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We introduce a paradigm for nonlocal sparsity reinforced deep convolutional neural network denoising. It is a combination of a local multiscale denoising by a convolutional neural network (CNN) based denoiser and a nonlocal denoising based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-15 Cristóvão Cruz , Alessandro Foi , Vladimir Katkovnik , Karen Egiazarian

Optical neural networks are emerging as powerful machine learning and information processing tools because of their potential advantages in speed and energy efficiency. The training methods of these physical models, however, remain…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-11 Xudong Lv , Yuxiang Sun , Shuo Wang , Nanxing Chen , Jun Guan , Jingtian Hu

The advancement of imaging devices and countless images generated everyday pose an increasingly high demand on image denoising, which still remains a challenging task in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency. To improve denoising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Zhaoming Kong , Fangxi Deng , Haomin Zhuang , Jun Yu , Lifang He , Xiaowei Yang

Image denoisers have been shown to be powerful priors for solving inverse problems in imaging. In this work, we introduce a generalization of these methods that allows any image restoration network to be used as an implicit prior. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Yuyang Hu , Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Noise in image sensors led to the development of a whole range of denoising filters. A noisy image can become hard to recognize and often require several types of post-processing compensation circuits. This paper proposes an adaptive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 O. Krestinskaya , K. N. Salama , A. P. James

Poisson denoising is an essential issue for various imaging applications, such as night vision, medical imaging and microscopy. State-of-the-art approaches are clearly dominated by patch-based non-local methods in recent years. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Wensen Feng , Hong Qiao , Yunjin Chen

Deep neural network based methods are the state of the art in various image restoration problems. Standard supervised learning frameworks require a set of noisy measurement and clean image pairs for which a distance between the output of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Rihuan Ke , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Conventional deconvolution methods utilize hand-crafted image priors to constrain the optimization. While deep-learning-based methods have simplified the optimization by end-to-end training, they fail to generalize well to blurs unseen in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Dong Huo , Abbas Masoumzadeh , Rafsanjany Kushol , Yee-Hong Yang

Blind and universal image denoising consists of using a unique model that denoises images with any level of noise. It is especially practical as noise levels do not need to be known when the model is developed or at test time. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Majed El Helou , Sabine Süsstrunk

The "deep image prior" proposed by Ulyanov et al. is an intriguing property of neural nets: a convolutional encoder-decoder network can be used as a prior for natural images. The network architecture implicitly introduces a bias; If we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Prithvijit Chakrabarty , Subhransu Maji

In various Computer Vision and Signal Processing applications, noise is typically perceived as a drawback of the image capturing system that ought to be removed. We, on the other hand, claim that image noise, just as texture, is important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Renata Khasanova , Jan Wassenberg , Jyrki Alakuijala

Image classification and denoising suffer from complementary issues of lack of robustness or partially ignoring conditioning information. We argue that they can be alleviated by unifying both tasks through a model of the joint probability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Louis Thiry , Florentin Guth

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is a popular framework for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating learned priors in the form of denoisers trained to remove Gaussian noise from images. In standard PnP methods, the denoiser is applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Denoising diffusion models have gained popularity as a generative modeling technique for producing high-quality and diverse images. Applying these models to downstream tasks requires conditioning, which can take the form of text, class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Dimitris Samaras

Deep learning-based methods for low-light image enhancement typically require enormous paired training data, which are impractical to capture in real-world scenarios. Recently, unsupervised approaches have been explored to eliminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Feng Zhang , Yuanjie Shao , Yishi Sun , Kai Zhu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

This paper proposes a deep learning architecture that attains statistically significant improvements over traditional algorithms in Poisson image denoising espically when the noise is strong. Poisson noise commonly occurs in low-light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Po-Yu Liu , Edmund Y. Lam

We propose a new grayscale image denoiser, dubbed as Neural Affine Image Denoiser (Neural AIDE), which utilizes neural network in a novel way. Unlike other neural network based image denoising methods, which typically apply simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Sungmin Cha , Taesup Moon

Recently, with the help of deep learning models, significant advances have been made in different Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art models are vulnerable to noisy texts. We propose a new contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yifu Sun , Haoming Jiang

We present a method for training a neural network to perform image denoising without access to clean training examples or access to paired noisy training examples. Our method requires only a single noisy realization of each training example…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Nick Moran , Dan Schmidt , Yu Zhong , Patrick Coady

Latent representation learned from multi-layered neural networks via hierarchical feature abstraction enables recent success of deep learning. Under the deep learning framework, generalization performance highly depends on the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Hyo-Eun Kim , Sangheum Hwang , Kyunghyun Cho