Search Results for author: Runmin Cong

Found 46 papers, 30 papers with code

BlindDiff: Empowering Degradation Modelling in Diffusion Models for Blind Image Super-Resolution

1 code implementation15 Mar 2024 Feng Li, Yixuan Wu, Zichao Liang, Runmin Cong, Huihui Bai, Yao Zhao, Meng Wang

BlindDiff seamlessly integrates the MAP-based optimization into DMs, which constructs a joint distribution of the low-resolution (LR) observation, high-resolution (HR) data, and degradation kernels for the data and kernel priors, and solves the blind SR problem by unfolding MAP approach along with the reverse process.

Image Restoration Image Super-Resolution

Learning Hierarchical Color Guidance for Depth Map Super-Resolution

no code implementations12 Mar 2024 Runmin Cong, Ronghui Sheng, Hao Wu, Yulan Guo, Yunchao Wei, WangMeng Zuo, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

On the one hand, the low-level detail embedding module is designed to supplement high-frequency color information of depth features in a residual mask manner at the low-level stages.

Depth Map Super-Resolution

Query-guided Prototype Evolution Network for Few-Shot Segmentation

no code implementations11 Mar 2024 Runmin Cong, Hang Xiong, Jinpeng Chen, Wei zhang, Qingming Huang, Yao Zhao

To address this, we present the Query-guided Prototype Evolution Network (QPENet), a new method that integrates query features into the generation process of foreground and background prototypes, thereby yielding customized prototypes attuned to specific queries.

Segmentation

Frequency Perception Network for Camouflaged Object Detection

2 code implementations17 Aug 2023 Runmin Cong, Mengyao Sun, Sanyi Zhang, Xiaofei Zhou, Wei zhang, Yao Zhao

Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to accurately detect objects hidden in the surrounding environment.

Object object-detection +1

Point-aware Interaction and CNN-induced Refinement Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection

2 code implementations17 Aug 2023 Runmin Cong, Hongyu Liu, Chen Zhang, Wei zhang, Feng Zheng, Ran Song, Sam Kwong

By integrating complementary information from RGB image and depth map, the ability of salient object detection (SOD) for complex and challenging scenes can be improved.

object-detection RGB-D Salient Object Detection +1

SDDNet: Style-guided Dual-layer Disentanglement Network for Shadow Detection

1 code implementation17 Aug 2023 Runmin Cong, Yuchen Guan, Jinpeng Chen, Wei zhang, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

Despite significant progress in shadow detection, current methods still struggle with the adverse impact of background color, which may lead to errors when shadows are present on complex backgrounds.

Disentanglement Shadow Detection

You Can Mask More For Extremely Low-Bitrate Image Compression

1 code implementation27 Jun 2023 Anqi Li, Feng Li, Jiaxin Han, Huihui Bai, Runmin Cong, Chunjie Zhang, Meng Wang, Weisi Lin, Yao Zhao

Extensive experiments have demonstrated that our approach outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods in R-D performance, visual quality, and downstream applications, at very low bitrates.

Image Compression

PUGAN: Physical Model-Guided Underwater Image Enhancement Using GAN with Dual-Discriminators

1 code implementation15 Jun 2023 Runmin Cong, Wenyu Yang, Wei zhang, Chongyi Li, Chun-Le Guo, Qingming Huang, Sam Kwong

Among existing UIE methods, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) based methods perform well in visual aesthetics, while the physical model-based methods have better scene adaptability.

Quantization UIE

Exploring Resolution Fields for Scalable Image Compression with Uncertainty Guidance

1 code implementation15 Jun 2023 Dongyi Zhang, Feng Li, Man Liu, Runmin Cong, Huihui Bai, Meng Wang, Yao Zhao

In this work, we explore the potential of resolution fields in scalable image compression and propose the reciprocal pyramid network (RPN) that fulfills the need for more adaptable and versatile compression.

Image Compression

Dense-Localizing Audio-Visual Events in Untrimmed Videos: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Baseline

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Tiantian Geng, Teng Wang, Jinming Duan, Runmin Cong, Feng Zheng

To better adapt to real-life applications, in this paper we focus on the task of dense-localizing audio-visual events, which aims to jointly localize and recognize all audio-visual events occurring in an untrimmed video.

audio-visual event localization

WaterMask: Instance Segmentation for Underwater Imagery

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Shijie Lian, Hua Li, Runmin Cong, Suqi Li, Wei zhang, Sam Kwong

Underwater image instance segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in underwater image analysis and understanding.

2D Object Detection Graph Attention +3

Bridging Component Learning with Degradation Modelling for Blind Image Super-Resolution

1 code implementation3 Dec 2022 Yixuan Wu, Feng Li, Huihui Bai, Weisi Lin, Runmin Cong, Yao Zhao

In this paper, we analyze the degradation of a high-resolution (HR) image from image intrinsic components according to a degradation-based formulation model.

Image Super-Resolution

Feedback Chain Network For Hippocampus Segmentation

no code implementations15 Nov 2022 Heyu Huang, Runmin Cong, Lianhe Yang, Ling Du, Cong Wang, Sam Kwong

The feedback chain structure unit learns deeper and wider feature representation of each encoder layer through the hierarchical feature aggregation feedback chains, and achieves feature selection and feedback through the feature handover attention module.

feature selection Hippocampus +4

PSNet: Parallel Symmetric Network for Video Salient Object Detection

no code implementations12 Oct 2022 Runmin Cong, Weiyu Song, Jianjun Lei, Guanghui Yue, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

Finally, we use the Importance Perception Fusion (IPF) module to fuse the features from two parallel branches according to their different importance in different scenarios.

Object object-detection +4

Does Thermal Really Always Matter for RGB-T Salient Object Detection?

2 code implementations9 Oct 2022 Runmin Cong, Kepu Zhang, Chen Zhang, Feng Zheng, Yao Zhao, Qingming Huang, Sam Kwong

In addition, considering the role of thermal modality, we set up different cross-modality interaction mechanisms in the encoding phase and the decoding phase.

object-detection Object Detection +2

CIR-Net: Cross-modality Interaction and Refinement for RGB-D Salient Object Detection

3 code implementations6 Oct 2022 Runmin Cong, Qinwei Lin, Chen Zhang, Chongyi Li, Xiaochun Cao, Qingming Huang, Yao Zhao

Focusing on the issue of how to effectively capture and utilize cross-modality information in RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) task, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) model, named CIR-Net, based on the novel cross-modality interaction and refinement.

object-detection RGB-D Salient Object Detection +1

Boundary Guided Semantic Learning for Real-time COVID-19 Lung Infection Segmentation System

1 code implementation7 Sep 2022 Runmin Cong, Yumo Zhang, Ning Yang, Haisheng Li, Xueqi Zhang, Ruochen Li, Zewen Chen, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to have a negative impact on healthcare systems around the world, though the vaccines have been developed and national vaccination coverage rate is steadily increasing.

A Weakly Supervised Learning Framework for Salient Object Detection via Hybrid Labels

3 code implementations7 Sep 2022 Runmin Cong, Qi Qin, Chen Zhang, Qiuping Jiang, Shiqi Wang, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

In this paper, we focus on a new weakly-supervised SOD task under hybrid labels, where the supervision labels include a large number of coarse labels generated by the traditional unsupervised method and a small number of real labels.

object-detection RGB Salient Object Detection +3

Stereo Superpixel Segmentation Via Decoupled Dynamic Spatial-Embedding Fusion Network

no code implementations17 Aug 2022 Hua Li, Junyan Liang, Ruiqi Wu, Runmin Cong, Junhui Wu, Sam Tak Wu Kwong

To decouple stereo disparity information and spatial information, the spatial information is temporarily removed before fusing the features of stereo image pairs, and a decoupled stereo fusion module (DSFM) is proposed to handle the stereo features alignment as well as occlusion problems.

object-detection Object Detection +2

BCS-Net: Boundary, Context and Semantic for Automatic COVID-19 Lung Infection Segmentation from CT Images

3 code implementations17 Jul 2022 Runmin Cong, Haowei Yang, Qiuping Jiang, Wei Gao, Haisheng Li, Cong Wang, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

The spread of COVID-19 has brought a huge disaster to the world, and the automatic segmentation of infection regions can help doctors to make diagnosis quickly and reduce workload.

Segmentation

Global-and-Local Collaborative Learning for Co-Salient Object Detection

2 code implementations19 Apr 2022 Runmin Cong, Ning Yang, Chongyi Li, Huazhu Fu, Yao Zhao, Qingming Huang, Sam Kwong

In this paper, we propose a global-and-local collaborative learning architecture, which includes a global correspondence modeling (GCM) and a local correspondence modeling (LCM) to capture comprehensive inter-image corresponding relationship among different images from the global and local perspectives.

8k Co-Salient Object Detection +2

Image Dehazing Transformer With Transmission-Aware 3D Position Embedding

2 code implementations CVPR 2022 Chun-Le Guo, Qixin Yan, Saeed Anwar, Runmin Cong, Wenqi Ren, Chongyi Li

Though Transformer has occupied various computer vision tasks, directly leveraging Transformer for image dehazing is challenging: 1) it tends to result in ambiguous and coarse details that are undesired for image reconstruction; 2) previous position embedding of Transformer is provided in logic or spatial position order that neglects the variational haze densities, which results in the sub-optimal dehazing performance.

Image Dehazing Image Reconstruction +2

RRNet: Relational Reasoning Network with Parallel Multi-scale Attention for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

2 code implementations27 Oct 2021 Runmin Cong, Yumo Zhang, Leyuan Fang, Jun Li, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

Salient object detection (SOD) for optical remote sensing images (RSIs) aims at locating and extracting visually distinctive objects/regions from the optical RSIs.

object-detection Object Detection +2

Cross-modality Discrepant Interaction Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection

1 code implementation4 Aug 2021 Chen Zhang, Runmin Cong, Qinwei Lin, Lin Ma, Feng Li, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

For the cross-modality interaction in feature encoder, existing methods either indiscriminately treat RGB and depth modalities, or only habitually utilize depth cues as auxiliary information of the RGB branch.

object-detection RGB-D Salient Object Detection +1

BridgeNet: A Joint Learning Network of Depth Map Super-Resolution and Monocular Depth Estimation

no code implementations27 Jul 2021 Qi Tang, Runmin Cong, Ronghui Sheng, Lingzhi He, Dan Zhang, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

The other is the content guidance bridge (CGBdg) designed for the depth map reconstruction process, which provides the content guidance learned from DSR task for MDE task.

Depth Map Super-Resolution Monocular Depth Estimation +1

Underwater Image Enhancement via Medium Transmission-Guided Multi-Color Space Embedding

5 code implementations27 Apr 2021 Chongyi Li, Saeed Anwar, Junhui Hou, Runmin Cong, Chunle Guo, Wenqi Ren

As a result, our network can effectively improve the visual quality of underwater images by exploiting multiple color spaces embedding and the advantages of both physical model-based and learning-based methods.

Ranked #2 on Underwater Image Restoration on LSUI (using extra training data)

Image Enhancement Underwater Image Restoration

Superpixel Segmentation Based on Spatially Constrained Subspace Clustering

no code implementations11 Dec 2020 Hua Li, Yuheng Jia, Runmin Cong, Wenhui Wu, Sam Kwong, Chuanbo Chen

Consequently, we devise a spatial regularization and propose a novel convex locality-constrained subspace clustering model that is able to constrain the spatial adjacent pixels with similar attributes to be clustered into a superpixel and generate the content-aware superpixels with more detailed boundaries.

Clustering Segmentation +1

Dense Attention Fluid Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

3 code implementations26 Nov 2020 Qijian Zhang, Runmin Cong, Chongyi Li, Ming-Ming Cheng, Yuming Fang, Xiaochun Cao, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

Despite the remarkable advances in visual saliency analysis for natural scene images (NSIs), salient object detection (SOD) for optical remote sensing images (RSIs) still remains an open and challenging problem.

object-detection Object Detection +1

CoADNet: Collaborative Aggregation-and-Distribution Networks for Co-Salient Object Detection

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2020 Qijian Zhang, Runmin Cong, Junhui Hou, Chongyi Li, Yao Zhao

In the first stage, we propose a group-attentional semantic aggregation module that models inter-image relationships to generate the group-wise semantic representations.

Co-Salient Object Detection object-detection +1

Learning Deep Interleaved Networks with Asymmetric Co-Attention for Image Restoration

1 code implementation29 Oct 2020 Feng Li, Runmin Cong, Huihui Bai, Yifan He, Yao Zhao, Ce Zhu

In this paper, we present a deep interleaved network (DIN) that learns how information at different states should be combined for high-quality (HQ) images reconstruction.

Deblurring Image Deblurring +2

A Parallel Down-Up Fusion Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

no code implementations2 Oct 2020 Chongyi Li, Runmin Cong, Chunle Guo, Hua Li, Chunjie Zhang, Feng Zheng, Yao Zhao

In this paper, we propose a novel Parallel Down-up Fusion network (PDF-Net) for SOD in optical RSIs, which takes full advantage of the in-path low- and high-level features and cross-path multi-resolution features to distinguish diversely scaled salient objects and suppress the cluttered backgrounds.

object-detection Object Detection +1

NuI-Go: Recursive Non-Local Encoder-Decoder Network for Retinal Image Non-Uniform Illumination Removal

no code implementations7 Aug 2020 Chongyi Li, Huazhu Fu, Runmin Cong, Zechao Li, Qianqian Xu

We further demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method for improving the accuracy of retinal vessel segmentation.

Retinal Vessel Segmentation

DPANet: Depth Potentiality-Aware Gated Attention Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection

1 code implementation19 Mar 2020 Zuyao Chen, Runmin Cong, Qianqian Xu, Qingming Huang

There are two main issues in RGB-D salient object detection: (1) how to effectively integrate the complementarity from the cross-modal RGB-D data; (2) how to prevent the contamination effect from the unreliable depth map.

object-detection RGB-D Salient Object Detection +3

Global Context-Aware Progressive Aggregation Network for Salient Object Detection

2 code implementations2 Mar 2020 Zuyao Chen, Qianqian Xu, Runmin Cong, Qingming Huang

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved competitive performance in salient object detection, in which how to learn effective and comprehensive features plays a critical role.

Dichotomous Image Segmentation object-detection +1

Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation for Low-Light Image Enhancement

9 code implementations CVPR 2020 Chunle Guo, Chongyi Li, Jichang Guo, Chen Change Loy, Junhui Hou, Sam Kwong, Runmin Cong

The paper presents a novel method, Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE), which formulates light enhancement as a task of image-specific curve estimation with a deep network.

Color Constancy Face Detection +1

Nested Network with Two-Stream Pyramid for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

no code implementations20 Jun 2019 Chongyi Li, Runmin Cong, Junhui Hou, Sanyi Zhang, Yue Qian, Sam Kwong

Arising from the various object types and scales, diverse imaging orientations, and cluttered backgrounds in optical remote sensing image (RSI), it is difficult to directly extend the success of salient object detection for nature scene image to the optical RSI.

Object object-detection +2

An Underwater Image Enhancement Benchmark Dataset and Beyond

1 code implementation11 Jan 2019 Chongyi Li, Chunle Guo, Wenqi Ren, Runmin Cong, Junhui Hou, Sam Kwong, DaCheng Tao

In this paper, we construct an Underwater Image Enhancement Benchmark (UIEB) including 950 real-world underwater images, 890 of which have the corresponding reference images.

Ranked #5 on Underwater Image Restoration on LSUI (using extra training data)

Image Enhancement Underwater Image Restoration

HSCS: Hierarchical Sparsity Based Co-saliency Detection for RGBD Images

no code implementations16 Nov 2018 Runmin Cong, Jianjun Lei, Huazhu Fu, Qingming Huang, Xiaochun Cao, Nam Ling

In this paper, we propose a novel co-saliency detection method for RGBD images based on hierarchical sparsity reconstruction and energy function refinement.

Co-Salient Object Detection

Review of Visual Saliency Detection with Comprehensive Information

no code implementations9 Mar 2018 Runmin Cong, Jianjun Lei, Huazhu Fu, Ming-Ming Cheng, Weisi Lin, Qingming Huang

With the acquisition technology development, more comprehensive information, such as depth cue, inter-image correspondence, or temporal relationship, is available to extend image saliency detection to RGBD saliency detection, co-saliency detection, or video saliency detection.

Co-Salient Object Detection Video Saliency Detection

An Iterative Co-Saliency Framework for RGBD Images

no code implementations4 Nov 2017 Runmin Cong, Jianjun Lei, Huazhu Fu, Weisi Lin, Qingming Huang, Xiaochun Cao, Chunping Hou

In this paper, we propose an iterative RGBD co-saliency framework, which utilizes the existing single saliency maps as the initialization, and generates the final RGBD cosaliency map by using a refinement-cycle model.

Co-Salient Object Detection

Co-saliency Detection for RGBD Images Based on Multi-constraint Feature Matching and Cross Label Propagation

no code implementations14 Oct 2017 Runmin Cong, Jianjun Lei, Huazhu Fu, Qingming Huang, Xiaochun Cao, Chunping Hou

Different from the most existing co-saliency methods focusing on RGB images, this paper proposes a novel co-saliency detection model for RGBD images, which utilizes the depth information to enhance identification of co-saliency.

Co-Salient Object Detection

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