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Image dehazing, a pivotal task in low-level vision, aims to restore the visibility and detail from hazy images. Many deep learning methods with powerful representation learning capability demonstrate advanced performance on non-homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Wei Dong , Han Zhou , Ruiyi Wang , Xiaohong Liu , Guangtao Zhai , Jun Chen

Image dehazing is a representative low-level vision task that estimates latent haze-free images from hazy images. In recent years, convolutional neural network-based methods have dominated image dehazing. However, vision Transformers, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yuda Song , Zhuqing He , Hui Qian , Xin Du

This paper addresses the limitations of physical models in the current field of image dehazing by proposing an innovative dehazing network (CL2S). Building on the DM2F model, it identifies issues in its ablation experiments and replaces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yesian Rohn

High Dynamic Range (HDR) images can be recovered from several Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images by existing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) techniques. Despite the remarkable progress, DNN-based methods still generate ghosting artifacts when LDR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Qingsen Yan , Tao Hu , Yuan Sun , Hao Tang , Yu Zhu , Wei Dong , Luc Van Gool , Yanning Zhang

Diffusion models learn to denoise data and the trained denoiser is then used to generate new samples from the data distribution. In this paper, we revisit the diffusion sampling process and identify a fundamental cause of sample quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yunshu Wu , Yingtao Luo , Xianghao Kong , Evangelos E. Papalexakis , Greg Ver Steeg

Haze removal is an extremely challenging task, and object detection in the hazy environment has recently gained much attention due to the popularity of autonomous driving and traffic surveillance. In this work, the authors propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Binghan Li , Yindong Hua , Mi Lu

Image denoising is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most supervised denoising methods learn to reconstruct clean images from noisy inputs, which have intrinsic spectral bias and tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yujin Wang , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generative modelling, particularly in enhancing image quality to conform to human preferences. Recently, these models have also been applied to low-level computer vision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Ultrasound is a widely used medical tool for non-invasive diagnosis, but its images often contain speckle noise which can lower their resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio. This can make it more difficult to extract, recognize, and analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-06 Suraj Bhute , Subhamoy Mandal , Debashree Guha

Haze removal or dehazing is a challenging ill-posed problem that has drawn a significant attention in the last few years. Despite this growing interest, the scientific community is still lacking a reference dataset to evaluate objectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Codruta O. Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti , Radu Timofte , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Haze and smog are among the most common environmental factors impacting image quality and, therefore, image analysis. This paper proposes an end-to-end generative method for image dehazing. It is based on designing a fully convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Zheng Liu , Botao Xiao , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Keyan Wang , Jun Chen

Diffusion models have garnered considerable interest in computer vision, owing both to their capacity to synthesize photorealistic images and to their proven effectiveness in image reconstruction tasks. However, existing approaches fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jonas Dornbusch , Emanuel Pfarr , Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Frank Werner , Radu Timofte

Diffusion models have advanced unsupervised anomaly detection by improving the transformation of pathological images into pseudo-healthy equivalents. Nonetheless, standard approaches may compromise critical information during pathology…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Cosmin I. Bercea , Benedikt Wiestler , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel

Diffusion models are powerful tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions by progressively transforming pure noise into structured data through a denoising process. When equipped with a guidance mechanism, these models can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu

Many imaging inverse problems$\unicode{x2014}$such as image-dependent in-painting and dehazing$\unicode{x2014}$are challenging because their forward models are unknown or depend on unknown latent parameters. While one can solve such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Matthew A. Chan , Sean I. Young , Christopher A. Metzler

The advancement of imaging devices and countless images generated everyday pose an increasingly high demand on image denoising, which still remains a challenging task in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency. To improve denoising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Zhaoming Kong , Fangxi Deng , Haomin Zhuang , Jun Yu , Lifang He , Xiaowei Yang

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Hazy images are often subject to color distortion, blurring, and other visible quality degradation. Some existing CNN-based methods have great performance on removing homogeneous haze, but they are not robust in non-homogeneous case. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Minghan Fu , Huan Liu , Yankun Yu , Jun Chen , Keyan Wang

Traditional dehazing techniques, as a well studied topic in image processing, are now widely used to eliminate the haze effects from individual images. However, even the state-of-the-art dehazing algorithms may not provide sufficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Meihua Wang , Jiaming Mai , Yun Liang , Tom Z. J. Fu , Zhenjie Zhang , Ruichu Cai

Cardiovascular disease is a major life-threatening condition that is commonly monitored using electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. However, these signals are often contaminated by various types of noise at different intensities, significantly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Ding Zhu , Vishnu Kabir Chhabra , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili