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Most of the traditional work on intrinsic image decomposition rely on deriving priors about scene characteristics. On the other hand, recent research use deep learning models as in-and-out black box and do not consider the well-established,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Anil S. Baslamisli , Hoang-An Le , Theo Gevers

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is a popular framework for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating learned priors in the form of denoisers trained to remove Gaussian noise from images. In standard PnP methods, the denoiser is applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-Play methods constitute a class of iterative algorithms for imaging problems where regularization is performed by an off-the-shelf denoiser. Although Plug-and-Play methods can lead to tremendous visual performance for various image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Samuel Hurault , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Recently, data-driven techniques have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in addressing challenges related to MR imaging inverse problems. However, these methods still exhibit certain limitations in terms of interpretability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Huayu Wang , Chen Luo , Taofeng Xie , Qiyu Jin , Guoqing Chen , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Dong Liang

In recent years, Diffusion Models have become the new state-of-the-art in deep generative modeling, ending the long-time dominance of Generative Adversarial Networks. Inspired by the Regularization by Denoising principle, we introduce an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Pasquale Cascarano , Lorenzo Stacchio , Andrea Sebastiani , Alessandro Benfenati , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Gustavo Marfia

We design a novel network architecture for learning discriminative image models that are employed to efficiently tackle the problem of grayscale and color image denoising. Based on the proposed architecture, we introduce two different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

We introduce a new algorithm for regularized reconstruction of multispectral (MS) images from noisy linear measurements. Unlike traditional approaches, the proposed algorithm regularizes the recovery problem by using a prior specified…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-23 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

This paper aims to recover the intrinsic reflectance layer and shading layer given a single image. Though this intrinsic image decomposition problem has been studied for decades, it remains a significant challenge in cases of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Zijun He , Xin Yuan

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.

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) and Regularisation by Denoising (RED) have established that image denoisers can effectively replace traditional regularisers in linear inverse problem solvers for tasks like super-resolution, demosaicing, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Clément Bled , François Pitié

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

This paper presents a new convergent Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithm. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems formulated as the minimization of the sum of a data-fidelity term and a regularization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-06 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Image denoising algorithms are evaluated using images corrupted by artificial noise, which may lead to incorrect conclusions about their performances on real noise. In this paper we introduce a dataset of color images corrupted by natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Josue Anaya , Adrian Barbu

Deep learning-based methods for low-light image enhancement typically require enormous paired training data, which are impractical to capture in real-world scenarios. Recently, unsupervised approaches have been explored to eliminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Feng Zhang , Yuanjie Shao , Yishi Sun , Kai Zhu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Modeling strong gravitational lenses in order to quantify the distortions in the images of background sources and to reconstruct the mass density in the foreground lenses has been a difficult computational challenge. As the quality of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Alexandre Adam , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh , Max Welling

Recovering a signal from its Fourier intensity underlies many important applications, including lensless imaging and imaging through scattering media. Conventional algorithms for retrieving the phase suffer when noise is present but display…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Yaotian Wang , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

We propose a pixel color amplification theory and family of enhancement methods to facilitate segmentation tasks on retinal images. Our novel re-interpretation of the image distortion model underlying dehazing theory shows how three…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Alex Gaudio , Asim Smailagic , Aurélio Campilho

Removing undesired reflections from images taken through the glass is of great importance in computer vision. It serves as a means to enhance the image quality for aesthetic purposes as well as to preprocess images in machine learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yang Yang , Wenye Ma , Yin Zheng , Jian-Feng Cai , Weiyu Xu

We propose to learn non-convex regularizers with a prescribed upper bound on their weak-convexity modulus. Such regularizers give rise to variational denoisers that minimize a convex energy. They rely on few parameters (less than 15,000)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Alexis Goujon , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser

This paper proposes a regularizer called Implicit Neural Representation Regularizer (INRR) to improve the generalization ability of the Implicit Neural Representation (INR). The INR is a fully connected network that can represent signals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Zhemin Li , Hongxia Wang , Deyu Meng