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The potential huge advantage of spectral computed tomography (CT) is its capability to provide accuracy material identification and quantitative tissue information. This can benefit clinical applications, such as brain angiography, early…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Weiwen Wu , Haijun Yu , Peijun Chen , Fulin Luo , Fenglin Liu , Qian Wang , Yining Zhu , Yanbo Zhang , Jian Feng , Hengyong Yu

Blind image decomposition aims to decompose all components present in an image, typically used to restore a multi-degraded input image. While fully recovering the clean image is appealing, in some scenarios, users might want to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zeyu Zhang , Junlin Han , Chenhui Gou , Hongdong Li , Liang Zheng

Flat-panel cone-beam CT (CBCT) has been applied clinically in a number of high-resolution applications. Increasing geometric magnification can potentially improve resolution, but also increases blur due to an extended x-ray focal-spot. We…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Steven Tilley , Wojciech Zbijewski , Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen , J. Webster Stayman

PET imaging is an invaluable tool in clinical settings as it captures the functional activity of both healthy anatomy and cancerous lesions. Developing automatic lesion segmentation methods for PET images is crucial since manual lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Tanya Gatsak , Kumar Abhishek , Hanene Ben Yedder , Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Ghassan Hamarneh

Standard dual-energy computed tomography (CT) uses two different X-ray energies to obtain energy-dependent tissue attenuation information to allow quantitative material decomposition. The combined use of dual-energy CT and positron emission…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Guobao Wang

We consider the problem of 3D shape recovery from ultra-fast motion-blurred images. While 3D reconstruction from static images has been extensively studied, recovering geometry from extreme motion-blurred images remains challenging. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Fei Yu , Shudan Guo , Shiqing Xin , Beibei Wang , Haisen Zhao , Wenzheng Chen

Occluded person re-identification is a challenging task as human body parts could be occluded by some obstacles (e.g. trees, cars, and pedestrians) in certain scenes. Some existing pose-guided methods solve this problem by aligning body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Tao Wang , Hong Liu , Pinhao Song , Tianyu Guo , Wei Shi

Recovering 3D human body shape and pose from 2D images is a challenging task due to high complexity and flexibility of human body, and relatively less 3D labeled data. Previous methods addressing these issues typically rely on predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Pengfei Yao , Zheng Fang , Fan Wu , Yao Feng , Jiwei Li

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in engineering and medicine for imaging the interior of objects, patients, or animals. If the employed X-ray source is monoenergetic, image reconstruction essentially means the inversion of a ray…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Georgios Papanikos , Benedikt Wirth

Deconvolution serves as a computational means of removing the effect of optical aberrations from recorded images and is employed in many technical and scientific fields of study. In most imaging scenarios the nature of the blurring kernel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-18 Dean Wilding , Oleg Soloviev , Paolo Pozzi , Carlas Smith , Gleb Vdovin , Michel Verhaegen

Image deblurring, removing blurring artifacts from images, is a fundamental task in computational photography and low-level computer vision. Existing approaches focus on specialized solutions tailored to particular blur types, thus, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Daniel Feijoo , Paula Garrido-Mellado , Jaesung Rim , Alvaro Garcia , Marcos V. Conde

Non-uniform blind deblurring for general dynamic scenes is a challenging computer vision problem as blurs arise not only from multiple object motions but also from camera shake, scene depth variation. To remove these complicated motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Seungjun Nah , Tae Hyun Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

Recovering clear structures from severely blurry inputs is a challenging problem due to the large movements between the camera and the scene. Although some works apply segmentation maps on human face images for deblurring, they cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Pei Wang , Danna Xue , Yu Zhu , Jinqiu Sun , Qingsen Yan , Sung-eui Yoon , Yanning Zhang

Image production tools do not always create a clear image, noisy and blurry images are sometimes created. Among these cases, Poissonian noise is one of the most famous noises that appear in medical images and images taken in astronomy.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Reza Parvaz

Patient motion during PET is inevitable. Its long acquisition time not only increases the motion and the associated artifacts but also the patient's discomfort, thus PET acceleration is desirable. However, accelerating PET acquisition will…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Bo Zhou , Yu-Jung Tsai , Jiazhen Zhang , Xueqi Guo , Huidong Xie , Xiongchao Chen , Tianshun Miao , Yihuan Lu , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu

This paper attempts to undertake the study of Restored Gaussian Blurred Images. by using four types of techniques of deblurring image as Wiener filter, Regularized filter, Lucy Richardson deconvlutin algorithm and Blind deconvlution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Salem Saleh Al-amri , N. V. Kalyankar , Khamitkar S. D

We present a highly efficient blind restoration method to remove mild blur in natural images. Contrary to the mainstream, we focus on removing slight blur that is often present, damaging image quality and commonly generated by small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Mauricio Delbracio , Ignacio Garcia-Dorado , Sungjoon Choi , Damien Kelly , Peyman Milanfar

Image quality of PET reconstructions is degraded by subject motion occurring during the acquisition. MR-based motion correction approaches have been studied for PET/MR scanners and have been successful at capturing regular motion patterns,…

Blind image restoration is a non-convex problem which involves restoration of images from an unknown blur kernel. The factors affecting the performance of this restoration are how much prior information about an image and a blur kernel are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Chia-Chen Lee , Wen-Liang Hwang

In this paper we analyze the blind deconvolution of an image and an unknown blur in a coded imaging system. The measurements consist of subsampled convolution of an unknown blurring kernel with multiple random binary modulations (coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg