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Modern digital cameras rely on the sequential execution of separate image processing steps to produce realistic images. The first two steps are usually related to denoising and demosaicking where the former aims to reduce noise from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Recent diffusion models have exhibited great potential in generative modeling tasks. Part of their success can be attributed to the ability of training stable on huge sets of paired synthetic data. However, adapting these models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yiyang Shen , Mingqiang Wei , Yongzhen Wang , Xueyang Fu , Jing Qin

Demosaicking and denoising are among the most crucial steps of modern digital camera pipelines and their joint treatment is a highly ill-posed inverse problem where at-least two-thirds of the information are missing and the rest are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Video denoising aims at removing noise from videos to recover clean ones. Some existing works show that optical flow can help the denoising by exploiting the additional spatial-temporal clues from nearby frames. However, the flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jiezhang Cao , Qin Wang , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

In image restoration, single-step discriminative mappings often lack fine details via expectation learning, whereas generative paradigms suffer from inefficient multi-step sampling and noise-residual coupling. To address this dilemma, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zihao Fan , Xin Lu , Jie Xiao , Dong Li , Jie Huang , Xueyang Fu

Humans can robustly learn novel visual concepts even when images undergo various deformations and lose certain information. Mimicking the same behavior and synthesizing deformed instances of new concepts may help visual recognition systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Zitian Chen , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Xiong Wang , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Martial Hebert

Low-light raw denoising is an important and valuable task in computational photography where learning-based methods trained with paired real data are mainstream. However, the limited data volume and complicated noise distribution have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Yuzhi Wang , Hua Huang

During the acquisition of an image from its source, noise always becomes an integral part of it. Various algorithms have been used in past to denoise the images. Image denoising still has scope for improvement. Visual information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Santosh Paudel , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Pradip Singh Maharjan , Rameshwar Rijal

Modeling and synthesizing image noise is an important aspect in many computer vision applications. The long-standing additive white Gaussian and heteroscedastic (signal-dependent) noise models widely used in the literature provide only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Abdelrahman Abdelhamed , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality (HQ) images from degraded low-quality (LQ) ones by reversing the effects of degradation. Existing generative models for image restoration, including diffusion and score-based models, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Haina Qin , Wenyang Luo , Libin Wang , Dandan Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Most existing non-blind restoration methods are based on the assumption that a precise degradation model is known. As the degradation process can only be partially known or inaccurately modeled, images may not be well restored. Rain streak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Dongwei Ren , Wangmeng Zuo , David Zhang , Lei Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In dense foggy scenes, existing optical flow methods are erroneous. This is due to the degradation caused by dense fog particles that break the optical flow basic assumptions such as brightness and gradient constancy. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wending Yan , Aashish Sharma , Robby T. Tan

With the advent of advances in self-supervised learning, paired clean-noisy data are no longer required in deep learning-based image denoising. However, existing blind denoising methods still require the assumption with regard to noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Kanggeun Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is a crucial step in enhancing the quality of HSIs. Noise modeling methods can fit noise distributions to generate synthetic HSIs to train denoising networks. However, the noise in captured HSIs is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yingkai Zhang , Tao Zhang , Jing Nie , Ying Fu

Learning based single image super-resolution (SISR) for real-world images has been an active research topic yet a challenging task, due to the lack of paired low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) training images. Most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Wanjie Sun , Zhenzhong Chen

Image denoising is a typical ill-posed problem due to complex degradation. Leading methods based on normalizing flows have tried to solve this problem with an invertible transformation instead of a deterministic mapping. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , H. Yang

Rectified flow models have become a de facto standard in image generation due to their stable sampling trajectories and high-fidelity outputs. Despite their strong generative capabilities, they face critical limitations in image editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Sung-Hoon Yoon , Minghan Li , Gaspard Beaudouin , Congcong Wen , Muhammad Rafay Azhar , Mengyu Wang

We introduce ImitationFlow, a novel Deep generative model that allows learning complex globally stable, stochastic, nonlinear dynamics. Our approach extends the Normalizing Flows framework to learn stable Stochastic Differential Equations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Julen Urain , Michelle Ginesi , Davide Tateo , Jan Peters

Denoising generative models, such as diffusion and flow-based models, produce high-quality samples but require many denoising steps due to discretization error. Flow maps, which estimate the average velocity between timesteps, mitigate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Kyungmin Lee , Sihyun Yu , Jinwoo Shin

Language models are prone to dataset biases, known as shortcuts and spurious correlations in data, which often result in performance drop on new data. We present a new debiasing framework called ``FairFlow'' that mitigates dataset biases by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri