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Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

Event cameras are biologically-inspired sensors that gather the temporal evolution of the scene. They capture pixel-wise brightness variations and output a corresponding stream of asynchronous events. Despite having multiple advantages with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Stefano Pini , Guido Borghi , Roberto Vezzani

Biases can filter into AI technology without our knowledge. Oftentimes, seminal deep learning networks champion increased accuracy above all else. In this paper, we attempt to alleviate biases encountered by semantic segmentation models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Jack Stelling , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

In nighttime circumstances, it is challenging for individuals and machines to perceive their surroundings. While prevailing image restoration methods adeptly handle singular forms of degradation, they falter when confronted with intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yifan Chen , Fei Yin , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li , Yujiu Yang

RGB-thermal semantic segmentation is one potential solution to achieve reliable semantic scene understanding in adverse weather and lighting conditions. However, the previous studies mostly focus on designing a multi-modal fusion module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ukcheol Shin , Kyunghyun Lee , In So Kweon , Jean Oh

Robust perception at night remains challenging for thermal-infrared detection: low contrast and weak high-frequency cues lead to duplicate, overlapping boxes, missed small objects, and class confusion. Prior remedies either translate TIR to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 SiWoo Kim , JhongHyun An

Recently, intermediate feature maps of pre-trained convolutional neural networks have shown significant perceptual quality improvements, when they are used in the loss function for training new networks. It is believed that these features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Taimoor Tariq , Okan Tarhan Tursun , Munchurl Kim , Piotr Didyk

Self-supervised representation learning is a critical problem in computer vision, as it provides a way to pretrain feature extractors on large unlabeled datasets that can be used as an initialization for more efficient and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Yunze Liu , Li Yi , Shanghang Zhang , Qingnan Fan , Thomas Funkhouser , Hao Dong

We describe a novel integrated algorithm for real-time enhancement of video acquired under challenging lighting conditions. Such conditions include low lighting, haze, and high dynamic range situations. The algorithm automatically detects…

Graphics · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Xuan Dong , Jiangtao , Wen , Weixin Li , Yi , Pang , Guan Wang , Yao Lu , Wei Meng

Today's most accurate language models are trained on orders of magnitude more language data than human language learners receive - but with no supervision from other sensory modalities that play a crucial role in human learning. Can we make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Chengxu Zhuang , Evelina Fedorenko , Jacob Andreas

Matting with a static background, often referred to as ``Background Matting" (BGM), has garnered significant attention within the computer vision community due to its pivotal role in various practical applications like webcasting and photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Hanxi Li , Guofeng Li , Bo Li , Lin Wu , Yan Cheng

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

We present a new paradigm for fine-tuning large-scale visionlanguage pre-trained models on downstream task, dubbed Prompt Regularization (ProReg). Different from traditional fine-tuning which easily overfits to the downstream task data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Beier Zhu , Yulei Niu , Saeil Lee , Minhoe Hur , Hanwang Zhang

Recent self-supervised stereo matching methods have made significant progress, but their performance significantly degrades under adverse weather conditions such as night, rain, and fog. We identify two primary weaknesses contributing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yun Wang , Junjie Hu , Junhui Hou , Chenghao Zhang , Renwei Yang , Dapeng Oliver Wu

David Marr's seminal theory of human perception stipulates that visual processing is a multi-stage process, prioritizing the derivation of boundary and surface properties before forming semantic object representations. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianqin Li , Junru Zhao , Dunhan Jiang , Shenghao Wu , Alan Ramirez , Tai Sing Lee

In low-light environments, the performance of computer vision algorithms often deteriorates significantly, adversely affecting key vision tasks such as segmentation, detection, and classification. With the rapid advancement of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Fangxue Liu , Lei Fan

Automatic image synthesis research has been rapidly growing with deep networks getting more and more expressive. In the last couple of years, we have observed images of digits, indoor scenes, birds, chairs, etc. being automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Levent Karacan , Zeynep Akata , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem

We introduce an approach that enhances images using a color filter in order to create adversarial effects, which fool neural networks into misclassification. Our approach, Adversarial Color Enhancement (ACE), generates unrestricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Zhengyu Zhao , Zhuoran Liu , Martha Larson

In recent years, significant progress has been made in image recognition technology based on deep neural networks. However, improving recognition performance under low-light conditions remains a significant challenge. This study addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

Face Recognition (FR) models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples that subtly alter benign facial images, exposing blind spots in these systems, as well as protecting user privacy. End-to-end FR systems first obtain…

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