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We propose Denoising Masked Autoencoder (Deno-MAE), a novel multimodal autoencoder framework for denoising modulation signals during pretraining. DenoMAE extends the concept of masked autoencoders by incorporating multiple input modalities,…

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Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) is a well-known imaging modality which allows for \textit{in-vivo} visualization of the morphology of different biological tissues at cellular level resolutions. The overall SD-OCT…

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Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is a challenging problem with important real-world applications. Recent efforts attempting to exploit powerful representations by deep neural networks (DNN) are hindered by the lack of subjectively…

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Anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique that is highly valuable for ophthalmic diagnosis. However, speckles in AS-OCT images can often degrade the image quality and affect clinical…