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One popular strategy for image denoising is to design a generalized regularization term that is capable of exploring the implicit prior underlying data observation. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown the powerful capability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Peng Liu , Xiaoxiao Zhou , Junyiyang Li , El Basha Mohammad D , Ruogu Fang

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

Inspired by the robustness and efficiency of sparse representation in sparse coding based image restoration models, we investigate the sparsity of neurons in deep networks. Our method structurally enforces sparsity constraints upon hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yuchen Fan , Jiahui Yu , Yiqun Mei , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu , Ding Liu , Thomas S. Huang

Mesh denoising is a critical technology in geometry processing that aims to recover high-fidelity 3D mesh models of objects from their noise-corrupted versions. In this work, we propose a learning-based normal filtering scheme for mesh…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Yongsen Zhao , Xiaopeng Fan , Debin Zhao

Given a set of image denoisers, each having a different denoising capability, is there a provably optimal way of combining these denoisers to produce an overall better result? An answer to this question is fundamental to designing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Joon Hee Choi , Omar Elgendy , Stanley H. Chan

Motivated by recent work on deep neural network (DNN)-based image compression methods showing potential improvements in image quality, savings in storage, and bandwidth reduction, we propose to perform image understanding tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Robert Torfason , Fabian Mentzer , Eirikur Agustsson , Michael Tschannen , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved significant success across multiple computer vision tasks. However, they are vulnerable to carefully crafted, human-imperceptible adversarial noise patterns which constrain their deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Aamir Mustafa , Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

In the last few years, image denoising has benefited a lot from the fast development of neural networks. However, the requirement of large amounts of noisy-clean image pairs for supervision limits the wide use of these models. Although…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Tao Huang , Songjiang Li , Xu Jia , Huchuan Lu , Jianzhuang Liu

Purpose: The aim of this work is to demonstrate that convolutional neural networks (CNN) can be applied to extremely sparse image libraries by subdivision of the original image datasets. Methods: Image datasets from a conventional digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Johan P. Boetker

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

Deep learning is a very promising technique for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image denoising. However, traditional deep learning methods require paired noisy and clean datasets, which are often difficult to obtain. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Yuting Zhu , Qiang He , Yudong Yao , Yueyang Teng

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising can effectively exploit rich hierarchical features and have achieved great success. However, many deep CNN-based denoising models equally utilize the hierarchical features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Wencong Wu , An Ge , Guannan Lv , Yuelong Xia , Yungang Zhang , Wen Xiong

Recent developments in deep learning have revolutionized the paradigm of image restoration. However, its applications on real image denoising are still limited, due to its sensitivity to training data and the complex nature of real image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Jin Zeng , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Gene Cheung

Very deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have greatly improved the performance on various image restoration tasks. However, this comes at a price of increasing computational burden, hence limiting their practical usages. We observe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Ke Yu , Xintao Wang , Chao Dong , Xiaoou Tang , Chen Change Loy

In this work, we explore an innovative strategy for image denoising by using convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn pixel-distribution from noisy data. By increasing CNN's width with large reception fields and more channels in each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Peng Liu , Ruogu Fang

Modern neural networks are usually highly over-parameterized. Behind the wide usage of over-parameterized networks is the belief that, if the data are simple, then the trained network will be automatically equivalent to a simple predictor.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-14 Chenyang Zhang , Peifeng Gao , Difan Zou , Yuan Cao

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) recognition rates drop in the presence of noise. We demonstrate a novel method of counteracting this drop in recognition rate by adjusting the biases of the neurons in the convolutional layers according to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-06 James R. Geraci , Parichay Kapoor

Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained for image denoising are able to generate high-quality samples with score-based reverse diffusion algorithms. These impressive capabilities seem to imply an escape from the curse of dimensionality, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Florentin Guth , Eero P. Simoncelli , Stéphane Mallat

Deep neural networks have a great potential to improve image denoising in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT). Popular ways to increase the network capacity include adding more layers or repeating a modularized clone model in a sequence. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Siqi Li , Guobao Wang

Convolution is a central operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which applies a kernel to overlapping regions shifted across the image. However, because of the strong correlations in real-world image data, convolutional kernels…