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20162026
most citedThe UMCD Dataset

65 citations · 236 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CV2026

H3D-MarNet: Wavelet-Guided Dual-Path Learning for Metal Artifact Suppression and CT Modality Transformation for Radiotherapy Workflows

Mubashara Rehman, Niki Martinel, Michele Avanzo +2

Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) severely degrade image quality, compromising diagnostic accuracy and radiotherapy planning, especially in cancer patients with high-dens…

cs.CV2025

ReMAR-DS: Recalibrated Feature Learning for Metal Artifact Reduction and CT Domain Transformation

Mubashara Rehman, Niki Martinel, Michele Avanzo +2

Artifacts in kilo-Voltage CT (kVCT) imaging degrade image quality, impacting clinical decisions. We propose a deep learning framework for metal artifact reduction (MAR) and domain…

cs.CV2025

Physics Informed Capsule Enhanced Variational AutoEncoder for Underwater Image Enhancement

Niki Martinel, Rita Pucci

We present a novel dual-stream architecture that achieves state-of-the-art underwater image enhancement by explicitly integrating the Jaffe-McGlamery physical model with capsule cl…

cs.CV2025

Pyramid-based Mamba Multi-class Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

Nasar Iqbal, Niki Martinel

Recent advances in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer-based methods have improved anomaly detection and localization, but challenges persist in precisely localizi…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

SkelMamba: A State Space Model for Efficient Skeleton Action Recognition of Neurological Disorders

Niki Martinel, Mariano Serrao, Christian Micheloni

We introduce a novel state-space model (SSM)-based framework for skeleton-based human action recognition, with an anatomically-guided architecture that improves state-of-the-art pe…

eess.IV2024

MAR-DTN: Metal Artifact Reduction using Domain Transformation Network for Radiotherapy Planning

Belén Serrano-Antón, Mubashara Rehman, Niki Martinel +5

For the planning of radiotherapy treatments for head and neck cancers, Computed Tomography (CT) scans of the patients are typically employed. However, in patients with head and nec…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

CE-VAE: Capsule Enhanced Variational AutoEncoder for Underwater Image Enhancement

Rita Pucci, Niki Martinel

Unmanned underwater image analysis for marine monitoring faces two key challenges: (i) degraded image quality due to light attenuation and (ii) hardware storage constraints limitin…

cs.CV2024★ 54 cited

NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (x4): Methods and Results

Zheng Chen, Zongwei Wu, Eduard Zamfir +85

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2024 challenge on image super-resolution (4), highlighting the solutions proposed and the outcomes obtained. The challenge involves generating…

cs.CV2023★ 9 cited

Tracking Skiers from the Top to the Bottom

Matteo Dunnhofer, Luca Sordi, Niki Martinel +1

Skiing is a popular winter sport discipline with a long history of competitive events. In this domain, computer vision has the potential to enhance the understanding of athletes' p…

cs.CV2023

UW-ProCCaps: UnderWater Progressive Colourisation with Capsules

Rita Pucci, Niki Martinel

Underwater images are fundamental for studying and understanding the status of marine life. We focus on reducing the memory space required for image storage while the memory space…

cs.CV2023

UW-CVGAN: UnderWater Image Enhancement with Capsules Vectors Quantization

Rita Pucci, Christian Micheloni, Niki Martinel

The degradation in the underwater images is due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, scattering, and to the diversity of the water types in which they are captured. Deep neur…

cs.CV2021

TUCaN: Progressively Teaching Colourisation to Capsules

Rita Pucci, Niki Martinel

Automatic image colourisation is the computer vision research path that studies how to colourise greyscale images (for restoration). Deep learning techniques improved image colouri…

cs.CV2021★ 20 cited

Weakly-Supervised Domain Adaptation of Deep Regression Trackers via Reinforced Knowledge Distillation

Matteo Dunnhofer, Niki Martinel, Christian Micheloni

Deep regression trackers are among the fastest tracking algorithms available, and therefore suitable for real-time robotic applications. However, their accuracy is inadequate in ma…

cs.CV2021

Collaboration among Image and Object Level Features for Image Colourisation

Rita Pucci, Christian Micheloni, Niki Martinel

Image colourisation is an ill-posed problem, with multiple correct solutions which depend on the context and object instances present in the input datum. Previous approaches attack…

cs.CV2020★ 2 cited

Is It a Plausible Colour? UCapsNet for Image Colourisation

Rita Pucci, Christian Micheloni, Gian Luca Foresti +1

Human beings can imagine the colours of a grayscale image with no particular effort thanks to their ability of semantic feature extraction. Can an autonomous system achieve that? C…

cs.CV2020★ 2 cited

An Exploration of Target-Conditioned Segmentation Methods for Visual Object Trackers

Matteo Dunnhofer, Niki Martinel, Christian Micheloni

Visual object tracking is the problem of predicting a target object's state in a video. Generally, bounding-boxes have been used to represent states, and a surge of effort has been…

cs.CV2020★ 14 cited

Tracking-by-Trackers with a Distilled and Reinforced Model

Matteo Dunnhofer, Niki Martinel, Christian Micheloni

Visual object tracking was generally tackled by reasoning independently on fast processing algorithms, accurate online adaptation methods, and fusion of trackers. In this paper, we…

cs.CV2020★ 3 cited

An Efficient UAV-based Artificial Intelligence Framework for Real-Time Visual Tasks

Enkhtogtokh Togootogtokh, Christian Micheloni, Gian Luca Foresti +1

Modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles equipped with state of the art artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are opening to a wide plethora of novel and interesting applications. While…

cs.CV2019

Video-Based Convolutional Attention for Person Re-Identification

Marco Zamprogno, Marco Passon, Niki Martinel +5

In this paper we consider the problem of video-based person re-identification, which is the task of associating videos of the same person captured by different and non-overlapping…

cs.CV2019★ 31 cited

Visual Tracking by means of Deep Reinforcement Learning and an Expert Demonstrator

Matteo Dunnhofer, Niki Martinel, Gian Luca Foresti +1

In the last decade many different algorithms have been proposed to track a generic object in videos. Their execution on recent large-scale video datasets can produce a great amount…

cs.CV2017

Group Re-Identification via Unsupervised Transfer of Sparse Features Encoding

Giuseppe Lisanti, Niki Martinel, Alberto Del Bimbo +1

Person re-identification is best known as the problem of associating a single person that is observed from one or more disjoint cameras. The existing literature has mainly addresse…

cs.CV2017★ 65 cited

The UMCD Dataset

Danilo Avola, Gian Luca Foresti, Niki Martinel +2

In recent years, the technological improvements of low-cost small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are promoting an ever-increasing use of them in different tasks. In particul…

cs.CV2016★ 19 cited

Wide-Slice Residual Networks for Food Recognition

Niki Martinel, Gian Luca Foresti, Christian Micheloni

Food diary applications represent a tantalizing market. Such applications, based on image food recognition, opened to new challenges for computer vision and pattern recognition alg…

cs.CV2016★ 14 cited

Temporal Model Adaptation for Person Re-Identification

Niki Martinel, Abir Das, Christian Micheloni +1

Person re-identification is an open and challenging problem in computer vision. Majority of the efforts have been spent either to design the best feature representation or to learn…