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We develop a new approach for estimating the risk of an arbitrary estimator of the mean vector in the classical normal means problem. The key idea is to generate two auxiliary data vectors, by adding carefully constructed normal noise…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Natalia L. Oliveira , Jing Lei , Ryan J. Tibshirani

We extend the blindspot model for self-supervised denoising to handle Poisson-Gaussian noise and introduce an improved training scheme that avoids hyperparameters and adapts the denoiser to the test data. Self-supervised models for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Wesley Khademi , Sonia Rao , Clare Minnerath , Guy Hagen , Jonathan Ventura

This paper presents a novel Bayesian strategy for the estimation of smooth signals corrupted by Gaussian noise. The method assumes a smooth evolution of a succession of continuous signals that can have a numerical or an analytical…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-12 Abderrahim Halimi , Gerald S. Buller , Steve McLaughlin , Paul Honeine

Generative diffusion processes are an emerging and effective tool for image and speech generation. In the existing methods, the underline noise distribution of the diffusion process is Gaussian noise. However, fitting distributions with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Eliya Nachmani , Robin San Roman , Lior Wolf

Image denoising algorithms have been extensively investigated for medical imaging. To perform image denoising, penalized least-squares (PLS) problems can be designed and solved, in which the penalty term encodes prior knowledge of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Wentao Chen , Tianming Xu , Weimin Zhou

Geometric data analysis relies on graphs that are either given as input or inferred from data. These graphs are often treated as "correct" when solving downstream tasks such as graph signal denoising. But real-world graphs are known to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Valentin Debarnot , Vinith Kishore , Cheng Shi , Ivan Dokmanić

The sampling, quantization, and estimation of a bounded dynamic-range bandlimited signal affected by additive independent Gaussian noise is studied in this work. For bandlimited signals, the distortion due to additive independent Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-29 Animesh Kumar , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

Algorithms to solve variational regularization of ill-posed inverse problems usually involve operators that depend on a collection of continuous parameters. When these operators enjoy some (local) regularity, these parameters can be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Charles-Alban Deledalle , Samuel Vaiter , Jalal M. Fadili , Gabriel Peyré

Denoising images contaminated by the mixture of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and impulse noise (IN) is an essential but challenging problem. The presence of impulsive disturbances inevitably affects the distribution of noises and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Zhou Liu , Lei Yu , Gui-Song Xia , Hong Sun

Removing noise from images, a.k.a image denoising, can be a very challenging task since the type and amount of noise can greatly vary for each image due to many factors including a camera model and capturing environments. While there have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Changjin Kim , Tae Hyun Kim , Sungyong Baik

Unsupervised denoising is a crucial challenge in real-world imaging applications. Unsupervised deep-learning methods have demonstrated impressive performance on benchmarks based on synthetic noise. However, no metrics are available to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Adria Marcos-Morales , Matan Leibovich , Sreyas Mohan , Joshua Lawrence Vincent , Piyush Haluai , Mai Tan , Peter Crozier , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computational photography, where achieving high perception with low distortion is highly demanding. Current methods either struggle with perceptual quality or suffer from significant distortion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tong Li , Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong , Hua Huang

In this paper, we propose a new image denoising method, tailored to specific classes of images, assuming that a dataset of clean images of the same class is available. Similarly to the non-local means (NLM) algorithm, the proposed method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Milad Niknejad , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias , Mario A. T. Figueiredo

We propose a new image denoising algorithm when the data is contaminated by a Poisson noise. As in the Non-Local Means filter, the proposed algorithm is based on a weighted linear combination of the bserved image. But in contract to the…

Applications · Statistics 2012-01-31 Qiyu Jin , Ion Grama , Quansheng Liu

The problem of Poisson denoising appears in various imaging applications, such as low-light photography, medical imaging and microscopy. In cases of high SNR, several transformations exist so as to convert the Poisson noise into an additive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Raja Giryes , Michael Elad

Gaussian smoothing combined with a probabilistic framework for denoising via the empirical Bayes formalism, i.e., the Tweedie-Miyasawa formula (TMF), are the two key ingredients in the success of score-based generative models in Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-04 Francis Bach , Saeed Saremi

Stein's method (Stein, 1973; 1981) is a powerful tool for statistical applications and has significantly impacted machine learning. Stein's lemma plays an essential role in Stein's method. Previous applications of Stein's lemma either…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-04 Wu Lin , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Mark Schmidt

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

Using integration by parts on Gaussian space we construct a Stein Unbiased Risk Estimator (SURE) for the drift of Gaussian processes using their local and occupation times. By almost-sure minimization of the SURE risk of shrinkage…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-02-23 Nicolas Privault , Anthony Réveillac

We explore an innovative strategy for image denoising by using convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn similar pixel-distribution features from noisy images. Many types of image noise follow a certain pixel-distribution in common, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Peng Liu , Ruogu Fang