Artificial intelligence for the metaverse: A survey

T Huynh-The, QV Pham, XQ Pham, TT Nguyen… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Along with the massive growth of the Internet from the 1990s until now, various innovative
technologies have been created to bring users breathtaking experiences with more virtual …

Dear-gan: Degradation-aware face restoration with gan prior

Y Hu, Y Wang, J Zhang - … on Circuits and Systems for Video …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of generative adversarial networks (GANs), recent face restoration
(FR) methods often utilize pre-trained GAN models (ie,, StyleGAN2) as prior to generate rich …

Few-shot learning for image denoising

B Jiang, Y Lu, B Zhang, G Lu - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved impressive results on the task of image
denoising, but there are two serious problems. First, the denoising ability of DNNs-based …

Deep sparse representation based image restoration with denoising prior

W Xu, Q Zhu, N Qi, D Chen - … on Circuits and Systems for Video …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a powerful statistical signal modeling technique, sparse representation has been widely
used in various image restoration (IR) applications. The sparsity-based methods have …

RDEN: Residual distillation enhanced network-guided lightweight synthesized view quality enhancement for 3D-HEVC

Z Pan, F Yuan, W Yu, J Lei, N Ling… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the three-dimensional video system, the depth image-based rendering is a key technique
for generating synthesized views, which provides audiences with depth perception and …

Wide weighted attention multi-scale network for accurate MR image super-resolution

H Wang, X Hu, X Zhao, Y Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-quality magnetic resonance (MR) images afford more detailed information for reliable
diagnoses and quantitative image analyses. Given low-resolution (LR) images, the deep …

A lightweight block with information flow enhancement for convolutional neural networks

Z Bao, S Yang, Z Huang, MC Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated excellent capability in various
visual recognition tasks but impose an excessive computational burden. The latter problem …

Deep image inpainting with enhanced normalization and contextual attention

J Liu, M Gong, Z Tang, AK Qin, H Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning-based image inpainting has been widely studied, leading to great success.
However, many methods adopt convolution and normalization operations, which will bring …

SwapInpaint: Identity-specific face inpainting with identity swapping

H Li, W Wang, C Yu, S Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As face editing scenarios have become popular, the face inpainting technique has become
a hot topic. Although some existing methods can inpaint faces with preserved identity …

Real image denoising via guided residual estimation and noise correction

Y Pan, C Ren, X Wu, J Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning-based methods have dominated the field of image denoising with their
superior performance. Most of them belong to the non-blind denoising approaches …