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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

Recent deep learning-based image denoising methods have shown impressive performance; however, many lack the flexibility to adjust the denoising strength based on the noise levels, camera settings, and user preferences. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Youngjin Oh , Junhyeong Kwon , Keuntek Lee , Nam Ik Cho

In this paper, we study the denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) in wavelet space, instead of pixel space, for visual synthesis. Considering the wavelet transform represents the image in spatial and frequency domains, we carefully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xin Yuan , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Kevin Lin , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

Demosaicking and denoising are among the most crucial steps of modern digital camera pipelines and their joint treatment is a highly ill-posed inverse problem where at-least two-thirds of the information are missing and the rest are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Most of the classical denoising methods restore clear results by selecting and averaging pixels in the noisy input. Instead of relying on hand-crafted selecting and averaging strategies, we propose to explicitly learn this process with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Xiangyu Xu , Muchen Li , Wenxiu Sun

While deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown extraordinary capability of modelling specific noise and denoising, they still perform poorly on real-world noisy images. The main reason is that the real-world noise is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Yiyun Zhao , Zhuqing Jiang , Aidong Men , Guodong Ju

Supervised learning-based methods yield robust denoising results, yet they are inherently limited by the need for large-scale clean/noisy paired datasets. The use of unsupervised denoisers, on the other hand, necessitates a more detailed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Nahyun Kim , Donggon Jang , Sunhyeok Lee , Bomi Kim , Dae-Shik Kim

When capturing and storing images, devices inevitably introduce noise. Reducing this noise is a critical task called image denoising. Deep learning has become the de facto method for image denoising, especially with the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Haoyu Chen , Jinjin Gu , Yihao Liu , Salma Abdel Magid , Chao Dong , Qiong Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Lei Zhu

Decomposing an image through Fourier, DCT or wavelet transforms is still a common approach in digital image processing, in number of applications such as denoising. In this context, data-driven dictionaries and in particular exploiting the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

Diffusion models achieve remarkable quality in image generation, but at a cost. Iterative denoising requires many time steps to produce high fidelity images. We argue that the denoising process is crucially limited by an accumulation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hui Lu , Albert ali Salah , Ronald Poppe

U-Nets are among the most widely used architectures in computer vision, renowned for their exceptional performance in applications such as image segmentation, denoising, and diffusion modeling. However, a theoretical explanation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Song Mei

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising are usually trained on large datasets. These models achieve the current state of the art, but they have difficulties generalizing when applied to data that deviate from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sreyas Mohan , Joshua L. Vincent , Ramon Manzorro , Peter A. Crozier , Eero P. Simoncelli , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Image denoising is the process of removing noise from noisy images, which is an image domain transferring task, i.e., from a single or several noise level domains to a photo-realistic domain. In this paper, we propose an effective image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Xianxu Hou , Hongming Luo , Jingxin Liu , Bolei Xu , Ke Sun , Yuanhao Gong , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu

Since the proposal of big data analysis and Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), the deep learning technology has received a great deal of attention and has been widely applied in the field of imaging processing. In this paper, we have an aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Lunke Fei , Ke Yan

Deep neural networks can learn powerful prior probability models for images, as evidenced by the high-quality generations obtained with recent score-based diffusion methods. But the means by which these networks capture complex global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Florentin Guth , Stéphane Mallat , Eero P Simoncelli

Recovering a signal from its Fourier intensity underlies many important applications, including lensless imaging and imaging through scattering media. Conventional algorithms for retrieving the phase suffer when noise is present but display…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Yaotian Wang , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

Image denoising is a classical problem in low level computer vision. Model-based optimization methods and deep learning approaches have been the two main strategies for solving the problem. Model-based optimization methods are flexible for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Chang Liu , Zhaowei Shang , Anyong Qin

Deep learning had already demonstrated its power in medical images, including denoising, classification, segmentation, etc. All these applications are proposed to automatically analyze medical images beforehand, which brings more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Shao-Cheng Wen , Yu-Jen Chen , Zihao Liu , Wujie Wen , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho , Qianjun Jia , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang

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

Recovering an image from a noisy observation is a key problem in signal processing. Recently, it has been shown that data-driven approaches employing convolutional neural networks can outperform classical model-based techniques, because…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli