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In order to produce high dynamic range images in radio interferometry, bright extended sources need to be removed with minimal error. However, this is not a trivial task because the Fourier plane is sampled only at a finite number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Sarod Yatawatta

This paper proposes a novel luminance adjustment method based on automatic exposure compensation for multi-exposure image fusion. Multi-exposure image fusion is a method to produce images without saturation regions, by using photos with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yuma Kinoshita , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

We present a framework for the optimal filtering of spherical signals contaminated by realizations of an additive, zero-mean, uncorrelated and anisotropic noise process on the sphere. Filtering is performed in the wavelet domain given by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Adeem Aslam , Zubair Khalid , Jason D. McEwen

Existing image enhancement methods fall short of expectations because with them it is difficult to improve global and local image contrast simultaneously. To address this problem, we propose a histogram equalization-based method that adapts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Xiaomeng Wu , Takahito Kawanishi , Kunio Kashino

In this paper, we propose a novel image denoising algorithm exploiting features from both spatial as well as transformed domain. We implement intensity-invariance based improved grouping for collaborative support-agnostic sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Muzammil Behzad

Restoration of images contaminated by different adverse weather conditions such as fog, snow, and rain is a challenging task due to the varying nature of the weather conditions. Most of the existing methods focus on any one particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Kotha Kartheek , Lingamaneni Gnanesh Chowdary , Snehasis Mukherjee

We consider a bilevel optimisation strategy based on normalised residual whiteness loss for estimating the weighted total variation parameter maps for denoising images corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise. Compared to supervised and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Monica Pragliola , Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza

In the past years modern mathematical methods for image analysis have led to a revolution in many fields, from computer vision to scientific imaging. However, some recently developed image processing techniques successfully exploited by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Marco Castellano , Daniele Ottaviani , Adriano Fontana , Emiliano Merlin , Stefano Pilo , Maurizio Falcone

The paper presents an image denoising scheme by combining a method that is based on directional quasi-analytic wavelet packets (qWPs) with the state-of-the-art Weighted Nuclear Norm Minimization (WNNM) denoising algorithm. The qWP-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Amir Averbuch , Pekka Neittaanmäki , Valery Zheludev , Moshe Salhov , Jonathan Hauser

We propose a novel method of efficient upsampling of a single natural image. Current methods for image upsampling tend to produce high-resolution images with either blurry salient edges, or loss of fine textural detail, or spurious noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Chinmay Hegde , Oncel Tuzel , Fatih Porikli

We propose a new image denoising algorithm when the data is contaminated by a Poisson noise. As in the Non-Local Means filter, the proposed algorithm is based on a weighted linear combination of the bserved image. But in contract to the…

Applications · Statistics 2012-01-31 Qiyu Jin , Ion Grama , Quansheng Liu

Super-resolution imaging aims at improving the resolution of an image by enhancing it with other images or data that might have been acquired using different imaging techniques or modalities. In this paper we consider the task of doubling,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Andreas Alpers , Peter Gritzmann

Several important classes of images such as text, barcode and pattern images have the property that pixels can only take a distinct subset of values. This knowledge can benefit the restoration of such images, but it has not been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Xing Mei , Honggang Qi , Bao-Gang Hu , Siwei Lyu

Underwater image enhancement plays a crucial role in providing reliable visual information for underwater platforms, since strong absorption and scattering in water-related environments generally lead to image quality degradation. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yiqiang Zhou , Yifan Chen , Zhe Sun , Jijun Lu , Ye Zheng , Xuelong Li

Hard X-ray spectra in solar flares provide knowledge of the electron spectrum that results from acceleration and propagation in the solar atmosphere. However, the inference of the electron spectra from solar X-ray spectra is an ill-posed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. P. Kontar , M. Piana , A. M. Massone , A. G. Emslie , J. C. Brown

Editing flat-looking images into stunning photographs requires skill and time. Automated image enhancement algorithms have attracted increased interest by generating high-quality images without user interaction. However, the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Heewon Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

The noise in absorption imaging of cold atoms significantly impacts measurement accuracy across a range of applications with ultracold atoms. It is crucial to adopt an approach that offers effective denoising capabilities without…

The problem of restoration of digital images from their degraded measurements plays a central role in a multitude of practically important applications. A particularly challenging instance of this problem occurs in the case when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Oleg Michailovich

Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shulin Tian , Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Underwater optical imaging is severely degraded by light absorption, scattering, and color distortion, hindering visibility and accurate image analysis. This paper presents an adaptive enhancement framework integrating illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yuezhe Tian , Kangchen Yao , Xiaoyang Yu