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Recent advances in implicit neural representations and differentiable rendering make it possible to simultaneously recover the geometry and materials of an object from multi-view RGB images captured under unknown static illumination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yuanqing Zhang , Jiaming Sun , Xingyi He , Huan Fu , Rongfei Jia , Xiaowei Zhou

We show how to extend traditional intrinsic image decompositions to incorporate further layers above albedo and shading. It is hard to obtain data to learn a multi-layer decomposition. Instead, we can learn to decompose an image into layers…

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We propose the first approach for the decomposition of a monocular color video into direct and indirect illumination components in real time. We retrieve, in separate layers, the contribution made to the scene appearance by the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Abhimitra Meka , Mohammad Shafiei , Michael Zollhoefer , Christian Richardt , Christian Theobalt

Benefited from the deep learning, image Super-Resolution has been one of the most developing research fields in computer vision. Depending upon whether using a discriminator or not, a deep convolutional neural network can provide an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Wan-Chi Siu , Li-Wen Wang , Chu-Tak Li , Marie-Paule Cani , Yui-Lam Chan

This paper aims to recover the intrinsic reflectance layer and shading layer given a single image. Though this intrinsic image decomposition problem has been studied for decades, it remains a significant challenge in cases of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Zijun He , Xin Yuan

Recent advances in differentiable rendering have enabled high-quality reconstruction of 3D scenes from multi-view images. Most methods rely on simple rendering algorithms: pre-filtered direct lighting or learned representations of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Jon Hasselgren , Nikolai Hofmann , Jacob Munkberg

To overcome the problem of occlusion in visual tracking, this paper proposes an occlusion-aware tracking algorithm. The proposed algorithm divides the object into discrete image patches according to the pixel distribution of the object by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Rongtai Caiand Peng Zhu

Vision transformers in vision-language models typically use the same amount of compute for every image, regardless of whether it is simple or complex. We propose ICAR (Image Complexity-Aware Retrieval), an adaptive computation approach that…

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Images captured in nighttime scenes suffer from severely reduced visibility, hindering effective content perception. Current low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods face significant challenges: data-driven end-to-end mapping networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tongshun Zhang , Pingping Liu , Zhe Zhang , Qiuzhan Zhou

Treating images as data has become increasingly popular in political science. While existing classifiers for images reach high levels of accuracy, it is difficult to systematically assess the visual features on which they base their…

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Vector quantization (VQ) transforms continuous image features into discrete representations, providing compressed, tokenized inputs for generative models. However, VQ-based frameworks suffer from several issues, such as non-smooth latent…

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Image harmonization is an important step in photo editing to achieve visual consistency in composite images by adjusting the appearances of foreground to make it compatible with background. Previous approaches to harmonize composites are…

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With the inexorable digitalisation of the modern world, every subset in the field of technology goes through major advancements constantly. One such subset is digital images which are ever so popular. Images can not always be as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Prashanth Venkataraman

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…

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With advances in image recognition technology based on deep learning, automatic video analysis by Artificial Intelligence is becoming more widespread. As the amount of video used for image recognition increases, efficient compression…

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Contrastive self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach to unsupervised visual representation learning. In general, these methods learn global (image-level) representations that are invariant to different views (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Pedro O. Pinheiro , Amjad Almahairi , Ryan Y. Benmalek , Florian Golemo , Aaron Courville

We present an approach called VisCode for embedding information into visualization images. This technology can implicitly embed data information specified by the user into a visualization while ensuring that the encoded visualization image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Peiying Zhang , Chenhui Li , Changbo Wang

Recent diffusion-based approaches have made substantial progress in image layer decomposition. However, accurately decomposing complex natural images remains challenging due to difficulties in occlusion completion, robust layer…

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