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In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which determines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Kin Gwn Lore , Adedotun Akintayo , Soumik Sarkar

Scattering hinders the passage of light through random media and consequently limits the usefulness of optical techniques for sensing and imaging. Thus, methods for increasing the transmission of light through such random media are of…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Curtis Jin , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Eric Michielssen , Stephen Rand

Enhancing the visibility of nighttime hazy images is challenging due to the complex degradation distributions. Existing methods mainly address a single type of degradation (e.g., haze or low-light) at a time, ignoring the interplay of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Chen Zhu , Huiwen Zhang , Mu He , Yujie Li , Xiaotian Qiao

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is an important task in image processing that aims to generate well-exposed images in scenes with varying illumination. Although existing multi-exposure fusion methods have achieved impressive results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jun Xiao , Qian Ye , Tianshan Liu , Cong Zhang , Kin-Man Lam

Diffusion and flow-based generative models have shown strong potential for image restoration. However, image denoising under unknown and varying noise conditions remains challenging, because the learned vector fields may become inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jigang Duan , Genwei Ma , Xu Jiang , Wenfeng Xu , Ping Yang , Xing Zhao

Image Phase Alignment Super-sampling (ImPASS) is a computational method for combining displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The general steps include measuring the relative displacements, up-sampling, aligning…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 James N. Caron

Low-light image enhancement is challenging in that it needs to consider not only brightness recovery but also complex issues like color distortion and noise, which usually hide in the dark. Simply adjusting the brightness of a low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Feifan Lv , Yu Li , Feng Lu

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

In this paper, we introduce Latent Bridge Matching (LBM), a new, versatile and scalable method that relies on Bridge Matching in a latent space to achieve fast image-to-image translation. We show that the method can reach state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Clément Chadebec , Onur Tasar , Sanjeev Sreetharan , Benjamin Aubin

The performance of an imaging system is limited by optical aberrations, which cause blurriness in the resulting image. Digital correction techniques, such as deconvolution, have limited ability to correct the blur, since some spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Amit Kohli , Anastasios N. Angelopoulos , Laura Waller

Seismic images obtained by stacking or migration are usually characterized as low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), low dominant frequency and sparse sampling both in depth (or time) and offset dimensions. For improving the resolution of seismic…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 Shiqi Dong , Xintong Dong , Kaiyuan Zheng , Ming Cheng , Tie Zhong , Hongzhou Wang

Image compression has been applied in the fields of image storage and video broadcasting. However, it's formidably tough to distinguish the subtle quality differences between those distorted images generated by different algorithms. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kaiqun Wu , Xiaoling Jiang , Rui Yu , Yonggang Luo , Tian Jiang , Xi Wu , Peng Wei

Stacks of digital astronomical images are combined in order to increase image depth. The variable seeing conditions, sky background and transparency of ground-based observations make the coaddition process non-trivial. We present image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek

In this paper, a fresh procedure to handle image mixtures by means of blind signal separation relying on a combination of second order and higher order statistics techniques are introduced. The problem of blind signal separation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Felipe P. do Carmo , Joaquim T. de Assis , Vania V. Estrela , Alessandra M. Coelho

Due to the low accuracy of object detection and recognition in many intelligent surveillance systems at nighttime, the quality of night images is crucial. Compared with the corresponding daytime image, nighttime image is characterized as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Xinyi Bai , Steffi Agino Priyanka , Hsiao-Jung Tung , Yuankai Wang

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

High-quality dehazing performance is highly dependent upon the accurate estimation of transmission map. In this work, the coarse estimation version is first obtained by weightedly fusing two different transmission maps, which are generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Qiaoling Shu , Chuansheng Wu , Zhe Xiao , Ryan Wen Liu

Noise, an unwanted component in an image, can be the reason for the degradation of Image at the time of transmission or capturing. Noise reduction from images is still a challenging task. Digital Image Processing is a component of Digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Sahil Ali Akbar , Ananya Verma

Patch-based approaches such as 3D block matching (BM3D) and non-local Bayes (NLB) are widely accepted filters for removing Gaussian noise from single-frame images. In this work, we propose three extensions for these filters when there exist…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Kireeti Bodduna , Joachim Weickert

Noise reduction is one the most important and still active research topic in low-level image processing due to its high impact on object detection and scene understanding for computer vision systems. Recently, we can observe a substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Krystian Radlak , Lukasz Malinski , Bogdan Smolka