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Regularization-based image restoration has remained an active research topic in computer vision and image processing. It often leverages a guidance signal captured in different fields as an additional cue. In this work, we present a general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Youngjung Kim , Hyungjoo Jung , Dongbo Min , Kwanghoon Sohn

Image deblurring tries to eliminate degradation elements of an image causing blurriness and improve the quality of an image for better texture and object visualization. Traditionally, prior-based optimization approaches predominated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Sajjad Amrollahi Biyouki , Hoon Hwangbo

Blind image restoration (IR) is a common yet challenging problem in computer vision. Classical model-based methods and recent deep learning (DL)-based methods represent two different methodologies for this problem, each with their own…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Zongsheng Yue , Hongwei Yong , Qian Zhao , Lei Zhang , Deyu Meng , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

The accuracy of medical imaging-based diagnostics is directly impacted by the quality of the collected images. A passive approach to improve image quality is one that lags behind improvements in imaging hardware, awaiting better sensor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-23 Saeed Izadi , Zahra Mirikharaji , Mengliu Zhao , Ghassan Hamarneh

Classic image-restoration algorithms use a variety of priors, either implicitly or explicitly. Their priors are hand-designed and their corresponding weights are heuristically assigned. Hence, deep learning methods often produce superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Majed El Helou , Sabine Süsstrunk

The "deep image prior" proposed by Ulyanov et al. is an intriguing property of neural nets: a convolutional encoder-decoder network can be used as a prior for natural images. The network architecture implicitly introduces a bias; If we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Prithvijit Chakrabarty , Subhransu Maji

The present paper studies so-called deep image prior (DIP) techniques in the context of ill-posed inverse problems. DIP networks have been recently introduced for applications in image processing; also first experimental results for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Sören Dittmer , Tobias Kluth , Peter Maass , Daniel Otero Baguer

Image denoising is an essential part of many image processing and computer vision tasks due to inevitable noise corruption during image acquisition. Traditionally, many researchers have investigated image priors for the denoising, within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Tomographic image reconstruction is generally an ill-posed linear inverse problem. Such ill-posed inverse problems are typically regularized using prior knowledge of the sought-after object property. Recently, deep neural networks have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Sayantan Bhadra , Varun A. Kelkar , Frank J. Brooks , Mark A. Anastasio

The network flow optimization approach is offered for restoration of grayscale and color images corrupted by noise. The Ising models are used as a statistical background of the proposed method. The new multiresolution network flow minimum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Boris A. Zalesky

High resolution Magnetic Resonance (MR) images are desired for accurate diagnostics. In practice, image resolution is restricted by factors like hardware and processing constraints. Recently, deep learning methods have been shown to produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Tiantong Guo , Steve. J. Schiff , Vishal Monga

We present a comprehensive overview of the Deep Image Prior (DIP) framework and its applications to image reconstruction in computed tomography. Unlike conventional deep learning methods that rely on large, supervised datasets, the DIP…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Simon Arridge , Riccardo Barbano , Alexander Denker , Zeljko Kereta

This paper presents a new variational inference framework for image restoration and a convolutional neural network (CNN) structure that can solve the restoration problems described by the proposed framework. Earlier CNN-based image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Inverse problems in imaging are extensively studied, with a variety of strategies, tools, and theory that have been accumulated over the years. Recently, this field has been immensely influenced by the emergence of deep-learning techniques.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Gary Mataev , Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

Deep learning has been widely used for solving image reconstruction tasks but its deployability has been held back due to the shortage of high-quality training data. Unsupervised learning methods, such as the deep image prior (DIP),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Riccardo Barbano , Javier Antorán , Johannes Leuschner , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Bangti Jin , Željko Kereta

Deep neural networks trained as image denoisers are widely used as priors for solving imaging inverse problems. While Gaussian denoising is thought sufficient for learning image priors, we show that priors from deep models pre-trained as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Yuyang Hu , Albert Peng , Weijie Gan , Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The recent emergence of diffusion models has significantly advanced the precision of learnable priors, presenting innovative avenues for addressing inverse problems. Since inverse problems inherently entail maximum a posteriori estimation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiawei Zhang , Jiaxin Zhuang , Cheng Jin , Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

In this paper, we introduce Plug-and-Play (PnP) Flow Matching, an algorithm for solving imaging inverse problems. PnP methods leverage the strength of pre-trained denoisers, often deep neural networks, by integrating them in optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ségolène Martin , Anne Gagneux , Paul Hagemann , Gabriele Steidl

Learning-based methods especially with convolutional neural networks (CNN) are continuously showing superior performance in computer vision applications, ranging from image classification to restoration. For image classification, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Xiaoyu Lin

Diffusion and flow-based generative models have shown strong potential for image restoration. However, image denoising under unknown and varying noise conditions remains challenging, because the learned vector fields may become inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jigang Duan , Genwei Ma , Xu Jiang , Wenfeng Xu , Ping Yang , Xing Zhao