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In supervised image restoration tasks, one key issue is how to obtain the aligned high-quality (HQ) and low-quality (LQ) training image pairs. Unfortunately, such HQ-LQ training pairs are hard to capture in practice, and hard to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tao Yang , Peiran Ren , Xuansong xie , Lei Zhang

Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in scientific imaging systems such as synchrotron and laboratory-based nano-CT, but acquiring full-view sinograms requires high radiation dose and long scan times. Sparse-view CT reduces this burden…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Jiaze E , Srutarshi Banerjee , Tekin Bicer , Guannan Wang , Yanfu Zhang , Bin Ren

Neural representations (NRs), such as neural fields and 3D Gaussians, effectively model volumetric data in computed tomography (CT) but suffer from severe artifacts under sparse-view settings. To address this, we propose DiffNR, a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Shiyan Su , Ruyi Zha , Danli Shi , Hongdong Li , Xuelian Cheng

In this paper, we propose a state-of-the-art video denoising algorithm based on a convolutional neural network architecture. Previous neural network based approaches to video denoising have been unsuccessful as their performance cannot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Matias Tassano , Julie Delon , Thomas Veit

Score-based diffusion models have shown significant promise in the field of sparse-view CT reconstruction. However, the projection dataset is large and riddled with redundancy. Consequently, applying the diffusion model to unprocessed data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Pengfei Yu , Bin Huang , Minghui Zhang , Weiwen Wu , Shaoyu Wang , Qiegen Liu

Video summarization aims to eliminate visual redundancy while retaining key parts of video to construct concise and comprehensive synopses. Most existing methods use discriminative models to predict the importance scores of video frames.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zirui Shang , Yubo Zhu , Hongxi Li , Shuo Yang , Xinxiao Wu

Artifact removal is critical for accurate analysis and interpretation of Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Traditional methods perform poorly with strong artifact-EEG correlations or single-channel data. Recent advances in diffusion-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Feixue Shao , Xueyu Liu , Yongfei Wu , Jianbo Lu , Guiying Yan , Weihua Yang

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) represent a contemporary class of generative models with exceptional qualities in both synthesis and maximizing the data likelihood. These models work by traversing a forward Markov Chain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hang Li , Wei Jin , Geri Skenderi , Harry Shomer , Wenzhuo Tang , Wenqi Fan , Jiliang Tang

Existing deep learning methods for the reconstruction and denoising of point clouds rely on small datasets of 3D shapes. We circumvent the problem by leveraging deep learning methods trained on billions of images. We propose a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Pietro Bonazzi , Marie-Julie Rakatosaona , Marco Cannici , Federico Tombari , Davide Scaramuzza

Low dose CT is of great interest in these days. Dose reduction raises noise level in projections and decrease image quality in reconstructions. Model based image reconstruction can combine statistical noise model together with prior…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Kaichao Liang , Li Zhang , Yirong Yang , HongKai Yang , Yuxiang Xing

Sparse-view CT reconstruction is important in a wide range of applications due to limitations on cost, acquisition time, or dosage. However, traditional direct reconstruction methods such as filtered back-projection (FBP) lead to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Wenrui Li , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman

We propose a patch-based singular value shrinkage method for diffusion magnetic resonance image estimation targeted at low signal to noise ratio and accelerated acquisitions. It operates on the complex data resulting from a sensitivity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Lucilio Cordero-Grande , Daan Christiaens , Jana Hutter , Anthony N. Price , Joseph V. Hajnal

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) plays a vital role in clinical applications by mitigating radiation risks. Nevertheless, reducing radiation doses significantly degrades image quality. Concurrently, common deep learning methods demand…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Wenhao Zhang , Bin Huang , Shuyue Chen , Xiaoling Xu , Weiwen Wu , Qiegen Liu

This paper proposes a novel approach to spectral computed tomography (CT) material decomposition that uses the recent advances in generative diffusion models (DMs) for inverse problems. Spectral CT and more particularly photon-counting CT…

Data limitation is a significant challenge in applying deep learning to medical images. Recently, the diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) has shown the potential to generate high-quality images by converting Gaussian random noise into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Sepehr Salem Ghahfarokhi , Tyrell To , Julie Jorns , Tina Yen , Bing Yu , Dong Hye Ye

Diffusion Posterior Sampling (DPS) can be used in Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction by leveraging diffusion-based generative models for unconditional image synthesis while matching the observations (data) of a CT scan. Of particular…

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Huidong Xie , Weijie Gan , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Qiong Liu , Xueqi Guo , Liang Guo , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Ge Wang , Chi Liu

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have achieved great success in image generation but suffer from high inference latency due to their iterative denoising nature. Motivated by the evolving feature dynamics across the denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Haodong He , Yuan Gao , Weizhong Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

Low-dose CT (LDCT) denoising remains an important yet challenging problem in medical imaging. Although recent learning-based methods have shown promising performance, those optimized using classical pixel-level objectives often produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Jianxu Wang , Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

We present a variational Bayesian method of joint image reconstruction and point spread function (PSF) estimation when the PSF of the imaging device is only partially known. To solve this semi-blind deconvolution problem, prior…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-03-18 Se Un Park , Nicolas Dobigeon , Alfred O. Hero