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Hyperspectral unmixing (HU) plays a fundamental role in a wide range of hyperspectral applications. It is still challenging due to the common presence of outlier channels and the large solution space. To address the above two issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Feiyun Zhu , Ying Wang , Bin Fan , Gaofeng Meng , Chunhong Pan

Speckle based imaging consists of forming a super-resolved reconstruction of an unknown sample from low-resolution images obtained under random inhomogeneous illuminations (speckles). In a blind context where the illuminations are unknown,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-11-10 Jérôme Idier , Simon Labouesse , Marc Allain , Penghuan Liu , Sébastien Bourguignon , Anne Sentenac

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) suffers from speckle noise, causing the deterioration of image quality, especially in high-resolution modalities like visible light OCT (vis-OCT). The potential of conventional supervised deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Lingyun Wang , Jose A Sahel , Shaohua Pi

Lensless imaging is an elegant approach to high-resolution microscopy, which is rapidly gaining popularity in applications where imaging optics are problematic. However, current lensless imaging methods require objects to be placed within a…

Non-linear spectral decompositions of images based on one-homogeneous functionals such as total variation have gained considerable attention in the last few years. Due to their ability to extract spectral components corresponding to objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Tamara G. Grossmann , Yury Korolev , Guy Gilboa , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Image smoothing represents a fundamental component of many disparate computer vision and graphics applications. In this paper, we present a unified unsupervised (label-free) learning framework that facilitates generating flexible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , David Wipf , Baoquan Chen , Xin Tong

There have been a fairly of research interests in exploring the disentanglement of appearance and shape from human images. Most existing endeavours pursuit this goal by either using training images with annotations or regulating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Hongtao Yang , Tong Zhang , Wenbing Huang , Xuming He , Fatih Porikli

Reliably detecting diseases using relevant biological information is crucial for real-world applicability of deep learning techniques in medical imaging. We debias deep learning models during training against unknown bias - without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Simon Langer , Oliver Taubmann , Felix Denzinger , Andreas Maier , Alexander Mühlberg

Strong speckle noise is inherent to optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging and represents a significant obstacle for accurate quantitative analysis of retinal structures which is key for advances in clinical diagnosis and monitoring of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Shijie Li , Palaiologos Alexopoulos , Anse Vellappally , Ronald Zambrano , Wollstein Gadi , Guido Gerig

Despite its wide use in medicine, ultrasound imaging faces several challenges related to its poor signal-to-noise ratio and several sources of noise and artefacts. Enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

Spectroscopy represents the ideal observational method to maximally extract information from galaxies regarding their star formation and chemical enrichment histories. However, absorption spectra of galaxies prove rather challenging at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Oliver Camilleri , Zahra Sharbaf , Ignacio Ferreras

Speckle noise is a fundamental challenge in coherent imaging systems, significantly degrading image quality. Over the past decades, numerous despeckling algorithms have been developed for applications such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Ali Zafari , Shirin Jalali

This is the first article in a series of three dealing with the exploitation of speckle for imaging purposes. Speckle is the complex interference wave-field produced by a random distribution of un-resolved scatterers. In this paper, we show…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Elsa Giraudat , Flavien Bureau , William Lambert , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

Spectral computed tomography (CT) is an emerging technology capable of providing high chemical specificity, which is crucial for many applications such as detecting threats in luggage. This type of application requires both fast and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Wail Mustafa , Christian Kehl , Ulrik Lund Olsen , Søren Kimmer Schou Gregersen , David Malmgren-Hansen , Jan Kehres , Anders Bjorholm Dahl

Ultrasound imaging is caught between the quest for the highest image quality, and the necessity for clinical usability. Our contribution is two-fold: First, we propose a novel fully convolutional neural network for ultrasound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Walter Simson , Rüdiger Göbl , Magdalini Paschali , Markus Krönke , Klemens Scheidhauer , Wolfgang Weber , Nassir Navab

Ultrasound images are widespread in medical diagnosis for musculoskeletal, cardiac, and obstetrical imaging due to the efficiency and non-invasiveness of the acquisition methodology. However, the acquired images are degraded by acoustic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Sobhan Goudarzi , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

Purpose: To improve reconstruction fidelity of fine structures and textures in deep learning (DL) based reconstructions. Methods: A novel patch-based Unsupervised Feature Loss (UFLoss) is proposed and incorporated into the training of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Ke Wang , Jonathan I Tamir , Alfredo De Goyeneche , Uri Wollner , Rafi Brada , Stella Yu , Michael Lustig

Stack filters are a special case of non-linear filters. They have a good performance for filtering images with different types of noise while preserving edges and details. A stack filter decomposes an input image into stacks of binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-11 María Elena Buemi , Alejandro C. Frery , Heitor S. Ramos

Deep learning has shown impressive results in reducing noise and artifacts in X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Self-supervised CT reconstruction methods are especially appealing for real-world applications because they require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Dirk Elias Schut , Adriaan Graas , Robert van Liere , Tristan van Leeuwen

We present two practical improvement techniques for unsupervised segmentation learning. These techniques address limitations in the resolution and accuracy of predicted segmentation maps of recent state-of-the-art methods. Firstly, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Alp Eren Sari , Francesco Locatello , Paolo Favaro