Structure-measure: A new way to evaluate foreground maps

DP Fan, MM Cheng, Y Liu, T Li… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Foreground map evaluation is crucial for gauging the progress of object segmentation
algorithms, in particular in the filed of salient object detection where the purpose is to …

The sketchy database: learning to retrieve badly drawn bunnies

P Sangkloy, N Burnell, C Ham, J Hays - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present the Sketchy database, the first large-scale collection of sketch-photo pairs. We
ask crowd workers to sketch particular photographic objects sampled from 125 categories …

Sketchygan: Towards diverse and realistic sketch to image synthesis

W Chen, J Hays - Proceedings of the IEEE conference on …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Synthesizing realistic images from human drawn sketches is a challenging problem in
computer graphics and vision. Existing approaches either need exact edge maps, or rely on …

BING: Binarized normed gradients for objectness estimation at 300fps

MM Cheng, Z Zhang, WY Lin… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2014 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Training a generic objectness measure to produce a small set of candidate object windows,
has been shown to speed up the classical sliding window object detection paradigm. We …

On face segmentation, face swap**, and face perception

Y Nirkin, I Masi, AT Tuan, T Hassner… - 2018 13th IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show that even when face images are unconstrained and arbitrarily paired, face
swap** between them is quite simple. To this end, we make the following contributions.(a) …

Global contrast based salient region detection

MM Cheng, NJ Mitra, X Huang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic estimation of salient object regions across images, without any prior assumption
or knowledge of the contents of the corresponding scenes, enhances many computer vision …

[HTML][HTML] A review of image and video colorization: From analogies to deep learning

SY Chen, JQ Zhang, YY Zhao, PL Rosin, YK Lai, L Gao - Visual Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Image colorization is a classic and important topic in computer graphics, where the aim is to
add color to a monochromatic input image to produce a colorful result. In this survey, we …

Efficient salient region detection with soft image abstraction

MM Cheng, J Warrell, WY Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Detecting visually salient regions in images is one of the fundamental problems in computer
vision. We propose a novel method to decompose an image into large scale perceptually …

Internet visual media processing: a survey with graphics and vision applications

SM Hu, T Chen, K Xu, MM Cheng, RR Martin - The Visual Computer, 2013 - Springer
In recent years, the computer graphics and computer vision communities have devoted
significant attention to research based on Internet visual media resources. The huge number …

Sketchycoco: Image generation from freehand scene sketches

C Gao, Q Liu, Q Xu, L Wang, J Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce the first method for automatic image generation from scene-level freehand
sketches. Our model allows for controllable image generation by specifying the synthesis …