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In this paper, we analyse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the sea surface using an inverse problem formulation whereby Radon domain information is enhanced in order to accurately detect ship wakes. This is achieved by promoting linear features in the images. For the inverse problem-solving stage, we propose a penalty function, which combines the dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT) with the non-convex Cauchy penalty function. The solution to this inverse problem is based on the forward-backward (FB) splitting algorithm to obtain enhanced images in the Radon domain.

With the invention of electric bulbs, human has been living under various illuminant environments. Since the alternative current (AC) power is used for supplier of electric bulbs, intensity difference between consecutive video frames can be captured with high-speed camera. While most of conventional methods focus on only spatial information of a single image, we propose a deep spatio-temporal color constancy method. To exploit the temporal feature from high-speed video, maximum gradient map is fed into the proposed network.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) synthesize realistic images from random latent vectors. While many studies have explored various training configurations and architectures for GANs, the problem of inverting the generator of GANs has been inadequately investigated. We train a ResNet architecture to map given faces to latent vectors that can be used to generate faces nearly identical to the target. We use a perceptual loss to embed face details in the recovered latent vector while maintaining visual quality using a pixel loss.

We present a novel video stabilization algorithm (LSstab) that removes unwanted motions in real-time. LSstab is based on a novel least squares formulation of the smoothing cost function to alleviate the undesirable camera jitter. A recursive least square solver is derived to minimize the smoothing cost function with an O(N) computation complexity. LSstab is evaluated using a suite of publicly available videos against the state of the art video stabilization methods. Results show LSstab reaches comparable or better performance, achieving real-time processing speed when a GPU is used.

Attention mechanisms, which enable a neural network to accurately focus on all the relevant elements of the input, have become an essential component to improve the performance of deep neural networks. There are mainly two attention mechanisms widely used in computer vision studies, spatial attention and channel attention, which aim to capture the pixel-level pairwise relationship and channel dependency, respectively. Although fusing them together may achieve better performance than their individual implementations, it will inevitably increase the computational overhead.