Summary of Pix2next: Leveraging Vision Foundation Models For Rgb to Nir Image Translation, by Youngwan Jin et al.
Pix2Next: Leveraging Vision Foundation Models for RGB to NIR Image Translation
by Youngwan Jin, Incheol Park, Hanbin Song, Hyeongjin Ju, Yagiz Nalcakan, Shiho Kim
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes Pix2Next, a novel image-to-image translation framework that generates high-quality Near-Infrared (NIR) images from RGB inputs. It leverages a state-of-the-art Vision Foundation Model (VFM) within an encoder-decoder architecture, incorporating cross-attention mechanisms to enhance feature integration. The approach captures detailed global representations and preserves essential spectral characteristics, treating RGB-to-NIR translation as more than a simple domain transfer problem. A multi-scale PatchGAN discriminator ensures realistic image generation at various detail levels, while carefully designed loss functions couple global context understanding with local feature preservation. The proposed approach is demonstrated on the RANUS dataset, showing improved FID score and visual quality compared to existing methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper creates a new way to turn RGB images into NIR images that are really good quality. It uses a special kind of AI model called Pix2Next, which combines different parts of an image together better than before. This helps the new NIR images look more like real NIR pictures and not just fake ones made by machines. The paper tested this on some special pictures and it worked way better than other methods did. Now, people can use these new NIR pictures to help with things like recognizing objects in photos and videos. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Cross attention » Encoder decoder » Image generation » Translation
