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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been successfully used in many low-level vision problems like image denoising. Although the conditional image generation techniques have led to large improvements in this task, there has been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Ioannis Marras , Grigorios G. Chrysos , Ioannis Alexiou , Gregory Slabaugh , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We propose a new approach to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve an improved performance with additional robustness to its so-called and well recognized mode collapse. We first proceed by mapping the desired data onto a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim

Synthesizing high quality saliency maps from noisy images is a challenging problem in computer vision and has many practical applications. Samples generated by existing techniques for saliency detection cannot handle the noise perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Prerana Mukherjee , Manoj Sharma , Megh Makwana , Ajay Pratap Singh , Avinash Upadhyay , Akkshita Trivedi , Brejesh Lall , Santanu Chaudhury

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

Medical imaging plays a significant role in detecting and treating various diseases. However, these images often happen to be of too poor quality, leading to decreased efficiency, extra expenses, and even incorrect diagnoses. Therefore, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Alnur Alimanov , Md Baharul Islam

Image reconstruction is an essential step of every medical imaging method, including Photoacoustic Tomography (PAT), which is a promising modality of imaging, that unites the benefits of both ultrasound and optical imaging methods.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Hesam Hakimnejad , Zohreh Azimifar , Narjes Goshtasbi

Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) has offered tremendous benefits in radiation restricted applications, but the quantum noise as resulted by the insufficient number of photons could potentially harm the diagnostic performance. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Xin Yi , Paul Babyn

Existing deep learning-based approaches for histopathology image analysis require large annotated training sets to achieve good performance; but annotating histopathology images is slow and resource-intensive. Conditional generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Sujata Butte , Haotian Wang , Min Xian , Aleksandar Vakanski

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have surfaced as a revolutionary element within the domain of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) imaging, providing an advanced resolution to the enduring issue of reconciling radiation exposure with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Yunuo Wang , Ningning Yang , Jialin Li

Synchrotron-based x-ray tomography is a noninvasive imaging technique that allows for reconstructing the internal structure of materials at high spatial resolutions from tens of micrometers to a few nanometers. In order to resolve sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Zhengchun Liu , Tekin Bicer , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Doga Gursoy , Francesco De Carlo , Ian Foster

One of the most challenges in medical imaging is the lack of data. It is proven that classical data augmentation methods are useful but still limited due to the huge variation in images. Using generative adversarial networks (GAN) is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Amine Amyar , Su Ruan , Pierre Vera , Pierre Decazes , Romain Modzelewski

Limited angle CT reconstruction is an under-determined linear inverse problem that requires appropriate regularization techniques to be solved. In this work we study how pre-trained generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle M. Champley

In recent years, research on image generation methods has been developing fast. The auto-encoding variational Bayes method (VAEs) was proposed in 2013, which uses variational inference to learn a latent space from the image database and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Guoqiang Zhong , Wei Gao , Yongbin Liu , Youzhao Yang

Positron emission tomography (PET) is the most sensitive molecular imaging modality routinely applied in our modern healthcare. High radioactivity caused by the injected tracer dose is a major concern in PET imaging and limits its clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Yuxin Xue , Yige Peng , Lei Bi , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

Gating is commonly used in PET imaging to reduce respiratory motion blurring and facilitate more sophisticated motion correction methods. In the applications of low dose PET, however, reducing injection dose causes increased noise and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Bo Zhou , Yu-Jung Tsai , Chi Liu

Positron emission tomography (PET) image synthesis plays an important role, which can be used to boost the training data for computer aided diagnosis systems. However, existing image synthesis methods have problems in synthesizing the low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng , Michael Fulham

Observations of astrophysical objects such as galaxies are limited by various sources of random and systematic noise from the sky background, the optical system of the telescope and the detector used to record the data. Conventional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Kevin Schawinski , Ce Zhang , Hantian Zhang , Lucas Fowler , Gokula Krishnan Santhanam

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

Improving speech system performance in noisy environments remains a challenging task, and speech enhancement (SE) is one of the effective techniques to solve the problem. Motivated by the promising results of generative adversarial networks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Daniel Michelsanti , Zheng-Hua Tan