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Is it possible to recover an image from its noisy version using convolutional neural networks? This is an interesting problem as convolutional layers are generally used as feature detectors for tasks like classification, segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Nithish Divakar , R. Venkatesh Babu

We propose TopDis (Topological Disentanglement), a method for learning disentangled representations via adding a multi-scale topological loss term. Disentanglement is a crucial property of data representations substantial for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Nikita Balabin , Daria Voronkova , Ilya Trofimov , Evgeny Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

Non-local self-similarity is well-known to be an effective prior for the image denoising problem. However, little work has been done to incorporate it in convolutional neural networks, which surpass non-local model-based methods despite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

Topology applied to real world data using persistent homology has started to find applications within machine learning, including deep learning. We present a differentiable topology layer that computes persistent homology based on level set…

We propose to learn a fully-convolutional network model that consists of a Chain of Identity Mapping Modules and residual on the residual architecture for image denoising. Our network structure possesses three distinctive features that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Saeed Anwar , Cong Phuoc Huynh , Fatih Porikli

Image segmentation is a largely researched field where neural networks find vast applications in many facets of technology. Some of the most popular approaches to train segmentation networks employ loss functions optimizing pixel-overlap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Nico Stucki , Johannes C. Paetzold , Suprosanna Shit , Bjoern Menze , Ulrich Bauer

Light field microscopy (LFM) has gained significant attention due to its ability to capture snapshot-based, large-scale 3D fluorescence images. However, existing LFM reconstruction algorithms are highly sensitive to sensor noise or require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiayin Zhao , Zhenqi Fu , Tao Yu , Hui Qiao

Denoising, the process of reducing random fluctuations in a signal to emphasize essential patterns, has been a fundamental problem of interest since the dawn of modern scientific inquiry. Recent denoising techniques, particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio

In this paper, we propose a new image denoising method, tailored to specific classes of images, assuming that a dataset of clean images of the same class is available. Similarly to the non-local means (NLM) algorithm, the proposed method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Milad Niknejad , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias , Mario A. T. Figueiredo

We address the problem of exposure correction of dark, blurry and noisy images captured in low-light conditions in the wild. Classical image-denoising filters work well in the frequency space but are constrained by several factors such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Ojasvi Yadav , Koustav Ghosal , Sebastian Lutz , Aljosa Smolic

Deep learning approaches in image processing predominantly resort to supervised learning. A majority of methods for image denoising are no exception to this rule and hence demand pairs of noisy and corresponding clean images. Only recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Priyatham Kattakinda , A. N. Rajagopalan

All techniques for denoising involve a notion of a true (noise-free) image, and a hypothesis space. The hypothesis space may reconstruct the image directly as a grayscale valued function, or indirectly by its Fourier or wavelet spectrum.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Sajal Chakroborty , Suddhasattwa Das

Feature space topology refers to the organization of samples within the feature space. Modifying this topology can be beneficial in machine learning applications, including dimensionality reduction, generative modeling, transfer learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Einari Vaaras , Manu Airaksinen

Unlike single image task, stereo image enhancement can use another view information, and its key stage is how to perform cross-view feature interaction to extract useful information from another view. However, complex noise in low-light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Minghua Zhao , Xiangdong Qin , Shuangli Du , Xuefei Bai , Jiahao Lyu , Yiguang Liu

In recent years, topological data analysis has been utilized for a wide range of problems to deal with high dimensional noisy data. While text representations are often high dimensional and noisy, there are only a few work on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Shafie Gholizadeh , Armin Seyeditabari , Wlodek Zadrozny

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising has been attracting much research attention in remote sensing area due to its importance in improving the HSI qualities. The existing HSI denoising methods mainly focus on specific spectral and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Yang Chen , Xiangyong Cao , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

Density-equalizing map (DEM) serves as a powerful technique for creating shape deformations with the area changes reflecting an underlying density function. In recent decades, DEM has found widespread applications in fields such as data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yanwen Huang , Lok Ming Lui , Gary P. T. Choi

Solving optimization tasks based on functions and losses with a topological flavor is a very active, growing field of research in data science and Topological Data Analysis, with applications in non-convex optimization, statistics and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Mathieu Carrière , Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Yuichi Ike , Hariprasad Kannan

In various Computer Vision and Signal Processing applications, noise is typically perceived as a drawback of the image capturing system that ought to be removed. We, on the other hand, claim that image noise, just as texture, is important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Renata Khasanova , Jan Wassenberg , Jyrki Alakuijala

In this research, we propose a deep learning based approach for speeding up the topology optimization methods. The problem we seek to solve is the layout problem. The main novelty of this work is to state the problem as an image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Ivan Sosnovik , Ivan Oseledets