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One of the fundamental challenges in image restoration is denoising, where the objective is to estimate the clean image from its noisy measurements. To tackle such an ill-posed inverse problem, the existing denoising approaches generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Haosen Liu , Bihan Wen

Score-based model research in the last few years has produced state of the art generative models by employing Gaussian denoising score-matching (DSM). However, the Gaussian noise assumption has several high-dimensional limitations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jacob Deasy , Nikola Simidjievski , Pietro Liò

Stein's unbiased risk estimate (SURE) gives an unbiased estimate of the $\ell_2$ risk of any estimator of the mean of a Gaussian random vector. We focus here on the case when the estimator minimizes a quadratic loss term plus a convex…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Parth Nobel , Emmanuel Candès , Stephen Boyd

Unbiased estimators are introduced for averaged Bregman divergences which generalize Stein's Unbiased (Predictive) Risk Estimator, and the minimization of these estimators is proposed as a regularization parameter selection method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Elias S. Helou , Sandra A. Santos , Lucas E. A. Simões

Self-supervised blind denoising for Poisson-Gaussian noise remains a challenging task. Pseudo-supervised pairs constructed from single noisy images re-corrupt the signal and degrade the performance. The visible blindspots solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Zejin Wang , Jiazheng Liu , Hao Zhai , Hua Han

Prior probability models are a fundamental component of many image processing problems, but density estimation is notoriously difficult for high-dimensional signals such as photographic images. Deep neural networks have provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Eero P. Simoncelli

In this letter, we investigate the shrinkage problem for the non-local means (NLM) image denoising. In particular, we derive the closed-form of the optimal blockwise shrinkage for NLM that minimizes the Stein's unbiased risk estimator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Yue Wu , Brian Tracey , Premkumar Natarajan , Joseph P. Noonan

In this article we derive an unbiased expression for the expected mean-squared error associated with continuously differentiable estimators of the noncentrality parameter of a chi-square random variable. We then consider the task of…

Applications · Statistics 2012-10-15 Florian Luisier , Thierry Blu , Patrick J. Wolfe

Denoising diffusion models have recently shown impressive results in generative tasks. By learning powerful priors from huge collections of training images, such models are able to gradually modify complete noise to a clean natural image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Naama Pearl , Yaron Brodsky , Dana Berman , Assaf Zomet , Alex Rav Acha , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

Most existing image denoising approaches assumed the noise to be homogeneous white Gaussian distributed with known intensity. However, in real noisy images, the noise models are usually unknown beforehand and can be much more complex. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Fengyuan Zhu , Guangyong Chen , Jianye Hao , Pheng-Ann Heng

Recently, the application of low rank minimization to image denoising has shown remarkable denoising results which are equivalent or better than those of the existing state-of-the-art algorithms. However, due to iterative nature of low rank…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Zahid Hussain Shamsi , Hyun Sook Oh , Dai-Gyoung Kim

During the image acquisition process, noise is usually added to the data mainly due to physical limitations of the acquisition sensor, and also regarding imprecisions during the data transmission and manipulation. In that sense, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Rafael G. Pires , Daniel F. S. Santos , Marcos C. S. Santana , Claudio F. G. Santos , Joao P. Papa

We investigate the performance of distributed least-mean square (LMS) algorithms for parameter estimation over sensor networks where the regression data of each node are corrupted by white measurement noise. Under this condition, we show…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Reza Abdolee , Benoit Champagne

We consider the problem of estimating a low-rank signal matrix from noisy measurements under the assumption that the distribution of the data matrix belongs to an exponential family. In this setting, we derive generalized Stein's unbiased…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Jérémie Bigot , Charles Deledalle , Delphine Féral

Though achieving excellent performance in some cases, current unsupervised learning methods for single image denoising usually have constraints in applications. In this paper, we propose a new approach which is more general and applicable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yutong Xie , Mingze Yuan , Bin Dong , Quanzheng Li

Denoising by frame thresholding is one of the most basic and efficient methods for recovering a discrete signal or image from data that are corrupted by additive Gaussian white noise. The basic idea is to select a frame of analyzing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-21 Markus Haltmeier , Axel Munk

In this paper, a signal detection method based on the denoise diffusion model (DM) is proposed, which outperforms the maximum likelihood (ML) estimation method that has long been regarded as the optimal signal detection technique.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Xiucheng Wang , Peilin Zheng , Nan Cheng

Machine learning (ML) methods are extraordinarily successful at denoising photographic images. The application of such denoising methods to scientific images is, however, often complicated by the difficulty in experimentally obtaining a…

The goal in speech enhancement is to obtain an estimate of clean speech starting from the noisy signal by minimizing a chosen distortion measure, which results in an estimate that depends on the unknown clean signal or its statistics. Since…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-12 Jishnu Sadasivan , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula , Nagarjuna Reddy Muraka

Denoising has always been theoretically considered as removal of high frequency disturbances having Gaussian distribution. Here we relax this assumption and the method used here is completely different from traditional thresholding schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Vibhor Kumar , Jukka Heikkonen