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This study investigates the robustness of image classifiers to text-guided corruptions. We utilize diffusion models to edit images to different domains. Unlike other works that use synthetic or hand-picked data for benchmarking, we use…

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The ability to detect objects regardless of image distortions or weather conditions is crucial for real-world applications of deep learning like autonomous driving. We here provide an easy-to-use benchmark to assess how object detection…

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Deep neural networks have achieved impressive results in many image classification tasks. However, since their performance is usually measured in controlled settings, it is important to ensure that their decisions remain correct when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Apostolos Modas

By default neural networks are not robust to changes in data distribution. This has been demonstrated with simple image corruptions, such as blurring or adding noise, degrading image classification performance. Many methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ian Mason , Anirban Sarkar , Tomotake Sasaki , Xavier Boix

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in understanding and reasoning about visual and textual content. However, their robustness to common image corruptions remains under-explored. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Muhammad Usama , Syeda Aishah Asim , Syed Bilal Ali , Syed Talal Wasim , Umair Bin Mansoor

Achieving robustness in image segmentation models is challenging due to the fine-grained nature of pixel-level classification. These models, which are crucial for many real-time perception applications, particularly struggle when faced with…

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The ability to learn disentangled representations that split underlying sources of variation in high dimensional, unstructured data is important for data efficient and robust use of neural networks. While various approaches aiming towards…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-15 Raphael Suter , Đorđe Miladinović , Bernhard Schölkopf , Stefan Bauer

Generalization to unseen degradations remains a fundamental challenge for low-level vision models. This paper aims to investigate the underlying mechanism of this failure, using image deraining as a primary case study due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jinfan Hu , Zhiyuan You , Jinjin Gu , Kaiwen Zhu , Tianfan Xue , Chao Dong

In this paper we establish rigorous benchmarks for image classifier robustness. Our first benchmark, ImageNet-C, standardizes and expands the corruption robustness topic, while showing which classifiers are preferable in safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Dan Hendrycks , Thomas G. Dietterich

Image classification models trained on clean data often suffer from significant performance degradation when exposed to testing corrupted data, such as images with impulse noise, Gaussian noise, or environmental noise. This degradation not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yucong Dai , Jie Ji , Xiaolong Ma , Yongkai Wu

Standard benchmarks for optical flow, scene flow, and stereo vision algorithms generally focus on model accuracy rather than robustness to image corruptions like noise or rain. Hence, the resilience of models to such real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Victor Oei , Jenny Schmalfuss , Lukas Mehl , Madlen Bartsch , Shashank Agnihotri , Margret Keuper , Andreas Bulling , Andrés Bruhn

Depth estimation from monocular images is pivotal for real-world visual perception systems. While current learning-based depth estimation models train and test on meticulously curated data, they often overlook out-of-distribution (OoD)…

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Recent studies have shown that higher accuracy on ImageNet usually leads to better robustness against different corruptions. Therefore, in this paper, instead of following the traditional research paradigm that investigates new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xiaodan Li , Yuefeng Chen , Yao Zhu , Shuhui Wang , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue

Motion blur, out of focus, insufficient spatial resolution, lossy compression and many other factors can all cause an image to have poor quality. However, image quality is a largely ignored issue in traditional pattern recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Fei Yang , Qian Zhang , Miaohui Wang , Guoping Qiu

Recently, the vulnerability of deep image classification models to adversarial attacks has been investigated. However, such an issue has not been thoroughly studied for image-to-image tasks that take an input image and generate an output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Jun-Ho Choi , Huan Zhang , Jun-Hyuk Kim , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jong-Seok Lee

Real-world imaging systems acquire measurements that are degraded by noise, optical aberrations, and other imperfections that make image processing for human viewing and higher-level perception tasks challenging. Conventional cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Frank Julca-Aguilar , Stephen Boyd , Gordon Wetzstein , Felix Heide

A face recognition model is typically trained on large datasets of images that may be collected from controlled environments. This results in performance discrepancies when applied to real-world scenarios due to the domain gap between clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Erdi Sarıtaş , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Learning-based methods especially with convolutional neural networks (CNN) are continuously showing superior performance in computer vision applications, ranging from image classification to restoration. For image classification, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Xiaoyu Lin

In real-world scenarios, image impairments often manifest as composite degradations, presenting a complex interplay of elements such as low light, haze, rain, and snow. Despite this reality, existing restoration methods typically target…

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