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While recent years have witnessed a dramatic upsurge of exploiting deep neural networks toward solving image denoising, existing methods mostly rely on simple noise assumptions, such as additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), JPEG compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Kai Zhang , Yawei Li , Jingyun Liang , Jiezhang Cao , Yulun Zhang , Hao Tang , Deng-Ping Fan , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Modeling and synthesizing low-light raw noise is a fundamental problem for computational photography and image processing applications. Although most recent works have adopted physics-based models to synthesize noise, the signal-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Feng Zhang , Bin Xu , Zhiqiang Li , Xinran Liu , Qingbo Lu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

The prevalent convolutional neural network (CNN) based image denoising methods extract features of images to restore the clean ground truth, achieving high denoising accuracy. However, these methods may ignore the underlying distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yang Liu , Saeed Anwar , Zhenyue Qin , Pan Ji , Sabrina Caldwell , Tom Gedeon

Self-supervised image denoising methods have traditionally relied on either architectural constraints or specialized loss functions that require prior knowledge of the noise distribution to avoid the trivial identity mapping. Among these,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Brayan Monroy , Jorge Bacca , Julián Tachella

The success of state-of-the-art machine learning is essentially all based on different variations of gradient descent algorithms that minimize some version of a cost or loss function. A fundamental limitation, however, is the need to train…

In this paper, we investigate the following question: Can we obtain adversarially-trained models without training on adversarial examples? Our intuition is that training a model with inherent stochasticity, i.e., optimizing the parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ayoub Arous , Andres F Lopez-Lopera , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Ihsen Alouani

We consider a bilevel optimisation strategy based on normalised residual whiteness loss for estimating the weighted total variation parameter maps for denoising images corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise. Compared to supervised and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Monica Pragliola , Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza

Self-supervised learning for image denoising problems in the presence of denaturation for noisy data is a crucial approach in machine learning. However, theoretical understanding of the performance of the approach that uses denatured data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-17 Hiroki Waida , Kimihiro Yamazaki , Atsushi Tokuhisa , Mutsuyo Wada , Yuichiro Wada

Image denoising can be described as the problem of mapping from a noisy image to a noise-free image. In another paper, we show that multi-layer perceptrons can achieve outstanding image denoising performance for various types of noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Harold Christopher Burger , Christian J. Schuler , Stefan Harmeling

Recently, Stein's unbiased risk estimator (SURE) has been applied to unsupervised training of deep neural network Gaussian denoisers that outperformed classical non-deep learning based denoisers and yielded comparable performance to those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Magauiya Zhussip , Shakarim Soltanayev , Se Young Chun

Most existing zero-shot learning methods consider the problem as a visual semantic embedding one. Given the demonstrated capability of Generative Adversarial Networks(GANs) to generate images, we instead leverage GANs to imagine unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yizhe Zhu , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Bingchen Liu , Xi Peng , Ahmed Elgammal

Most approaches to dense anomaly detection rely on generative modeling or on discriminative methods that train with negative data. We consider a recent hybrid method that optimizes the same shared representation according to cross-entropy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Anja Delić , Matej Grcić , Siniša Šegvić

Generative adversial network (GAN) is a type of generative model that maps a high-dimensional noise to samples in target distribution. However, the dimension of noise required in GAN is not well understood. Previous approaches view GAN as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ziran Zhu , Tongda Xu , Ling Li , Yan Wang

Transmission electron microscope (TEM) images are often corrupted by noise, hindering their interpretation. To address this issue, we propose a deep learning-based approach using simulated images. Using density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-22 Jinwoong Chae , Sungwook Hong , Sungkyu Kim , Sungroh Yoon , Gunn Kim

We propose a general framework for solving inverse problems in the presence of noise that requires no signal prior, no noise estimate, and no clean training data. We only require that the forward model be available and that the noise be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Hirofumi Kobayashi , Ahmet Can Solak , Joshua Batson , Loic A. Royer

Geometric data analysis relies on graphs that are either given as input or inferred from data. These graphs are often treated as "correct" when solving downstream tasks such as graph signal denoising. But real-world graphs are known to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Valentin Debarnot , Vinith Kishore , Cheng Shi , Ivan Dokmanić

Learning from unlabeled and noisy data is one of the grand challenges of machine learning. As such, it has seen a flurry of research with new ideas proposed continuously. In this work, we revisit a classical idea: Stein's Unbiased Risk…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-24 Christopher A. Metzler , Ali Mousavi , Reinhard Heckel , Richard G. Baraniuk

We present a deep neural network to reduce coherent noise in three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging. Inspired by the cycle generative adversarial network, the denoising network was trained to learn a transform between two image…

The term blind denoising refers to the fact that the basis used for denoising is learnt from the noisy sample itself during denoising. Dictionary learning and transform learning based formulations for blind denoising are well known. But…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Angshul Majumdar

We derive upper bounds on the generalization error of learning algorithms based on their \emph{algorithmic transport cost}: the expected Wasserstein distance between the output hypothesis and the output hypothesis conditioned on an input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-09 Jingwei Zhang , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao