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This paper introduces the Raw Natural Image Noise Dataset (RawNIND), a diverse collection of paired raw images designed to support the development of denoising models that generalize across sensors, image development workflows, and styles.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Benoit Brummer , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that measure per-pixel brightness differences asynchronously. Recovering brightness from events is appealing since the reconstructed images inherit the high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zelin Zhang , Anthony Yezzi , Guillermo Gallego

Image denoising is a prerequisite for downstream tasks in many fields. Low-dose and photon-counting computed tomography (CT) denoising can optimize diagnostic performance at minimized radiation dose. Supervised deep denoising methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Chuang Niu , Mengzhou Li , Fenglei Fan , Weiwen Wu , Xiaodong Guo , Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

Zero-shot denoisers address the dataset dependency of deep-learning-based denoisers, enabling the denoising of unseen single images. Nonetheless, existing zero-shot methods suffer from long training times and rely on the assumption of noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yanlin Jiang , Yuchen Liu , Mingren Liu

Explicit reconstruction constraints derived from the decoupled representation are further imposed to suppress abnormal channel amplification and chromatic noise. Experiments on LOLv2-Real, MIT-Adobe FiveK, and LSRW show that the proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Guangrui Bai , Yifan Mei , Yahui Deng , Yuhan Chen , Yuze Qiu , Wenhai Liu , Erbao Dong

Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method for images and videos. Most successful approaches are based on Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) and use different views of an instance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Julien Denize , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Astrid Orcesi , Romain Hérault

Controllable image denoising aims to generate clean samples with human perceptual priors and balance sharpness and smoothness. In traditional filter-based denoising methods, this can be easily achieved by adjusting the filtering strength.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Zhaoyang Zhang , Yitong Jiang , Wenqi Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Ping Luo , Kaimo Lin , Jinwei Gu

This paper considers matching images of low-light scenes, aiming to widen the frontier of SfM and visual SLAM applications. Recent image sensors can record the brightness of scenes with more than eight-bit precision, available in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Wenzheng Song , Masanori Suganuma , Xing Liu , Noriyuki Shimobayashi , Daisuke Maruta , Takayuki Okatani

Low Dose CT Denoising research aims to reduce the risks of radiation exposure to patients. Recently researchers have used deep learning to denoise low dose CT images with promising results. However, approaches that use mean-squared-error…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Sepehr Ataei , Javad Alirezaie , Paul Babyn

We propose a simple method for estimating noise level from a single color image. In most image-denoising algorithms, an accurate noise-level estimate results in good denoising performance; however, it is difficult to estimate noise level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Akihiro Nakamura , Michihiro Kobayashi

The remarkable success of deep learning methods in solving computer vision problems, such as image classification, object detection, scene understanding, image segmentation, etc., has paved the way for their application in biomedical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Prabhat Kc , Rongping Zeng

Low-light image sequences generally suffer from spatio-temporal incoherent noise, flicker and blurring of moving objects. These artefacts significantly reduce visual quality and, in most cases, post-processing is needed in order to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 N. Anantrasirichai , David Bull

Recent methods for learning unsupervised visual representations, dubbed contrastive learning, optimize the noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) bound on mutual information between two views of an image. NCE uses randomly sampled negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Mike Wu , Milan Mosse , Chengxu Zhuang , Daniel Yamins , Noah Goodman

In real-world scenarios, images captured often suffer from blurring, noise, and other forms of image degradation, and due to sensor limitations, people usually can only obtain low dynamic range images. To achieve high-quality images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kangzhen Yang , Tao Hu , Kexin Dai , Genggeng Chen , Yu Cao , Wei Dong , Peng Wu , Yanning Zhang , Qingsen Yan

Semi-supervised segmentation methods have demonstrated promising results in natural scenarios, providing a solution to reduce dependency on manual annotation. However, these methods face significant challenges when directly applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ye Zhang , Ziyue Wang , Yifeng Wang , Hao Bian , Linghan Cai , Hengrui Li , Lingbo Zhang , Yongbing Zhang

In low-light conditions, a conventional camera imaging pipeline produces sub-optimal images that are usually dark and noisy due to a low photon count and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We present a data-driven approach that learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Recognizing objects in low-resolution images is a challenging task due to the lack of informative details. Recent studies have shown that knowledge distillation approaches can effectively transfer knowledge from a high-resolution teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Kangkai Zhang , Shiming Ge , Ruixin Shi , Dan Zeng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown very promising results for various image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the design of network architectures remains a major challenging for achieving further improvements. While most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Weisheng Dong , Peiyao Wang , Wotao Yin , Guangming Shi , Fangfang Wu , Xiaotong Lu

When it comes to image compression in digital cameras, denoising is traditionally performed prior to compression. However, there are applications where image noise may be necessary to demonstrate the trustworthiness of the image, such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Mateen Ulhaq , Hyomin Choi , Ivan V. Bajić

The task of recalibrating the illumination settings in an image to a target configuration is known as relighting. Relighting techniques have potential applications in digital photography, gaming industry and in augmented reality. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Densen Puthussery , Hrishikesh P. S. , Melvin Kuriakose , Jiji C.