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Image denoising is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most supervised denoising methods learn to reconstruct clean images from noisy inputs, which have intrinsic spectral bias and tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yujin Wang , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

Reducing speckle and limiting the variations of the physical parameters in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is often a key-step to fully exploit the potential of such data. Nowadays, deep learning approaches produce state of the art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Inès Meraoumia , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

Speckle noise severely limits the quality of images acquired from coherent imaging systems such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and medical ultrasound. Traditional second-order PDE-based despeckling approaches, although popular, often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Manish Kumar , Rajendra K. Ray

We propose methodologies to train highly accurate and efficient deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image super resolution (SR). A cascade training approach to deep learning is proposed to improve the accuracy of the neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Haoyu Ren , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has gained considerable attention recently for 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis due to its remarkable synthesis quality. However, image blurriness caused by defocus or motion, which often occurs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Li Ma , Xiaoyu Li , Jing Liao , Qi Zhang , Xuan Wang , Jue Wang , Pedro V. Sander

Imaging through scattering is an important, yet challenging problem. Tremendous progress has been made by exploiting the deterministic input-output "transmission matrix" for a fixed medium. However, this "one-to-one" mapping is highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-27 Yunzhe Li , Yujia Xue , Lei Tian

Stack filters are a special case of non-linear filters. They have a good performance for filtering images with different types of noise while preserving edges and details. A stack filter decomposes an input image into stacks of binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-11 María Elena Buemi , Alejandro C. Frery , Heitor S. Ramos

In ultrasound imaging the appearance of homogeneous regions of tissue is subject to speckle, which for certain applications can make the detection of tissue irregularities difficult. To cope with this, it is common practice to apply speckle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Rüdiger Göbl , Christoph Hennersperger , Nassir Navab

The degradation of the acquired signal by Poisson noise is a common problem for various imaging applications, such as medical imaging, night vision and microscopy. Up to now, many state-of-the-art Poisson denoising techniques mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Wensen Feng , Yunjin Chen

The speckle noise inherent in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery significantly degrades image quality and complicates subsequent analysis. Given that SAR speckle is multiplicative and Gamma-distributed, effectively despeckling SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Junhyuk Heo

Nowadays, many applications rely on images of high quality to ensure good performance in conducting their tasks. However, noise goes against this objective as it is an unavoidable issue in most applications. Therefore, it is essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ahmed Ben Said , Rachid Hadjidj , Kamel Eddine Melkemi , Sebti Foufou

The Fields of Experts (FoE) image prior model, a filter-based higher-order Markov Random Fields (MRF) model, has been shown to be effective for many image restoration problems. Motivated by the successes of FoE-based approaches, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Yunjin Chen , Wensen Feng , René Ranftl , Hong Qiao , Thomas Pock

Speckle noise suppression is a challenging and crucial pre-processing stage for higher-level image analysis. In this work, a new attempt has been made using telegraph total variation equation and fuzzy set theory for speckle noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Sudeb Majee , Subit K Jain , Rajendra K Ray , Ananta K Majee

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are inherently corrupted by speckle noise, limiting their utility in high-precision applications. While deep learning methods have shown promise in SAR despeckling, most methods employ a single unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziqing Ma , Chang Yang , Zhichang Guo , Yao Li

Deep learning (DL) in remote sensing has nowadays become an effective operative tool: it is largely used in applications such as change detection, image restoration, segmentation, detection and classification. With reference to synthetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

In recent years, Diffusion Models have become the new state-of-the-art in deep generative modeling, ending the long-time dominance of Generative Adversarial Networks. Inspired by the Regularization by Denoising principle, we introduce an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Pasquale Cascarano , Lorenzo Stacchio , Andrea Sebastiani , Alessandro Benfenati , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Gustavo Marfia

SAR despeckling is a problem of paramount importance in remote sensing, since it represents the first step of many scene analysis algorithms. Recently, deep learning techniques have outperformed classical model-based despeckling algorithms.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

As an integral component of blind image deblurring, non-blind deconvolution removes image blur with a given blur kernel, which is essential but difficult due to the ill-posed nature of the inverse problem. The predominant approach is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Dong Gong , Zhen Zhang , Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Chunhua Shen , Yanning Zhang

In recent years, deep neural network-based restoration methods have achieved state-of-the-art results in various image deblurring tasks. However, one major drawback of deep learning-based deblurring networks is that large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M. Patel

This paper investigates the problem of recovering hyperspectral (HS) images from single RGB images. To tackle such a severely ill-posed problem, we propose a physically-interpretable, compact, efficient, and end-to-end learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Zhiyu Zhu , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Sen Jia , Qingfu Zhang