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Diffusion models have achieved significant progress in image generation. The pre-trained Stable Diffusion (SD) models are helpful for image deblurring by providing clear image priors. However, directly using a blurry image or pre-deblurred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Lingshun Kong , Jiawei Zhang , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy Ren , Xiaohe Wu , Jiangxin Dong , Jinshan Pan

It is well-known that if a network aims to learn how to deblur, it should understand the blur process. Blurring is naturally caused by the convolution of the sharp image with the blur kernel. Thus, allowing the network to learn the blur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xintian Mao , Haofei Song , Yin-Nian Liu , Qingli Li , Yan Wang

While deep learning has achieved remarkable success across a wide range of applications, its theoretical understanding of representation learning remains limited. Deep neural kernels provide a principled framework to interpret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yong-Ming Tian , Shuang Liang , Shao-Qun Zhang , Feng-Lei Fan

We present a novel, blind, single image deblurring method that utilizes information regarding blur kernels. Our model solves the deblurring problem by dividing it into two successive tasks: (1) blur kernel estimation and (2) sharp image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Sungkwon An , Hyungmin Roh , Myungjoo Kang

Gaussian processes (GPs) stand as crucial tools in machine learning and signal processing, with their effectiveness hinging on kernel design and hyper-parameter optimization. This paper presents a novel GP linear multiple kernel (LMK) and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Richard Cornelius Suwandi , Zhidi Lin , Feng Yin , Zhiguo Wang , Sergios Theodoridis

Blind image super-resolution (BISR) aims to reconstruct a high-resolution image from its low-resolution counterpart degraded by unknown blur kernel and noise. Many deep neural network based methods have been proposed to tackle this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Hongyi Zheng , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

While random Fourier features are a classic tool in kernel methods, their utility as a pre-processing step for deep learning on tabular data has been largely overlooked. Motivated by shortcomings in tabular deep learning pipelines -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Renat Sergazinov , Jing Wu , Shao-An Yin

In recent years, the removal of motion blur in photographs has seen impressive progress in the hands of deep learning-based methods, trained to map directly from blurry to sharp images. For this reason, approaches that explicitly use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Guillermo Carbajal , Patricia Vitoria , José Lezama , Pablo Musé

Fine-grained image retrieval (FGIR) typically relies on supervision from seen categories to learn discriminative embeddings for retrieving unseen categories. However, such supervision often biases retrieval models toward the semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shijie Wang , Yadan Luo , Zijian Wang , Xin Yu , Zi Huang

In this paper, we tackle the problem of blind image super-resolution(SR) with a reformulated degradation model and two novel modules. Following the common practices of blind SR, our method proposes to improve both the kernel estimation as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Ziwei Luo , Haibin Huang , Lei Yu , Youwei Li , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Blood flow reconstruction in the vasculature is important for many clinical applications. However, in clinical settings, the available data are often quite limited. For instance, Transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) is a noninvasive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Shaghayegh Z. Ashtiani , Mohammad Sarabian , Kaveh Laksari , Hessam Babaee

Blind pansharpening addresses the problem of generating a high spatial-resolution multi-spectral (HRMS) image given a low spatial-resolution multi-spectral (LRMS) image with the guidance of its associated spatially misaligned high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Lantao Yu , Dehong Liu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

We address the problem of upsampling a low-resolution (LR) depth map using a registered high-resolution (HR) color image of the same scene. Previous methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) combine nonlinear activations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Beomjun Kim , Jean Ponce , Bumsub Ham

In this work, we propose FFDP, a set of IO-aware non-GEMM fused kernels supplemented with a distributed framework for image registration at unprecedented scales. Image registration is an inverse problem fundamental to biomedical and life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rohit Jena , Vedant Zope , Pratik Chaudhari , James C. Gee

In neuroimaging studies, it becomes increasingly important to study associations between different imaging modalities using image-on-image regression (IIR), which faces challenges in interpretation, statistical inference, and prediction.…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-24 Guoxuan Ma , Bangyao Zhao , Hasan Abu-Amara , Jian Kang

Computing a consensus object from a set of given objects is a core problem in machine learning and pattern recognition. One popular approach is to formulate it as an optimization problem using the generalized median. Previous methods like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Andreas Nienkötter , Xiaoyi Jiang

Super-resolution suffers from an innate ill-posed problem that a single low-resolution (LR) image can be from multiple high-resolution (HR) images. Recent studies on the flow-based algorithm solve this ill-posedness by learning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Ki-Ung Song , Dongseok Shim , Kang-wook Kim , Jae-young Lee , Younggeun Kim

We present BKP, a user-friendly and extensible R package that implements the Beta Kernel Process (BKP) -- a fully nonparametric and computationally efficient framework for modeling spatially varying binomial probabilities. The BKP model…

Computation · Statistics 2025-09-16 Jiangyan Zhao , Kunhai Qing , Jin Xu

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the ill-posed blind image deconvolution (blind image deblurring) problem using deep generative networks. We employ two separate deep generative models - one trained to produce sharp images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Muhammad Asim , Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

The purpose of face super-resolution (FSR) is to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) face images from low-resolution (LR) inputs. With the continuous advancement of deep learning technologies, contemporary prior-guided FSR methods initially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qiu Yang , Xiao Sun , Xin-yu Li , Feng-Qi Cui , Yu-Tong Guo , Shuang-Zhen Hu , Ping Luo , Si-Ying Li