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In this work we investigate the practicability of stochastic gradient descent and recently introduced variants with variance-reduction techniques in imaging inverse problems, such as space-varying image deblurring. Such algorithms have been shown in machine learning literature to have optimal complexities in theory, and provide great improvement empirically over the full gradient methods. Surprisingly, in some tasks such as image deblurring, many of such methods fail to converge faster than the accelerated full gradient method (FISTA), even in terms of epoch counts.

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Single-photon light detection and ranging (Lidar) data can be used to capture depth and intensity profiles of a 3D scene. In a general setting, the scenes can have an unknown number of surfaces per pixel (semi-transparent surfaces or outdoor measurements), high background noise (strong ambient illumination), can be acquired by systems with a broad instrumental response (non-parallel laser beam with respect to the target surface) and with possibly high attenuating media (underwater conditions).

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Visual relationship recognition, as a challenging task used to distinguish the interactions between object pairs, has received much attention recently. Considering the fact that most visual relationships are semantic concepts defined by human beings, there are many human knowledge, or priors, hidden in them, which haven’t been fully exploited by existing methods.

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The Just Noticeable Difference (JND) reveals the minimum distortion that the Human Visual System (HVS) can perceive. Traditional studies on JND mainly focus on background luminance adaptation and contrast masking. However, the HVS does not perceive visual content based on individual pixels or blocks, but on the entire image. In this work, we conduct an interactive subjective visual quality study on the Picture-level JND (PJND) of compressed stereo images. The study, which involves 48 subjects and 10 stereoscopic images compressed with H.265 intra coding and JPEG2000, includes two parts.

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Color Guided Depth image denoising often suffers from the texture coping from the color image as well as the blurry effect at the depth discontinuities. Motivated by this, we propose an optimized color-guided filter for depth image denoising from different types of noises. This is a new framework that helps to mitigate the texture coping and enhance the depth discontinuities, especially in heavy noises. This framework consists of two parts namely depth driven color flattening model and patch synthesis-based Markov random field model.

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Occlusions and poor textures are two main problems in multi-view stereo reconstruction. This paper presents a video-based solution to address both challenges in depth estimation. We focus on reconstructing accurate inner boundaries of visible textureless areas, particularly for occluded background, by leveraging the reliable depths of object edges. This is done by efficiently respecting two local cues with complementary advantages, i.e. smoothness and density of recovered surfaces.

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This paper proposes a new medical image super-resolution (SR) network, namely deep multi-scale network (DMSN), in the uniform discrete curvelet transform (UDCT) domain. DMSN is made up of a set of cascaded multi-scale fushion (MSF) blocks. In each MSF block, we use convolution kernels of different sizes to adaptively detect the local multiscale feature, and then local residual learning (LRL) is used to learn effective feature from preceding MSF block and current multi-scale features.

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While neural networks have achieved vastly enhanced performance over traditional iterative methods in many cases, they are generally empirically designed and the underlying structures are difficult to interpret. The algorithm unrolling approach has helped connect iterative algorithms to neural network architectures. However, such connections have not been made yet for blind image deblurring. In this paper, we propose a neural network architecture that advances this idea.

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In visual speech animation, lip motion accuracy is of paramount importance for speech intelligibility, especially for the hard of hearing or foreign language learners. We present an approach for visual speech animation that uses tracked lip motion in front-view 2D videos of a real speaker to drive the lip motion of a synthetic 3D head. This makes use of a 3D morphable model (3DMM), built using 3D synthetic head poses, with corresponding landmarks identified in the 2D videos and the 3DMM.

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