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GAN-based image restoration inverts the generative process to repair images corrupted by known degradations. Existing unsupervised methods must be carefully tuned for each task and degradation level. In this work, we make StyleGAN image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yohan Poirier-Ginter , Jean-François Lalonde

Image deblurring is a notoriously challenging ill-posed inverse problem. In recent years, a wide variety of approaches have been proposed based upon regularization at the level of the image or on techniques from machine learning. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Gabriel Rioux , Rustum Choksi , Tim Hoheisel , Pierre Marechal , Christopher Scarvelis

Nowadays, many applications rely on images of high quality to ensure good performance in conducting their tasks. However, noise goes against this objective as it is an unavoidable issue in most applications. Therefore, it is essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ahmed Ben Said , Rachid Hadjidj , Kamel Eddine Melkemi , Sebti Foufou

We propose a new type of General Adversarial Network (GAN) to resolve a common issue with Deep Learning. We develop a novel architecture that can be applied to existing latent vector based GAN structures that allows them to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Connah Kendrick , David Gillespie , Moi Hoon Yap

State-of-the-art maximum entropy models for texture synthesis are built from statistics relying on image representations defined by convolutional neural networks (CNN). Such representations capture rich structures in texture images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Antoine Brochard , Sixin Zhang , Stéphane Mallat

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a crucial imaging modality for viewing internal body structures. This research work analyses the performance of popular GAN models for accurate and precise MRI reconstruction by enhancing image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Humaira Mehwish , Hina Shakir , Muneeba Rashid , Asarim Aamir , Reema Qaiser Khan

While X-ray imaging is indispensable in medical diagnostics, it inherently carries with it those noises and limitations on resolution that mask the details necessary for diagnosis. B/W X-ray images require a careful balance between noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Rishabh Kumar Sharma , Mukund Sharma , Pushkar Sharma , Jeetashree Aparjeeta

Despite the breakthroughs in quality of image enhancement, an end-to-end solution for simultaneous recovery of the finer texture details and sharpness for degraded images with low resolution is still unsolved. Some existing approaches focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Soumya Shubhra Ghosh , Yang Hua , Sankha Subhra Mukherjee , Neil Robertson

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

This paper proposes Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks (MGANs), a method for training generative neural networks for efficient texture synthesis. While deep neural network approaches have recently demonstrated remarkable results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Chuan Li , Michael Wand

Facial image inpainting is a problem that is widely studied, and in recent years the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks, has led to improvements in the field. Unfortunately some issues persists, in particular when blending the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Jireh Jam , Connah Kendrick , Vincent Drouard , Kevin Walker , Gee-Sern Hsu , Moi Hoon Yap

Objective measures of image quality generally operate by comparing pixels of a "degraded" image to those of the original. Relative to human observers, these measures are overly sensitive to resampling of texture regions (e.g., replacing one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Keyan Ding , Kede Ma , Shiqi Wang , Eero P. Simoncelli

The availability of large-scale datasets has helped unleash the true potential of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, for the single-image denoising problem, capturing a real dataset is an unacceptably expensive and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

Despite the breakthroughs in accuracy and speed of single image super-resolution using faster and deeper convolutional neural networks, one central problem remains largely unsolved: how do we recover the finer texture details when we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Christian Ledig , Lucas Theis , Ferenc Huszar , Jose Caballero , Andrew Cunningham , Alejandro Acosta , Andrew Aitken , Alykhan Tejani , Johannes Totz , Zehan Wang , Wenzhe Shi

In the past decade, exemplar-based texture synthesis algorithms have seen strong gains in performance by matching statistics of deep convolutional neural networks. However, these algorithms require regularization terms or user-added spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Liping Yin , Albert Chua

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

When imaging through a semi-reflective medium such as glass, the reflection of another scene can often be found in the captured images. It degrades the quality of the images and affects their subsequent analyses. In this paper, a novel deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Tingtian Li , Yuk-Hee Chan , Daniel P. K. Lun

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced significantly in visual representation learning and recognition. However, they face notable challenges in performance and computational efficiency when dealing with real-world, multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wenzhuo Liu , Fei Zhu , Cheng-Lin Liu

Nosie is an important cause of low quality Optical coherence tomography (OCT) image. The neural network model based on Convolutional neural networks(CNNs) has demonstrated its excellent performance in image denoising. However, OCT image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Jie Du , Xujian Yang , Kecheng Jin , Xuanzheng Qi , Hu Chen

Recent years have witnessed the great success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in image denoising. Albeit deeper network and larger model capacity generally benefit performance, it remains a challenging practical issue to train…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Yali Peng , Yue Cao , Shigang Liu , Jian Yang , Wangmeng Zuo