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Built-up area has been one of the most important objects to be extracted in remote sensing images. Several factors such as complex structure, diverse texture and varied background, bring the challenges for the task of built-up area extraction. In this paper, a multiple input structure of deep convolution neural network (CNN) is proposed to extract built-up area automatically, which can fuse the information...
This paper reviews the first challenge on single image super-resolution (restoration of rich details in an low resolution image) with focus on proposed solutions and results. A new DIVerse 2K resolution image dataset (DIV2K) was employed. The challenge had 6 competitions divided into 2 tracks with 3 magnification factors each. Track 1 employed the standard bicubic downscaling setup, while Track 2...
Convolutional neural networks (convnets) have made possible a number of breakthroughs in image classification and other computer vision problems. However, in order to successfully apply convnets to a new task it should be trained on a large set of labeled samples. Acquisition of a large number of manually labeled remote sensing images requires highly trained analysts which makes it a very expensive...
Several models based on deep neural networks have applied to single image super-resolution and obtained great improvements in terms of both reconstruction accuracy and computational performance. All these methods focus either on performing the super-resolution (SR) reconstruction operation in the high resolution (HR) space after upscaling with a single filter, usually bicubic interpolation, or optimizing...
Super-resolution techniques reconstructing a higher resolution image from one or multiple low-resolution images are helpful to visual recognition under the scenarios of insufficient acquisition resolution. Due to the limited wireless network transmission bandwidth or mobile device processing capacity, image resolution in mobile phones and other mobile devices is not as high as expected, which restricts...
Face hallucination, which refers to predicting a HighResolution (HR) face image from an observed Low-Resolution (LR) one, is a challenging problem. Most state-of-the-arts employ local face structure prior to estimate the optimal representations for each patch by the training patches of the same position, and achieve good reconstruction performance. However, they do not take into account the contextual...
Pedestrian detection, as an important task in video surveillance and forensics applications, has been widely studied. However, its performance is unsatisfactory especially in the low resolution conditions. In realistic scenarios, the size of pedestrians in the images is often small, and detection can be challenging. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel resolution-score discriminative...
Learning-based image super-resolution methods often use large datasets to learn texture features. When these methods are applied to depth images, emphasis should be given on learning the geometrical structures at object boundaries, since depth images do not have much texture information. In this paper, we develop a scheme to learn multiple residual dictionaries from only one external image. After...
This paper proposes a new face verification method that uses multiple deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) and a deep ensemble, that extracts two types of low dimensional but discriminative and high-level abstracted features from each DCNN, then combines them as a descriptor for face verification. Our DCNNs are built from stacked multi-scale convolutional layer blocks to present multi-scale...
We propose a novel image set classification technique using linear regression models. Downsampled gallery image sets are interpreted as subspaces of a high dimensional space to avoid the computationally expensive training step. We estimate regression models for each test image using the class specific gallery subspaces. Images of the test set are then reconstructed using the regression models. Based...
This paper considers single image super-resolution (SISR), which is an important low-level vision task and has various applications in multimedia society. Recently, deep neural networks have archived good performance on this field. But most of existing deep models are based on the fully data-dependent network architecture, thus missing majority of domain-knowledge of the super-resolution task. To...
Stationarity of reconstruction problems is the crux to enabling convolutional neural networks for many image processing tasks: the output estimate for a pixel is generally not dependent on its location within the image but only on its immediate neighbourhood. We expect other invariances, too. For most pixel-processing tasks, rigid transformations should commute with the processing: a rigid transformation...
In this paper, we propose a deep CNN to tackle the image restoration problem by learning the structured residual. Previous deep learning based methods directly learn the mapping from corrupted images to clean images, and may suffer from the gradient exploding/vanishing problems of deep neural networks. We propose to address the image restoration problem by learning the structured details and recovering...
In this paper, we focus on constructing an accurate super resolution system based on multiple Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs). Each individual CNN is trained separately with different network structure. A Context-wise Network Fusion (CNF) approach is proposed to integrate the outputs of individual networks by additional convolution layers. With fine-tuning the whole fused network, the accuracy...
Example-based single image super-resolution (SISR) methods use external training datasets and have recently attracted a lot of interest. Self-example based SISR methods exploit redundant non-local self-similar patterns in natural images and because of that are more able to adapt to the image at hand to generate high quality super-resolved images. In this paper, we propose to combine the advantages...
Recently, several methods for single image super-resolution(SISR) based on deep neural networks have obtained high performance with regard to reconstruction accuracy and computational performance. This paper details the methodology and results of the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) challenge. The task of this challenge is to restore rich details (high frequencies) in a high...
In this paper, balanced two-stage residual networks (BTSRN) are proposed for single image super-resolution. The deep residual design with constrained depth achieves the optimal balance between the accuracy and the speed for super-resolving images. The experiments show that the balanced two-stage structure, together with our lightweight two-layer PConv residual block design, achieves very promising...
Rectified linear units (ReLU) are known to be effective in many deep learning methods. Inspired by linear-mapping technique used in other super-resolution (SR) methods, we reinterpret ReLU into point-wise multiplication of an identity mapping and a switch, and finally present a novel nonlinear unit, called a selection unit (SU). While conventional ReLU has no direct control through which data is passed,...
Recent research on super-resolution has progressed with the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). In particular, residual learning techniques exhibit improved performance. In this paper, we develop an enhanced deep super-resolution network (EDSR) with performance exceeding those of current state-of-the-art SR methods. The significant performance improvement of our model is due...
In this paper, we introduce a new dataset, Kimia Path24, for image classification and retrieval in digital pathology. We use the whole scan images of 24 different tissue textures to generate 1,325 test patches of size 1000x1000 (0.5mm x 0.5mm). Training data can be generated according to preferences of algorithm designer and can range from approximately 27,000 to over 50,000 patches if the preset...
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