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We show how quantum coherence effects can be used to improve the resolution and the contrast of diffraction-limited images imprinted onto a probe field. The narrow and sharp spectral features generated by double-dark resonances (DDR) are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Onkar N. Verma , Tarak N. Dey

This paper addresses the problem of computing the eigenvalues lying in the gaps of the essential spectrum of a periodic Schrodinger operator perturbed by a fast decreasing potential. We use a recently developed technique, the so called…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Lyonell Boulton , Michael Levitin

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a fast, high-quality method for novel view synthesis (NVS). However, its use of low-degree spherical harmonics limits its ability to capture spatially varying color and view-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Wei Mao , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

There are many methods for image enhancement. Image inpainting is one of them which could be used in reconstruction and restoration of scratch images or editing images by adding or removing objects. According to its application, different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Zahra Nabizadeh , Ghazale Ghorbanzade , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

There has been a growing interest in developing image super-resolution (SR) algorithms that convert low-resolution (LR) to higher resolution images, but automatically evaluating the visual quality of super-resolved images remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Wei Zhou , Zhou Wang

Histogram Equalization is a contrast enhancement technique in the image processing which uses the histogram of image. However histogram equalization is not the best method for contrast enhancement because the mean brightness of the output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Omprakash Patel , Yogendra P. S. Maravi , Sanjeev Sharma

Existing quality enhancement methods for compressed images focus on aligning the enhancement domain with the raw domain to yield realistic images. However, these methods exhibit a pervasive enhancement bias towards the compression domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Qunliang Xing , Mai Xu , Shengxi Li , Xin Deng , Meisong Zheng , Huaida Liu , Ying Chen

This paper introduces two key contributions aimed at improving the speed and quality of images generated through inverse diffusion processes. The first contribution involves reparameterizing the diffusion process in terms of the angle on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhenkai Zhang , Krista A. Ehinger , Tom Drummond

Contrastive learning has recently attracted plenty of attention in deep graph clustering for its promising performance. However, complicated data augmentations and time-consuming graph convolutional operation undermine the efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yue Liu , Xihong Yang , Sihang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

Significant progress has been made in low-light image enhancement with respect to visual quality. However, most existing methods primarily operate in the pixel domain or rely on implicit feature representations. As a result, the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yuhan Chen , Ying Fang , Guofa Li , Wenxuan Yu , Yicui Shi , Jingrui Zhang , Kefei Qian , Wenbo Chu , Keqiang Li

Traditional point-based image editing methods rely on iterative latent optimization or geometric transformations, which are either inefficient in their processing or fail to capture the semantic relationships within the image. These methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Biao Yang , Muqi Huang , Yuhui Zhang , Yun Xiong , Kun Zhou , Xi Chen , Shiyang Zhou , Huishuai Bao , Chuan Li , Feng Shi , Hualei Liu

In this paper we present seven techniques that everybody should know to improve example-based single image super resolution (SR): 1) augmentation of data, 2) use of large dictionaries with efficient search structures, 3) cascading, 4) image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Radu Timofte , Rasmus Rothe , Luc Van Gool

Purpose: Spectral imaging is a method in medical x-ray imaging to extract information about the object constituents by the material-specific energy dependence of x-ray attenuation. The authors have investigated a photon-counting spectral…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Erik Fredenberg , Magnus Hemmendorff , Bjorn Cederstrom , Magnus Aslund , Mats Danielsson

In this paper, we propose a general framework to accelerate the universal histogram-based image contrast enhancement (CE) algorithms. Both spatial and gray-level selective down-sampling of digital images are adopted to decrease…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Gang Cao , Huawei Tian , Lifang Yu , Xianglin Huang , Yongbin Wang

In this work, we address the problem of Hessian inversion bias in distributed second-order optimization algorithms. We introduce a novel shrinkage-based estimator for the resolvent of gram matrices which is asymptotically unbiased, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Fangzhao Zhang , Mert Pilanci

In this paper, a new phase-retrieval algorithm from an X-ray schlieren image is proposed. The schlieren method allows phase-contrast imaging with an objective lens and a knife-edge filter placed at the back focal plane of the objective.…

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

Acquiring images of the same anatomy with multiple different contrasts increases the diversity of diagnostic information available in an MR exam. Yet, scan time limitations may prohibit acquisition of certain contrasts, and images for some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Mahmut Yurt , Levent Karacan , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem , Tolga Çukur

We introduce Adaptive Guided Upsampling (AGU), an efficient method for upscaling low-light images capable of optimizing multiple image quality characteristics at the same time, such as reducing noise and increasing sharpness. It is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Angela Vivian Dcosta , Chunbo Song , Rafael Radkowski

One of the main computational drawbacks in the application of 3-D iterative inversion techniques is the requirement of solving the field quantities for the updated contrast in every iteration. In this paper, the 3-D electromagnetic inverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Shilong Sun , Bert Jan Kooij , Alexander G. Yarovoy