturing high-speed scenes with conventional cameras often leads to motion blur, hindering the effectiveness of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiyuan Zhang , Kang Chen , Shiyan Chen , Yajing Zheng , Tiejun Huang , Zhaofei Yu

Event-based cameras display great potential for a variety of tasks such as high-speed motion detection and navigation in low-light environments where conventional frame-based cameras suffer critically. This is attributed to their high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Chankyu Lee , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Alex Zihao Zhu , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis , Kaushik Roy

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have tremendous potential for energy-efficient neuromorphic chips due to their binary and event-driven architecture. SNNs have been primarily used in classification tasks, but limited exploration on image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Mingxuan Liu , Jie Gan , Rui Wen , Tao Li , Yongli Chen , Hong Chen

One of the most critical factors in achieving sharp Novel View Synthesis (NVS) using neural field methods like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is the quality of the training images. However, Conventional RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Gaole Dai , Zhenyu Wang , Qinwen Xu , Ming Lu , Wen Chen , Boxin Shi , Shanghang Zhang , Tiejun Huang

The rapid advancement of generative image models has transformed digital media to the point where AI generated images can no longer be reliably distinguished from authentic photographs by human observers or many conventional detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohd Ruhul Ameen , Akif Islam

Conventional frame-based camera is not able to meet the demand of rapid reaction for real-time applications, while the emerging dynamic vision sensor (DVS) can realize high speed capturing for moving objects. However, to achieve visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Lin Zhu , Siwei Dong , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification is an important issue in remote sensing field with extensive applications in earth science. In recent years, a large number of deep learning-based HSI classification methods have been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Ning Chen , Jun Yue , Leyuan Fang , Shaobo Xia

Combining sparse IMUs and a monocular camera is a new promising setting to perform real-time human motion capture. This paper proposes a diffusion-based solution to learn human motion priors and fuse the two modalities of signals together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Shaohua Pan , Xinyu Yi , Yan Zhou , Weihua Jian , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Feng Xu

Event cameras are novel sensors that report brightness changes in the form of a stream of asynchronous "events" instead of intensity frames. They offer significant advantages with respect to conventional cameras: high temporal resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Henri Rebecq , René Ranftl , Vladlen Koltun , Davide Scaramuzza

Diffusion-based image compression methods have achieved notable progress, delivering high perceptual quality at low bitrates. However, their practical deployment is hindered by significant inference latency and heavy computational overhead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiwen Jia , Hao Wei , Yanhui Zhou , Chenyang Ge

In this paper, we rethink the low-light image enhancement task and propose a physically explainable and generative diffusion model for low-light image enhancement, termed as Diff-Retinex. We aim to integrate the advantages of the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xunpeng Yi , Han Xu , Hao Zhang , Linfeng Tang , Jiayi Ma

Recent advancements in diffusion-based generative priors have enabled visually plausible image compression at extremely low bit rates. However, existing approaches suffer from slow sampling processes and suboptimal bit allocation due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yichong Xia , Yimin Zhou , Jinpeng Wang , Bin Chen

Color plays an important role in human visual perception, reflecting the spectrum of objects. However, the existing infrared and visible image fusion methods rarely explore how to handle multi-spectral/channel data directly and achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jun Yue , Leyuan Fang , Shaobo Xia , Yue Deng , Jiayi Ma