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Digital sensors can lead to noisy results under many circumstances. To be able to remove the undesired noise from images, proper noise modeling and an accurate noise parameter estimation is crucial. In this project, we use a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-21 Étienne Objois , Kaan Okumuş , Nicolas Bähler

Image textures, as a kind of local variations, provide important information for human visual system. Many image textures, especially the small-scale or stochastic textures are rich in high-frequency variations, and are difficult to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Wenzhao Zhao , Qiegen Liu , Yisong Lv , Binjie Qin

Capturing depth and reflectivity images at low light levels from active illumination of a scene has wide-ranging applications. Conventionally, even with single-photon detectors, hundreds of photon detections are needed at each pixel to…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-12 Dongeek Shin , Ahmed Kirmani , Vivek K Goyal , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a classical and ubiquitous method for reducing data dimensionality, but it is suboptimal for heterogeneous data that are increasingly common in modern applications. PCA treats all samples uniformly so…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-02 David Hong , Kyle Gilman , Laura Balzano , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Noise is a major issue while transferring images through all kinds of electronic communication. One of the most common noise in electronic communication is an impulse noise which is caused by unstable voltage. In this paper, the comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Suman Shrestha

Conventional imaging at low light level requires hundreds of detected photons per pixel to suppress the Poisson noise for accurate reflectivity inference. In this letter, we propose a high-efficiency photon-limited imaging technique, called…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-22 Xialin Liu , Jianhong Shi , Huichao Chen , Guihua Zeng

The proliferation of imaging devices and countless image data generated every day impose an increasingly high demand on efficient and effective image denoising. In this paper, we establish a theoretical connection between principal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhaoming Kong , Xiaowei Yang , Jiahuan Zhang

The recovery of images from the observations that are degraded by a linear operator and further corrupted by Poisson noise is an important task in modern imaging applications such as astronomical and biomedical ones. Gradient-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Dai-Qiang Chen

Recent advances in photographic sensing technologies have made it possible to achieve light detection in terms of a single photon. Photon counting sensors are being increasingly used in many diverse applications. We address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Paramanand Chandramouli , Samuel Burri , Claudio Bruschini , Edoardo Charbon , Andreas Kolb

We describe a novel method for training high-quality image denoising models based on unorganized collections of corrupted images. The training does not need access to clean reference images, or explicit pairs of corrupted images, and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Samuli Laine , Tero Karras , Jaakko Lehtinen , Timo Aila

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool in clinical settings but its utility is often hindered by noise artifacts introduced during the imaging process. Effective denoising is critical for enhancing image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Zeyun Deng , Joseph Campbell

We introduce the notion of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of image gradient orientations. As image data is typically noisy, but noise is substantially different from Gaussian, traditional PCA of pixel intensities very often fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-05-18 Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Rapid advancements in deep learning over the past decade have fueled an insatiable demand for efficient and scalable hardware. Photonics offers a promising solution by leveraging the unique properties of light. However, conventional neural…

Low-photon phase imaging is essential in applications where the signal is limited by short exposure times, faint targets, or the need to protect delicate samples. We address this challenge with Poisson Wavefront Imaging (PWI), an…

This paper introduces a new Plug-and-Play (PnP) alternating direction of multipliers (ADMM) scheme based on a recently proposed denoiser using the Schroedinger equation's solutions of quantum physics. The efficiency of the proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

In diverse microscopy modalities, sensors measure only real-valued intensities. Additionally, the sensor readouts are affected by Poissonian-distributed photon noise. Traditional restoration algorithms typically aim to minimize the mean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Nadav Torem , Roi Ronen , Yoav Y. Schechner , Michael Elad

In this paper, we propose a novel image denoising algorithm exploiting features from both spatial as well as transformed domain. We implement intensity-invariance based improved grouping for collaborative support-agnostic sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Muzammil Behzad

Image deblurring in photon-limited conditions is ubiquitous in a variety of low-light applications such as photography, microscopy, and astronomy. However, the presence of photon shot noise due to low illumination and/or short exposure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Yash Sanghvi , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Stanley H. Chan

Image classification is one of the main research problems in computer vision and machine learning. Since in most real-world image classification applications there is no control over how the images are captured, it is necessary to consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Gabriel B. Paranhos da Costa , Welinton A. Contato , Tiago S. Nazare , João E. S. Batista Neto , Moacir Ponti

X-ray spectral imaging provides quantitative imaging of trace elements in biological sample with high sensitivity. We propose a novel algorithm to promote the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of X-ray spectral images that have low photon counts.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Feng Zhu , Binjie Qin , Weiyue Feng , Huajian Wang , Shaosen Huang , Yisong Lv , Yong Chen