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This work proposes a learning-based statistical refinement method for improving the denoising results of a given denoiser without knowing the precise noise distribution or accessing clean images or calibration data. While there are many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Rihuan Ke

Random noise arising from physical processes is an inherent characteristic of measurements and a limiting factor for most signal processing and data analysis tasks. Given the recent interest in generative adversarial networks (GANs) for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Adam Wunderlich , Jack Sklar

Image demosaicking and denoising are the first two key steps of the color image production pipeline. The classical processing sequence has for a long time consisted of applying denoising first, and then demosaicking. Applying the operations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu Guo , Qiyu Jin , Gabriele Facciolo , Tieyong Zeng , Jean-Michel Morel

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) offer an effective solution to the image-to-image translation problem, thereby allowing for new possibilities in medical imaging. They can translate images from one imaging modality to another at a low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Agnieszka Tomczak , Aarushi Gupta , Slobodan Ilic , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni

Overfitting to synthetic training pairs remains a critical challenge in image dehazing, leading to poor generalization capability to real-world scenarios. To address this issue, existing approaches utilize unpaired realistic data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Haoyou Deng , Zhiqiang Li , Feng Zhang , Qingbo Lu , Zisheng Cao , Yuanjie Shao , Shuhang Gu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

A wide variety of deep generative models has been developed in the past decade. Yet, these models often struggle with simultaneously addressing three key requirements including: high sample quality, mode coverage, and fast sampling. We call…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Zhisheng Xiao , Karsten Kreis , Arash Vahdat

While deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved impressive success in image denoising with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), their performance remains limited on real-world noisy photographs. The main reason is that their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Shi Guo , Zifei Yan , Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Layout-aware text-to-image generation is a task to generate multi-object images that reflect layout conditions in addition to text conditions. The current layout-aware text-to-image diffusion models still have several issues, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Takahiro Shirakawa , Seiichi Uchida

Microscopy images often suffer from high levels of noise, which can hinder further analysis and interpretation. Content-aware image restoration (CARE) methods have been proposed to address this issue, but they often require large amounts of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Felix Fuentes-Hurtado , Jean-Baptiste Sibarita , Virgile Viasnoff

Deep learning methods have shown remarkable performance in image denoising, particularly when trained on large-scale paired datasets. However, acquiring such paired datasets for real-world scenarios poses a significant challenge. Although…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Xin Lin , Chao Ren , Xiao Liu , Jie Huang , Yinjie Lei

It's useful to automatically transform an image from its original form to some synthetic form (style, partial contents, etc.), while keeping the original structure or semantics. We define this requirement as the "image-to-image translation"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Hao Dong , Paarth Neekhara , Chao Wu , Yike Guo

The recent direction of unpaired image-to-image translation is on one hand very exciting as it alleviates the big burden in obtaining label-intensive pixel-to-pixel supervision, but it is on the other hand not fully satisfactory due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Rui Zhang , Tomas Pfister , Jia Li

Generative models have made significant progress in the tasks of modeling complex data distributions such as natural images. The introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and auto-encoders lead to the possibility of training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Tobias Hinz , Stefan Wermter

There is an emerging trend to leverage noisy image datasets in many visual recognition tasks. However, the label noise among the datasets severely degenerates the \mbox{performance of deep} learning approaches. Recently, one mainstream is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Jiangchao Yao , Jiajie Wang , Ivor Tsang , Ya Zhang , Jun Sun , Chengqi Zhang , Rui Zhang

Large amount of image denoising literature focuses on single channel images and often experimentally validates the proposed methods on tens of images at most. In this paper, we investigate the interaction between denoising and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Jiqing Wu , Radu Timofte , Zhiwu Huang , Luc Van Gool

Image denoising has achieved unprecedented progress as great efforts have been made to exploit effective deep denoisers. To improve the denoising performance in realworld, two typical solutions are used in recent trends: devising better…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Yunhao Zou , Ying Fu

Low quality depth poses a considerable challenge to computer vision algorithms. In this work we aim to enhance highly degraded, real-world depth images acquired by a low-cost sensor, for which an analytical noise model is unavailable. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Alona Baruhov , Guy Gilboa

In this paper, we tackle the problem of enhancing real-world low-light images with significant noise in an unsupervised fashion. Conventional unsupervised learning-based approaches usually tackle the low-light image enhancement problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Wei Xiong , Ding Liu , Xiaohui Shen , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

We present a method for training a neural network to perform image denoising without access to clean training examples or access to paired noisy training examples. Our method requires only a single noisy realization of each training example…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Nick Moran , Dan Schmidt , Yu Zhong , Patrick Coady

In this paper, we focus on generating realistic images from text descriptions. Current methods first generate an initial image with rough shape and color, and then refine the initial image to a high-resolution one. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Minfeng Zhu , Pingbo Pan , Wei Chen , Yi Yang