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Recent advances in imaging and high-performance computing have made it possible to image the entire human brain at the cellular level. This is the basis to study the multi-scale architecture of the brain regarding its subdivision into brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Jan-Oliver Kropp , Christian Schiffer , Katrin Amunts , Timo Dickscheid

This study aims to improve photon counting CT (PCCT) image resolution using denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM). Although DDPMs have shown superior performance when applied to various computer vision tasks, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Mengzhou Li , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

It remains a challenge to simultaneously remove geometric distortion and space-time-varying blur in frames captured through a turbulent atmospheric medium. To solve, or at least reduce these effects, we propose a new scheme to recover a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Yuan Xie , Wensheng Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Wenrui Hu , Yanyun Qu , Hanzi Wang

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

We describe a method for recovering the irradiance underlying a collection of images corrupted by atmospheric turbulence. Since supervised data is often technically impossible to obtain, assumptions and biases have to be imposed to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Dong Lao , Congli Wang , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

A novel approach is presented to recover an image degraded by atmospheric turbulence. Given a sequence of frames affected by turbulence, we construct a variational model to characterize the static image. The optimization problem is solved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yu Mao , Jerome Gilles

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have achieved unprecedented success in computer vision. However, they remain underutilized in medical imaging, a field crucial for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. This is primarily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Hongxu Jiang , Muhammad Imran , Teng Zhang , Yuyin Zhou , Muxuan Liang , Kuang Gong , Wei Shao

Image distortion by atmospheric turbulence is a stochastic degradation, which is a critical problem in long-range optical imaging systems. A number of research has been conducted during the past decades, including model-based and emerging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Ajay Jaiswal , Xingguang Zhang , Stanley H. Chan , Zhangyang Wang

Real-world data often has a long-tailed distribution, where the scarcity of tail samples significantly limits the model's generalization ability. Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) are generative models based on stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jingyu Kong , Yuan Guo , Yu Wang , Yuping Duan

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

We introduce the state-of-the-art deep learning Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) as a method to infer the volume or number density of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) from projected mass surface density maps. We adopt…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Duo Xu , Jonathan C. Tan , Chia-Jung Hsu , Ye Zhu

Long-range imaging inevitably suffers from atmospheric turbulence with severe geometric distortions due to random refraction of light. The further the distance, the more severe the disturbance. Despite existing research has achieved great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Shengqi Xu , Run Sun , Yi Chang , Shuning Cao , Xueyao Xiao , Luxin Yan

Diffusion models have emerged as a prominent technique in generative modeling with neural networks, making their mark in tasks like text-to-image translation and super-resolution. In this tutorial, we provide a comprehensive guide to build…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Harshith Bachimanchi , Giovanni Volpe

In many applications of long-range imaging, we are faced with a scenario where a person appearing in the captured imagery is often degraded by atmospheric turbulence. However, restoring such degraded images for face verification is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

Remote sensing image super-resolution (SR) is a crucial task to restore high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) observations. Recently, the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) has shown promising performance in image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Jialu Sui , Xianping Ma , Xiaokang Zhang , Man-On Pun

Blind face restoration (BFR) is important while challenging. Prior works prefer to exploit GAN-based frameworks to tackle this task due to the balance of quality and efficiency. However, these methods suffer from poor stability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xinmin Qiu , Congying Han , Zicheng Zhang , Bonan Li , Tiande Guo , Xuecheng Nie

Due to various physical degradation factors and limited counts received, PET image quality needs further improvements. The denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) are distribution learning-based models, which try to transform a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Kuang Gong , Keith A. Johnson , Georges El Fakhri , Quanzheng Li , Tinsu Pan

Atmospheric turbulence degrades image quality by introducing blur and geometric tilt distortions, posing significant challenges to downstream computer vision tasks. Existing single-image and multi-frame methods struggle with the highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yixing Liu , Minggui Teng , Yifei Xia , Peiqi Duan , Boxin Shi

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

Accurate prediction of physical fields is critical in various engineering applications, including thermal management in electronic systems, airfoil shape optimization in aerospace, and flow field control in hypersonic vehicles. This study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-12 Yuan Jia , Chi Zhang , Hao Ma , Qiao Zhang , Kai Liu , Chih-Yung Wen