Image quality assessment (IQA) aims to assess the perceptual quality of images. The outputs of the IQA algorithms are expected to be consistent with human subjective perception. In image restoration and enhancement tasks, images generated by generative adversarial networks (GAN) can achieve better visual performance than traditional CNN-generated images, although they have spatial shift and texture noise. Unfortunately, the existing IQA methods have unsatisfactory performance on the GAN-based distortion partially because of their low tolerance to spatial misalignment. To this end, we propose the reference-oriented deformable convolution, which can improve the performance of an IQA network on GAN-based distortion by adaptively considering this misalignment. We further propose a patch-level attention module to enhance the interaction among different patch regions, which are processed independently in previous patch-based methods. The modified residual block is also proposed by applying modifications to the classic residual block to construct a patch-region-based baseline called WResNet. Equipping this baseline with the two proposed modules, we further propose Region-Adaptive Deformable Network (RADN). The experiment results on the NTIRE 2021 Perceptual Image Quality Assessment Challenge dataset show the superior performance of RADN, and the ensemble approach won fourth place in the final testing phase of the challenge. Code is available at https://github.com/IIGROUP/RADN.
University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学）；Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）
Deep learning-based image registration approaches have shown competitive performance and run-time advantages compared to conventional image registration methods. However, existing learning-based approaches mostly require to train separate models with respect to different regularization hyperparameters for manual hyperparameter searching and often do not allow spatially-variant regularization. In this work, we propose a learning-based registration approach based on a novel conditional spatially adaptive instance normalization (CSAIN) to address these challenges. The proposed method introduces a…
Deformable Image Registration of Dark-Field Chest Radiographs for Local Lung Signal Change Assessment
Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；Munich Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学慕尼黑生物医学工程研究所）；Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学右岸医院）；TUM University Hospital（慕尼黑工业大学大学医院）；Philips Innovative Technologies（飞利浦创新技术公司）；Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学高等研究院）
City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies（华为技术有限公司诺亚方舟实验室）
The latest advances in full-reference image quality assessment (IQA) involve unifying structure and texture similarity based on deep representations. The resulting Deep Image Structure and Texture Similarity (DISTS) metric, however, makes rather global quality measurements, ignoring the fact that natural photographic images are locally structured and textured across space and scale. In this paper, we describe a locally adaptive structure and texture similarity index for full-reference IQA, which we term A-DISTS. Specifically, we rely on a single statistical feature, namely the dispersion index…
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center（德克萨斯大学西南医学中心）
Cone-beam CT (CBCT)-based online adaptive radiotherapy calls for accurate auto-segmentation to reduce the time cost for physicians to edit contours. However, deep learning (DL)-based direct segmentation of CBCT images is a challenging task, mainly due to the poor image quality and lack of well-labelled large training datasets. Deformable image registration (DIR) is often used to propagate the manual contours on the planning CT (pCT) of the same patient to CBCT. In this work, we undertake solving the problems mentioned above with the assistance of DIR. Our method consists of three main componen…
Center for Research on Intelligent Perception and Computing (CRIPAC), National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)（中国科学院自动化研究所模式识别国家重点实验室智能感知与计算研究中心）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)（中国科学院大学）
Most Video Super-Resolution (VSR) methods enhance a video reference frame by aligning its neighboring frames and mining information on these frames. Recently, deformable alignment has drawn extensive attention in VSR community for its remarkable performance, which can adaptively align neighboring frames with the reference one. However, we experimentally find that deformable alignment methods still suffer from fast motion due to locally loss-driven offset prediction and lack explicit motion constraints. Hence, we propose a Matching-based Flow Estimation (MFE) module to conduct global semantic f…
Multi-level distortion-aware deformable network for omnidirectional image super-resolution
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering（电子与电气工程系）；School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering（计算机科学与网络工程学院）；School of Computer Science（计算机科学学院）
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学未来技术学院）；Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology（脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心）
Recently, flow-based methods have achieved promising success in video frame interpolation. However, electron microscopic (EM) images suffer from unstable image quality, low PSNR, and disorderly deformation. Existing flow-based interpolation methods cannot precisely compute optical flow for EM images since only predicting each position's unique offset. To overcome these problems, we propose a novel interpolation framework for EM images that progressively synthesizes interpolated features in a coarse-to-fine manner. First, we extract missing intermediate features by the proposed temporal spatial…
DARE: A Deformable Adaptive Regularization Estimator for Learning-Based Medical Image Registration
Department of Mathematics, University of Innsbruck（数学系，因斯布鲁克大学）；Department of Radiology, Medical University of Innsbruck（放射学系，因斯布鲁克医学院）；Neuroimaging Research Core Facility, Medical University of Innsbruck（神经影像研究核心设施，因斯布鲁克医学院）
Xidian University（西安电子科技大学）；Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona（巴塞罗那自治大学）；Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）
In this paper, we propose a deformable convolution-based generative adversarial network (DCNGAN) for perceptual quality enhancement of compressed videos. DCNGAN is also adaptive to the quantization parameters (QPs). Compared with optical flows, deformable convolutions are more effective and efficient to align frames. Deformable convolutions can operate on multiple frames, thus leveraging more temporal information, which is beneficial for enhancing the perceptual quality of compressed videos. Instead of aligning frames in a pairwise manner, the deformable convolution can process multiple frames…
SPDCN: Strip-based Deformable Convolutional Network for Steel Surface Defect Segmentation
School of Artificial Intelligence, Jiangxi Normal University（江西师范大学人工智能学院）；Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Affective Computing（江西省智能信息处理与情感计算重点实验室）
University of California, Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Peking University（北京大学）
Deploying deep learning models on embedded systems has been challenging due to limited computing resources. The majority of existing work focuses on accelerating image classification, while other fundamental vision problems, such as object detection, have not been adequately addressed. Compared with image classification, detection problems are more sensitive to the spatial variance of objects, and therefore, require specialized convolutions to aggregate spatial information. To address this need, recent work introduces dynamic deformable convolution to augment regular convolutions. However, thi…
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made great progress for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images change detection. However, sampling locations of traditional convolutional kernels are fixed and cannot be changed according to the actual structure of the SAR images. Besides, objects may appear with different sizes in natural scenes, which requires the network to have stronger multi-scale representation ability. In this paper, a novel \underline{D}eformable \underline{R}esidual Convolutional Neural \underline{N}etwork (DRNet) is designed for SAR images change detection. First, the proposed …
Uncertainty-Gated Deformable Network for Breast Tumor Segmentation in MR Images
College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学计算机科学与技术学院）；School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Science（合肥科学技术大学计算机科学与信息工程学院）；Department of Radiology, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University（西南医院放射科，中国人民解放军陆军军医大学）；School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University（天津大学电气与信息工程学院）
The novel 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection has spread world widely and is currently a major healthcare challenge around the world. Chest Computed Tomography (CT) and X-ray images have been well recognized to be two effective techniques for clinical COVID-19 disease diagnoses. Due to faster imaging time and considerably lower cost than CT, detecting COVID-19 in chest X-ray (CXR) images is preferred for efficient diagnosis, assessment and treatment. However, considering the similarity between COVID-19 and pneumonia, CXR samples with deep features distributed near category boundaries are eas…
Megvii Technology（旷视科技）；Sichuan University（四川大学）；University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）
In this paper, we present an attention-guided deformable convolutional network for hand-held multi-frame high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, namely ADNet. This problem comprises two intractable challenges of how to handle saturation and noise properly and how to tackle misalignments caused by object motion or camera jittering. To address the former, we adopt a spatial attention module to adaptively select the most appropriate regions of various exposure low dynamic range (LDR) images for fusion. For the latter one, we propose to align the gamma-corrected images in the feature-level with a Pyrami…
In recent years, significant progress has been made on the research of crowd counting. However, as the challenging scale variations and complex scenes existed in crowds, neither traditional convolution networks nor recent Transformer architectures with fixed-size attention could handle the task well. To address this problem, this paper proposes a scene-adaptive attention network, termed SAANet. First of all, we design a deformable attention in-built Transformer backbone, which learns adaptive feature representations with deformable sampling locations and dynamic attention weights. Then we prop…
Depth completion has attracted extensive attention recently due to the development of autonomous driving, which aims to recover dense depth map from sparse depth measurements. Convolutional spatial propagation network (CSPN) is one of the state-of-the-art methods in this task, which adopt a linear propagation model to refine coarse depth maps with local context. However, the propagation of each pixel occurs in a fixed receptive field. This may not be the optimal for refinement since different pixel needs different local context. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we propose a deformable spat…
SAGS: Self-Adaptive Alias-Free Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Surgical Endoscopic Reconstruction
University of Technology Sydney, Australia（悉尼技术大学）；Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China（深圳先进技术研究所）；Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China（沈阳自动化研究所）
University at Buffalo（布法罗大学）；Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；Kwai Inc.（快手公司）
In recent years, deep learning has dominated progress in the field of medical image analysis. We find however, that the ability of current deep learning approaches to represent the complex geometric structures of many medical images is insufficient. One limitation is that deep learning models require a tremendous amount of data, and it is very difficult to obtain a sufficient amount with the necessary detail. A second limitation is that there are underlying features of these medical images that are well established, but the black-box nature of existing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) do n…
Siamese-based trackers have achieved excellent performance on visual object tracking. However, the target template is not updated online, and the features of the target template and search image are computed independently in a Siamese architecture. In this paper, we propose Deformable Siamese Attention Networks, referred to as SiamAttn, by introducing a new Siamese attention mechanism that computes deformable self-attention and cross-attention. The self attention learns strong context information via spatial attention, and selectively emphasizes interdependent channel-wise features with channe…
Shape deformation of targets in SAR image due to random orientation and partial information loss caused by occlusion of the radar signal, is an essential challenge in SAR ship detection. In this paper, we propose a data augmentation method to train a deep network that is robust to partial information loss within the targets. Taking advantage of ground-truth annotations for bounding box and instance segmentation mask, we present a simple and effective pipeline to simulate information loss on targets in instance-level, while preserving contextual information. Furthermore, we adopt deformable con…
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）；AnyVision；Peking University（北京大学）
Transformer has achieved great success in computer vision, while how to split patches in an image remains a problem. Existing methods usually use a fixed-size patch embedding which might destroy the semantics of objects. To address this problem, we propose a new Deformable Patch (DePatch) module which learns to adaptively split the images into patches with different positions and scales in a data-driven way rather than using predefined fixed patches. In this way, our method can well preserve the semantics in patches. The DePatch module can work as a plug-and-play module, which can easily be in…
University of Waterloo（滑铁卢大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Ningbo University（宁波大学）
Quality of experience (QoE) assessment for adaptive video streaming plays a significant role in advanced network management systems. It is especially challenging in case of dynamic adaptive streaming schemes over HTTP (DASH) which has increasingly complex characteristics including additional playback issues. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of adaptive video streaming quality assessment. Upon our review of related works, we analyze and compare different variations of objective QoE assessment models with or without using machine learning techniques for adaptive video streaming. Throug…
University of Bern（伯尔尼大学）；Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt（克拉根福阿尔卑斯-亚德里亚大学）
Semantic segmentation in cataract surgery has a wide range of applications contributing to surgical outcome enhancement and clinical risk reduction. However, the varying issues in segmenting the different relevant structures in these surgeries make the designation of a unique network quite challenging. This paper proposes a semantic segmentation network, termed DeepPyramid, that can deal with these challenges using three novelties: (1) a Pyramid View Fusion module which provides a varying-angle global view of the surrounding region centering at each pixel position in the input convolutional fe…
Joint image filters are used to transfer structural details from a guidance picture used as a prior to a target image, in tasks such as enhancing spatial resolution and suppressing noise. Previous methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) combine nonlinear activations of spatially-invariant kernels to estimate structural details and regress the filtering result. In this paper, we instead learn explicitly sparse and spatially-variant kernels. We propose a CNN architecture and its efficient implementation, called the deformable kernel network (DKN), that outputs sets of neighbors and…
Deformable kernel networks for guided depth map upsampling
Yonsei University（延世大学）；Inria / PSL Research University（法国国家信息与自动化研究所/巴黎文理研究大学）
我们解决了使用同一场景的注册高分辨率（HR）彩色图像对低分辨率（LR）深度图进行上采样的问题。基于卷积神经网络（CNN）的先前方法组合空间不变核的非线性激活以从LR深度和HR彩色图像估计结构细节，并且直接从网络回归上采样结果。在本文中，我们重新审视了加权平均过程，该过程已被广泛用于将结构细节从手工制作的视觉特征转移到LR深度图。相反，我们学习显式稀疏和空间变化的内核来完成这项任务。为此，我们提出了一个CNN架构及其有效的实现，称为可变形核网络（DKN），输出稀疏集的邻居和相应的权重自适应每个像素。我们还提出了一个快速版本的DKN（FDKN），运行速度约为17倍（640 x 480的HR图像为0.01秒）。标准基准测试的实验结果证明了我们的方法的有效性。特别是，我们表明，加权平均过程与3 × 3内核（即，聚集稀疏选择的9个样本）的性能明显优于现有技术。
College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University（信息科学与工程学院，东北大学）；State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University（过程工业综合自动化国家重点实验室，东北大学）
Semantic segmentation in cataract surgery has a wide range of applications contributing to surgical outcome enhancement and clinical risk reduction. However, the varying issues in segmenting the different relevant instances make the designation of a unique network quite challenging. This paper proposes a semantic segmentation network termed as DeepPyram that can achieve superior performance in segmenting relevant objects in cataract surgery videos with varying issues. This superiority mainly originates from three modules: (i) Pyramid View Fusion, which provides a varying-angle global view of t…
Video interpolation aims to generate a non-existent intermediate frame given the past and future frames. Many state-of-the-art methods achieve promising results by estimating the optical flow between the known frames and then generating the backward flows between the middle frame and the known frames. However, these methods usually suffer from the inaccuracy of estimated optical flows and require additional models or information to compensate for flow estimation errors. Following the recent development in using deformable convolution (DConv) for video interpolation, we propose a light but effe…
