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MedEBench: Revisiting Text-instructed Image Editing
Text-guided image editing has seen rapid progress in natural image domains, but its adaptation to medical imaging remains limited and lacks standardized evaluation. Clinically, such editing holds promise for simulating surgical outcomes, creating personalized teaching materials, and enhancing patient communication. To bridge this gap, we introduce \textbf{MedEBench}, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating text-guided medical image editing. It consists of 1,182 clinically sourced image-prompt …

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UniRestore: Unified Perceptual and Task-Oriented Image Restoration Model Using Diffusion Prior
Image restoration aims to recover content from inputs degraded by various factors, such as adverse weather, blur, and noise. Perceptual Image Restoration (PIR) methods improve visual quality but often do not support downstream tasks effectively. On the other hand, Task-oriented Image Restoration (TIR) methods focus on enhancing image utility for high-level vision tasks, sometimes compromising visual quality. This paper introduces UniRestore, a unified image restoration model that bridges the ga…

02:31—Good Night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I just made myself a new banner for myself, using (mostly) open source software. The only exception was that I used a random website to add an outline to my Rudolf Rocker image, I was too lazy to get out of bed and use GIMP on my PC for that step. For everything else, I used this tool from GitHub: 

I finally finished the blogpost including some new photos and a short video (!!) from my hike last Saturday.
To me it was a really really gorgeous day!
Read the story here: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/getting-up-early-for-the-mountains/
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2025 NFL Draft first-round pick contract tracker: Patriots sign Will Campbell; Giants' Abdul Carter inks deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

ESWC 2025 has just started with the presentation of the submission numbers to the individual tracks:
research track: 98 papers
resource track: 36 papers
in-use track: 22 papers
Looking forward to great presentations and discussions!
#eswc2025 #semweb

There's some discourse on generative AI "democratizing" art.
And this is so confusing to me. I create images. And when I do, I'm trying to take something in my head, and make it real. And share that image in my head with others.
It's my image in my head. If I describe that to AI to make the image, then it is just approximate. To get it closer to my image needs a better prompt.
That's writing. Writing it its own art, and you can let the reader imagi…

UniWorld: High-Resolution Semantic Encoders for Unified Visual Understanding and Generation
Bin Lin, Zongjian Li, Xinhua Cheng, Yuwei Niu, Yang Ye, Xianyi He, Shenghai Yuan, Wangbo Yu, Shaodong Wang, Yunyang Ge, Yatian Pang, Li Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03147

UniWorld: High-Resolution Semantic Encoders for Unified Visual Understanding and Generation
Although existing unified models deliver strong performance on vision-language understanding and text-to-image generation, their models are limited in exploring image perception and manipulation tasks, which are urgently desired by users for wide applications. Recently, OpenAI released their powerful GPT-4o-Image model for comprehensive image perception and manipulation, achieving expressive capability and attracting community interests. By observing the performance of GPT-4o-Image in our caref…

NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution
Marcos V. Conde, Radu Timofte, Zihao Lu, Xiangyu Kongand Xiaoxia Xingand Fan Wangand Suejin Hanand MinKyu Parkand Tianyu Zhangand Xin Luoand Yeda Chenand Dong Liuand Li Pangand Yuhang Yangand Hongzhong Wangand Xiangyong Caoand Ruixuan Jiangand Senyan Xuand Siyuan Jiangand Xueyang Fuand Zheng-Jun Zhaand Tianyu Haoand Yuhong Heand Ruoqi Liand Yueqi Yangand Xiang Yuand Guanlan Hongand Minmin Yiand Yuanjia Chenand Liwen Zha…

NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution
This paper reviews the NTIRE 2025 RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and results. New methods for RAW Restoration and Super-Resolution could be essential in modern Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipelines, however, this problem is not as explored as in the RGB domain. The goal of this challenge is two fold, (i) restore RAW images with blur and noise degradations, (ii) upscale RAW Bayer images by 2x, considering unknown noise and blur. In the…

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SASP: Strip-Aware Spatial Perception for Fine-Grained Bird Image Classification
Fine-grained bird image classification (FBIC) is not only of great significance for ecological monitoring and species identification, but also holds broad research value in the fields of image recognition and fine-grained visual modeling. Compared with general image classification tasks, FBIC poses more formidable challenges: 1) the differences in species size and imaging distance result in the varying sizes of birds presented in the images; 2) complex natural habitats often introduce strong ba…