Near infrared (NIR) images are robust to ambient light and contain clear textures in low light condition. In this paper, we propose NIR image colorization using spatial adaptive denormalization (SPADE) generator and g...
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(纸本)9781728180687
Near infrared (NIR) images are robust to ambient light and contain clear textures in low light condition. In this paper, we propose NIR image colorization using spatial adaptive denormalization (SPADE) generator and grayscale approximated self-reconstruction. Compared with traditional image to image translation methods, the proposed NIR colorization pursues photorealism rather than generative diversity. The challenge of this task is NIR-RGB mis-registration in training data. We address this problem by separately extracting NIR texture and RGB color with an end to end SPADE based model. Moreover, the proposed method facilitates a more precise synthesis with a given low light RGB reference image. Experiments on an open NIR-RGB dataset verify that the proposed method effectively preserves NIR textures and RGB colors in the synthesized results and outperforms the baselines in terms of visual quality and quantitative assessments.
With the development of airplane platforms, aerial image classification plays an important role in a wide range of remote sensing applications. The number of most of aerial image dataset is very limited compared with ...
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(纸本)9781728185514
With the development of airplane platforms, aerial image classification plays an important role in a wide range of remote sensing applications. The number of most of aerial image dataset is very limited compared with other computer vision datasets. Unlike many works that use data augmentation to solve this problem, we adopt a novel strategy, called, label splitting, to deal with limited samples. Specifically, each sample has its original semantic label, we assign a new appearance label via unsupervised clustering for each sample by label splitting. Then an optimized triplet loss learning is applied to distill domain specific knowledge. This is achieved through a binary tree forest partitioning and triplets selection and optimization scheme that controls the triplet quality. Simulation results on NWPU, UCM and AID datasets demonstrate that proposed solution achieves the state-of-the-art performance in the aerial image classification.
image aesthetics assessment (IAA) measures the perceived beauty of images using a computational approach. People usually assess the aesthetics of an image according to semantic attributes, e.g., lighting, color, objec...
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(纸本)9781665475921
image aesthetics assessment (IAA) measures the perceived beauty of images using a computational approach. People usually assess the aesthetics of an image according to semantic attributes, e.g., lighting, color, object emphasis, etc. However, the state-of-the-art IAA approaches usually follow the data-driven framework without considering the rich attributes contained in images. With this motivation, this paper presents a new semantic attribute guided IAA model, where the attention maps of semantic attributes are employed to enhance the representation ability of general aesthetic features for more effective aesthetics assessment. Specifically, we first design an attribute attention generation network to obtain the attention maps for different semantic attributes, which are utilized to weight the general aesthetic features, producing the semantic attribute-enhanced feature representations. Then, the Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) is employed to further investigate the inherent relationship among the enhanced aesthetic features, producing the final image aesthetics prediction. Extensive experiments and comparisons on three public IAA databases demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
For analog color television standards such as PAL and NTSC, the transmission of color (C) takes place within the band available for the luminance (Y). At the television receiver, the required separation of Y and C can...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819452114
For analog color television standards such as PAL and NTSC, the transmission of color (C) takes place within the band available for the luminance (Y). At the television receiver, the required separation of Y and C can only be imperfect as both components now share the same frequency space. Modern televisions apply so-called combfilters that exploit the opposite sub-carrier phase of correlated samples to separate both components. However, cross-talk artifacts and loss of resolution will occur in situations where no sufficiently correlated samples meet the strict opposite phase requirement. In this paper, a novel Y/C separation method is presented that is able to use samples with non-opposite sub-carrier phases.
End-to-end optimized image compression has emerged as a disruptive technique to reduce the spatial redundancies with an improved reconstruction quality. However, existing entropy model for latent representations canno...
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(纸本)9781728180687
End-to-end optimized image compression has emerged as a disruptive technique to reduce the spatial redundancies with an improved reconstruction quality. However, existing entropy model for latent representations cannot sufficiently exploit their spatial and channel-wise correlations. In this paper, we propose a novel entropy model based on spatial-channel contexts for end-to-end optimized image compression. The proposed model jointly leverages spatial structural dependencies and channel-wise correlations to improve the probabilistic estimation of latent representations. Instead of complex autoregressive hyperprior network, shallow artificial neural networks (ANNs) incorporating 3-D masks are developed to efficiently realize the entropy model with a guarantee of causality. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves competitive rate-distortion performance and reduces model complexity in comparison to recent end-to-end optimized methods for image compression.
Human-object interaction (HOI) detection is a meaningful research topic on human activity understanding. Recent works have made significant progress by focusing on efficient triplet matching and leveraging image-wide ...
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(纸本)9781665475921
Human-object interaction (HOI) detection is a meaningful research topic on human activity understanding. Recent works have made significant progress by focusing on efficient triplet matching and leveraging image-wide features based on encoder-decoder architecture. However, the ability to gather relevant contextual information about human is limited and different sub-tasks in HOI detection are not differentiated by specific decoupling in previous methods. To this end, we propose a new transformer-based method for HOI detection, namely, Mask-Guided Transformer (MGT). Our model, which is composed of five parallel decoders with a shared encoder, not only emphasizes interactive regions by applying body features, but also disentangles the prediction of instance and interaction. We achieve a favorable result at 63.3 mAP on the well-known HOI detection dataset V-COCO.
In this paper we introduce a novel approach to better utilize the intra block copy (IBC) prediction tool in encoding lenslet light field video (LFV) captured using plenoptic 2.0 cameras. Although the IBC tool has been...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9798331529543;9798331529550
In this paper we introduce a novel approach to better utilize the intra block copy (IBC) prediction tool in encoding lenslet light field video (LFV) captured using plenoptic 2.0 cameras. Although the IBC tool has been recognized as promising for encoding LFV content, its fundamental limit due to its original design rooted for encoding conventional videos suggests slight modification possibility to better suit the property of LFV content. Observing the inherently large amount of repetitive image patterns due to the microlens array (MLA) structure of plenoptic cameras, several techniques are suggested in this paper to enhance the IBC coding tool itself for more efficiently encoding LFV contents. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly enhances the IBC coding performance in case of encoding LFV contents while concurrently reducing encoding time.
In this paper, we propose an end-to-end image compression framework, which cooperates with the swin-transformer modules to capture the localized and non-localized similarities in image compression. In particular, the ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781665475921
In this paper, we propose an end-to-end image compression framework, which cooperates with the swin-transformer modules to capture the localized and non-localized similarities in image compression. In particular, the swin-transformer modules are deployed in the analysis and synthesis stages, interleaving with convolution layers. The transformer layers are expected to perceive more flexible receptive fields, such that the spatially localized and non-localized redundancies could be more effectively eliminated. The proposed method reveals the excellent capability of signal conjunction and prediction, leading to the improvement of the rate and distortion performance. Experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to the existing methods on both natural scene and screen content images, where 22.46% BD-Rate savings are achieved when compared with the BPG. Over 30% BD-Rate gains could be observed with screen content images when compared with the classical hyper-prior end-to-end coding method.
Hyperspectral imaging captures a high number of spectrally narrow bands and provides advantages for image analysis applications such as identification and classification in particular. However, for the visual inspecti...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479948741
Hyperspectral imaging captures a high number of spectrally narrow bands and provides advantages for image analysis applications such as identification and classification in particular. However, for the visual inspection of hyperspectral images, the data is conventionally converted to a standard color image format. It is important that as much detail and data as possible is retained during this conversion. A novel hyperspectral visualization approach based on high dynamic range imaging is presented in this paper. The proposed approach retains visual detail and provides a superior result in terms of visual quality.
For most machine learning systems, overfitting is an undesired behavior. However, overfitting a model to a test image or a video at inference time is a favorable and effective technique to improve the coding efficienc...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728185514
For most machine learning systems, overfitting is an undesired behavior. However, overfitting a model to a test image or a video at inference time is a favorable and effective technique to improve the coding efficiency of learning-based image and video codecs. At the encoding stage, one or more neural networks that are part of the codec are finetuned using the input image or video to achieve a better coding performance. The encoder encodes the input content into a content bitstream. If the finetuned neural network is part (also) of the decoder, the encoder signals the weight update of the finetuned model to the decoder along with the content bitstream. At the decoding stage, the decoder first updates its neural network model according to the received weight update, and then proceeds with decoding the content bitstream. Since a neural network contains a large number of parameters, compressing the weight update is critical to reducing bitrate overhead. In this paper, we propose learning-based methods to find the important parameters to be overfitted, in terms of rate-distortion performance. Based on simple distribution models for variables in the weight update, we derive two objective functions. By optimizing the proposed objective functions, the importance scores of the parameters can be calculated and the important parameters can be determined. Our experiments on lossless image compression codec show that the proposed method significantly outperforms a prior-art method where overfitted parameters were selected based on heuristics. Furthermore, our technique improved the compression performance of the state-of-the-art lossless image compression codec by 0.1 bit per pixel.
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