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Image blurring refers to the degradation of an image wherein the image's overall sharpness decreases. Image blurring is caused by several factors. Additionally, during the image acquisition process, noise may get added to the image. Such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Poorna Banerjee Dasgupta

Multispectral computed tomography (CT) enables advanced material characterization by acquiring energy-resolved projection data. However, since the incoming X-ray flux is be distributed across multiple narrow energy bins, the photon count…

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered pathology is a revolutionary step in the world of digital pathology and shows great promise to increase both diagnosis accuracy and efficiency. However, defocus and motion blur can obscure tissue or cell…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Cheng Jiang , Jun Liao , Pei Dong , Zhaoxuan Ma , De Cai , Guoan Zheng , Yueping Liu , Hong Bu , Jianhua Yao

Like in many other research fields, recent developments in computational imaging have focused on developing machine learning (ML) approaches to tackle its main challenges. To improve the performance of computational imaging algorithms,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Maximilian B. Kiss , Ander Biguri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , K. Joost Batenburg , Felix Lucka

Image denoising is always a challenging task in the field of computer vision and image processing. In this paper, we have proposed an encoder-decoder model with direct attention, which is capable of denoising and reconstruct highly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-17 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Mohammad Abu Yousuf , Rajib Rana

Large amount of image denoising literature focuses on single channel images and often experimentally validates the proposed methods on tens of images at most. In this paper, we investigate the interaction between denoising and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Jiqing Wu , Radu Timofte , Zhiwu Huang , Luc Van Gool

Variations of deep neural networks such as convolutional neural network (CNN) have been successfully applied to image denoising. The goal is to automatically learn a mapping from a noisy image to a clean image given training data consisting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Tianyang Wang , Mingxuan Sun , Kaoning Hu

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) offers improved diagnostic performance through better spatial and energy resolution, but developing high-quality image reconstruction methods that can deal with these large datasets is challenging. Model-based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Alma Eguizabal , Ozan Öktem , Mats U. Persson

Deconvolution is the most commonly used image processing method to remove the blur caused by the point-spread-function (PSF) in optical imaging systems. While this method has been successful in deblurring, it suffers from several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-10 Huangxuan Zhao , Ziwen Ke , Ningbo Chen , Ke Li , Lidai Wang , Xiaojing Gong , Wei Zheng , Liang Song , Zhicheng Liu , Dong Liang , Chengbo Liu

Deep neural networks have received considerable attention in clinical imaging, particularly with respect to the reduction of radiation risk. Lowering the radiation dose by reducing the photon flux inevitably results in the degradation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Khalid L. Alsamadony , Ertugrul U. Yildirim , Guenther Glatz , Umair bin Waheed , Sherif M. Hanafy

In machine learning approach to image denoising a network is trained to recover a clean image from a noisy one. In this paper a novel structure is proposed based on training multiple specialized networks as opposed to existing structures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Seyed Mohsen Hosseini

Image restoration from a single image degradation type, such as blurring, hazing, random noise, and compression has been investigated for decades. However, image degradations in practice are often a mixture of several types of degradation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Kazutaka Uchida , Masayuki Tanaka , Masatoshi Okutomi

Given a degraded input image, image restoration aims to recover the missing high-quality image content. Numerous applications demand effective image restoration, e.g., computational photography, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

Commercial iterative reconstruction techniques on modern CT scanners target radiation dose reduction but there are lingering concerns over their impact on image appearance and low contrast detectability. Recently, machine learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Hongming Shan , Atul Padole , Fatemeh Homayounieh , Uwe Kruger , Ruhani Doda Khera , Chayanin Nitiwarangkul , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

Video deblurring is a challenging task that aims to recover sharp sequences from blur and noisy observations. The image-formation model plays a crucial role in traditional model-based methods, constraining the possible solutions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhihao Huang , Santiago Lopez-Tapia , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Background: Dual-energy CT (DECT) and material decomposition play vital roles in quantitative medical imaging. However, the decomposition process may suffer from significant noise amplification, leading to severely degraded image…

Despite the indispensable role of X-ray computed tomography (CT) in diagnostic medicine field, the associated ionizing radiation is still a major concern considering that it may cause genetic and cancerous diseases. Decreasing the exposure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ti Bai , Dan Nguyen , Biling Wang , Steve Jiang

Deep learning-based blind image deblurring plays an essential role in solving image blur since all existing kernels are limited in modeling the real world blur. Thus far, researchers focus on powerful models to handle the deblurring problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Chih-Hung Liang , Yu-An Chen , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Winston H. Hsu

Owing to flexible architectures of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), CNNs are successfully used for image denoising. However, they suffer from the following drawbacks: (i) deep network architecture is very difficult to train. (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Lunke Fei , Junqian Wang , Jie Wen , Nan Luo

Image denoising is a classic restoration problem. Yet, current deep learning methods are subject to the problems of generalization and interpretability. To mitigate these problems, in this project, we present a framework that is capable of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Haley Owsianko , Florian Cassayre , Qiyuan Liang