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Watermarking is an operation of embedding an information into an image in a way that allows to identify ownership of the image despite applying some distortions on it. In this paper, we presented a novel end-to-end solution for embedding…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Marcin Plata , Piotr Syga

Recent works in image inpainting have shown that structural information plays an important role in recovering visually pleasing results. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end architecture composed of two parallel UNet-based streams: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Zhilin Huang , Chujun Qin , Ruixin Liu , Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) depend on deep network architectures to extract accurate information for image super-resolution. However, obtained information of these CNNs cannot completely express predicted high-quality images for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-25 Chunwei Tian , Xuanyu Zhang , Qi Zhang , Mingming Yang , Zhaojie Ju

This paper proposes a novel method for high-quality image segmentation of both objects and scenes. Inspired by the dilation and erosion operations in morphological image processing techniques, the pixel-level image segmentation problems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hao He , Xiangtai Li , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Lubin Weng , Zhouchen Lin , Shiming Xiang

We present a novel approach for single-image mesh texturing, which employs a diffusion model with judicious conditioning to seamlessly transfer an object's texture from a single RGB image to a given 3D mesh object. We do not assume that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sai Raj Kishore Perla , Yizhi Wang , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Hao Zhang

In this work, we develop a novel technique for reconstructing images from projection-based nano- and microtomography. Our contribution focuses on enhancing reconstruction quality, particularly for specimen composed of homogeneous material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Anuraag Mishra , Andrea Gilch , Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri , Jan Rolfes , Frauke Liers

In today's digital landscape, the blending of AI-generated and authentic content has underscored the need for copyright protection and content authentication. Watermarking has become a vital tool to address these challenges, safeguarding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Runyi Hu , Jie Zhang , Yiming Li , Jiwei Li , Qing Guo , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang

In this paper, we propose GuideSR, a novel single-step diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) model specifically designed to enhance image fidelity. Existing diffusion-based SR approaches typically adapt pre-trained generative models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Aditya Arora , Zhengzhong Tu , Yufei Wang , Ruizheng Bai , Jian Wang , Sizhuo Ma

Eliminating geometric distortion in semantically important regions remains an intractable challenge in image retargeting. This paper presents Object-IR, a self-supervised architecture that reformulates image retargeting as a learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Tianli Liao , Ran Wang , Siqing Zhang , Lei Li , Guangen Liu , Chenyang Zhao , Heling Cao , Peng Li

Our work tackles the fundamental challenge of image segmentation in computer vision, which is crucial for diverse applications. While supervised methods demonstrate proficiency, their reliance on extensive pixel-level annotations limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Boujemaa Guermazi , Naimul Khan

Video frame interpolation can up-convert the frame rate and enhance the video quality. In recent years, although the interpolation performance has achieved great success, image blur usually occurs at the object boundaries owing to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Despite significant progress has been made in image deraining, existing approaches are mostly carried out on low-resolution images. The effectiveness of these methods on high-resolution images is still unknown, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hongming Chen , Xiang Chen , Chen Wu , Zhuoran Zheng , Jinshan Pan , Xianping Fu

Arbitrary-scale super-resolution (ASSR) overcomes the limitation of traditional super-resolution (SR) methods that operate only at fixed scales (e.g., 4x), enabling a single model to handle arbitrary magnification. Most existing ASSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Yingsheng Qin , Yucai Yang , Rong Xie , Li Song

Discontinuity preserving smoothing is a fundamentally important procedure that is useful in a wide variety of image processing contexts. It is directly useful for noise reduction, and frequently used as an intermediate step in higher level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-03-31 Stuart B. Heinrich , Wesley E. Snyder

Accurate medical image segmentation is essential for effective diagnosis and treatment planning but is often challenged by domain shifts caused by variations in imaging devices, acquisition conditions, and patient-specific attributes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Jie Bao , Zhixin Zhou , Wen Jung Li , Rui Luo

Image denoising stands as a critical challenge in image processing and computer vision, aiming to restore the original image from noise-affected versions caused by various intrinsic and extrinsic factors. This process is essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Peter Luvton , Alfredo Castillejos , Jim Zhao , Christina Chajo

Traditional image codecs emphasize signal fidelity and human perception, often at the expense of machine vision tasks. Deep learning methods have demonstrated promising coding performance by utilizing rich semantic embeddings optimized for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sha Guo , Zhuo Chen , Yang Zhao , Ning Zhang , Xiaotong Li , Lingyu Duan

Demosaicking and denoising are among the most crucial steps of modern digital camera pipelines and their joint treatment is a highly ill-posed inverse problem where at-least two-thirds of the information are missing and the rest are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

A crucial problem in learning disentangled image representations is controlling the degree of disentanglement during image editing, while preserving the identity of objects. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective model with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Zengjie Song , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Jiangshe Zhang

With the advent of the screen-reading era, the confidential documents displayed on the screen can be easily captured by a camera without leaving any traces. Thus, this paper proposes a novel screen-shooting resilient watermarking scheme for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Sulong Ge , Zhihua Xia , Yao Tong , Jian Weng , Jianan Liu