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In the field of face recognition, Sparse Representation (SR) has received considerable attention during the past few years. Most of the relevant literature focuses on holistic descriptors in closed-set identification applications. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Yongkang Wong , Mehrtash T. Harandi , Conrad Sanderson

The advancement of imaging devices and countless image data generated everyday impose an increasingly high demand on efficient and effective image denoising. In this paper, we present a computationally simple denoising algorithm, termed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Zhaoming Kong , Jiahuan Zhang , Xiaowei Yang

In this letter, we investigate the shrinkage problem for the non-local means (NLM) image denoising. In particular, we derive the closed-form of the optimal blockwise shrinkage for NLM that minimizes the Stein's unbiased risk estimator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Yue Wu , Brian Tracey , Premkumar Natarajan , Joseph P. Noonan

Sparse coding (SC) is an unsupervised learning scheme that has received an increasing amount of interests in recent years. However, conventional SC vectorizes the input images, which destructs the intrinsic spatial structures of the images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Fei Jiang , Xiao-Yang Liu , Hongtao Lu , Ruimin Shen

Nonlocal self-similarity within natural images has become an increasingly popular prior in deep-learning models. Despite their successful image restoration performance, such models remain largely uninterpretable due to their black-box…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Nikola Janjušević , Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani , Adeen Flinker , Yao Wang

As we aim at alleviating the curse of high-dimensionality, subspace learning is becoming more popular. Existing approaches use either information about global or local structure of the data, and few studies simultaneously focus on global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Nan Zhou , Yangyang Xu , Hong Cheng , Jun Fang , Witold Pedrycz

Hyperspectral super-resolution (HSR) is a problem that aims to estimate an image of high spectral and spatial resolutions from a pair of co-registered multispectral (MS) and hyperspectral (HS) images, which have coarser spectral and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Ruiyuan Wu , Wing-Kin Ma , Xiao Fu , Qiang Li

In this work we introduce a novel stochastic algorithm dubbed SNIPS, which draws samples from the posterior distribution of any linear inverse problem, where the observation is assumed to be contaminated by additive white Gaussian noise.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Bahjat Kawar , Gregory Vaksman , Michael Elad

Natural images are often affected by random noise and image denoising has long been a central topic in Computer Vision. Many algorithms have been introduced to remove the noise from the natural images, such as Gaussian, Wiener filtering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Hyuntaek Oh

Recently, it was demonstrated in [CS2012,CS2013] that the robustness of the classical Non-Local Means (NLM) algorithm [BCM2005] can be improved by incorporating $\ell^p (0 < p \leq 2)$ regression into the NLM framework. This general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Kunal N. Chaudhury

Sparse representation leads to an efficient way to approximately recover a signal by the linear composition of a few bases from a learnt dictionary, based on which various successful applications have been achieved. However, in the scenario…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Xiang Zhang , Jiarui Sun , Siwei Ma , Zhouchen Lin , Jian Zhang , Shiqi Wang , Wen Gao

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

Current CNN-based super-resolution (SR) methods process all locations equally with computational resources being uniformly assigned in space. However, since missing details in low-resolution (LR) images mainly exist in regions of edges and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Longguang Wang , Xiaoyu Dong , Yingqian Wang , Xinyi Ying , Zaiping Lin , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Image enhancement approaches often assume that the noise is signal independent, and approximate the degradation model as zero-mean additive Gaussian. However, this assumption does not hold for biomedical imaging systems where sensor-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Calvin-Khang Ta , Abhishek Aich , Akash Gupta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed inverse problem which consists in proposing high-resolution images consistent with a given low-resolution one. While most SR algorithms are deterministic, stochastic SR deals with designing a stochastic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Emile Pierret , Bruno Galerne

Most estimates for penalised linear regression can be viewed as posterior modes for an appropriate choice of prior distribution. Bayesian shrinkage methods, particularly the horseshoe estimator, have recently attracted a great deal of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-06 Zemei Xu , Daniel F. Schmidt , Enes Makalic , Guoqi Qian , John L. Hopper

Recently, the low-rank property of different components extracted from the image has been considered in man hyperspectral image denoising methods. However, these methods usually unfold the 3D tensor to 2D matrix or 1D vector to exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Hang Zhou , Yanchi Su , Zhanshan Li

Image clustering is a very useful technique that is widely applied to various areas, including remote sensing. Recently, visual representations by self-supervised learning have greatly improved the performance of image clustering. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Qinglin Li , Guoping Qiu

Non-local low-rank tensor approximation has been developed as a state-of-the-art method for hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising. Unfortunately, with more spectral bands for HSI, while the running time of these methods significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Wei He , Quanming Yao , Chao Li , Naoto Yokoya , Qibin Zhao

In genomic analysis, biomarker discovery, image recognition, and other systems involving machine learning, input variables can often be organized into different groups by their source or semantic category. Eliminating some groups of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Beibin Li , Nicholas Nuechterlein , Erin Barney , Caitlin Hudac , Pamela Ventola , Linda Shapiro , Frederick Shic