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This paper is on highly accurate and highly efficient human pose estimation. Recent works based on Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) have demonstrated excellent results for this difficult problem. While residual connections within FCNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Adrian Bulat , Jean Kossaifi , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Maja Pantic

In real-world settings, speech signals are almost always affected by reverberation produced by the working environment; these corrupted signals need to be \emph{dereverberated} prior to performing, e.g., speech recognition, speech-to-text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Diego León , Felipe Tobar

In this paper, we present an approach to image enhancement with diffusion model in underwater scenes. Our method adapts conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models to generate the corresponding enhanced images by using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yi Tang , Takafumi Iwaguchi , Hiroshi Kawasaki

We design a novel network architecture for learning discriminative image models that are employed to efficiently tackle the problem of grayscale and color image denoising. Based on the proposed architecture, we introduce two different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

We investigate the viability of a variational U-Net architecture for denoising of single-channel audio data. Deep network speech enhancement systems commonly aim to estimate filter masks, or opt to work on the waveform signal, potentially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Eike J. Nustede , Jörn Anemüller

U-Net has been providing state-of-the-art performance in many medical image segmentation problems. Many modifications have been proposed for U-Net, such as attention U-Net, recurrent residual convolutional U-Net (R2-UNet), and U-Net with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Juntang Zhuang

With the incorporation of the UNet architecture, diffusion probabilistic models have become a dominant force in image generation tasks. One key design in UNet is the skip connections between the encoder and decoder blocks. Although skip…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Jiajun Ma , Shuchen Xue , Tianyang Hu , Wenjia Wang , Zhaoqiang Liu , Zhenguo Li , Zhi-Ming Ma , Kenji Kawaguchi

Point clouds captured by scanning sensors are often perturbed by noise, which have a highly negative impact on downstream tasks (e.g. surface reconstruction and shape understanding). Previous works mostly focus on training neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Junsheng Zhou , Xingyu Shi , Haichuan Song , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

In this paper, we develop a concise but efficient network architecture called linear compressing based skip-connecting network (LCSCNet) for image super-resolution. Compared with two representative network architectures with skip…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Wenming Yang , Xuechen Zhang , Yapeng Tian , Wei Wang , Jing-Hao Xue , Qingmin Liao

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising can effectively exploit rich hierarchical features and have achieved great success. However, many deep CNN-based denoising models equally utilize the hierarchical features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Wencong Wu , An Ge , Guannan Lv , Yuelong Xia , Yungang Zhang , Wen Xiong

The extraction of text in high quality is essential for text-based document analysis tasks like Document Classification or Named Entity Recognition. Unfortunately, this is not always ensured, as poor scan quality and the resulting artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 David Kreuzer , Michael Munz

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are promoting the development of medical image semantic segmentation, the standard model still has some shortcomings. First, the feature mapping from the encoder and decoder sub-networks in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Yutong Cai , Yong Wang

We consider using deep neural networks to solve time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs), where multi-scale processing is crucial for modeling complex, time-evolving dynamics. While the U-Net architecture with skip connections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Xuan Zhang , Jacob Helwig , Yuchao Lin , Yaochen Xie , Cong Fu , Stephan Wojtowytsch , Shuiwang Ji

The residual network is now one of the most effective structures in deep learning, which utilizes the skip connections to ``guarantee" the performance will not get worse. However, the non-convexity of the neural network makes it unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Lifu Wang , Bo Shen , Ning Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang

Image dehazing is an active topic in low-level vision, and many image dehazing networks have been proposed with the rapid development of deep learning. Although these networks' pipelines work fine, the key mechanism to improving image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Yuda Song , Yang Zhou , Hui Qian , Xin Du

Network representation learning, as an approach to learn low dimensional representations of vertices, has attracted considerable research attention recently. It has been proven extremely useful in many machine learning tasks over large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Hao Yan , Qiran Gong , Senzhang Wang , Lin Liu , Lihong Wang , Xiang Ren

Image restoration, including image denoising, super resolution, inpainting, and so on, is a well-studied problem in computer vision and image processing, as well as a test bed for low-level image modeling algorithms. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Xiao-Jiao Mao , Chunhua Shen , Yu-Bin Yang

Removing noise from images is a challenging and fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Images captured by modern cameras are inevitably degraded by noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements on those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nikhil Verma , Deepkamal Kaur , Lydia Chau

Several recent works discussed application-driven image restoration neural networks, which are capable of not only removing noise in images but also preserving their semantic-aware details, making them suitable for various high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Sicheng Wang , Bihan Wen , Junru Wu , Dacheng Tao , Zhangyang Wang

Modern deep neural networks exhibit strong generalization even in highly overparameterized regimes. Significant progress has been made to understand this phenomenon in the context of supervised learning, but for unsupervised tasks such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Jonghyun Ham , Maximilian Fleissner , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar