English
Related papers

Related papers: Improving Image Restoration with Soft-Rounding

200 papers

Modern digital cameras rely on the sequential execution of separate image processing steps to produce realistic images. The first two steps are usually related to denoising and demosaicking where the former aims to reduce noise from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

We present a pixel recursive super resolution model that synthesizes realistic details into images while enhancing their resolution. A low resolution image may correspond to multiple plausible high resolution images, thus modeling the super…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Ryan Dahl , Mohammad Norouzi , Jonathon Shlens

Regularization by denoising (RED) is an image reconstruction framework that uses an image denoiser as a prior. Recent work has shown the state-of-the-art performance of RED with learned denoisers corresponding to pre-trained convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Cihat Eldeniz , Weijie Gan , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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

Quarter sampling and three-quarter sampling are novel sensor concepts that enable the acquisition of higher resolution images without increasing the number of pixels. This is achieved by non-regularly covering parts of each pixel of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Simon Grosche , Fabian Brand , André Kaup

Spatial resolution of depth sensors is often significantly lower compared to that of conventional optical cameras. Recent work has explored the idea of improving the resolution of depth using higher resolution intensity as a side…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Petros T. Boufounos

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that measure per-pixel brightness differences asynchronously. Recovering brightness from events is appealing since the reconstructed images inherit the high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zelin Zhang , Anthony Yezzi , Guillermo Gallego

Digital images are often degraded by soft effects such as lens flare, haze, shadows, and reflections, which reduce aesthetics even though the underlying pixels remain partially visible. The prevailing works address these degradations in…

Regularization by Denoising (RED) is a well-known method for solving image restoration problems by using learned image denoisers as priors. Since the regularization parameter in the traditional RED does not have any physical interpretation,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Pasquale Cascarano , Alessandro Benfenati , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Xiaojian Xu

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

Image restoration is one of the most fundamental issues in imaging science. Total variation (TV) regularization is widely used in image restoration problems for its capability to preserve edges. In the literature, however, it is also well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Jun Liu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Ivan W. Selesnick , Xiao-Guang Lv , Po-Yu Chen

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in computer vision and computational imaging. INRs represent images as continuous domain functions realized by a neural network taking…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Mahrokh Najaf , Gregory Ongie

Generalizable Image Super-Resolution aims to enhance model generalization capabilities under unknown degradations. To achieve this goal, the models are expected to focus only on image content-related features instead of overfitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hongjun Wang , Jiyuan Chen , Zhengwei Yin , Xuan Song , Yinqiang Zheng

Multiple low-vision tasks such as denoising, deblurring and super-resolution depart from RGB images and further reduce the degradations, improving the quality. However, modeling the degradations in the sRGB domain is complicated because of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Marcos V. Conde , Florin Vasluianu , Radu Timofte

Image compression is a method to remove spatial redundancy between adjacent pixels and reconstruct a high-quality image. In the past few years, deep learning has gained huge attention from the research community and produced promising image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Khawar Islam , L. Minh Dang , Sujin Lee , Hyeonjoon Moon

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel in many visual tasks but remain susceptible to adversarial attacks-imperceptible perturbations that degrade performance. Prior research reveals that brain-inspired regularizers, derived from neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Elie Attias , Cengiz Pehlevan , Dina Obeid

The most prevalent routine for camera calibration is based on the detection of well-defined feature points on a purpose-made calibration artifact. These could be checkerboard saddle points, circles, rings or triangles, often printed on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Morten Hannemose , Jakob Wilm , Jeppe Revall Frisvad

Optimization-based filtering smoothes an image by minimizing a fidelity function and simultaneously preserves edges by exploiting a sparse norm penalty over gradients. It has obtained promising performance in practical problems, such as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Chengxi Ye , Dacheng Tao , Mingli Song , David W. Jacobs , Min Wu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show outstanding performance in many image processing problems, such as image recognition, object detection and image segmentation. Semantic segmentation is a very challenging task that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Fan Jia , Jun Liu , Xue-cheng Tai

For modern high-resolution imaging sensors, pixel binning is performed in low-lighting conditions and in case high frame rates are required. To recover the original spatial resolution, single-image super-resolution techniques can be applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Simon Grosche , Andy Regensky , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup