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Degradation of image quality due to the presence of haze is a very common phenomenon. Existing DehazeNet [3], MSCNN [11] tackled the drawbacks of hand crafted haze relevant features. However, these methods have the problem of color…

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In this paper, we address the single image haze removal problem in a nighttime scene. The night haze removal is a severely ill-posed problem especially due to the presence of various visible light sources with varying colors and non-uniform…

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Ultrasonography is an essential tool in mid-pregnancy for assessing fetal development, appreciated for its non-invasive and real-time imaging capabilities. Yet, the interpretation of ultrasound images is often complicated by acoustic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Hanna Mykula , Lisa Gasser , Silvia Lobmaier , Julia A. Schnabel , Veronika Zimmer , Cosmin I. Bercea

Ultrasound image compression by preserving speckle-based key information is a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce an ultrasound image compression framework with the ability to retain realism of speckle appearance despite achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Debarghya China , Francis Tom , Sumanth Nandamuri , Aupendu Kar , Mukundhan Srinivasan , Pabitra Mitra , Debdoot Sheet

Recently, there has been rapid and significant progress on image dehazing. Many deep learning based methods have shown their superb performance in handling homogeneous dehazing problems. However, we observe that even if a carefully designed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Yankun Yu , Huan Liu , Minghan Fu , Jun Chen , Xiyao Wang , Keyan Wang

Recent diffusion models have achieved promising performances in audio-denoising tasks. The unique property of the reverse process could recover clean signals. However, the distribution of real-world noises does not comply with a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Pu Wang , Junhui Li , Jialu Li , Liangdong Guo , Youshan Zhang

Incorporating diffusion models in the image compression domain has the potential to produce realistic and detailed reconstructions, especially at extremely low bitrates. Previous methods focus on using diffusion models as expressive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Lucas Relic , Roberto Azevedo , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in medical diagnosis, especially for fetal health assessment. However, the availability of high-quality annotated ultrasound images is limited, which restricts the training of machine learning models. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yueying Tian , Elif Ucurum , Xudong Han , Rupert Young , Chris Chatwin , Philip Birch

Image dehazing aims to remove unwanted hazy artifacts in images. Although previous research has collected paired real-world hazy and haze-free images to improve dehazing models' performance in real-world scenarios, these models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Fu-Jen Tsai , Yan-Tsung Peng , Yen-Yu Lin , Chia-Wen Lin

In physics, density $\rho(\cdot)$ is a fundamentally important scalar function to model, since it describes a scalar field or a probability density function that governs a physical process. Modeling $\rho(\cdot)$ typically scales poorly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Maxwell X. Cai , Kin Long Kelvin Lee

Global contextual information and local detail features are essential for haze removal tasks. Deep learning models perform well on small, low-resolution images, but they encounter difficulties with large, high-resolution ones due to GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiuchen Chen , Xinyu Yan , Qizhi Xu , Kaiqi Li

In real-world scenarios, image defogging is an inverse problem due to unknown scene depth, atmospheric scattering, and the common absence of ground truth . To resolve the issue, we propose a hybrid defogging model that integrates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Manish Kumar , Rajendra K. Ray

Noise is an important factor which when get added to an image reduces its quality and appearance. So in order to enhance the image qualities, it has to be removed with preserving the textural information and structural features of image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Vivek Kumar , Atul Samadhiya

The bio-acoustic information contained within heart sound signals are utilized by physicians world-wide for auscultation purpose. However, the heart sounds are inherently susceptible to noise contamination. Various sources of noises like…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Ayan Mukherjee , Rohan Banerjee , Avik Ghose

The audio denoising technique has captured widespread attention in the deep neural network field. Recently, the audio denoising problem has been converted into an image generation task, and deep learning-based approaches have been applied…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Junhui Li , Pu Wang , Jialu Li , Youshan Zhang

Hyperspectral images play a crucial role in precision agriculture, environmental monitoring or ecological analysis. However, due to sensor equipment and the imaging environment, the observed hyperspectral images are often inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jiang He , Yajie Li , Jie L , Qiangqiang Yuan

Photoacoustic(PA) imaging is a non-destructive and non-invasive technology for visualizing minute blood vessel structures in the body using ultrasonic sensors. In PA imaging, the image quality of a single-shot image is poor, and it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Tatsuhiro Eguchi , Shumpei Takezaki , Mihoko Shimano , Takayuki Yagi , Ryoma Bise

The development of data-driven heart sound classification models has been an active area of research in recent years. To develop such data-driven models in the first place, heart sound signals need to be captured using a signal acquisition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Davoud Shariat Panah , Andrew Hines , Susan McKeever

Existing diffusion-based purification methods aim to disrupt adversarial perturbations by introducing a certain amount of noise through a forward diffusion process, followed by a reverse process to recover clean examples. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Gaozheng Pei , Shaojie Lyu , Gong Chen , Ke Ma , Qianqian Xu , Yingfei Sun , Qingming Huang

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models that have shown outstanding performance in image generation literature. As a consequence, studies have attempted to apply diffusion models to other tasks, such as speech enhancement. A…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Philippe Gonzalez , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Tommy Sonne Alstrøm , Tobias May