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Underwater image enhancement (UIE) presents a significant challenge within computer vision research. Despite the development of numerous UIE algorithms, a thorough and systematic review is still absent. To foster future advancements, we…

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Underwater images play a crucial role in ocean research and marine environmental monitoring since they provide quality information about the ecosystem. However, the complex and remote nature of the environment results in poor image quality…

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We propose a novel unpaired image-to-image translation method that uses denoising diffusion probabilistic models without requiring adversarial training. Our method, UNpaired Image Translation with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models…

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Due to the light absorption and scattering induced by the water medium, underwater images usually suffer from some degradation problems, such as low contrast, color distortion, and blurring details, which aggravate the difficulty of…

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Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) have recently gained significant attention. DDPMs compose a Markovian process that begins in the data domain and gradually adds noise until reaching pure white noise. DDPMs generate…

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Ultrasound plane wave imaging is a cutting-edge technique that enables high frame-rate imaging. However, one challenge associated with high frame-rate ultrasound imaging is the high noise associated with them, hindering their wider…

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Underwater images suffer severe degradation due to wavelength-dependent attenuation, scattering, and illumination non-uniformity that vary across water types and depths. We propose an unsupervised Domain-Invariant Visual Enhancement and…

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Underwater images often exhibit poor quality, distorted color balance and low contrast due to the complex and intricate interplay of light, water, and objects. Despite the significant contributions of previous underwater enhancement…

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Image dehazing has witnessed significant advancements with the development of deep learning models. However, most existing methods focus solely on single-modal RGB features, neglecting the inherent correlation between scene depth and haze…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zengyuan Zuo , Junjun Jiang , Gang Wu , Xianming Liu

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a challenging task due to the complex degradation caused by underwater environments. To solve this issue, previous methods often idealize the degradation process, and neglect the impact of medium noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Jingchun Zhou , Zongxin He , Qiuping Jiang , Kui Jiang , Xianping Fu , Xuelong Li

Due to the high complexity and technical requirements of industrial production processes, surface defects will inevitably appear, which seriously affects the quality of products. Although existing lightweight detection networks are highly…

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Underwater images are typically characterized by color cast, haze, blurring, and uneven illumination due to the selective absorption and scattering when light propagates through the water, which limits their practical applications.…

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Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computational photography, where achieving high perception with low distortion is highly demanding. Current methods either struggle with perceptual quality or suffer from significant distortion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tong Li , Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong , Hua Huang

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have recently achieved remarkable results in conditional and unconditional image generation. The pre-trained models can be adapted without further training to different downstream tasks, by…

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Learning-based methods for underwater image enhancement (UWIE) have undergone extensive exploration. However, learning-based models are usually vulnerable to adversarial examples so as the UWIE models. To the best of our knowledge, there is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Siyu Zhai , Zhibo He , Xiaofeng Cong , Junming Hou , Jie Gui , Jian Wei You , Xin Gong , James Tin-Yau Kwok , Yuan Yan Tang

In this paper, we study the denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) in wavelet space, instead of pixel space, for visual synthesis. Considering the wavelet transform represents the image in spatial and frequency domains, we carefully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xin Yuan , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Kevin Lin , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

Free-form inpainting is the task of adding new content to an image in the regions specified by an arbitrary binary mask. Most existing approaches train for a certain distribution of masks, which limits their generalization capabilities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Andres Romero , Fisher Yu , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Although many long-range imaging systems are designed to support extended vision applications, a natural obstacle to their operation is degradation due to atmospheric turbulence. Atmospheric turbulence causes significant degradation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

Background: Photoacoustic Microscopy (PAM) integrates optical and acoustic imaging, offering enhanced penetration depth for detecting optical-absorbing components in tissues. Nonetheless, challenges arise in scanning large areas with high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Irem Loc , Mehmet Burcin Unlu

Advances in endoscopy use in surgeries face challenges like inadequate lighting. Deep learning, notably the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), holds promise for low-light image enhancement in the medical field. However, DDPMs…

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