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Recently, deep learning methods such as the convolutional neural networks have gained prominence in the area of image denoising. This is owing to their proven ability to surpass state-of-the-art classical image denoising algorithms such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Basit O. Alawode , Mudassir Masood

In this study, SoftReMish, a new activation function designed to improve the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in image classification tasks, is proposed. Using the MNIST dataset, a standard CNN architecture consisting of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Mustafa Bayram Gücen

We propose a very fast and effective one-step restoring method for blurry face images. In the last decades, many blind deblurring algorithms have been proposed to restore latent sharp images. However, these algorithms run slowly because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Lingxiao Wang , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

We present an approach to accelerating a wide variety of image processing operators. Our approach uses a fully-convolutional network that is trained on input-output pairs that demonstrate the operator's action. After training, the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Qifeng Chen , Jia Xu , Vladlen Koltun

We investigate additive skip fusion in U-Net architectures for image denoising and denoising-centric multi-task learning (MTL). By replacing concatenative skips with gated additive fusion, the proposed Additive U-Net (AddUNet) constrains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Vikram Lakkavalli , Neelam Sinha

The state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied for various real-world applications, and achieved significant performance for cognitive problems. However, the increment of DNNs' width and depth in architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Xiao Peng Li , Qi Liu , Hing Cheung So

Deep neural networks for image super-resolution (SR) have demonstrated superior performance. However, the large memory and computation consumption hinders their deployment on resource-constrained devices. Binary neural networks (BNNs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Renjie Wei , Zechun Liu , Yuchen Fan , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang , Meng Li

Activation functions are essential to introduce nonlinearity into neural networks, with the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) often favored for its simplicity and effectiveness. Motivated by the structural similarity between a shallow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jiayun Li , Yuxiao Cheng , Yiwen Lu , Zhuofan Xia , Yilin Mo , Gao Huang

This paper aims to accelerate the test-time computation of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Unlike existing methods that are designed for approximating linear filters or linear responses, our method takes the nonlinear units into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Xiangyu Zhang , Jianhua Zou , Xiang Ming , Kaiming He , Jian Sun

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in image processing whose primary objective is to remove the noise while preserving the original image structure. In this work, we proposed a new architecture for image denoising. We have used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Sutanu Bera , Avisek Lahiri , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Object segmentation and structure localization are important steps in automated image analysis pipelines for microscopy images. We present a convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning architecture for segmentation of objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shan E Ahmed Raza , Linda Cheung , Muhammad Shaban , Simon Graham , David Epstein , Stella Pelengaris , Michael Khan , Nasir M. Rajpoot

In recent years there has been great interest in using deep neural networks (DNN) for super-resolution image reconstruction including for structured illumination microscopy (SIM). While these methods have shown very promising results, they…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Zachary Burns , Zhaowei Liu

Research has shown that convolutional neural networks contain significant redundancy, and high classification accuracy can be obtained even when weights and activations are reduced from floating point to binary values. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Yaman Umuroglu , Nicholas J. Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Philip Leong , Magnus Jahre , Kees Vissers

Super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) is a process aimed at enhancing spatial resolution of images, either from a single observation, based on the learned relation between low and high resolution, or from multiple images presenting the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Michal Kawulok , Pawel Benecki , Szymon Piechaczek , Krzysztof Hrynczenko , Daniel Kostrzewa , Jakub Nalepa

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising have recently attracted increasing research interest. However, plain networks cannot recover fine details for a complex task, such as real noisy images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Wangmeng Zuo , Bo Du , Chia-Wen Lin , David Zhang

Since the proposal of big data analysis and Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), the deep learning technology has received a great deal of attention and has been widely applied in the field of imaging processing. In this paper, we have an aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Lunke Fei , Ke Yan

Image restoration is a challenging and ill-posed problem which also has been a long-standing issue. However, most of learning based restoration methods are proposed to target one degradation type which means they are lack of generalization.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Chi-Mao Fan , Tsung-Jung Liu , Kuan-Hsien Liu

This paper proposes ReBNet, an end-to-end framework for training reconfigurable binary neural networks on software and developing efficient accelerators for execution on FPGA. Binary neural networks offer an intriguing opportunity for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Mohammad Ghasemzadeh , Mohammad Samragh , Farinaz Koushanfar

This paper proposes crack segmentation augmented by super resolution (SR) with deep neural networks. In the proposed method, a SR network is jointly trained with a binary segmentation network in an end-to-end manner. This joint learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Yuki Kondo , Norimichi Ukita

In this paper, we focus on fully connected deep neural networks utilizing the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) activation function for nonparametric estimation. We derive non-asymptotic bounds that lead to convergence rates, addressing both…