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Q-Bench: A Benchmark for General-Purpose Foundation Models on Low-level Vision
Haoning Wu, Zicheng Zhang, Erli Zhang +8
The rapid evolution of Multi-modality Large Language Models (MLLMs) has catalyzed a shift in computer vision from specialized models to general-purpose foundation models. Neverthel…
Local Distortion Aware Efficient Transformer Adaptation for Image Quality Assessment
Kangmin Xu, Liang Liao, Jing Xiao +4
Image Quality Assessment (IQA) constitutes a fundamental task within the field of computer vision, yet it remains an unresolved challenge, owing to the intricate distortion conditi…
TOPIQ: A Top-down Approach from Semantics to Distortions for Image Quality Assessment
Chaofeng Chen, Jiadi Mo, Jingwen Hou +5
Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a fundamental task in computer vision that has witnessed remarkable progress with deep neural networks. Inspired by the characteristics of the hum…
Towards Explainable In-the-Wild Video Quality Assessment: A Database and a Language-Prompted Approach
Haoning Wu, Erli Zhang, Liang Liao +6
The proliferation of in-the-wild videos has greatly expanded the Video Quality Assessment (VQA) problem. Unlike early definitions that usually focus on limited distortion types, VQ…
Towards Robust Text-Prompted Semantic Criterion for In-the-Wild Video Quality Assessment
Haoning Wu, Liang Liao, Annan Wang +5
The proliferation of videos collected during in-the-wild natural settings has pushed the development of effective Video Quality Assessment (VQA) methodologies. Contemporary supervi…
Exploring Opinion-unaware Video Quality Assessment with Semantic Affinity Criterion
Haoning Wu, Liang Liao, Jingwen Hou +6
Recent learning-based video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms are expensive to implement due to the cost of data collection of human quality opinions, and are less robust across…
Exploring Video Quality Assessment on User Generated Contents from Aesthetic and Technical Perspectives
Haoning Wu, Erli Zhang, Liang Liao +6
The rapid increase in user-generated-content (UGC) videos calls for the development of effective video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms. However, the objective of the UGC-VQA pr…
Neighbourhood Representative Sampling for Efficient End-to-end Video Quality Assessment
Haoning Wu, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao +5
The increased resolution of real-world videos presents a dilemma between efficiency and accuracy for deep Video Quality Assessment (VQA). On the one hand, keeping the original reso…
D2HNet: Joint Denoising and Deblurring with Hierarchical Network for Robust Night Image Restoration
Yuzhi Zhao, Yongzhe Xu, Qiong Yan +3
Night imaging with modern smartphone cameras is troublesome due to low photon count and unavoidable noise in the imaging system. Directly adjusting exposure time and ISO ratings ca…
Exploring the Effectiveness of Video Perceptual Representation in Blind Video Quality Assessment
Liang Liao, Kangmin Xu, Haoning Wu +4
With the rapid growth of in-the-wild videos taken by non-specialists, blind video quality assessment (VQA) has become a challenging and demanding problem. Although lots of efforts…
FAST-VQA: Efficient End-to-end Video Quality Assessment with Fragment Sampling
Haoning Wu, Chaofeng Chen, Jingwen Hou +5
Current deep video quality assessment (VQA) methods are usually with high computational costs when evaluating high-resolution videos. This cost hinders them from learning better vi…
DisCoVQA: Temporal Distortion-Content Transformers for Video Quality Assessment
Haoning Wu, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao +4
The temporal relationships between frames and their influences on video quality assessment (VQA) are still under-studied in existing works. These relationships lead to two importan…
ChildPredictor: A Child Face Prediction Framework with Disentangled Learning
Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Xuehui Wang +9
The appearances of children are inherited from their parents, which makes it feasible to predict them. Predicting realistic children's faces may help settle many social problems, s…
Dual-Camera Super-Resolution with Aligned Attention Modules
Tengfei Wang, Jiaxin Xie, Wenxiu Sun +2
We present a novel approach to reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) with the focus on dual-camera super-resolution (DCSR), which utilizes reference images for high-quality and…
A Categorized Reflection Removal Dataset with Diverse Real-world Scenes
Chenyang Lei, Xuhua Huang, Chenyang Qi +4
Due to the lack of a large-scale reflection removal dataset with diverse real-world scenes, many existing reflection removal methods are trained on synthetic data plus a small amou…
MODNet: Real-Time Trimap-Free Portrait Matting via Objective Decomposition
Zhanghan Ke, Jiayu Sun, Kaican Li +2
Existing portrait matting methods either require auxiliary inputs that are costly to obtain or involve multiple stages that are computationally expensive, making them less suitable…
Guided Collaborative Training for Pixel-wise Semi-Supervised Learning
Zhanghan Ke, Di Qiu, Kaican Li +2
We investigate the generalization of semi-supervised learning (SSL) to diverse pixel-wise tasks. Although SSL methods have achieved impressive results in image classification, the…
NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Real Image Denoising: Dataset, Methods and Results
Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Mahmoud Afifi, Radu Timofte +87
This paper reviews the NTIRE 2020 challenge on real image denoising with focus on the newly introduced dataset, the proposed methods and their results. The challenge is a new versi…
Polarized Reflection Removal with Perfect Alignment in the Wild
Chenyang Lei, Xuhua Huang, Mengdi Zhang +3
We present a novel formulation to removing reflection from polarized images in the wild. We first identify the misalignment issues of existing reflection removal datasets where the…
Deep Surface Normal Estimation with Hierarchical RGB-D Fusion
Jin Zeng, Yanfeng Tong, Yunmu Huang +4
The growing availability of commodity RGB-D cameras has boosted the applications in the field of scene understanding. However, as a fundamental scene understanding task, surface no…
DSR: Direct Self-rectification for Uncalibrated Dual-lens Cameras
Ruichao Xiao, Wenxiu Sun, Jiahao Pang +2
With the developments of dual-lens camera modules,depth information representing the third dimension of thecaptured scenes becomes available for smartphones. It isestimated by ster…
Image Dehazing using Bilinear Composition Loss Function
Hui Yang, Jinshan Pan, Qiong Yan +3
In this paper, we introduce a bilinear composition loss function to address the problem of image dehazing. Previous methods in image dehazing use a two-stage approach which first e…
Cascade Residual Learning: A Two-stage Convolutional Neural Network for Stereo Matching
Jiahao Pang, Wenxiu Sun, Jimmy SJ. Ren +2
Leveraging on the recent developments in convolutional neural networks (CNNs), matching dense correspondence from a stereo pair has been cast as a learning problem, with performanc…
Robust Tracking Using Region Proposal Networks
Jimmy Ren, Zhiyang Yu, Jianbo Liu +5
Recent advances in visual tracking showed that deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) trained for image classification can be strong feature extractors for discriminative tracker…