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The present paper studies so-called deep image prior (DIP) techniques in the context of ill-posed inverse problems. DIP networks have been recently introduced for applications in image processing; also first experimental results for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Sören Dittmer , Tobias Kluth , Peter Maass , Daniel Otero Baguer

Blind face restoration (BFR) from severely degraded face images in the wild is a very challenging problem. Due to the high illness of the problem and the complex unknown degradation, directly training a deep neural network (DNN) usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Tao Yang , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie , Lei Zhang

Blind Image Restoration (BIR) methods have achieved remarkable success but falter when faced with Extreme Blind Image Restoration (EBIR), where inputs suffer from severe, compounded degradations beyond their training scope. Directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hongeun Kim , Bryan Sangwoo Kim , Jong Chul Ye

While variational methods have been among the most powerful tools for solving linear inverse problems in imaging, deep (convolutional) neural networks have recently taken the lead in many challenging benchmarks. A remaining drawback of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tim Meinhardt , Michael Moeller , Caner Hazirbas , Daniel Cremers

This paper proposes a new way of regularizing an inverse problem in imaging (e.g., deblurring or inpainting) by means of a deep generative neural network. Compared to end-to-end models, such approaches seem particularly interesting since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Thomas Oberlin , Mathieu Verm

Existing deep-learning based tomographic image reconstruction methods do not provide accurate estimates of reconstruction uncertainty, hindering their real-world deployment. This paper develops a method, termed as the linearised deep image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Javier Antorán , Riccardo Barbano , Johannes Leuschner , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Bangti Jin

Optical imaging systems are inherently imperfect due to diffraction limits, lens manufacturing tolerances, assembly misalignment, and other physical constraints. In addition, unavoidable camera shake and object motion further introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yanlong Yang , Guanxiong Luo

Blind face restoration endeavors to restore a clear face image from a degraded counterpart. Recent approaches employing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as priors have demonstrated remarkable success in this field. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Xiaobin Lu , Xiaobin Hu , Jun Luo , Ben Zhu , Yaping Ruan , Wenqi Ren

An approach to incorporate deep learning within an iterative image reconstruction framework to reconstruct images from severely incomplete measurement data is presented. Specifically, we utilize a convolutional neural network (CNN) as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Brendan Kelly , Thomas P. Matthews , Mark A. Anastasio

Previous methods decompose the blind super-resolution (SR) problem into two sequential steps: \textit{i}) estimating the blur kernel from given low-resolution (LR) image and \textit{ii}) restoring the SR image based on the estimated kernel.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Zhengxiong Luo , Yan Huang , Shang Li , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

Deep learning based methods have dominated super-resolution (SR) field due to their remarkable performance in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. Most of these methods assume that the blur kernel during downsampling is predefined/known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Jinjin Gu , Hannan Lu , Wangmeng Zuo , Chao Dong

In this paper, we tackle the problem of blind image super-resolution(SR) with a reformulated degradation model and two novel modules. Following the common practices of blind SR, our method proposes to improve both the kernel estimation as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Ziwei Luo , Haibin Huang , Lei Yu , Youwei Li , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

This paper comprehensively reviews the recent development of image deblurring, including non-blind/blind, spatially invariant/variant deblurring techniques. Indeed, these techniques share the same objective of inferring a latent sharp image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-25 Ruxin Wang , Dacheng Tao

Many seemingly unrelated computer vision tasks can be viewed as a special case of image decomposition into separate layers. For example, image segmentation (separation into foreground and background layers); transparent layer separation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yossi Gandelsman , Assaf Shocher , Michal Irani

It is well-known that if a network aims to learn how to deblur, it should understand the blur process. Blurring is naturally caused by the convolution of the sharp image with the blur kernel. Thus, allowing the network to learn the blur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xintian Mao , Haofei Song , Yin-Nian Liu , Qingli Li , Yan Wang

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 introduces a novel generative encoder (GE) model for generative imaging and image processing with applications in compressed sensing and imaging, image compression, denoising, inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution. The GE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Lin Chen , Haizhao Yang

Image-guided depth completion aims at generating a dense depth map from sparse LiDAR data and RGB image. Recent methods have shown promising performance by reformulating it as a classification problem with two sub-tasks: depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Zhiwen Yang , Jiehua Zhang , Liang Li , Chenggang Yan , Yaoqi Sun , Haibing Yin

Generative models, such as GANs, learn an explicit low-dimensional representation of a particular class of images, and so they may be used as natural image priors for solving inverse problems such as image restoration and compressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mara Daniels , Paul Hand , Reinhard Heckel

Positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction has become an ill-posed inverse problem due to low-count projection data, and a robust algorithm is urgently required to improve imaging quality. Recently, the deep image prior (DIP) has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Chenyu Shen , Wenjun Xia , Hongwei Ye , Mingzheng Hou , Hu Chen , Yan Liu , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang