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most citedEnd-to-End Single Image Fog Removal using Enhanced Cycle Consistent Adversarial Networks

120 citations · 310 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.CV2026

Supervision-by-Hallucination-and-Transfer: A Weakly-Supervised Approach for Robust and Precise Facial Landmark Detection

Jun Wan, Yuanzhi Yao, Zhihui Lai +3

High-precision facial landmark detection (FLD) relies on high-resolution deep feature representations. However, low-resolution face images or the compression (via pooling or stride…

cs.CV2025

GPTFace: Generative Pre-training of Facial-Linguistic Transformer by Span Masking and Weakly Correlated Text-image Data

Yudong Li, Hao Li, Xianxu Hou +1

Compared to the prosperity of pre-training models in natural image understanding, the research on large-scale pre-training models for facial knowledge learning is still limited. Cu…

cs.CV2025

LightQANet: Quantized and Adaptive Feature Learning for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Xu Wu, Zhihui Lai, Xianxu Hou +3

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve illumination while preserving high-quality color and texture. However, existing methods often fail to extract reliable feature re…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

DisFaceRep: Representation Disentanglement for Co-occurring Facial Components in Weakly Supervised Face Parsing

Xiaoqin Wang, Xianxu Hou, Meidan Ding +4

Face parsing aims to segment facial images into key components such as eyes, lips, and eyebrows. While existing methods rely on dense pixel-level annotations, such annotations are…

cs.CV2025

FaceBench: A Multi-View Multi-Level Facial Attribute VQA Dataset for Benchmarking Face Perception MLLMs

Xiaoqin Wang, Xusen Ma, Xianxu Hou +6

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various tasks. However, effectively evaluating these MLLMs on face perception remains largely…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Low-Light Enhancement Effect on Classification and Detection: An Empirical Study

Xu Wu, Zhihui Lai, Zhou Jie +4

Low-light images are commonly encountered in real-world scenarios, and numerous low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods have been proposed to improve the visibility of these ima…

cs.CL2024

Dynamic data sampler for cross-language transfer learning in large language models

Yudong Li, Yuhao Feng, Wen Zhou +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in the field of natural language processing (NLP) due to their wide range of applications. However, training LLMs for…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

CodeEnhance: A Codebook-Driven Approach for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Xu Wu, XianXu Hou, Zhihui Lai +4

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve low-illumination images. However, existing methods face two challenges: (1) uncertainty in restoration from diverse brightness de…

cs.CV2022★ 13 cited

DuAT: Dual-Aggregation Transformer Network for Medical Image Segmentation

Feilong Tang, Qiming Huang, Jinfeng Wang +3

Transformer-based models have been widely demonstrated to be successful in computer vision tasks by modelling long-range dependencies and capturing global representations. However,…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Cross Language Image Matching for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Jinheng Xie, Xianxu Hou, Kai Ye +1

It has been widely known that CAM (Class Activation Map) usually only activates discriminative object regions and falsely includes lots of object-related backgrounds. As only a fix…

cs.CV2022★ 7 cited

Contrastive learning of Class-agnostic Activation Map for Weakly Supervised Object Localization and Semantic Segmentation

Jinheng Xie, Jianfeng Xiang, Junliang Chen +3

While class activation map (CAM) generated by image classification network has been widely used for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) and semantic segmentation (WSSS), s…

cs.CV2022★ 11 cited

FEAT: Face Editing with Attention

Xianxu Hou, Linlin Shen, Or Patashnik +2

Employing the latent space of pretrained generators has recently been shown to be an effective means for GAN-based face manipulation. The success of this approach heavily relies on…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Manifold-preserved GANs

Haozhe Liu, Hanbang Liang, Xianxu Hou +3

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely adopted in various fields. However, existing GANs generally are not able to preserve the manifold of data space, mainly due…

eess.IV2021

VHS to HDTV Video Translation using Multi-task Adversarial Learning

Hongming Luo, Guangsen Liao, Xianxu Hou +3

There are large amount of valuable video archives in Video Home System (VHS) format. However, due to the analog nature, their quality is often poor. Compared to High-definition tel…

cs.CV2020★ 4 cited

GuidedStyle: Attribute Knowledge Guided Style Manipulation for Semantic Face Editing

Xianxu Hou, Xiaokang Zhang, Linlin Shen +2

Although significant progress has been made in synthesizing high-quality and visually realistic face images by unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there still lac…

cs.CV2020

Robust Facial Landmark Detection by Cross-order Cross-semantic Deep Network

Jun Wan, Zhihui Lai, Linlin Shen +4

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based facial landmark detection methods have achieved great success. However, most of existing CNN-based facial landmark detection me…

cs.CV2020

Class-Aware Domain Adaptation for Improving Adversarial Robustness

Xianxu Hou, Jingxin Liu, Bolei Xu +3

Recent works have demonstrated convolutional neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally desi…

cs.CV2019

Dual Adaptive Pyramid Network for Cross-Stain Histopathology Image Segmentation

Xianxu Hou, Jingxin Liu, Bolei Xu +6

Supervised semantic segmentation normally assumes the test data being in a similar data domain as the training data. However, in practice, the domain mismatch between the training…

cs.CV2019★ 61 cited

Improving Variational Autoencoder with Deep Feature Consistent and Generative Adversarial Training

Xianxu Hou, Ke Sun, Linlin Shen +1

We present a new method for improving the performances of variational autoencoder (VAE). In addition to enforcing the deep feature consistent principle thus ensuring the VAE output…

eess.IV2019

Learning Deep Image Priors for Blind Image Denoising

Xianxu Hou, Hongming Luo, Jingxin Liu +5

Image denoising is the process of removing noise from noisy images, which is an image domain transferring task, i.e., from a single or several noise level domains to a photo-realis…

cs.CV2019★ 6 cited

Look, Investigate, and Classify: A Deep Hybrid Attention Method for Breast Cancer Classification

Bolei Xu, Jingxin Liu, Xianxu Hou +6

One issue with computer based histopathology image analysis is that the size of the raw image is usually very large. Taking the raw image as input to the deep learning model would…

cs.CV2019★ 120 cited

End-to-End Single Image Fog Removal using Enhanced Cycle Consistent Adversarial Networks

Wei Liu, Xianxu Hou, Jiang Duan +1

Single image defogging is a classical and challenging problem in computer vision. Existing methods towards this problem mainly include handcrafted priors based methods that rely on…

cs.CV2017★ 40 cited

Image Companding and Inverse Halftoning using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Xianxu Hou, Guoping Qiu

In this paper, we introduce deep learning technology to tackle two traditional low-level image processing problems, companding and inverse halftoning. We make two main contribution…

cs.CV2017★ 26 cited

Deep Feature Consistent Deep Image Transformations: Downscaling, Decolorization and HDR Tone Mapping

Xianxu Hou, Jiang Duan, Guoping Qiu

Building on crucial insights into the determining factors of the visual integrity of an image and the property of deep convolutional neural network (CNN), we have developed the Dee…