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In this paper, we propose a very deep fully convolutional encoding-decoding framework for image restoration such as denoising and super-resolution. The network is composed of multiple layers of convolution and de-convolution operators,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Xiao-Jiao Mao , Chunhua Shen , Yu-Bin Yang

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

Handling test-time unknown degradation is the major challenge in Blind Image Restoration (BIR), necessitating high model generalization. An effective strategy is to incorporate prior knowledge, either from human input or generative model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jen-Yuan Huang , Haofan Wang , Qixun Wang , Xu Bai , Hao Ai , Peng Xing , Jen-Tse Huang

The task of single image super-resolution (SISR) aims at reconstructing a high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) image. Although significant progress has been made by deep learning models, they are trained on synthetic paired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Zhen Han , Enyan Dai , Xu Jia , Xiaoying Ren , Shuaijun Chen , Chunjing Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Qi Tian

Deep unfolding networks (DUNs) are widely employed in illumination degradation image restoration (IDIR) to merge the interpretability of model-based approaches with the generalization of learning-based methods. However, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chunming He , Rihan Zhang , Fengyang Xiao , Chengyu Fang , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Sina Farsiu

Image inpainting consists of filling holes or missing parts of an image. Inpainting face images with symmetric characteristics is more challenging than inpainting a natural scene. None of the powerful existing models can fill out the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 MohammadReza Naderi , MohammadHossein Givkashi , Nader Karimi , Shahram Shirani , Shadrokh Samavi

The ability to recover MRI signal from noise is key to achieve fast acquisition, accurate quantification, and high image quality. Past work has shown convolutional neural networks can be used with abundant and paired low and high-SNR images…

Convolutional neural network has recently achieved great success for image restoration (IR) and also offered hierarchical features. However, most deep CNN based IR models do not make full use of the hierarchical features from the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Yulun Zhang , Yapeng Tian , Yu Kong , Bineng Zhong , Yun Fu

Because of the necessity to obtain high-quality images with minimal radiation doses, such as in low-field magnetic resonance imaging, super-resolution reconstruction in medical imaging has become more popular (MRI). However, due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Weizhi Du , Harvery Tian

Lightweight image super-resolution aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution images using low computational costs. However, existing methods result in the loss of middle-layer features due to activation functions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Wenjie Li , Juncheng Li , Guangwei Gao , Weihong Deng , Jian Yang , Guo-Jun Qi , Chia-Wen Lin

Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various forms of degradation. Recently, the diffusion model has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xin Li , Yulin Ren , Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Xingrui Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Xinchao Wang , Zhibo Chen

It is widely acknowledged that single image super-resolution (SISR) methods would not perform well if the assumed degradation model deviates from those in real images. Although several degradation models take additional factors into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Kai Zhang , Jingyun Liang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Although several image super-resolution solutions exist, they still face many challenges. CNN-based algorithms, despite the reduction in computational complexity, still need to improve their accuracy. While Transformer-based algorithms have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Nianzu Qiao , Lamei Di , Changyin Sun

Image restoration is a fundamental and challenging task in computer vision, where CNN-based frameworks demonstrate significant computational efficiency. However, previous CNN-based methods often face challenges in adequately restoring fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shengyu Zhu , Congyi Fan , Fuxuan Zhang

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) can be used to characterise the microstructure of the nervous tissue, e.g. to delineate brain white matter connections in a non-invasive manner via fibre tracking. Magnetic Resonance…

The ability of deep image prior (DIP) to recover high-quality images from incomplete or corrupted measurements has made it popular in inverse problems in image restoration and medical imaging including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Shijun Liang , Evan Bell , Qing Qu , Rongrong Wang , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Circular Synthetic aperture sonars (CSAS) capture multiple observations of a scene to reconstruct high-resolution images. We can characterize resolution by modeling CSAS imaging as the convolution between a scene's underlying point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Albert Reed , Thomas Blanford , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), characterized by discrete binary activations, offer high computational efficiency and low energy consumption, making them well-suited for computation-intensive tasks such as stereo image restoration. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ronghua Xu , Jin Xie , Jing Nie , Jiale Cao , Yanwei Pang

Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) aims to generate a high-resolution (HR) image of a given low-resolution (LR) image. The most of existing convolutional neural network (CNN) based SISR methods usually take an assumption that a LR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Rao Muhammad Umer , Gian Luca Foresti , Christian Micheloni

Multispectral and hyperspectral imagery are widely used in agriculture, environmental monitoring, and urban planning due to their complementary spatial and spectral characteristics. A fundamental trade-off persists: multispectral imagery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tang Sui , Songxi Yang , Qunying Huang