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Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computational photography, where achieving high perception with low distortion is highly demanding. Current methods either struggle with perceptual quality or suffer from significant distortion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tong Li , Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong , Hua Huang

In recent years, deep learning-based image compression, particularly through generative models, has emerged as a pivotal area of research. Despite significant advancements, challenges such as diminished sharpness and quality in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Ryugo Morita , Hitoshi Nishimura , Ko Watanabe , Andreas Dengel , Jinjia Zhou

We propose a novel deep neural network architecture for semi-supervised semantic segmentation using heterogeneous annotations. Contrary to existing approaches posing semantic segmentation as a single task of region-based classification, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Seunghoon Hong , Hyeonwoo Noh , Bohyung Han

While significant attention has been recently focused on designing supervised deep semantic segmentation algorithms for vision tasks, there are many domains in which sufficient supervised pixel-level labels are difficult to obtain. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Xide Xia , Brian Kulis

Diffusion models have shown remarkable success across a wide range of generative tasks. However, they often suffer from spatially inconsistent generation, arguably due to the inherent locality of their denoising mechanisms. This can yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenshuai Zhao , Zhiyuan Li , Yi Zhao , Mohammad Hassan Vali , Martin Trapp , Joni Pajarinen , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for various image generation and editing tasks, facilitating the synthesis of visual content in an unconditional or input-conditional manner. The core idea behind them is learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yi Huang , Jiancheng Huang , Yifan Liu , Mingfu Yan , Jiaxi Lv , Jianzhuang Liu , Wei Xiong , He Zhang , Liangliang Cao , Shifeng Chen

With the success of image generation, generative diffusion models are increasingly adopted for discriminative tasks, as pixel generation provides a unified perception interface. However, directly repurposing the generative denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ziqi Pang , Xin Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang

Convolutional neural networks have recently been used for multi-focus image fusion. However, due to the lack of labeled data for supervised training of such networks, existing methods have resorted to adding Gaussian blur in focused images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Xiang Yan , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Hanlin Qin , Ajmal Mian

A fundamental problem in signal processing is to denoise a signal. While there are many well-performing methods for denoising signals defined on regular supports, such as images defined on two-dimensional grids of pixels, many important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Samuel Rey , Santiago Segarra , Reinhard Heckel , Antonio G. Marques

Semantic segmentation is a computer vision task where classification is performed at a pixel level. Due to this, the process of labeling images for semantic segmentation is time-consuming and expensive. To mitigate this cost there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Javier Montalvo , Álvaro García-Martín , Pablo Carballeira , Juan C. SanMiguel

Image segmentation is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision with applications spanning multiple areas, such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and autonomous vehicles. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ali Hatamizadeh

Generative diffusion models learn probability densities over diverse image datasets by estimating the score with a neural network trained to remove noise. Despite their remarkable success in generating high-quality images, the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Stéphane Mallat , Eero Simoncelli

Deep learning approaches heavily rely on high-quality human supervision which is nonetheless expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone, especially for image segmentation task. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yu Yang , Hakan Bilen , Qiran Zou , Wing Yin Cheung , Xiangyang Ji

Deep neural networks, in particular convolutional neural networks, have become highly effective tools for compressing images and solving inverse problems including denoising, inpainting, and reconstruction from few and noisy measurements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Reinhard Heckel , Paul Hand

Despite the rapid advancement of unsupervised learning in visual representation, it requires training on large-scale datasets that demand costly data collection, and pose additional challenges due to concerns regarding data privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 David Junhao Zhang , Mutian Xu , Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Xiaoguang Han , Song Bai , Mike Zheng Shou

Stable diffusion models have ushered in a new era of advancements in image generation, currently reigning as the state-of-the-art approach, exhibiting unparalleled performance. The process of diffusion, accompanied by denoising through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Andras Horvath

The prevalent convolutional neural network (CNN) based image denoising methods extract features of images to restore the clean ground truth, achieving high denoising accuracy. However, these methods may ignore the underlying distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yang Liu , Saeed Anwar , Zhenyue Qin , Pan Ji , Sabrina Caldwell , Tom Gedeon

In machine learning approach to image denoising a network is trained to recover a clean image from a noisy one. In this paper a novel structure is proposed based on training multiple specialized networks as opposed to existing structures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Seyed Mohsen Hosseini

Recent advancements in multi-scale architectures have demonstrated exceptional performance in image denoising tasks. However, existing architectures mainly depends on a fixed single-input single-output Unet architecture, ignoring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xu Zhao , Chen Zhao , Xiantao Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Ying Tai , Jian Yang