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This paper proposes a simple, accurate, and robust approach to single image nonparametric blind Super-Resolution (SR). This task is formulated as a functional to be minimized with respect to both an intermediate super-resolved image and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Wen-Ze Shao , Michael Elad

The importance of regularization has been well established in image reconstruction -- which is the computational inversion of imaging forward model -- with applications including deconvolution for microscopy, tomographic reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Sanjay Viswanath , Manu Ghulyani , Muthuvel Arigovindan

One of the main limitations for the resolution of optical instruments is the size of the sensor's pixels. In this paper we introduce a new sub pixel resolution algorithm to enhance the resolution of images. This method is based on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-12 Siamak Khademi , Ahmad Darudi , Zahra Abbasi

Image reconstruction enhanced by regularizers, e.g., to enforce sparsity, low rank or smoothness priors on images, has many successful applications in vision tasks such as computer photography, biomedical and spectral imaging. It has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Samuel Pinilla , Tingting Mu , Neil Bourne , Jeyan Thiyagalingam

We propose a novel framework to generate clean video frames from a single motion-blurred image. While a broad range of literature focuses on recovering a single image from a blurred image, in this work, we tackle a more challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Dawit Mureja Argaw , Junsik Kim , Francois Rameau , Chaoning Zhang , In So Kweon

This work is concerned with the recovery of piecewise constant images from noisy linear measurements. We study the noise robustness of a variational reconstruction method, which is based on total (gradient) variation regularization. We show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yohann De Castro , Vincent Duval , Romain Petit

Traditional image resizing methods usually work in pixel space and use various saliency measures. The challenge is to adjust the image shape while trying to preserve important content. In this paper we perform image resizing in feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Moab Arar , Dov Danon , Daniel Cohen-Or , Ariel Shamir

Equivariant and invariant deep learning models have been developed to exploit intrinsic symmetries in data, demonstrating significant effectiveness in certain scenarios. However, these methods often suffer from limited representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yulu Bai , Jiahong Fu , Qi Xie , Deyu Meng

Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) aims to recover a high-resolution image from a given low-resolution version of it. Video Super Resolution (VSR) targets series of given images, aiming to fuse them to create a higher resolution outcome.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Alon Brifman , Yaniv Romano , Michael Elad

Bilevel learning is a powerful optimization technique that has extensively been employed in recent years to bridge the world of model-driven variational approaches with data-driven methods. Upon suitable parametrization of the desired…

In image denoising problems, one widely-adopted approach is to minimize a regularized data-fit objective function, where the data-fit term is derived from a physical image acquisition model. Typically the regularizer is selected with two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Albert Oh , Rebecca Willett

We develop a statistical-mechanical formulation for image restoration and error-correcting codes. These problems are shown to be equivalent to the Ising spin glass with ferromagnetic bias under random external fields. We prove that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Nishimori , K. Y. M. Wong

Semantic image synthesis is a challenging task with many practical applications. Albeit remarkable progress has been made in semantic image synthesis with spatially-adaptive normalization and existing methods normalize the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yupeng Shi , Xiao Liu , Yuxiang Wei , Zhongqin Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

In this paper, an algorithm is proposed for Image Restoration. Such algorithm is different from the traditional approaches in this area, by utilizing priors that are learned from similar images. Original images and their degraded versions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Md. Imran Hossain , Syed Golam Rajib

Image restoration refers to the process of reconstructing noisy, destroyed, or missing parts of an image, which is an ill-posed inverse problem. A specific regularization term and image degradation are typically assumed to achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Jianwei Ke

Super-resolution is generally referred to as the task of recovering fine details from coarse information. Motivated by applications such as single-molecule imaging, radar imaging, etc., we consider parameter estimation of complex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Dehui Yang , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

In practice, images can contain different amounts of noise for different color channels, which is not acknowledged by existing super-resolution approaches. In this paper, we propose to super-resolve noisy color images by considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Srimanta Mandal , Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan

As a powerful statistical image modeling technique, sparse representation has been successfully used in various image restoration applications. The success of sparse representation owes to the development of l1-norm optimization techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Weisheng Dong , Lei Zhang , Guangming Shi , Xiaolin Wu

Acquisition of training data for the standard semantic segmentation is expensive if requiring that each pixel is labeled. Yet, current methods significantly deteriorate in weakly supervised settings, e.g. where a fraction of pixels is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Dmitrii Marin , Yuri Boykov

This paper proposes a precise signal recovery method with multilayered non-convex regularization, enhancing sparsity/low-rankness for high-dimensional signals including images and videos. In optimization-based signal recovery, multilayered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Akari Katsuma , Seisuke Kyochi , Shunsuke Ono , Ivan Selesnick