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The cost-effectiveness and practical harmlessness of ultrasound imaging have made it one of the most widespread tools for medical diagnosis. Unfortunately, the beam-forming based image formation produces granular speckle noise, blurring,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Alex M. Bronstein , Oleg V. Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky

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

Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image denoising methods have been widely studied recently, because of their high-speed processing capability and good visual quality. However, most of the existing CNN-based denoisers learn the image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Rui Zhao , Kin-Man Lam , Daniel P. K. Lun

Image denoising, one of the essential inverse problems, targets to remove noise/artifacts from input images. In general, digital image denoising algorithms, executed on computers, present latency due to several iterations implemented in,…

The inherent ill-posed nature of image reconstruction problems, due to limitations in the physical acquisition process, is typically addressed by introducing a regularisation term that incorporates prior knowledge about the underlying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Naïl Khelifa , Ferdia Sherry , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In PET, the amount of relative (signal-dependent) noise present in different body regions can be significantly different and is inherently related to the number of counts present in that region. The number of counts in a region depends, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ye Li , Jianan Cui , Junyu Chen , Guodong Zeng , Scott Wollenweber , Floris Jansen , Se-In Jang , Kyungsang Kim , Kuang Gong , Quanzheng Li

Deep neural networks provide state-of-the-art performance for image denoising, where the goal is to recover a near noise-free image from a noisy observation. The underlying principle is that neural networks trained on large datasets have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Reinhard Heckel , Wen Huang , Paul Hand , Vladislav Voroninski

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

In most state-of-the-art image restoration methods, the sum of a data-fidelity and a regularization term is optimized using an iterative algorithm such as ADMM (alternating direction method of multipliers). In recent years, the possibility…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Fingerprint image denoising is a very important step in fingerprint identification. to improve the denoising effect of fingerprint image,we have designs a fingerprint denoising algorithm based on deep encoder-decoder network,which encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Weiya Fan

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been widely used in unstructured datasets, one of which is image denoising. Image denoising is a noisy image reconstruction process that aims to reduce additional noise that occurs from the noisy image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Bintang Pradana Erlangga Putra , Heri Prasetyo , Esti Suryani

In plug-and-play image restoration, the regularization is performed using powerful denoisers such as nonlocal means (NLM) or BM3D. This is done within the framework of alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Unni V. S. , Sanjay Ghosh , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Image denoising is the process of removing noise from noisy images, which is an image domain transferring task, i.e., from a single or several noise level domains to a photo-realistic domain. In this paper, we propose an effective image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Xianxu Hou , Hongming Luo , Jingxin Liu , Bolei Xu , Ke Sun , Yuanhao Gong , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu

Discriminative model learning for image denoising has been recently attracting considerable attentions due to its favorable denoising performance. In this paper, we take one step forward by investigating the construction of feed-forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Yunjin Chen , Deyu Meng , Lei Zhang

We propose a novel multi-layer neural network architecture that gives a promising neural network empowered optimization approach to the image restoration problem. The proposed architecture is motivated by the recent study of monotone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Haruya Shimizu , Masahiro Yukawa

Decomposing an image through Fourier, DCT or wavelet transforms is still a common approach in digital image processing, in number of applications such as denoising. In this context, data-driven dictionaries and in particular exploiting the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

Restoring images affected by various types of degradation, such as noise, blur, or improper exposure, remains a significant challenge in computer vision. While recent trends favor complex monolithic all-in-one architectures, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Joanna Wiekiera , Martyna Zur

Inverse problems span across diverse fields. In medical contexts, computed tomography (CT) plays a crucial role in reconstructing a patient's internal structure, presenting challenges due to artifacts caused by inherently ill-posed inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Ishak Ayad , Nicolas Larue , Maï K. Nguyen

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods that employ application-specific denoisers have been proposed to solve inverse problems, including MRI reconstruction. However, training application-specific denoisers is not feasible for many applications due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Sizhuo Liu , Philip Schniter , Rizwan Ahmad

Recovering a high-quality image from noisy indirect measurements is an important problem with many applications. For such inverse problems, supervised deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based denoising methods have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Allard A. Hendriksen , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg