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The key advantage of using multiple microphones for speech enhancement is that spatial filtering can be used to complement the tempo-spectral processing. In a traditional setting, linear spatial filtering (beamforming) and single-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann

The ultimate aim of image restoration like denoising is to find an exact correlation between the noisy and clear image domains. But the optimization of end-to-end denoising learning like pixel-wise losses is performed in a sample-to-sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel , Rui Huang

As a widely used non-linear activation, Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) separates noise and signal in a feature map by learning a threshold or bias. However, we argue that the classification of noise and signal not only depends on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Hongyang Li , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

We propose a deep beamforming framework for enhancing target speaker(s) in multi-speaker environments. A deep neural network (DNN) is trained to estimate beamforming weights directly from noisy multichannel inputs while satisfying linear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Ilai Zaidel , Ori Engel , Bar Engel , Sharon Gannot

Most of the existing denoising algorithms are developed for grayscale images, while it is not a trivial work to extend them for color image denoising because the noise statistics in R, G, B channels can be very different for real noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Jun Xu , Lei Zhang , David Zhang , Xiangchu Feng

A new image denoising algorithm to deal with the Poisson noise model is given, which is based on the idea of Non-Local Mean. By using the "Oracle" concept, we establish a theorem to show that the Non-Local Means Filter can effectively deal…

Applications · Statistics 2013-09-18 Qiyu Jin , Ion Grama , Quansheng Liu

Non-local self similarity (NSS) is a powerful prior of natural images for image denoising. Most of existing denoising methods employ similar patches, which is a patch-level NSS prior. In this paper, we take one step forward by introducing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yingkun Hou , Jun Xu , Mingxia Liu , Guanghai Liu , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Ling Shao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in multi-image cross-modal retrieval, yet suffer from severe position bias, where predictions are dominated by input order rather than semantic relevance. Through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mingtao Xian , Yifeng Yang , Qinying Gu , Xinbing Wang , Nanyang Ye

Mammography is using low-energy X-rays to screen the human breast and is utilized by radiologists to detect breast cancer. Typically radiologists require a mammogram with impeccable image quality for an accurate diagnosis. In this study, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Dominik Eckert , Sulaiman Vesal , Ludwig Ritschl , Steffen Kappler , Andreas Maier

As a hybrid imaging technology, photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) imaging suffers from noise due to the maximum permissible exposure of laser intensity, attenuation of ultrasound in the tissue, and the inherent noise of the transducer.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Da He , Jiasheng Zhou , Xiaoyu Shang , Jiajia Luo , Sung-Liang Chen

Image denoising is a prerequisite for downstream tasks in many fields. Low-dose and photon-counting computed tomography (CT) denoising can optimize diagnostic performance at minimized radiation dose. Supervised deep denoising methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Chuang Niu , Mengzhou Li , Fenglei Fan , Weiwen Wu , Xiaodong Guo , Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

It is a key to construct a similarity graph in graph-oriented subspace learning and clustering. In a similarity graph, each vertex denotes a data point and the edge weight represents the similarity between two points. There are two popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Liangli Zhen , Zhang Yi , Xi Peng , Dezhong Peng

One of the biggest challenges for deep learning algorithms in medical image analysis is the indiscriminate mixing of image properties, e.g. artifacts and anatomy. These entangled image properties lead to a semantically redundant feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Qingjie Meng , Nick Pawlowski , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) is desirable for both diagnostic imaging and image guided interventions. Denoisers are openly used to improve the quality of LDCT. Deep learning (DL)-based denoisers have shown state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Ti Bai , Biling Wang , Dan Nguyen , Bao Wang , Bin Dong , Wenxiang Cong , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Steve Jiang

In PET, the amount of relative (signal-dependent) noise present in different body regions can be significantly different and is inherently related to the number of counts present in that region. The number of counts in a region depends, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ye Li , Jianan Cui , Junyu Chen , Guodong Zeng , Scott Wollenweber , Floris Jansen , Se-In Jang , Kyungsang Kim , Kuang Gong , Quanzheng Li

Digital artists often improve the aesthetic quality of digital photographs through manual retouching. Beyond global adjustments, professional image editing programs provide local adjustment tools operating on specific parts of an image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Sean Moran , Pierre Marza , Steven McDonagh , Sarah Parisot , Gregory Slabaugh

Deep metric learning algorithms have been utilized to learn discriminative and generalizable models which are effective for classifying unseen classes. In this paper, a novel noise tolerant deep metric learning algorithm is proposed. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Soumyadeep Ghosh , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa

Deep learning (DL) methods are widely used to extract high-dimensional patterns from the sequence features of radar echo signals. However, conventional DL algorithms face challenges such as redundant feature segments, and constraints from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Qiying Hu , Linping Zhang , Xueqian Wang , Gang Li , Yu Liu , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Compared with traditional seismic noise attenuation algorithms that depend on signal models and their corresponding prior assumptions, removing noise with a deep neural network is trained based on a large training set, where the inputs are…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Siwei Yu , Jianwei Ma , Wenlong Wang