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We derive a minimalist but powerful deterministic denoising-diffusion model. While denoising diffusion has shown great success in many domains, its underlying theory remains largely inaccessible to non-expert users. Indeed, an understanding…

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Diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) have been widely adopted in image-to-image translation to generate high-quality images. Prior attempts at applying the DPM to image super-resolution (SR) have shown that iteratively refining a pure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

In this work, we address the limitations of denoising diffusion models (DDMs) in image restoration tasks, particularly the shape and color distortions that can compromise image quality. While DDMs have demonstrated a promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Xinlong Cheng , Tiantian Cao , Guoan Cheng , Bangxuan Huang , Xinghan Tian , Ye Wang , Xiaoyu He , Weixin Li , Tianfan Xue , Xuan Dong

Diffusion models have been demonstrated as powerful deep learning tools for image generation in CT reconstruction and restoration. Recently, diffusion posterior sampling, where a score-based diffusion prior is combined with a likelihood…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Shudong Li , Xiao Jiang , Matthew Tivnan , Grace J. Gang , Yuan Shen , J. Webster Stayman

Imaging through diffusive media is a challenging problem, where the existing solutions heavily rely on digital computers to reconstruct distorted images. We provide a detailed analysis of a computer-free, all-optical imaging method for…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-02 Yuhang Li , Yi Luo , Bijie Bai , Aydogan Ozcan

Images captured in challenging environments often experience various forms of degradation, including noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. These effects significantly reduce image quality, hindering their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Abbas Anwar , Mohammad Shullar , Ali Arshad Nasir , Mudassir Masood , Saeed Anwar

Single image blind deblurring is highly ill-posed as neither the latent sharp image nor the blur kernel is known. Even though considerable progress has been made, several major difficulties remain for blind deblurring, including the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yuxin Mao , Zhexiong Wan , Yuchao Dai , Xin Yu

In this paper, we study the problem of recovering a sharp version of a given blurry image when the blur kernel is unknown. Previous methods often introduce an image-independent regularizer (such as Gaussian or sparse priors) on the desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Guangcan Liu , Shiyu Chang , Yi Ma

Deformable image registration aims to precisely align medical images from different modalities or times. Traditional deep learning methods, while effective, often lack interpretability, real-time observability and adjustment capacity during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yongtai Zhuo , Yiqing Shen

Image deconvolution is still to be a challenging ill-posed problem for recovering a clear image from a given blurry image, when the point spread function is known. Although competitive deconvolution methods are numerically impressive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Hang Yang , Zhongbo Zhang , Yujing Guan

Diffusion models are now commonly used to solve inverse problems in computational imaging. However, most diffusion-based inverse solvers require complete knowledge of the forward operator to be used. In this work, we introduce a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Yuanyun Hu , Evan Bell , Guijin Wang , Yu Sun

We present a neural network model approach for multi-frame blind deconvolution. The discriminative approach adopts and combines two recent techniques for image deblurring into a single neural network architecture. Our proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Patrick Wieschollek , Bernhard Schölkopf , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Michael Hirsch

Many computer vision and image processing applications rely on local features. It is well-known that motion blur decreases the performance of traditional feature detectors and descriptors. We propose an inertial-based deblurring method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Janne Mustaniemi , Juho Kannala , Simo Särkkä , Jiri Matas , Janne Heikkilä

We introduce a novel, training-free method for sampling differentiable representations (diffreps) using pretrained diffusion models. Rather than merely mode-seeking, our method achieves sampling by "pulling back" the dynamics of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yash Savani , Marc Finzi , J. Zico Kolter

Diffusion models have gained attention for their ability to represent complex distributions and incorporate uncertainty, making them ideal for robust predictions in the presence of noisy or incomplete data. In this study, we develop and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yilin Zhuang , Sibo Cheng , Karthik Duraisamy

Light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR) is a challenging problem due to its inherent ill-posed nature, where a single low-resolution (LR) input LF image can correspond to multiple potential super-resolved outcomes. Despite this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Wentao Chao , Fuqing Duan , Xuechun Wang , Yingqian Wang , Guanghui Wang

Human faces are one interesting object class with numerous applications. While significant progress has been made in the generic deblurring problem, existing methods are less effective for blurry face images. The success of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Jinshan Pan , Wenqi Ren , Zhe Hu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have been recently utilized to deal with various blind image restoration (IR) tasks, where they have demonstrated outstanding performance in terms of perceptual quality. However, the task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Magauiya Zhussip , Iaroslav Koshelev , Stamatis Lefkimmiatis

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generative modelling, particularly in enhancing image quality to conform to human preferences. Recently, these models have also been applied to low-level computer vision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Defocus blur arises in images that are captured with a shallow depth of field due to the use of a wide aperture. Correcting defocus blur is challenging because the blur is spatially varying and difficult to estimate. We propose an effective…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Abdullah Abuolaim , Michael S. Brown