Underwater image enhancement remains challenging due to wavelength-dependent light absorption, scattering, and backscattering, which jointly cause color distortion, contrast degradation, and detail loss. Since these degradations vary with scene depth and imaging conditions, diffe…
Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification (VI-ReID) operates under a closed-world assumption, where queries and galleries are from heterogeneous modalities. However, in open-world scenarios, both sets are likely to contain homogeneous and heterogeneous modality images. A query ma…
Video deraining aims to recover clean visual content from rainy videos for reliable perception under adverse weather. Existing methods mainly rely on RGB sequences and temporal redundancy, but RGB-only restoration remains ambiguous in dynamic rainy scenes, where rain streaks, tex…
Deep Metric Learning (DML) often struggles with zero-shot generalization because standard objectives inherently capture what co-occurs rather than what causes similarity. Consequently, DML models are vulnerable to shortcut learning driven by two structurally distinct confounders:…