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The challenge in fine-grained visual categorization lies in how to explore the subtle differences between different subclasses and achieve accurate discrimination. Previous research has relied on large-scale annotated data and pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Tianxu Wu , Shuo Ye , Shuhuang Chen , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You

Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various forms of degradation. Recently, the diffusion model has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xin Li , Yulin Ren , Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Xingrui Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Xinchao Wang , Zhibo Chen

This paper presents novel single and multi-shell sampling schemes for diffusion MRI. In diffusion MRI, it is paramount that the number of samples is as small as possible in order that scan times are practical in a clinical setting. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-01 Alice P. Bates , Zubair Khalid , Jason D. McEwen , Rodney A. Kennedy , Alessandro Daducci , Erick J. Canales-Rodríguez

High resolution diffusion MRI (dMRI) data is often constrained by limited scanning time in clinical settings, thus restricting the use of downstream analysis techniques that would otherwise be available. In this work we develop a 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Matthew Lyon , Paul Armitage , Mauricio A. Álvarez

Recent advancements in diffusion models (DMs) have greatly advanced remote sensing image super-resolution (RSISR). However, their iterative sampling processes often result in slow inference speeds, limiting their application in real-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Xiaohui Sun , Jiangwei Mo , Hanlin Wu , Jie Ma

Accelerating magnetic resonance image (MRI) reconstruction process is a challenging ill-posed inverse problem due to the excessive under-sampling operation in k-space. In this paper, we propose a recurrent transformer model, namely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Pengfei Guo , Yiqun Mei , Jinyuan Zhou , Shanshan Jiang , Vishal M. Patel

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is a promising method to analyze the subtle changes in the tissue structure. However, the lengthy acquisition time is a major limitation in the clinical application of dMRI. Different image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Abhijit Baul , Nian Wang , Choyi Zhang , Leslie Ying , Yuchou Chang , Ukash Nakarmi

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful, non-invasive diagnostic tool; however, its clinical applicability is constrained by prolonged acquisition times. Whilst present deep learning-based approaches have demonstrated potential in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Anurag Malyala , Zhenlin Zhang , Chengyan Wang , Chen Qin

Color-guided depth map super-resolution (CDSR) improve the spatial resolution of a low-quality depth map with the corresponding high-quality color map, benefiting various applications such as 3D reconstruction, virtual reality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yuan Shi , Bin Xia , Rui Zhu , Qingmin Liao , Wenming Yang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction is essential in medical diagnostics. As the latest generative models, diffusion models (DMs) have struggled to produce high-fidelity images due to their stochastic nature in image domains.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Lingtong Zhang , Mengdie Song , Xiaohan Hao , Huayu Mai , Bensheng Qiu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires long acquisition times, raising costs, reducing accessibility, and making scans more susceptible to motion artifacts. Diffusion probabilistic models that learn data-driven priors can potentially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Rohan Sanda , Asad Aali , Andrew Johnston , Eduardo Reis , Gordon Wetzstein , Sara Fridovich-Keil

Computed Tomography (CT) is a widely utilized imaging modality in clinical settings. Using densely acquired rotational X-ray arrays, CT can capture 3D spatial features. However, it is confronted with challenged such as significant time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Duoyou Chen , Yunqing Chen , Can Zhang , Zhou Wang , Cheng Chen , Ruoxiu Xiao

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) can be used to characterise the microstructure of the nervous tissue, e.g. to delineate brain white matter connections in a non-invasive manner via fibre tracking. Magnetic Resonance…

Recent advances indicate that diffusion models hold great promise in image super-resolution. While the latest methods are primarily based on latent diffusion models with convolutional neural networks, there are few attempts to explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Kun Cheng , Lei Yu , Zhijun Tu , Xiao He , Liyu Chen , Yong Guo , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jie Hu

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a crucial diagnostic tool, but high-resolution scans are often slow and expensive due to extensive data acquisition requirements. Traditional MRI reconstruction methods aim to expedite this process by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Emmanuelle Bourigault , Abdullah Hamdi , Amir Jamaludin

Diffusion priors have been used for blind face restoration (BFR) by fine-tuning diffusion models (DMs) on restoration datasets to recover low-quality images. However, the naive application of DMs presents several key limitations. (i) The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Senmao Li , Kai Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Chun-Le Guo , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved performance in super-resolution (SR) tasks. However, previous research often overlooks the fundamental differences between SR and general image generation. General image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Hanlin Wu , Jiangwei Mo , Xiaohui Sun , Jie Ma

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced as a regularizing prior for PET image reconstruction, integrating DMs trained on high-quality PET images with unsupervised schemes that condition on measured data. While these approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P King , Andrew J Reader

Diffusion models have recently received a surge of interest due to their impressive performance for image restoration, especially in terms of noise robustness. However, existing diffusion-based methods are trained on a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuchun Miao , Lefei Zhang , Liangpei Zhang , Dacheng Tao