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Deconvolution is the most commonly used image processing method to remove the blur caused by the point-spread-function (PSF) in optical imaging systems. While this method has been successful in deblurring, it suffers from several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-10 Huangxuan Zhao , Ziwen Ke , Ningbo Chen , Ke Li , Lidai Wang , Xiaojing Gong , Wei Zheng , Liang Song , Zhicheng Liu , Dong Liang , Chengbo Liu

As handheld video cameras are now commonplace and available in every smartphone, images and videos can be recorded almost everywhere at anytime. However, taking a quick shot frequently yields a blurry result due to unwanted camera shake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Patrick Wieschollek , Michael Hirsch , Bernhard Schölkopf , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

This paper demonstrates a practical method that can correct spatial varying blur from a set of images of the same object. The algorithm jointly estimates the object and local point spread functions~(PSF). The method prioritizes sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Wouter van de Ketterij , Oleg Soloviev , Michel Verhaegen

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the \textit{ill-posed} and \textit{non-linear} blind image deconvolution (blind deblurring) using deep generative networks as priors. We employ two separate generative models --- one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Muhammad Asim , Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

In this paper, we study the problem of recovering a sharp version of a given blurry image when the blur kernel is unknown. Previous methods often introduce an image-independent regularizer (such as Gaussian or sparse priors) on the desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Guangcan Liu , Shiyu Chang , Yi Ma

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used for clinical diagnosis. As PET suffers from low resolution and high noise, numerous efforts try to incorporate anatomical priors into PET image reconstruction, especially with the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Nuobei Xie , Kuang Gong , Ning Guo , Zhixin Qin , Zhifang Wu , Huafeng Liu , Quanzheng Li

The goal of blind image deblurring is to recover a sharp image from a motion blurred one without knowing the camera motion. Current state-of-the-art methods have a remarkably good performance on images with no noise or very low noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jérémy Anger , Mauricio Delbracio , Gabriele Facciolo

Blind image deblurring, i.e., deblurring without knowledge of the blur kernel, is a highly ill-posed problem. The problem can be solved in two parts: i) estimate a blur kernel from the blurry image, and ii) given estimated blur kernel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Yuanchao Bai , Gene Cheung , Xianming Liu , Wen Gao

Ptychography involves a sample being illuminated by a coherent, localised probe of illumination. When the probe interacts with the sample, the light is diffracted and a diffraction pattern is detected. Then the probe or sample is shifted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Mark Philip Roach

In this work, we address the challenging problem of blind deconvolution for color images. Existing methods often convert color images to grayscale or process each color channel separately, which overlooking the relationships between color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yuming Yang , Michael K. Ng , Zhigang Jia , Wei Wang

A standard dose of radioactive tracer must be delivered into the patients body to obtain high-quality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images for diagnostic purposes, which raises the risk of radiation harm. A reduced tracer dose, on the…

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in various medical imaging tasks, such as denoising, registration, and segmentation, by representing images as continuous functions, allowing complex details to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Younès Moussaoui , Diana Mateus , Nasrin Taheri , Saïd Moussaoui , Thomas Carlier , Simon Stute

High noise and low spatial resolution are two key confounding factors that limit the qualitative and quantitative accuracy of PET images. AI models for image denoising and deblurring are becoming increasingly popular for post-reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Juan Liu , Masoud Malekzadeh , Niloufar Mirian , Tzu-An Song , Chi Liu , Joyita Dutta

We developed a positron emission tomography (PET) system for multiple-isotope imaging. Our PET system, named multiple-isotope PET (MI-PET), can distinguish between different tracer nuclides using coincidence measurement of prompt…

Blind image deblurring (BID) is an ill-posed inverse problem, usually addressed by imposing prior knowledge on the (unknown) image and on the blurring filter. Most of the work on BID has focused on natural images, using image priors based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Marina Ljubenović , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

One of the major challenges in design and developing of PET, scanners are the presence of inactive areas between the detector blocks which degrade the image spatial resolution and leads to streaking artifacts especially when we employ…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Isaac Shiri , Peyman Sheikhzadeh , Mohammad Reza Ay

We propose the first general framework to automatically correct different types of geometric distortion in a single input image. Our proposed method employs convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained by using a large synthetic distortion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xiaoyu Li , Bo Zhang , Pedro V. Sander , Jing Liao

Image deblurring aims to restore the latent sharp images from the corresponding blurred ones. In this paper, we present an unsupervised method for domain-specific single-image deblurring based on disentangled representations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Boyu Lu , Jun-Cheng Chen , Rama Chellappa

Positron range (PR) blurring degrades positron emission tomography (PET) image resolution, particularly for high-energy emitters like gallium-68 (68 Ga). We introduce Dual-Input Dynamic Convolution (DDConv), a novel computationally…

Positron emission tomography (PET) scanners continue to increase sensitivity and axial coverage by adding an ever expanding array of block detectors. As they age, one or more block detectors may lose sensitivity due to a malfunction or…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 William Whiteley , Jens Gregor