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We present a lightweight two-stage framework for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) that achieves competitive perceptual quality with significantly fewer parameters than existing methods. Our approach combines frozen algorithm-based…

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In an underwater scene, wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering degrade the visibility of images, causing low contrast and distorted color casts. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network based image…

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Ultrasound images acquired from different devices exhibit diverse styles, resulting in decreased performance of downstream tasks. To mitigate the style gap, unpaired image-to-image (UI2I) translation methods aim to transfer images from a…

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Instruction-based image editing (IIE) aims to modify images according to textual instructions while preserving irrelevant content. Despite recent advances in diffusion transformers, existing methods often suffer from over-editing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jingxuan He , Xiyu Wang , Mengyu Zheng , Xiangyu Zeng , Yunke Wang , Chang Xu

Images captured in challenging environments often experience various forms of degradation, including noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. These effects significantly reduce image quality, hindering their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Abbas Anwar , Mohammad Shullar , Ali Arshad Nasir , Mudassir Masood , Saeed Anwar

The primary value of infrared and visible image fusion technology lies in applying the fusion results to downstream tasks. However, existing methods face challenges such as increased training complexity and significantly compromised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Zengyi Yang , Yafei Zhang , Huafeng Li , Yu Liu

Unpaired Medical Image Enhancement (UMIE) aims to transform a low-quality (LQ) medical image into a high-quality (HQ) one without relying on paired images for training. While most existing approaches are based on Pix2Pix/CycleGAN and are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Chunming He , Kai Li , Guoxia Xu , Jiangpeng Yan , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Xiu Li , Yaowei Wang

Visual perception in autonomous driving is a crucial part of a vehicle to navigate safely and sustainably in different traffic conditions. However, in bad weather such as heavy rain and haze, the performance of visual perception is greatly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Younkwan Lee , Jihyo Jeon , Yeongmin Ko , Byunggwan Jeon , Moongu Jeon

Multi-modal image fusion aggregates information from multiple sensor sources, achieving superior visual quality and perceptual features compared to single-source images, often improving downstream tasks. However, current fusion methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haowen Bai , Jiangshe Zhang , Zixiang Zhao , Yichen Wu , Lilun Deng , Yukun Cui , Tao Feng , Shuang Xu

We consider the generic deep image enhancement problem where an input image is transformed into a perceptually better-looking image. Recent methods for image enhancement consider the problem by performing style transfer and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Indra Deep Mastan , Shanmuganathan Raman

With the development of underwater object grabbing technology, underwater object recognition and segmentation of high accuracy has become a challenge. The existing underwater object detection technology can only give the general position of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhiwei Ma , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang , Dan Yu , Tianyi Wang , Yingshuang Gu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

To assist underwater object detection for better performance, image enhancement technology is often used as a pre-processing step. However, most of the existing enhancement methods tend to pursue the visual quality of an image, instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yanling Qiu , Qianxue Feng , Boqin Cai , Hongan Wei , Weiling Chen

Underwater images often suffer from various issues such as low brightness, color shift, blurred details, and noise due to light absorption and scattering caused by water and suspended particles. Previous underwater image enhancement (UIE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zheng Cheng , Guodong Fan , Jingchun Zhou , Min Gan , C. L. Philip Chen

This paper addresses the task of semantic segmentation in computer vision, aiming to achieve precise pixel-wise classification. We investigate the joint training of models for semantic edge detection and semantic segmentation, which has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dan Zhang , Rui Zheng , Luosang Gadeng , Pei Yang

Detecting and recognizing text in natural scene images is a challenging, yet not completely solved task. In recent years several new systems that try to solve at least one of the two sub-tasks (text detection and text recognition) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Christian Bartz , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Continuous and reliable underwater monitoring is essential for assessing marine biodiversity, detecting ecological changes and supporting autonomous exploration in aquatic environments. Underwater monitoring platforms rely on mainly visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shuang Chen , Ronald Thenius , Farshad Arvin , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

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

Image decomposition aims to analyze an image into elementary components, which is essential for numerous downstream tasks and also by nature provides certain interpretability to the analysis. Deep learning can be powerful for such tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Sihan Wang , Shangqi Gao , Fuping Wu , Xiahai Zhuang

Recent advances in deep learning, particularly neural networks, have significantly impacted a wide range of fields, including the automatic enhancement of underwater images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jose M. Montero , Jose-Luis Lisani

Vessel image segmentation plays a pivotal role in medical diagnostics, aiding in the early detection and treatment of vascular diseases. While segmentation based on deep learning has shown promising results, effectively segmenting small…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Ruiqiang Xiao , Zhuoyue Wan