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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising can effectively exploit rich hierarchical features and have achieved great success. However, many deep CNN-based denoising models equally utilize the hierarchical features of…

Many image restoration techniques are highly dependent on the degradation used during training, and their performance declines significantly when applied to slightly different input. Blind and universal techniques attempt to mitigate this…

Since convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well at learning generalizable image priors from large-scale data, these models have been extensively applied to image restoration and related tasks. Recently, another class of neural…

Transformers have emerged as viable alternatives to convolutional neural networks owing to their ability to learn non-local region relationships in the spatial domain. The self-attention mechanism of the transformer enables transformers to…

Learning-based methods especially with convolutional neural networks (CNN) are continuously showing superior performance in computer vision applications, ranging from image classification to restoration. For image classification, most…

Being extremely dependent on iterative estimation of the degradation prior or optimization of the model from scratch, the existing blind super-resolution (SR) methods are generally time-consuming and less effective, as the estimation of…

Recent RGB-guided depth super-resolution methods have achieved impressive performance under the assumption of fixed and known degradation (e.g., bicubic downsampling). However, in real-world scenarios, captured depth data often suffer from…

The most of CNN based super-resolution (SR) methods assume that the degradation is known (\eg, bicubic). These methods will suffer a severe performance drop when the degradation is different from their assumption. Therefore, some approaches…

Outdoor images often suffer from severe degradation due to rain, haze, and noise, impairing image quality and challenging high-level tasks. Current image restoration methods struggle to handle complex degradation while maintaining…

Recently, numerous studies have been conducted on supervised learning-based image denoising methods. However, these methods rely on large-scale noisy-clean image pairs, which are difficult to obtain in practice. Denoising methods with…

Typical methods for blind image super-resolution (SR) focus on dealing with unknown degradations by directly estimating them or learning the degradation representations in a latent space. A potential limitation of these methods is that they…

Recently, image restoration transformers have achieved comparable performance with previous state-of-the-art CNNs. However, how to efficiently leverage such architectures remains an open problem. In this work, we present Dual-former whose…

Blind image restoration processors based on convolutional neural network (CNN) are intensively researched because of their high performance. However, they are too sensitive to the perturbation of the degradation model. They easily fail to…

Super-resolution remains a promising technique to enhance the quality of low-resolution images. This study introduces CATformer (Contrastive Adversarial Transformer), a novel neural network integrating diffusion-inspired feature refinement…

Transformer-based Super-Resolution (SR) methods have demonstrated superior performance compared to convolutional neural network (CNN)-based SR approaches due to their capability to capture long-range dependencies. However, their high…

Real-world image super-resolution is particularly challenging for diffusion models because real degradations are complex, heterogeneous, and rarely modeled explicitly. We propose a degradation-aware and structure-preserving diffusion…

Previous approaches for blind image super-resolution (SR) have relied on degradation estimation to restore high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts. However, accurate degradation estimation poses significant…

Image denoising is an important low-level computer vision task, which aims to reconstruct a noise-free and high-quality image from a noisy image. With the development of deep learning, convolutional neural network (CNN) has been gradually…

Blind-spot networks (BSN) have been prevalent neural architectures in self-supervised image denoising (SSID). However, most existing BSNs are conducted with convolution layers. Although transformers have shown the potential to overcome the…

Super-resolution plays an essential role in medical imaging because it provides an alternative way to achieve high spatial resolutions and image quality with no extra acquisition costs. In the past few decades, the rapid development of deep…