45 accepted papers
Low-light degradation hampers machine understanding at night. Existing methods either overfit labeled data (paired supervision) or specific distributions (unpaired supervision), resulting in poor generalization under unseen degradations. In this paper, we propose UniPrior, a unified prior-based low-
We present JanusFlow, a powerful framework that unifies image understanding and generation in a single model.JanusFlow introduces a minimalist architecture that integrates autoregressive language models with rectified flow, a state-of-the-art method in generative modeling.Our key finding demonstrate…
Optical illusion hidden picture is an interesting visual perceptual phenomenon where an image is cleverly integrated into another picture. Established on the off-the-shelf text-to-image (T2I) diffusion model, we propose a novel text-guided image-to-image (I2I) translation framework dubbed as Phase-T…
3D human motion-text retrieval is essential for accurate motion understanding, targeted at cross-modal alignment learning. Existing methods typically align the global motion-text concepts directly, suffering from sub-optimal generalization due to the uncertainty of correspondence learning between mu…
All-in-one restoration needs to implicitly distinguish between different degradation conditions and apply specific prior constraints accordingly. To fulfill this goal, our work makes the first effort to create an all-in-one restoration via unrolling from the typical maximum a-posterior optimization…
The images produced by diffusion models can attain excellent perceptual quality. However, it is challenging for diffusion models to guarantee distortion, hence the integration of diffusion models and image compression models still needs more comprehensive explorations. This paper presents a diffusio…
Recently, text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for image-to-image translation (I2I), allowing flexible image translation via user-provided text prompts. This paper proposes frequency-controlled diffusion model (FCDiffusion), an end-to-end diffusion-based framework contribut…
Enhancing low-light videos in a supervised style presents a set of challenges, including limited data diversity, misalignment, and the domain gap introduced through the dataset construction pipeline. Our paper tackles these challenges by constructing a self-learned enhancement approach that gets rid…
In real-world scenarios, human actions often fall into a long-tailed distribution. It makes the existing skeleton-based action recognition works, which are mostly designed based on balanced datasets, suffer from a sharp performance degradation. Recently, many efforts have been made to image/video lo…
Diffusion models, as a kind of powerful generative model, have given impressive results on image super-resolution (SR) tasks. However, due to the randomness introduced in the reverse process of diffusion models, the performances of diffusion-based SR models are fluctuating at every time of sampling,…
Understanding illumination and reducing the need for supervision pose a significant challenge in low-light enhancement. Current approaches are highly sensitive to data usage during training and illumination-specific hyper-parameters limiting their ability to handle unseen scenarios. In this paper we…
The self-supervised pretraining paradigm has achieved great success in skeleton-based action recognition. However, these methods treat the motion and static parts equally, and lack an adaptive design for different parts, which has a negative impact on the accuracy of action recognition. To realize t…
Recent efforts have achieved remarkable progress on single image deraining on the stationary distributed data. However, catastrophic forgetting raises practical concerns when applying these methods to real applications, where the data distributions change constantly. In this paper, we investigate th…
Contrastive learning has been proven beneficial for self-supervised skeleton-based action recognition. Most contrastive learning methods utilize carefully designed augmentations to generate different movement patterns of skeletons for the same semantics. However, it is still a pending issue to apply…
Low-light conditions not only hamper human visual experience but also degrade the model's performance on downstream vision tasks. While existing works make remarkable progress on day-night domain adaptation, they rely heavily on domain knowledge derived from the task-specific nighttime dataset. This…
Learned image compression has achieved great success due to its excellent modeling capacity, but seldom further considers the Rate-Distortion Optimization (RDO) of each input image. To explore this potential in the learned codec, we make the first attempt to build a neural data-dependent transform a…
Vision Transformer (ViT) attains state-of-the-art performance in visual recognition, and the variant, Local Vision Transformer, makes further improvements. The major component in Local Vision Transformer, local attention, performs the attention separately over small local windows. We rephrase local…
Video super-resolution methods typically rely on paired training data, in which the low-resolution frames are usually synthetically generated under predetermined degradation conditions (e.g., Bicubic downsampling). However, in real applications, it is labor-consuming and expensive to obtain this kin…
Existing deep image dehazing methods usually depend on supervised learning with a large number of hazy-clean image pairs which are expensive or difficult to collect. Moreover, dehazing performance of the learned model may deteriorate significantly when the training hazy-clean image pairs are insuffi…
In this paper, we address the problem of referring expression comprehension in videos, which is challenging due to complex expression and scene dynamics. Unlike previous methods which solve the problem in multiple stages (i.e., tracking, proposal-based matching), we tackle the problem from a novel p…
Face detection in low light scenarios is challenging but vital to many practical applications, e.g., surveillance video, autonomous driving at night. Most existing face detectors heavily rely on extensive annotations, while collecting data is time-consuming and laborious. To reduce the burden of bui…
Recent researches have made remarkable achievements in fast video style transfer based on western paintings. However, due to the inherent different drawing techniques and aesthetic expressions of Chinese ink wash painting, existing methods either achieve poor temporal consistency or fail to transfer…
Sketch-based image editing aims to synthesize and modify photos based on the structural information provided by the human-drawn sketches. Since sketches are difficult to collect, previous methods mainly use edge maps instead of sketches to train models (referred to as edge-based models). However, hu…
Under-exposure introduces a series of visual degradation, i.e. decreased visibility, intensive noise, and biased color, etc. To address these problems, we propose a novel semi-supervised learning approach for low-light image enhancement. A deep recursive band network (DRBN) is proposed to recover a…
In this paper, we address the problem of rain streaks removal in video by developing a self-learned rain streak removal method, which does not require any clean groundtruth images in the training process. The method is inspired by fact that the adjacent frames are highly correlated and can be regard…
Artistic text style transfer is the task of migrating the style from a source image to the target text to create artistic typography. Recent style transfer methods have considered texture control to enhance usability. However, controlling the stylistic degree in terms of shape deformation remains an…
Most previous image matting methods require a roughly-specificed trimap as input, and estimate fractional alpha values for all pixels that are in the unknown region of the trimap. In this paper, we argue that directly estimating the alpha matte from a coarse trimap is a major limitation of previous…
In this paper, we propose a new control framework called the moving endpoint control to restore images corrupted by different degradation levels in one model. The proposed control problem contains a restoration dynamics which is modeled by an RNN. The moving endpoint, which is essentially the termin…
In this paper, we address the problem of rain removal from videos by proposing a more comprehensive framework that considers the additional degradation factors in real scenes neglected in previous works. The proposed framework is built upon a two-stage recurrent network with dual-level flow regulari…
Learning visual features from unlabeled image data is an important yet challenging task, which is often achieved by training a model on some annotation-free information. We consider spatial contexts, for which we solve so-called jigsaw puzzles, i.e., each image is cut into grids and then disordered,…
Text effects transfer can dramatically make the text visually pleasing. In this paper, we present a novel framework to stylize the text with exquisite decor, which is ignored by the previous text stylization methods. Decorative elements pose a challenge to spontaneously handle basal text effects and…
In this paper, we address unsupervised pose-guided person image generation, which is known challenging due to non-rigid deformation. Unlike previous methods learning a rock-hard direct mapping between human bodies, we propose a new pathway to decompose the hard mapping into two more accessible subta…
Raindrops adhered to a glass window or camera lens can severely hamper the visibility of a background scene and degrade an image considerably. In this paper, we address the problem by visually removing raindrops, and thus transforming a raindrop degraded image into a clean one. The problem is intrac…
In this paper, we address the problem of video rain removal by constructing deep recurrent convolutional networks. We visit the rain removal case by considering rain occlusion regions, i.e. light transmittance of rain streaks is low. Different from additive rain streaks, in such rain occlusion regio…
Light field data captured by a lenslet-based image sensor is typically demosaicked, aligned and rearranged into a series of sub-aperture (viewpoint) images, before a disparity-compensated coding scheme is employed for compression. In this paper, we focus on the problem of soft decoding of block-base…
In this paper, we present a novel cascaded framework to solve a self-portrait enhancement problem we call “1+N” problem, in which a self-portrait is enhanced with the help of N supporting photos that share the same scene and similar shooting time. The key idea is to exploit the extra information of…
In this work, we explore the problem of generating fantastic special-effects for the typography. It is quite challenging due to the model diversities to illustrate varied text effects for different characters. To address this issue, our key idea is to exploit the analytics on the high regularity of…
In this paper, we address a rain removal problem from a single image, even in the presence of heavy rain and rain streak accumulation. Our core ideas lie in our new rain image model and new deep learning architecture. We add a binary map that provides rain streak locations to an existing model, whic…
Although Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have liberated their power in various computer vision tasks, the most important components of CNN, convolutional layers and fully connected layers, are still limited to linear transformations. In this paper, we propose a novel Factorized Bilinear (F…
In this paper, we propose a novel image interpolation algorithm suitable for general scale enlargement. Different from previous AR-based interpolation algorithms which employ predetermined reference configuration to predict pixel values, we consider the context information when building AR models. O…
Online human action detection and forecast on untrimmed 3D skeleton sequences is a novel task based on traditional action recognition and has not been fully studied. Its aim is to localize and recognize one action in a long sequence while doing forecasting task at the same time. In this paper, we pr…
In this paper, we propose a novel neighbor embedding method based on joint sub-bands for image super-resolution. Rather than directly reconstructing the total spatial variations of the input image, we restore each frequency component separately. The input LR image is decomposed into sub-bands define…
In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical image completion approach using regularity statistics, considering structure features. Guided by dominant structures, the target image is used to generate reference images in a self-reproductive way by image data enhancement. The structure-guided image…
There have been many proposed works on image super-resolution via employing different priors or external databases to enhance HR results. However, most of them do not work well on the reconstruction of high-frequency details of images, which are more sensitive for human vision system. Rather than re…
In this paper, we propose a novel autoregressive (AR) model based on the adaptive window and the patch-geodesic distance for the image interpolation. The model combines the information of inner/inter-patch correlation. To model the inner-patch correlation, we introduce a patch-geodesic distance simi…