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This paper introduces a novel approach to image denoising that leverages the advantages of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Specifically, we propose a model that combines elements of the Pix2Pix model and the Wasserstein GAN (WGAN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Luca Tirel , Ali Mohamed Ali , Hashim A. Hashim

Since their invention, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have become a popular approach for learning to model a distribution of real (unlabeled) data. Convergence problems during training are overcome by Wasserstein GANs which minimize…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Henning Petzka , Asja Fischer , Denis Lukovnicov

Image reconstruction including image restoration and denoising is a challenging problem in the field of image computing. We present a new method, called X-GANs, for reconstruction of arbitrary corrupted resource based on a variant of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Longfei Liu , Sheng Li , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven successful for unsupervised image generation. Several works have extended GANs to image inpainting by conditioning the generation with parts of the image to be reconstructed. Despite their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Cyprien Ruffino , Romain Hérault , Eric Laloy , Gilles Gasso

Degradation of image quality due to the presence of haze is a very common phenomenon. Existing DehazeNet [3], MSCNN [11] tackled the drawbacks of hand crafted haze relevant features. However, these methods have the problem of color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Akshay Dudhane , Subrahmanyam Murala

Visible watermark plays an important role in image copyright protection and the robustness of a visible watermark to an attack is shown to be essential. To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of watermark, watermark removal attracts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Xiang Li , Chan Lu , Danni Cheng , Wei-Hong Li , Mei Cao , Bo Liu , Jiechao Ma , Wei-Shi Zheng

Compression artifacts arise in images whenever a lossy compression algorithm is applied. These artifacts eliminate details present in the original image, or add noise and small structures; because of these effects they make images less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Leonardo Galteri , Lorenzo Seidenari , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Haze removal has been a very challenging problem due to its ill-posedness, which is more ill-posed if the input data is only a single hazy image. In this paper, we present a new approach for removing haze from a single input image. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Wei Wang , Chuanjiang He

Single image dehazing, which aims to recover the clear image solely from an input hazy or foggy image, is a challenging ill-posed problem. Analysing existing approaches, the common key step is to estimate the haze density of each pixel. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yafei Song , Jia Li , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaowu Chen

Images captured under outdoor scenes usually suffer from low contrast and limited visibility due to suspended atmospheric particles, which directly affects the quality of photos. Despite numerous image dehazing methods have been proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Chongyi Li , Jichang Guo , Fatih Porikli , Huazhu Fu , Yanwei Pang

In the recent years Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated significant progress in generating authentic looking data. In this work we introduce our simple method to exploit the advancements in well established image-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Eoin Brophy , Zhengwei Wang , Tomas E. Ward

Image denoising aims to remove noise while preserving structural details and perceptual realism, yet distortion-driven methods often produce over-smoothed reconstructions, especially under strong noise and distribution shift. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

Generative modeling over natural images is one of the most fundamental machine learning problems. However, few modern generative models, including Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Nets (WGANs), are studied on manifold-valued images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Zhiwu Huang , Jiqing Wu , Luc Van Gool

Wasserstein-GANs have been introduced to address the deficiencies of generative adversarial networks (GANs) regarding the problems of vanishing gradients and mode collapse during the training, leading to improved convergence behaviour and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jan Müller , Reinhard Klein , Michael Weinmann

The adverse haze weather condition has brought considerable difficulties in vision-based environmental applications. While, until now, most of the existing environmental monitoring studies are under ordinary conditions, and the studies of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Ke Wang , Siyuan Zhang , Junlan Chen , Fan Ren , Lei Xiao

Hazy images are often subject to color distortion, blurring, and other visible quality degradation. Some existing CNN-based methods have great performance on removing homogeneous haze, but they are not robust in non-homogeneous case. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Minghan Fu , Huan Liu , Yankun Yu , Jun Chen , Keyan Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven successful for unsupervised image generation. Several works extended GANs to image inpainting by conditioning the generation with parts of the image one wants to reconstruct. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Cyprien Ruffino , Romain Hérault , Eric Laloy , Gilles Gasso

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a very popular tool for implicitly learning high-dimensional probability distributions. Several improvements have been made to the original GAN formulation to address some of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Parimala Kancharla , Sumohana S. Channappayya

Image inpainting is one of the important tasks in computer vision which focuses on the reconstruction of missing regions in an image. The aim of this paper is to introduce an image inpainting model based on Wasserstein Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Daniel Vašata , Tomáš Halama , Magda Friedjungová

Haze removal is important for computational photography and computer vision applications. However, most of the existing methods for dehazing are designed for daytime images, and cannot always work well in the nighttime. Different from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Zengfu Wang