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The restoration of images affected by blur and noise has been widely studied and has broad potential for applications including in medical imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT). Although the blur and noise in CT images can be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yijie Yuan , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman

Ultra-low-dose CT (ULDCT) imaging can greatly reduce patient radiation exposure, but the resulting scans suffer from severe structured and random noise that degrades image quality. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Plug-and-Play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Sayantan Dutta , Sudhanya Chatterjee , Ashwini Galande , K. S. Shriram , Bipul Das

This paper presents a new convergent Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithm. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems formulated as the minimization of the sum of a data-fidelity term and a regularization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-06 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA), which aims to accurately predict the image quality without any pristine reference information, has been extensively concerned in the past decades. Especially, with the help of deep neural networks,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Qiuping Jiang , Jiawu Xu , Yudong Mao , Wei Zhou , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is one of the most widely-used frameworks for solving computational imaging problems through the integration of physical models and learned models. PnP leverages high-fidelity physical sensor models and powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Charles A. Bouman , Gregery T. Buzzard , Brendt Wohlberg

Low-light imaging on mobile devices is typically challenging due to insufficient incident light coming through the relatively small aperture, resulting in a low signal-to-noise ratio. Most of the previous works on low-light image processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Yucheng Lu , Seung-Won Jung

Detecting objects in low-light scenarios presents a persistent challenge, as detectors trained on well-lit data exhibit significant performance degradation on low-light data due to low visibility. Previous methods mitigate this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng

Image denoising is a classic restoration problem. Yet, current deep learning methods are subject to the problems of generalization and interpretability. To mitigate these problems, in this project, we present a framework that is capable of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Haley Owsianko , Florian Cassayre , Qiyuan Liang

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 image enhancement techniques almost impossible to apply. Very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ahmet Serdar Karadeniz , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Low-light image enhancement is an essential computer vision task to improve image contrast and to decrease the effects of color bias and noise. Many existing interpretable deep-learning algorithms exploit the Retinex theory as the basis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jing-Yi Shi , Ming-Fei Li , Ling-An Wu

In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which determines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Kin Gwn Lore , Adedotun Akintayo , Soumik Sarkar

The goal of this work is to reduce the effect of photon noise in dental cone-beam CT reconstruction. We consider an inverse problem formulation and develop a databased prior. To this end, we simulate fan-beam acquisitions and add photon…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Idris Tatachak , Luis Kabongo , Nicolas Papadakis , Xavier Ripoche , Simon Rit

Plug-and-Play optimization recently emerged as a powerful technique for solving inverse problems by plugging a denoiser into a classical optimization algorithm. The denoiser accounts for the regularization and therefore implicitly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Mikael Le Pendu , Christine Guillemot

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

Current spatiotemporal deep learning approaches to Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) build artefact-removal models customised to a particular k-space subsampling pattern which is used for fast (compressed) acquisition. This may not be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Ketan Fatania , Carolin M. Pirkl , Marion I. Menzel , Peter Hall , Mohammad Golbabaee

Noise is ubiquitous during image acquisition. Sufficient denoising is often an important first step for image processing. In recent decades, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used for image denoising. Most DNN-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Chenyin Gao , Shu Yang , Anru R. Zhang

We consider the generic deep image enhancement problem where an input image is transformed into a perceptually better-looking image. Recent methods for image enhancement consider the problem by performing style transfer and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Indra Deep Mastan , Shanmuganathan Raman

Image denoising is an important low-level computer vision task, which aims to reconstruct a noise-free and high-quality image from a noisy image. With the development of deep learning, convolutional neural network (CNN) has been gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Chao Yao , Shuo Jin , Meiqin Liu , Xiaojuan Ban

A simple and effective low-light image enhancement method based on a noise-aware texture-preserving retinex model is proposed in this work. The new method, called NATLE, attempts to strike a balance between noise removal and natural texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zohreh Azizi , Xuejing Lei , C. -C Jay Kuo

Image denoising based on a probabilistic model of local image patches has been employed by various researchers, and recently a deep (denoising) autoencoder has been proposed by Burger et al. [2012] and Xie et al. [2012] as a good model for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-03-05 Kyunghyun Cho