Towards Real-Time Advancement of Underwater Visual Quality with GAN
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Beijing Innovation Center for Engineering Science and Advanced Technology, Peking University（北京大学工程科学与先进技术北京创新中心）；Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）
Xingyu Chen, Junzhi Yu, Shihan Kong, Zhengxing Wu, Xi Fang, Li Wen
Low visual quality has prevented underwater robotic vision from a wide range of applications. Although several algorithms have been developed, real-time and adaptive methods are deficient for real-world tasks. In this paper, we address this difficulty based on generative adversarial networks (GAN), and propose a GAN-based restoration scheme (GAN-RS). In particular, we develop a multi-branch discriminator including an adversarial branch and a critic branch for the purpose of simultaneously preserving image content and removing underwater noise. In addition to adversarial learning, a novel dark channel prior loss also promotes the generator to produce realistic vision. More specifically, an underwater index is investigated to describe underwater properties, and a loss function based on the underwater index is designed to train the critic branch for underwater noise suppression. Through extensive comparisons on visual quality and feature restoration, we confirm the superiority of the proposed approach. Consequently, the GAN-RS can adaptively improve underwater visual quality in real time and induce an overall superior restoration performance. Finally, a real-world experiment is conducted on the seabed for grasping marine products, and the results are quite promising. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/SeanChenxy/GAN_RS.
Huazhong Institute of Electro-Optics（华中光电技术研究所）；Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics（武汉光电国家实验室）；Harbin Engineering University（哈尔滨工程大学）
In real-world underwater environment, exploration of seabed resources, underwater archaeology, and underwater fishing rely on a variety of sensors, vision sensor is the most important one due to its high information content, non-intrusive, and passive nature. However, wavelength-dependent light attenuation and back-scattering result in color distortion and haze effect, which degrade the visibility of images. To address this problem, firstly, we proposed an unsupervised generative adversarial network (GAN) for generating realistic underwater images (color distortion and haze effect) from in-air…
MuLA-GAN: Multi-Level Attention GAN for Enhanced Underwater Visibility
Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS), Khalifa University（哈利法大学自主机器人系统中心（KUCARS），哈利法大学）；School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学宇航学院）
Underwater Vehicles have become more sophisticated, driven by the off-shore sector and the scientific community's rapid advancements in underwater operations. Notably, many underwater tasks, including the assessment of subsea infrastructure, are performed with the assistance of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). There have been recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, notably, Deep Learning (DL) models and applications, which have widespread usage in a variety of fields, including aerial unmanned vehicles, autonomous car navigation, and other applications. However, they ar…
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) rely on a variety of sensors - acoustic, inertial and visual - for intelligent decision making. Due to its non-intrusive, passive nature, and high information content, vision is an attractive sensing modality, particularly at shallower depths. However, factors such as light refraction and absorption, suspended particles in the water, and color distortion affect the quality of visual data, resulting in noisy and distorted images. AUVs that rely on visual sensing thus face difficult challenges, and consequently exhibit poor performance on vision-driven tasks…
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD)（弗劳恩霍夫计算机图形研究所）；University of Rostock（罗斯托克大学）
Visual inspection of underwater structures by vehicles, e.g. remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), plays an important role in scientific, military, and commercial sectors. However, the automatic extraction of information using software tools is hindered by the characteristics of water which degrade the quality of captured videos. As a contribution for restoring the color of underwater images, Underwater Denoising Autoencoder (UDAE) model is developed using a denoising autoencoder with U-Net architecture. The proposed network takes into consideration the accuracy and the computation cost to enable…
Knowledge Distillation for Underwater Feature Extraction and Matching via GAN-synthesized Images
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne（电气与电子工程系，墨尔本大学）；School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne（数学与统计学系，墨尔本大学）
TUV SUD Singapore（新加坡TUV南德意志集团）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
Autonomous vehicles (AV) have progressed rapidly with the advancements in computer vision algorithms. The deep convolutional neural network as the main contributor to this advancement has boosted the classification accuracy dramatically. However, the discovery of adversarial examples reveals the generalization gap between dataset and the real world. Furthermore, affine transformations may also confuse computer vision based object detectors. The degradation of the perception system is undesirable for safety critical systems such as autonomous vehicles. In this paper, a deep learning system is p…
National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；Wuhan University（武汉大学）；Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）
Color correction for underwater images has received increasing interests, due to its critical role in facilitating available mature vision algorithms for underwater scenarios. Inspired by the stunning success of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) techniques in many vision tasks, especially the strength in extracting features in multiple scales, we propose a deep multi-scale feature fusion net based on the conditional generative adversarial network (GAN) for underwater image color correction. In our network, multi-scale features are extracted first, followed by augmenting local features…
Recent advancements in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) enable the generation of highly realistic images, raising concerns about their misuse for malicious purposes. Detecting these GAN-generated images (GAN-images) becomes increasingly challenging due to the significant reduction of underlying artifacts and specific patterns. The absence of such traces can hinder detection algorithms from identifying GAN-images and transferring knowledge to identify other types of GAN-images as well. In this work, we present the Transferable GAN-images Detection framework T-GD, a robust transferable fra…
Pohang University of Science and Technology（浦项科技大学）；Department of Computer Science and Engineering（计算机科学与工程系）；Engineering Pohang University of Science（浦项科技大学工程学院（注：原文本可能存在排版问题，更准确的应为浦项科技大学计算机科学与工程系））
Deep neural advancements have recently brought remarkable image synthesis performance to the field of image inpainting. The adaptation of generative adversarial networks (GAN) in particular has accelerated significant progress in high-quality image reconstruction. However, although many notable GAN-based networks have been proposed for image inpainting, still pixel artifacts or color inconsistency occur in synthesized images during the generation process, which are usually called fake textures. To reduce pixel inconsistency disorder resulted from fake textures, we introduce a GAN-based model u…
Image Inversion: A Survey from GANs to Diffusion and Beyond
College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University（浙江大学控制科学与工程学院）；YouTu Lab, Tencent（腾讯优图实验室）；College of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University（西南大学计算机与信息科学学院）；Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学计算机科学与工程系）；School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University（南京大学智能科学与技术学院）
DUT-RU International School of Information Science & Engineering, Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学DUT-RU国际信息科学与工程学院）；The Wuhan University（武汉大学）
To boost the object grabbing capability of underwater robots for open-sea farming, we propose a new dataset (UDD) consisting of three categories (seacucumber, seaurchin, and scallop) with 2,227 images. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first 4K HD dataset collected in a real open-sea farm. We also propose a novel Poisson-blending Generative Adversarial Network (Poisson GAN) and an efficient object detection network (AquaNet) to address two common issues within related datasets: the class-imbalance problem and the problem of mass small object, respectively. Specifically, Poisson GAN combi…
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." - Pablo Picasso. For centuries, humans have dedicated themselves to producing arts to convey their imagination. The advancement in technology and deep learning in particular, has caught the attention of many researchers trying to investigate whether art generation is possible by computers and algorithms. Using generative adversarial networks (GANs), applications such as synthesizing photorealistic human faces and creating captions automatically from images were realized. This survey takes a comprehensive look at the recent works using GANs…
NAVER Clova；Samsung SDS（三星SDS）；University of Seoul（首尔大学）；Chung-Ang University（中央大学）
Although the recent advancement in generative models brings diverse advantages to society, it can also be abused with malicious purposes, such as fraud, defamation, and fake news. To prevent such cases, vigorous research is conducted to distinguish the generated images from the real images, but challenges still remain to distinguish the unseen generated images outside of the training settings. Such limitations occur due to data dependency arising from the model's overfitting issue to the training data generated by specific GANs. To overcome this issue, we adopt a self-supervised scheme to prop…
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）
The state-of-the-art StyleGAN2 network supports powerful methods to create and edit art, including generating random images, finding images "like" some query, and modifying content or style. Further, recent advancements enable training with small datasets. We apply these methods to synthesize card art, by training on a novel Yu-Gi-Oh dataset. While noise inputs to StyleGAN2 are essential for good synthesis, we find that coarse-scale noise interferes with latent variables on this dataset because both control long-scale image effects. We observe over-aggressive variation in art with changes in n…
Feng Chia University（逢甲大学）；NTUNHS（台湾新竹护理健康大学）；Xiamen University Malaysia（厦门大学马来西亚分校）；Xiamen University（厦门大学）
Owing to the development and advancement of artificial intelligence, numerous works were established in the human facial expression recognition system. Meanwhile, the detection and classification of micro-expressions are attracting attentions from various research communities in the recent few years. In this paper, we first review the processes of a conventional optical-flow-based recognition system, which comprised of facial landmarks annotations, optical flow guided images computation, features extraction and emotion class categorization. Secondly, a few approaches have been proposed to impr…
Despite remarkable success in image-to-image translation that celebrates the advancements of generative adversarial networks (GANs), very limited attempts are known for video domain translation. We study the task of video-to-video translation in the context of visual speech generation, where the goal is to transform an input video of any spoken word to an output video of a different word. This is a multi-domain translation, where each word forms a domain of videos uttering this word. Adaptation of the state-of-the-art image-to-image translation model (StarGAN) to this setting falls short with …
RoboSwap: A GAN-driven Video Diffusion Framework For Unsupervised Robot Arm Swapping
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)（慕尼黑路德维希-马克西米利安大学）；Huawei Heisenberg Research Center（华为海森堡研究中心）；Technische Universität München (TUM)（慕尼黑技术大学）；Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg（弗赖堡阿尔伯特-路易斯-大学）
PUGAN: Physical Model-Guided Underwater Image Enhancement Using GAN with Dual-Discriminators
Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学信息科学研究所）；School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University（山东大学控制科学与工程学院）；College of Computer Science, Nankai University（南开大学计算机学院）；School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学计算机科学与技术学院）；Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）
GAN-Based Architecture for Low-dose Computed Tomography Imaging Denoising
College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学生命科学技术学院）；New York University Shanghai（上海纽约大学）；School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学生命科学技术学院）
Duke University（杜克大学）；Duke University School of Medicine（杜克大学医学院）
Recent advancements in conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have shown promises in label guided image synthesis. Semantic masks, such as sketches and label maps, are another intuitive and effective form of guidance in image synthesis. Directly incorporating the semantic masks as constraints dramatically reduces the variability and quality of the synthesized results. We observe this is caused by the incompatibility of features from different inputs (such as mask image and latent vector) of the generator. To use semantic masks as guidance whilst providing realistic synthesized res…
Interpreting CNN Predictions using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham（阿米塔大学）；Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTECH)（加泰罗尼亚理工大学（巴塞罗那理工大学））；Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IRSJD)（圣胡安·德·德乌研究所）
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad（印度阿拉哈巴德信息技术学院）
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been very successful for synthesizing the images in a given dataset. The artificially generated images by GANs are very realistic. The GANs have shown potential usability in several computer vision applications, including image generation, image-to-image translation, video synthesis, and others. Conventionally, the generator network is the backbone of GANs, which generates the samples and the discriminator network is used to facilitate the training of the generator network. The discriminator network is usually a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Wh…
Indian Institute of Technology Madras（印度理工学院马德拉斯分校）；Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre（医疗技术创新中心）；Sri Rama Chandra Institute of Higher Education and Research（斯里·拉马·钱德拉高等教育与研究所）
MRI entails a great amount of cost, time and effort for the generation of all the modalities that are recommended for efficient diagnosis and treatment planning. Recent advancements in deep learning research show that generative models have achieved substantial improvement in the aspects of style transfer and image synthesis. In this work, we formulate generating the missing MR modality from existing MR modalities as an imputation problem using style transfer. With a multiple-to-one mapping, we model a network that accommodates domain specific styles in generating the target image. We analyse …
Ocean University of China（中国海洋大学）；Mississippi State University（密西西比州立大学）
In recent years, hyperspectral image (HSI) classification based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) has achieved great progress. GAN-based classification methods can mitigate the limited training sample dilemma to some extent. However, several studies have pointed out that existing GAN-based HSI classification methods are heavily affected by the imbalanced training data problem. The discriminator in GAN always contradicts itself and tries to associate fake labels to the minority-class samples, and thus impair the classification performance. Another critical issue is the mode collapse in G…
East China University of Science and Technology（华东理工大学）
Existing few-shot image generation approaches typically employ fusion-based strategies, either on the image or the feature level, to produce new images. However, previous approaches struggle to synthesize high-frequency signals with fine details, deteriorating the synthesis quality. To address this, we propose WaveGAN, a frequency-aware model for few-shot image generation. Concretely, we disentangle encoded features into multiple frequency components and perform low-frequency skip connections to preserve outline and structural information. Then we alleviate the generator's struggles of synthes…
The objective of person re-identification (re-ID) is to retrieve a person's images from an image gallery, given a single instance of the person of interest. Despite several advancements, learning discriminative identity-sensitive and viewpoint invariant features for robust Person Re-identification is a major challenge owing to the large pose variation of humans. This paper proposes a re-ID pipeline that utilizes the image generation capability of Generative Adversarial Networks combined with pose clustering and feature fusion to achieve pose invariant feature learning. The objective is to mode…
MGAN-CRCM: A Novel Multiple Generative Adversarial Network and Coarse-Refinement Based Cognizant Method for Image Inpainting
Bangladesh University of Professionals（孟加拉国专业大学）；Jahangirnagar University（贾汉吉尔纳加尔大学）；University of New South Wales (UNSW)（新南威尔士大学（UNSW））；Charles Sturt University（查尔斯特大学）
This paper reports on WaterGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) for generating realistic underwater images from in-air image and depth pairings in an unsupervised pipeline used for color correction of monocular underwater images. Cameras onboard autonomous and remotely operated vehicles can capture high resolution images to map the seafloor, however, underwater image formation is subject to the complex process of light propagation through the water column. The raw images retrieved are characteristically different than images taken in air due to effects such as absorption and scattering,…
Real-time estimation of actual environment depth is an essential module for various autonomous system tasks such as localization, obstacle detection and pose estimation. During the last decade of machine learning, extensive deployment of deep learning methods to computer vision tasks yielded successful approaches for realistic depth synthesis out of a simple RGB modality. While most of these models rest on paired depth data or availability of video sequences and stereo images, there is a lack of methods facing single-image depth synthesis in an unsupervised manner. Therefore, in this study, la…
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center（美国国立卫生研究院临床中心）；University of Florida（佛罗里达大学）；Ping An Insurance Company of China（中国平安保险公司）
Automated lesion segmentation from computed tomography (CT) is an important and challenging task in medical image analysis. While many advancements have been made, there is room for continued improvements. One hurdle is that CT images can exhibit high noise and low contrast, particularly in lower dosages. To address this, we focus on a preprocessing method for CT images that uses stacked generative adversarial networks (SGAN) approach. The first GAN reduces the noise in the CT image and the second GAN generates a higher resolution image with enhanced boundaries and high contrast. To make up fo…
Visibility underwater is challenging, and degrades as the distance between the subject and camera increases, making vision tasks in the forward-looking direction more difficult. We have collected underwater forward-looking stereo-vision and visual-inertial image sets in the Mediterranean and Red Sea. To our knowledge there are no other public datasets in the underwater environment acquired with this camera-sensor orientation published with ground-truth. These datasets are critical for the development of several underwater applications, including obstacle avoidance, visual odometry, 3D tracking…
In this paper, we present a conditional generative adversarial network-based model for real-time underwater image enhancement. To supervise the adversarial training, we formulate an objective function that evaluates the perceptual image quality based on its global content, color, local texture, and style information. We also present EUVP, a large-scale dataset of a paired and unpaired collection of underwater images (of `poor' and `good' quality) that are captured using seven different cameras over various visibility conditions during oceanic explorations and human-robot collaborative experime…
The advancement of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies makes it possible to learn stylistic design criteria from existing maps or other visual art and transfer these styles to make new digital maps. In this paper, we propose a novel framework using AI for map style transfer applicable across multiple map scales. Specifically, we identify and transfer the stylistic elements from a target group of visual examples, including Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, and artistic paintings, to unstylized GIS vector data through two generative adversarial network (GAN) models. We then train a binary cl…
