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Deep neural networks have been widely used in image denoising during the past few years. Even though they achieve great success on this problem, they are computationally inefficient which makes them inappropriate to be implemented in mobile…

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Existing video super-resolution (SR) algorithms usually assume that the blur kernels in the degradation process are known and do not model the blur kernels in the restoration. However, this assumption does not hold for video SR and usually…

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This work considers the multi-channel blind deconvolution problem under the assumption that the channels are short. First, we investigate the ill-posedness issues inherent to blind deconvolution problems and sufficient and necessary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-27 Antoine Paris , Laurent Jacques

Blind-spot networks (BSNs) enable self-supervised image denoising by preventing access to the target pixel, allowing clean signal estimation without ground-truth supervision. However, this approach assumes pixel-wise noise independence,…

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Noise in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can obscure important diagnostic details. While deep learning offers powerful denoising, supervised methods require impractical paired data, and self-supervised alternatives often use opaque,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Yipeng Sun , Linda-Sophie Schneider , Siyuan Mei , Jinhua Wang , Ge Hu , Mingxuan Gu , Chengze Ye , Fabian Wagner , Lan Song , Siming Bayer , Andreas Maier

While variational methods have been among the most powerful tools for solving linear inverse problems in imaging, deep (convolutional) neural networks have recently taken the lead in many challenging benchmarks. A remaining drawback of deep…

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Capturing images under extremely low-light conditions poses significant challenges for the standard camera pipeline. Images become too dark and too noisy, which makes traditional enhancement techniques almost impossible to apply. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ahmet Serdar Karadeniz , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

With the advent of advances in self-supervised learning, paired clean-noisy data are no longer required in deep learning-based image denoising. However, existing blind denoising methods still require the assumption with regard to noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Kanggeun Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

We propose a general framework for solving inverse problems in the presence of noise that requires no signal prior, no noise estimate, and no clean training data. We only require that the forward model be available and that the noise be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Hirofumi Kobayashi , Ahmet Can Solak , Joshua Batson , Loic A. Royer

We investigate the task of learning blind image denoising networks from an unpaired set of clean and noisy images. Such problem setting generally is practical and valuable considering that it is feasible to collect unpaired noisy and clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Xiaohe Wu , Ming Liu , Yue Cao , Dongwei Ren , Wangmeng Zuo

Image blurring refers to the degradation of an image wherein the image's overall sharpness decreases. Image blurring is caused by several factors. Additionally, during the image acquisition process, noise may get added to the image. Such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Poorna Banerjee Dasgupta

Modern inexpensive imaging sensors suffer from inherent hardware constraints which often result in captured images of poor quality. Among the most common ways to deal with such limitations is to rely on burst photography, which nowadays…

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Low-light, long-exposure defocus deblurring remains a challenging problem due to the simultaneous presence of severe blur and complex biased noise. Existing methods typically rely on simplified noise assumptions, which limits their…

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Low level image restoration is an integral component of modern artificial intelligence (AI) driven camera pipelines. Most of these frameworks are based on deep neural networks which present a massive computational overhead on resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Avisek Lahiri , Sourav Bairagya , Sutanu Bera , Siddhant Haldar , Prabir Kumar Biswas

While neural networks have achieved vastly enhanced performance over traditional iterative methods in many cases, they are generally empirically designed and the underlying structures are difficult to interpret. The algorithm unrolling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Yuelong Li , Mohammad Tofighi , Vishal Monga , Yonina C. Eldar

Deep learning-based methods have achieved significant successes on solving the blind super-resolution (BSR) problem. However, most of them request supervised pre-training on labelled datasets. This paper proposes an unsupervised kernel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Zhixiong Yang , Jingyuan Xia , Shengxi Li , Xinghua Huang , Shuanghui Zhang , Zhen Liu , Yaowen Fu , Yongxiang Liu

Blind image deblurring remains a challenging problem for modern artificial neural networks. Unlike other image restoration problems, deblurring networks fail behind the performance of existing deblurring algorithms in case of uniform and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Adam Kaufman , Raanan Fattal

Deconvolution is a statistical inverse problem to estimate the distribution of a random variable based on its noisy observations. Despite the extensive studies on the topic, deconvolution with unknown noise distribution remains as a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Devavrat Shah , Dogyoon Song

Optical imaging systems are inherently imperfect due to diffraction limits, lens manufacturing tolerances, assembly misalignment, and other physical constraints. In addition, unavoidable camera shake and object motion further introduce…

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Image deblurring is a notoriously challenging ill-posed inverse problem. In recent years, a wide variety of approaches have been proposed based upon regularization at the level of the image or on techniques from machine learning. We propose…

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