Image cropping aims to improve image aesthetics by preserving important content within an appropriately composed region. However, most existing methods focus primarily on salient regions and therefore have limited sensitivity to the global relationships among the main image components.
arXiv:2608. 07570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explainable aesthetic image cropping requires not only localizing a visually pleasing crop but also explaining why it is preferred.
arXiv:2607. 06915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling down the resolution of input images can greatly reduce the computational overhead of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which is promising for edge AI.
The paper investigates patch‑wise supervision for detecting AI‑generated images, proposing a shared backbone that classifies explicit crops with individual losses and averages patch probabilities only during inference. This approach eliminates the need for handcrafted residual filtering or learned image‑level fusion modules. Experiments across single‑patch selection, multiple generator collections, and four CNN and Transformer backbones show that patch‑wise variants outperform whole‑image counterparts on the GenImage dataset, while also exploring factors such as supervision granularity, source resolution, crop size, and inference coverage.
arXiv:2603.27519v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Image-based plant phenotyping depends on dense structural understanding of crops, yet pixel-level annotation remains expensive across species, orga...
AT‑ViT is a dual‑branch Vision Transformer that processes both raw herbarium scans and their segmentation masks through a multi‑scale, multi‑view cross‑attention fusion. It uses a mask‑guided patch weighting scheme to emphasize plant regions and suppress background artifacts, thereby encouraging plant‑centric representations. In trait classification tasks such as leaf base shape and thorns, AT‑ViT consistently outperforms baselines, improves spatial attention grounding (IoU_p +15.66 to +18.03 pp, IoU_b –27.92 to –31.02 pp), and shows greater robustness to synthetic background perturbations, surpassing ResNet101 by up to +32.32 accuracy points and CrossViT by up to +5.07 points. whyItMatters":"The model addresses shortcut learning caused by background cues in herbarium images, leading to more accurate and interpretable plant trait recognition."
arXiv:2609.38165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The landscape of satellite imagery time series datasets and boundary-pushing architectures for cropland segmentation has never been richer. However,...
The paper introduces a new approach to aesthetic image cropping by modeling human preference as a continuous, multi-peaked field rather than relying on discrete, grid‑based annotations. It presents the Continuous Preference Field (CPF) that reconstructs a dense preference landscape from sparse labels, and uses this to train a VLM‑based cropping model (CPIC) that achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy and strong out‑of‑domain generalization. Additionally, the authors propose CPICD, a recalibrated benchmark that corrects grid‑bound artifacts in existing datasets, providing a more reliable evaluation framework.
arXiv:2505.16157v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformer-based models have made remarkable progress in image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention in Tran...
arXiv:2608.22996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well on diverse vision-language tasks, but transformer-based visual encoders split images into fixed-resolution s...
arXiv:2512. 05098v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recent years, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) for AI-generated images (AIGI) has advanced rapidly; however, existing methods primarily target portraits and artistic images, lacking a systematic evaluation of interior scenes.
arXiv:2608.03423v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Local feature matching is a fundamental component of photogrammetry, enabling accurate image correspondence critical for tasks such as 3D reconstru...
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well on diverse vision-language tasks, but transformer-based visual encoders split images into fixed-resolution sub-images, compromising object integrity in light...