18 accepted papers
The Dual Diffusion Implicit Bridge (DDIB) is an emerging image-to-image (I2I) translation method that preserves cycle consistency while achieving strong flexibility. It links two independently trained diffusion models (DMs) in the source and target domains by first adding noise to a source image to
Object detection in sonar images is a key technology in underwater detection systems. Compared to natural images, sonar images contain fewer texture details and are more susceptible to noise, making it difficult for non-experts to distinguish subtle differences between classes. This leads to their i
Sampling from diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) can be viewed as a piecewise distribution transformation, which generally requires hundreds or thousands of steps of the inverse diffusion trajectory to get a high-quality image. Recent progress in designing fast samplers for DPMs achieves a trade-…
Multi-modality image fusion and segmentation play a vital role in autonomous driving and robotic operation. Early efforts focus on boosting the performance for only one task, e.g., fusion or segmentation, making it hard to reach `Best of Both Worlds'. To overcome this issue, in this paper, we propos…
"Recent advances in deep networks have gained great attention in infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF). Nevertheless, most existing methods are incapable of dealing with slight misalignment on source images and suffer from high computational and spatial expenses. This paper tackles these two crit…
It is challenging to accurately detect camouflaged objects from their highly similar surroundings. Existing methods mainly leverage a single-stage detection fashion, while neglecting small objects with low-resolution fine edges requires more operations than the larger ones. To tackle camouflaged obj…
This study addresses the issue of fusing infrared and visible images that appear differently for object detection. Aiming at generating an image of high visual quality, previous approaches discover commons underlying the two modalities and fuse upon the common space either by iterative optimization…
Existing low-light image enhancement techniques are mostly not only difficult to deal with both visual quality and computational efficiency but also commonly invalid in unknown complex scenarios. In this paper, we develop a new Self-Calibrated Illumination (SCI) learning framework for fast, flexible…
The ability to capture inter-frame dynamics has been critical to the development of video salient object detection (VSOD). While many works have achieved great success in this field, a deeper insight into its dynamic nature should be developed. In this work, we aim to answer the following questions:…
Image deblurring is a classical low-level visual processing task, which aims to recover a potentially noise-free sharp image from the blurred image. Existing prior-based and learning-based methods usually need to manually set some vital auxiliary components (e.g., noise level). It brings about extre…
Low-light image enhancement plays very important roles in low-level vision areas. Recent works have built a great deal of deep learning models to address this task. However, these approaches mostly rely on significant architecture engineering and suffer from high computational burden. In this paper,…
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have attracted huge attention due to its capability to generate visual realistic images. However, most of the existing models suffer from the mode collapse or mode mixture problems. In this work, we give a theoretic explanation of the both problems by Figalli’s…
We address the challenging issue of deformable registration that robustly and efficiently builds dense correspondences between images. Traditional approaches upon iterative energy optimization typically invoke expensive computational load. Recent learning-based methods are able to efficiently predic…
Maximum A Posterior (MAP) acts as one of the most popular modeling scheme in image restoration and is usually reduced to a separable optimization model. Unfortunately, it is challenging to establish exact regularization term and the model with complex priors is hard to optimize. In additionally, it…
The under-exposure and low-light environments are common to degrade the image-quality with invisible information. To ameliorate this case, a copious of low-light image enhancement methods are developed. However, these existing works are hard to handle extremely low-light conditions with noises, even…
Optimizing task-related mathematical model is one of the most fundamental methodologies in statistic and learning areas. However, generally designed schematic iterations may hard to investigate complex data distributions in real-world applications. Recently, training deep propagations (i.e., network…
Visible distortions caused by rain streaks have significant negative effects on the performance of many vision and learning algorithms. Most of the existing deraining approaches propose to build complex prior models to formulate the appearance of rain streaks. Unfortunately, these human-designed pri…
Haze is one of the most important factors which reduce the outdoor image quality. Existing approaches often aim to design their models based on principles of hazes. However, even with exactly modeled haze distribution, it is still a challenging task due to factors in real scenario, such as noises, h…