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20202025
most citedSAR Despeckling using a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model

95 citations · 265 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CV2025

Stable Diffusion Models are Secretly Good at Visual In-Context Learning

Trevine Oorloff, Vishwanath Sindagi, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara +4

Large language models (LLM) in natural language processing (NLP) have demonstrated great potential for in-context learning (ICL) -- the ability to leverage a few sets of example pr…

cs.CV2025

:~Cataract Surgical Masked Autoencoder (MAE) based Pre-training

Nisarg A. Shah, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Shameema Skider +2

Automated analysis of surgical videos is crucial for improving surgical training, workflow optimization, and postoperative assessment. We introduce a CSMAE, Masked Autoencoder (MAE…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Attention Prompt Tuning: Parameter-efficient Adaptation of Pre-trained Models for Spatiotemporal Modeling

Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Vishal M. Patel

In this paper, we introduce Attention Prompt Tuning (APT) - a computationally efficient variant of prompt tuning for video-based applications such as action recognition. Prompt tun…

cs.LG2024

I-Diff: Structural Regularization for High-Fidelity Diffusion Models

Shakthi Perera, Dilum Fernando, H. L. P. Malshan +5

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have significantly advanced generative AI, achieving impressive results in high-quality image and data generation. However, enhanci…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

Guarding Barlow Twins Against Overfitting with Mixed Samples

Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Celso M. De Melo, Vishal M. Patel

Self-supervised Learning (SSL) aims to learn transferable feature representations for downstream applications without relying on labeled data. The Barlow Twins algorithm, renowned…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Deep Metric Learning for Unsupervised Remote Sensing Change Detection

Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Vishal M. Patel

Remote Sensing Change Detection (RS-CD) aims to detect relevant changes from Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images (MT-RSIs), which aids in various RS applications such as land cove…

cs.CV2023★ 13 cited

: Multi-hypothesis Crowd Density Estimation using Diffusion Models

Yasiru Ranasinghe, Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara +1

Crowd counting is a fundamental problem in crowd analysis which is typically accomplished by estimating a crowd density map and summing over the density values. However, this appro…

cs.CV2022

Unite and Conquer: Plug & Play Multi-Modal Synthesis using Diffusion Models

Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Vishal M. Patel

Generating photos satisfying multiple constraints find broad utility in the content creation industry. A key hurdle to accomplishing this task is the need for paired data consistin…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

AdaMAE: Adaptive Masking for Efficient Spatiotemporal Learning with Masked Autoencoders

Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Naman Patel, Ali Gholami +3

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) learn generalizable representations for image, text, audio, video, etc., by reconstructing masked input data from tokens of the visible data. Current MAE…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

Orientation-guided Graph Convolutional Network for Bone Surface Segmentation

Aimon Rahman, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu +2

Due to imaging artifacts and low signal-to-noise ratio in ultrasound images, automatic bone surface segmentation networks often produce fragmented predictions that can hinder the s…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Image Generation with Multimodal Priors using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Vishal M Patel

Image synthesis under multi-modal priors is a useful and challenging task that has received increasing attention in recent years. A major challenge in using generative models to ac…

eess.IV2022★ 95 cited

SAR Despeckling using a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model

Malsha V. Perera, Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara +1

Speckle is a multiplicative noise which affects all coherent imaging modalities including Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The presence of speckle degrades the image quality…

cs.CV2022★ 33 cited

DDPM-CD: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models as Feature Extractors for Change Detection

Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Vishal M. Patel

Remote sensing change detection is crucial for understanding the dynamics of our planet's surface, facilitating the monitoring of environmental changes, evaluating human impact, pr…

cs.CV2022

SAR Despeckling Using Overcomplete Convolutional Networks

Malsha V. Perera, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu +1

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) despeckling is an important problem in remote sensing as speckle degrades SAR images, affecting downstream tasks like detection and segmentation. Rec…

cs.CV2022★ 60 cited

Revisiting Consistency Regularization for Semi-supervised Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images

Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Vishal M. Patel

Remote-sensing (RS) Change Detection (CD) aims to detect "changes of interest" from co-registered bi-temporal images. The performance of existing deep supervised CD methods is attr…

cs.CV2022★ 14 cited

HyperTransformer: A Textural and Spectral Feature Fusion Transformer for Pansharpening

Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Vishal M. Patel

Pansharpening aims to fuse a registered high-resolution panchromatic image (PAN) with a low-resolution hyperspectral image (LR-HSI) to generate an enhanced HSI with high spectral a…

cs.CV2022

Transformer-based SAR Image Despeckling

Malsha V. Perera, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu +1

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are usually degraded by a multiplicative noise known as speckle which makes processing and interpretation of SAR images difficult. In this pap…

cs.CV2022

A Transformer-Based Siamese Network for Change Detection

Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Vishal M. Patel

This paper presents a transformer-based Siamese network architecture (abbreviated by ChangeFormer) for Change Detection (CD) from a pair of co-registered remote sensing images. Dif…

cs.CV2021

SPIN Road Mapper: Extracting Roads from Aerial Images via Spatial and Interaction Space Graph Reasoning for Autonomous Driving

Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Vishal M. Patel

Road extraction is an essential step in building autonomous navigation systems. Detecting road segments is challenging as they are of varying widths, bifurcated throughout the imag…

eess.SY2021

A Sensitivity Matrix Approach Using Two-Stage Optimization for Voltage Regulation of LV Networks with High PV Penetration

A. S. Jameel Hassan, Umar Marikkar, G. W. Kasun Prabhath +5

The occurrence of voltage violations are a major deterrent for absorbing more roof-top solar power to smart Low Voltage Distribution Grids (LVDG). Recent studies have focused on de…

cs.CV2021

Hyperspectral Pansharpening Based on Improved Deep Image Prior and Residual Reconstruction

Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Vishal M. Patel

Hyperspectral pansharpening aims to synthesize a low-resolution hyperspectral image (LR-HSI) with a registered panchromatic image (PAN) to generate an enhanced HSI with high spectr…

eess.SY2020★ 33 cited

Coordinated PV re-phasing: a novel method to maximize renewable energy integration in LV networks by mitigating network unbalances

W. G. Chaminda Bandara, G. M. R. I. Godaliyadda, M. P. B. Ekanayake +1

As combating climate change has become a top priority and as many countries are taking steps to make their power generation sustainable, there is a marked increase in the use of re…