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Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims at improving the illumination and visibility of dark images with lighting noise. To handle the real-world low-light images often with heavy and complex noise, some efforts have been made for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jiahuan Ren , Zhao Zhang , Richang Hong , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan

We present SLAIM - Simultaneous Localization and Implicit Mapping. We propose a novel coarse-to-fine tracking model tailored for Neural Radiance Field SLAM (NeRF-SLAM) to achieve state-of-the-art tracking performance. Notably, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Vincent Cartillier , Grant Schindler , Irfan Essa

Increasing use of CT in modern medical practice has raised concerns over associated radiation dose. Reduction of radiation dose associated with CT can increase noise and artifacts, which can adversely affect diagnostic confidence. Denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Qingsong Yang , Pingkun Yan , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

In this letter, we employ and design the expectation--conditional maximization either (ECME) algorithm, a generalisation of the EM algorithm, for solving the maximum likelihood direction finding problem of stochastic sources, which may be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ming-yan Gong , Bin Lyu

Denoising has to do with estimating a signal $x_0$ from its noisy observations $y=x_0+z$. In this paper, we focus on the "structured denoising problem", where the signal $x_0$ possesses a certain structure and $z$ has independent normally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

Denoising is of utmost importance for the visualization and processing of images featuring low signal-to-noise ratio. Total variation methods are among the most popular techniques to perform this task improving the signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-24 Gonzalo D. Maso Talou , Pablo J. Blanco

Image denoising is a fundamental operation in image processing and holds considerable practical importance for various real-world applications. Arguably several thousands of papers are dedicated to image denoising. In the past decade,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Wensen Feng , Peng Qiao , Xuanyang Xi , Yunjin Chen

The goal of a denoising algorithm is to recover a signal from its noise-corrupted observations. Perfect recovery is seldom possible and performance is measured under a given single-letter fidelity criterion. For discrete signals corrupted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 George Gemelos , Styrmir Sigurjonsson , Tsachy Weissman

Although the advances of self-supervised blind denoising are significantly superior to conventional approaches without clean supervision in synthetic noise scenarios, it shows poor quality in real-world images due to spatially correlated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Kanggeun Lee , Kyungryun Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

The technological advance of High Numerical Aperture Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (High NA EUVL) has opened the gates to extensive researches on thinner photoresists (below 30nm), necessary for the industrial implementation of High NA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sara Sacchi , Bappaditya Dey , Iacopo Mochi , Sandip Halder , Philippe Leray

Medical image denoising is considered among the most challenging vision tasks. Despite the real-world implications, existing denoising methods have notable drawbacks as they often generate visual artifacts when applied to heterogeneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 S M A Sharif , Rizwan Ali Naqvi , Woong-Kee Loh

Image deblurring remains a central research area within image processing, critical for its role in enhancing image quality and facilitating clearer visual representations across diverse applications. This paper tackles the optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Qingsong Wang , Shengze Xu , Xiaojiao Tong , Tieyong Zeng

A new image denoising algorithm to deal with the additive Gaussian white noise model is given. Like the non-local means method, the filter is based on the weighted average of the observations in a neighborhood, with weights depending on the…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2011-11-04 Qiyu Jin , Ion Grama , Quansheng Liu

Most existing image denoising algorithms can only deal with a single type of noise, which violates the fact that the noisy observed images in practice are often suffered from more than one type of noise during the process of acquisition and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jian Zhang , Ruiqin Xiong , Chen Zhao , Siwei Ma , Debin Zhao

A new image denoising algorithm to deal with the Poisson noise model is given, which is based on the idea of Non-Local Mean. By using the "Oracle" concept, we establish a theorem to show that the Non-Local Means Filter can effectively deal…

Applications · Statistics 2013-09-18 Qiyu Jin , Ion Grama , Quansheng Liu

We propose a PDE-constrained optimization approach for the determination of noise distribution in total variation (TV) image denoising. An optimization problem for the determination of the weights correspondent to different types of noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Juan-Carlos De los Reyes , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

To denoise a reference patch, the Non-Local-Means denoising filter processes a set of neighbor patches. Few Nearest Neighbors (NN) are used to limit the computational burden of the algorithm. Here here we show analytically that the NN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Iuri Frosio , Jan Kautz

Many problems of low-level computer vision and image processing, such as denoising, deconvolution, tomographic reconstruction or super-resolution, can be addressed by maximizing the posterior distribution of a sparse linear model (SLM). We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-08-16 Matthias W. Seeger , Hannes Nickisch

Group-based sparse representation has shown great potential in image denoising. However, most existing methods only consider the nonlocal self-similarity (NSS) prior of noisy input image. That is, the similar patches are collected only from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Zhiyuan Zha , Xinggan Zhang , Qiong Wang , Lan Tang , Xin Liu

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) has emerged as a powerful method for improving generalization in machine learning models by minimizing the sharpness of the loss landscape. However, despite its success, several important questions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Dimitris Oikonomou , Nicolas Loizou