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An image denoiser can be used for a wide range of restoration problems via the Plug-and-Play (PnP) architecture. In this paper, we propose a general framework to build an interpretable graph-based deep denoiser (GDD) by unrolling a solution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Seyed Alireza Hosseini , Tam Thuc Do , Gene Cheung , Yuichi Tanaka

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 can be described as the problem of mapping from a noisy image to a noise-free image. The best currently available denoising methods approximate this mapping with cleverly engineered algorithms. In this work we attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Harold Christopher Burger , Christian J. Schuler , Stefan Harmeling

For the task of low-light image enhancement, deep learning-based algorithms have demonstrated superiority and effectiveness compared to traditional methods. However, these methods, primarily based on Retinex theory, tend to overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shuang Wang , Qianwen Lu , Boxing Peng , Yihe Nie , Qingchuan Tao

In recent years, graph signal processing (GSP) technology has become popular in various fields, and graph Laplacian regularizers have also been introduced into convolutional sparse representation. This paper proposes a convolutional sparse…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xuefeng Peng , Fei Chen , Hang Cheng , Meiqing Wang

Retinex theory is developed mainly to decompose an image into the illumination and reflectance components by analyzing local image derivatives. In this theory, larger derivatives are attributed to the changes in reflectance, while smaller…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Jun Xu , Yingkun Hou , Dongwei Ren , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Mengyang Yu , Haoqian Wang , Ling Shao

Image deblurring is relevant in many fields of science and engineering. To solve this problem, many different approaches have been proposed and among the various methods, variational ones are extremely popular. These approaches are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Davide Bianchi , Alessandro Buccini , Marco Donatelli , Emma Randazzo

Images captured under low-light conditions often suffer from (partially) poor visibility. Besides unsatisfactory lightings, multiple types of degradations, such as noise and color distortion due to the limited quality of cameras, hide in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yonghua Zhang , Jiawan Zhang , Xiaojie Guo

Medical imaging plays a significant role in detecting and treating various diseases. However, these images often happen to be of too poor quality, leading to decreased efficiency, extra expenses, and even incorrect diagnoses. Therefore, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Alnur Alimanov , Md Baharul Islam

Hyperspectral target detection is good at finding dim and small objects based on spectral characteristics. However, existing representation-based methods are hindered by the problem of the unknown background dictionary and insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Dunbin Shen , Xiaorui Ma , Wenfeng Kong , Jiacheng Tian , Hongyu Wang

Blur and noise corrupting Computed Tomography (CT) images can hide or distort small but important details, negatively affecting the diagnosis. In this paper, we present a novel gradient-based Plug-and-Play algorithm, constructed on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini , Elena Morotti , Andrea Sebastiani

Regularized optimization has been a classical approach to solving imaging inverse problems, where the regularization term enforces desirable properties of the unknown image. Recently, the integration of flow matching generative models into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ji Li , Chao Wang

Image/video denoising in low-light scenes is an extremely challenging problem due to limited photon count and high noise. In this paper, we propose a novel approach with contrastive learning to address this issue. Inspired by the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Taoyong Cui , Yuhan Dong

When enhancing low-light images, many deep learning algorithms are based on the Retinex theory. However, the Retinex model does not consider the corruptions hidden in the dark or introduced by the light-up process. Besides, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yuanhao Cai , Hao Bian , Jing Lin , Haoqian Wang , Radu Timofte , Yulun Zhang

In the (special) smoothing spline problem one considers a variational problem with a quadratic data fidelity penalty and Laplacian regularisation. Higher order regularity can be obtained via replacing the Laplacian regulariser with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-07 Nicolás García Trillos , Ryan Murray , Matthew Thorpe

Images obtained in real-world low-light conditions are not only low in brightness, but they also suffer from many other types of degradation, such as color bias, unknown noise, detail loss and halo artifacts. In this paper, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Xinxu Wei , Xianshi Zhang , Shisen Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yanlin Huang , Kaifu Yang , Yongjie Li

In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based unsupervised framework that incorporates physically explainable Retinex theory with diffusion models for low-light image enhancement, named LightenDiffusion. Specifically, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Xiaohong Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

Graph sampling with noise is a fundamental problem in graph signal processing (GSP). Previous works assume an unbiased least square (LS) signal reconstruction scheme and select samples greedily via expensive extreme eigenvector computation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-19 Yuanchao Bai , Gene Cheung , Fen Wang , Xianming Liu , Wen Gao

In this letter, we propose a novel image denoising method based on correlation preserving sparse coding. Because the instable and unreliable correlations among basis set can limit the performance of the dictionary-driven denoising methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Rui Chen , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie , Wen Gao

We propose RelitLRM, a Large Reconstruction Model (LRM) for generating high-quality Gaussian splatting representations of 3D objects under novel illuminations from sparse (4-8) posed images captured under unknown static lighting. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Tianyuan Zhang , Zhengfei Kuang , Haian Jin , Zexiang Xu , Sai Bi , Hao Tan , He Zhang , Yiwei Hu , Milos Hasan , William T. Freeman , Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan