Low-level Image Processing

1. Decouple and Couple: Exploiting Prior Knowledge for Visible Video Watermark Removal

This paper aims to restore original background images in watermarked videos, overcoming challenges posed by traditional approaches that fail to handle the temporal dynamics and diverse watermark characteristics effectively. Our method introduces a …

2. Bridging Knowledge Gap between Image Inpainting and Large-Area Visible Watermark Removal

Visible watermark removal which involves watermark cleaning and background content restoration is pivotal to evaluate the resilience of watermarks. Existing deep neural network (DNN)-based models still struggle with large-area watermarks and are …

3. Unsupervised Degradation Representation Aware Transform for Real-World Blind Image Super-Resolution

Blind image super-resolution (blind SR) aims to restore a high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) image with unknown degradation. Many existing methods explicitly estimate degradation information from various LR images. However, in most …

4. Removing Interference and Recovering Content Imaginatively for Visible Watermark Removal

5. Cross-Modality High-Frequency Transformer for MR Image Super-Resolution

6. Incremental Cross-view Mutual Distillation for Self-supervised Medical CT Synthesis

7. PNEN: Pyramid Non-Local Enhanced Networks

Existing neural networks proposed for low-level image processing tasks are usually implemented by stacking convolution layers with limited kernel size. Every convolution layer merely involves in context information from a small local neighborhood. …

8. Self-Enhanced Convolutional Network for Facial Video Hallucination

As a domain-specific super-resolution problem, facial image hallucination has enjoyed a series of breakthroughs thanks to the advances of deep convolutional neural networks. However, the direct migration of existing methods to video is still …

9. Automatic Colorization with Improved Spatial Coherence and Boundary Localization

Grayscale image colorization is an important computer graphics problem with a variety of applications. Recent fully automatic colorization methods have made impressive progress by formulating image colorization as a pixel-wise prediction task and …