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Low-light images often suffer from limited visibility and multiple types of degradation, rendering low-light image enhancement (LIE) a non-trivial task. Some endeavors have been recently made to enhance low-light images using convolutional…
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We present Quanta Diffusion (QuDi), a powerful generative video reconstruction method for single-photon imaging. QuDi is an algorithm supporting the latest Quanta Image Sensors (QIS) and Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) for extremely…
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Quantum Sensing is a rapidly growing branch of research within the area of quantum science and technology offering key resources, beyond classical ones, with potential for commercialisation of novel (quantum) sensors. The exploitation of…
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We describe a novel method for training high-quality image denoising models based on unorganized collections of corrupted images. The training does not need access to clean reference images, or explicit pairs of corrupted images, and can…
Deep learning-based image denoising approaches have been extensively studied in recent years, prevailing in many public benchmark datasets. However, the stat-of-the-art networks are computationally too expensive to be directly applied on…