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Secure covert communication in hostile environments requires simultaneously achieving invisibility, provable security guarantees, and robustness against informed adversaries. This paper presents a novel hybrid steganographic framework that…

A novel learning solution to image steganalysis based on the green learning paradigm, called Green Steganalyzer (GS), is proposed in this work. GS consists of three modules: 1) pixel-based anomaly prediction, 2) embedding location…

We theoretically implement a strategy from quantum computation architectures to simulate Stuart-Landau oscillator dynamics in all-to-all connected networks, also referred to as complete graphs. The technique builds upon the triad structure…

In the realm of advanced steganography, the scale of the model typically correlates directly with the resolution of the fundamental grid, necessitating the training of a distinct neural network for message extraction. This paper proposes an…

Multi-label image recognition is a fundamental yet practical task because real-world images inherently possess multiple semantic labels. However, it is difficult to collect large-scale multi-label annotations due to the complexity of both…

Spectral computed tomography (CT) is an emerging technology, that generates a multienergy attenuation map for the interior of an object and extends the traditional image volume into a 4D form. Compared with traditional CT based on…

The field of steganography has experienced a surge of interest due to the recent advancements in AI-powered techniques, particularly in the context of multimodal setups that enable the concealment of signals within signals of a different…

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is an effective method to reduce the radiation exposure in medical imaging. To reduce the severe streaking artifacts that occur in reconstructed images due to violation of the Nyquist/Shannon sampling…

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is known as a widely used approach to reduce radiation dose while accelerating imaging through lowered projection views and correlated calculations. However, its severe imaging noise and streaking…

In recent years, arbitrary image style transfer has attracted more and more attention. Given a pair of content and style images, a stylized one is hoped that retains the content from the former while catching style patterns from the latter.…

In this paper, we introduce a new heuristics for global optimization in scenarios where extensive evaluations of the cost function are expensive, inaccessible, or even prohibitive. The method, which we call Landscape-Sketch-and-Step (LSS),…

Text-to-image models have recently made significant advances in generating realistic and semantically coherent images, driven by advanced diffusion models and large-scale web-crawled datasets. However, these datasets often contain…

A two-step shape reconstruction method for diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is presented which uses adjoint fields and level sets. The propagation of near-infrared photons in tissue is modeled by the time-dependent linear transport…

A steganographic method based on the chaotic fractional map and in the DCT domain is proposed. This method embeds a secret message in some high frequency coefficients of the image using a 128-bit private key and a chaotic fractional map…

Self-training via pseudo labeling is a conventional, simple, and popular pipeline to leverage unlabeled data. In this work, we first construct a strong baseline of self-training (namely ST) for semi-supervised semantic segmentation via…

Image steganography is widely used to protect user privacy and enable covert communication. However, it can also be abused by the adversary as a covert channel to bypass content moderation, disseminate harmful semantics, and even hide…

Recent work (Baluja, 2017) showed that using a pair of deep encoders and decoders, embedding a full-size secret image into a container image of the same size is achieved. This method distributes the information of the secret image across…

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is a crucial preprocessing procedure for the subsequent HSI applications. Unfortunately, though witnessing the development of deep learning in HSI denoising area, existing convolution-based methods face…

Spatio-temporal graph neural networks (STGNN) have emerged as the dominant model for spatio-temporal graph (STG) forecasting. Despite their success, they fail to model intrinsic uncertainties within STG data, which cripples their…

Deep learning-based image compression has made great progresses recently. However, many leading schemes use serial context-adaptive entropy model to improve the rate-distortion (R-D) performance, which is very slow. In addition, the…