Shadow removal is an important computervision task aiming at the detection and successful removal of the shadow produced by an occluded light source and a photorealistic restoration of the image contents. Decades of ...
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(纸本)9781665448994
Shadow removal is an important computervision task aiming at the detection and successful removal of the shadow produced by an occluded light source and a photorealistic restoration of the image contents. Decades of research produced a multitude of hand-crafted restoration techniques and, more recently, learned solutions from shadowed and shadow free training image pairs. In this work, we propose a single image shadow removal solution via self-supervised learning by using a conditioned mask. We rely on self-supervision and jointly learn deep models to remove and add shadows to images. We derive two variants for learning from paired images and unpaired images, respectively. Our validation on the recently introduced ISTD and USR datasets demonstrate large quantitative and qualitative improvements over the state-of-the-art for both paired and unpaired learning settings.
Image deblurring and super-resolution (SR) are computervision tasks aiming to restore image detail and spatial scale, respectively. Besides, only a few recent works of literature contribute to this task, as conventio...
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(纸本)9781665448994
Image deblurring and super-resolution (SR) are computervision tasks aiming to restore image detail and spatial scale, respectively. Besides, only a few recent works of literature contribute to this task, as conventional methods deal with SR or deblurring separately. We focus on designing a novel Pixel-Guided dual-branch attention network (PDAN) that handles both tasks jointly to address this issue. Then, we propose a novel loss function better focus on large and medium range errors. Extensive experiments demonstrated that the proposed PDAN with the novel loss function not only generates remarkably clear HR images and achieves compelling results for joint image deblurring and SR tasks. In addition, our method achieves second place in NTIRE 2021 Challenge on track 1 of the Image Deblurring Challenge.
While makeup virtual-try-on is now widespread, parametrizing a computer graphics rendering engine for synthesizing images of a given cosmetics product remains a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce an inverse...
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(纸本)9781665448994
While makeup virtual-try-on is now widespread, parametrizing a computer graphics rendering engine for synthesizing images of a given cosmetics product remains a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce an inverse computer graphics method for automatic makeup synthesis from a reference image, by learning a model that maps an example portrait image with makeup to the space of rendering parameters. This method can be used by artists to automatically create realistic virtual cosmetics image samples, or by consumers, to virtually try-on a makeup extracted from their favorite reference image.
The potential of generating authentic human facial images from remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals is a compelling idea, with significant implications for biometric authentication and human-computer interaction...
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(纸本)9798350304367;9798350304374
The potential of generating authentic human facial images from remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals is a compelling idea, with significant implications for biometric authentication and human-computer interaction. This study explores it by using a large-scale dataset to train a diffusion-based generative model, leveraging rPPG signals extracted from facial videos. The initial training phase yields promising results, with the model demonstrating a capacity to synthesize facial likenesses that closely match the corresponding subjects in the training dataset. However, the performance notably falters during validation with an independent dataset, where a marked divergence between generated and actual faces becomes apparent. A subsequent human perception study corroborates this discrepancy. These observations suggest that rPPG signals alone may not be reliable for accurately generating realistic facial imagery.
Training GANs in low-data regimes remains a challenge, as overfitting often leads to memorization or training divergence. In this work, we introduce One-Shot GAN that can learn to generate samples from a training set ...
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(纸本)9781665448994
Training GANs in low-data regimes remains a challenge, as overfitting often leads to memorization or training divergence. In this work, we introduce One-Shot GAN that can learn to generate samples from a training set as little as one image or one video. We propose a two-branch discriminator, with content and layout branches designed to judge the internal content separately from the scene layout realism. This allows synthesis of visually plausible, novel compositions of a scene, with varying content and layout, while preserving the context of the original sample. Compared to previous single-image GAN models, One-Shot GAN achieves higher diversity and quality of synthesis. It is also not restricted to the single image setting, successfully learning in the introduced setting of a single video.
For convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a common hypothesis that explains both their generalization capability and their characteristic brittleness is that these models are implicitly regularized to rely on impercep...
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(纸本)9781665448994
For convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a common hypothesis that explains both their generalization capability and their characteristic brittleness is that these models are implicitly regularized to rely on imperceptible high-frequency patterns, more than humans would do. This hypothesis has seen some empirical validation, but most works do not rigorously divide the image frequency spectrum. We present a model to divide the spectrum in disjointed discs based on the distribution of energy and apply simple feature importance procedures to test whether high-frequencies are more important than lower ones. We find evidence that mid or high-level frequencies are disproportionately important for CNNs. The evidence is robust across different datasets and networks. Moreover, we find the diverse effects of the network's attributes, such as architecture and depth, on frequency bias and robustness in general.
Few-shot learning features the capability of generalizing from a few examples. In this paper, we first identify that a discriminative feature space, namely a rectified metric space, that is learned to maintain the met...
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(纸本)9781665448994
Few-shot learning features the capability of generalizing from a few examples. In this paper, we first identify that a discriminative feature space, namely a rectified metric space, that is learned to maintain the metric consistency from training to testing, is an essential component to the success of metric-based few-shot learning. Numerous analyses indicate that a simple modification of the objective can yield substantial performance gains. The resulting approach, called rectified metric propagation (ReMP), further optimizes an attentive prototype propagation network, and applies a repulsive force to make confident predictions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed ReMP is effective and efficient, and outperforms the state of the arts on various standard few-shot learning datasets.
Live demonstration setup. (Left) The setup consists of a DAVIS346B event camera connected to a standard consumer laptop and undergoes some motion. (Right) The motion estimates are plotted in red and, for rotation-like...
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(纸本)9781665448994
Live demonstration setup. (Left) The setup consists of a DAVIS346B event camera connected to a standard consumer laptop and undergoes some motion. (Right) The motion estimates are plotted in red and, for rotation-like motions, the angular velocities provided by the camera IMU are also plotted in blue. This plot exemplifies an event camera undergoing large rotational motions (up to ~ 1000 deg/s) around the (a) x-axis, (b) y-axis and (c) z-axis. Overall, the incremental motion estimation method follows the IMU measurements. Optionally, the resultant global optical flow can also be shown, as well as the corresponding generated events by accumulating them onto the image plane (bottom left corner).
Line art plays a fundamental role in illustration and design, and allows for iteratively polishing designs. However, as they lack color, they can have issues in conveying final designs. In this work, we propose an int...
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(纸本)9781665448994
Line art plays a fundamental role in illustration and design, and allows for iteratively polishing designs. However, as they lack color, they can have issues in conveying final designs. In this work, we propose an interactive colorization approach based on a conditional generative adversarial network that takes both the line art and color hints as inputs to produce a high-quality colorized image. Our approach is based on a U-net architecture with a multi-discriminator framework. We propose a Concatenation and Spatial Attention module that is able to generate more consistent and higher quality of line art colorization from user given hints. We evaluate on a large-scale illustration dataset and comparison with existing approaches corroborate the effectiveness of our approach.
We study event-based sensors in the context of spacecraft guidance and control during a descent on Moon-like terrains. For this purpose, we develop a simulator reproducing the event-based camera outputs when exposed t...
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(纸本)9781665448994
We study event-based sensors in the context of spacecraft guidance and control during a descent on Moon-like terrains. For this purpose, we develop a simulator reproducing the event-based camera outputs when exposed to synthetic images of a space environment. We find that it is possible to reconstruct, in this context, the divergence of optical flow vectors (and therefore the time to contact) and use it in a simple control feedback scheme during simulated descents. The results obtained are very encouraging, albeit insufficient to meet the stringent safety constraints and modelling accuracy imposed upon space missions. We thus conclude by discussing future work aimed at addressing these limitations.
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