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Many self-supervised denoising approaches have been proposed in recent years. However, these methods tend to overly smooth images, resulting in the loss of fine structures that are essential for medical applications. In this paper, we…

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Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have led to staggering performance leaps in image generation, editing and restoration. However, existing DDMs use very large datasets for training. Here, we introduce a framework for training a DDM on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Vladimir Kulikov , Shahar Yadin , Matan Kleiner , Tomer Michaeli

Diffusion models learn to restore noisy data, which is corrupted with different levels of noise, by optimizing the weighted sum of the corresponding loss terms, i.e., denoising score matching loss. In this paper, we show that restoring data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jooyoung Choi , Jungbeom Lee , Chaehun Shin , Sungwon Kim , Hyunwoo Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Humans can robustly learn novel visual concepts even when images undergo various deformations and lose certain information. Mimicking the same behavior and synthesizing deformed instances of new concepts may help visual recognition systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Zitian Chen , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Xiong Wang , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Martial Hebert

Diffusion models have shown remarkable success across a wide range of generative tasks. However, they often suffer from spatially inconsistent generation, arguably due to the inherent locality of their denoising mechanisms. This can yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenshuai Zhao , Zhiyuan Li , Yi Zhao , Mohammad Hassan Vali , Martin Trapp , Joni Pajarinen , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

Fully-supervised shadow removal methods achieve the best restoration qualities on public datasets but still generate some shadow remnants. One of the reasons is the lack of large-scale shadow & shadow-free image pairs. Unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Xiaoguang Li , Qing Guo , Rabab Abdelfattah , Di Lin , Wei Feng , Ivor Tsang , Song Wang

Existing solutions to image editing tasks suffer from several issues. Though achieving remarkably satisfying generated results, some supervised methods require huge amounts of paired training data, which greatly limits their usages. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jinshu Chen , Bingchuan Li , Miao Hua , Panpan Xu , Qian He

Unpaired image denoising has achieved promising development over the last few years. Regardless of the performance, methods tend to heavily rely on underlying noise properties or any assumption which is not always practical. Alternatively,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Manisha Das Chaity , Masud An Nur Islam Fahim

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

Generative diffusion models trained on large-scale datasets have achieved remarkable progress in image synthesis. In favor of their ability to supplement missing details and generate aesthetically pleasing contents, recent works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Junhao Cheng , Wei-Ting Chen , Xi Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Deep convolutional neural networks trained on large datsets have emerged as an intriguing alternative for compressing images and solving inverse problems such as denoising and compressive sensing. However, it has only recently been realized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Reinhard Heckel

Mask-based lensless imagers are smaller and lighter than traditional lensed cameras. In these imagers, the sensor does not directly record an image of the scene; rather, a computational algorithm reconstructs it. Typically, mask-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Kristina Monakhova , Joshua Yurtsever , Grace Kuo , Nick Antipa , Kyrollos Yanny , Laura Waller

In recent years, deep neural networks have emerged as a solution for inverse imaging problems. These networks are generally trained using pairs of images: one degraded and the other of high quality, the latter being called 'ground truth'.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Victor Sechaud , Patrice Abry , Laurent Jacques , Julián Tachella

Image reconstruction based on indirect, noisy, or incomplete data remains an important yet challenging task. While methods such as compressive sensing have demonstrated high-resolution image recovery in various settings, there remain issues…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Jan Glaubitz , Anne Gelb , Guohui Song

We present a method for supervised learning of sparsity-promoting regularizers for denoising signals and images. Sparsity-promoting regularization is a key ingredient in solving modern signal reconstruction problems; however, the operators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Avrajit Ghosh , Michael T. McCann , Madeline Mitchell , Saiprasad Ravishankar

In numerous practical applications, especially in medical image reconstruction, it is often infeasible to obtain a large ensemble of ground-truth/measurement pairs for supervised learning. Therefore, it is imperative to develop unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Subhadip Mukherjee , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Denoising diffusion models enable conditional generation and density modeling of complex relationships like images and text. However, the nature of the learned relationships is opaque making it difficult to understand precisely what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xianghao Kong , Ollie Liu , Han Li , Dani Yogatama , Greg Ver Steeg

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in imaging inverse problems owing to their powerful generative capabilities. However, existing approaches typically rely on models trained for specific degradation types, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhen Wang , Hongyi Liu , Zhihui Wei

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

The issue of image haze removal has attracted wide attention in recent years. However, most existing haze removal methods cannot restore the scene with clear blue sky, since the color and texture information of the object in the original…

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