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Solving ill-posed inverse problems requires careful formulation of prior beliefs over the signals of interest and an accurate description of their manifestation into noisy measurements. Handcrafted signal priors based on e.g. sparsity are…

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While diffusion models have shown great success in image generation, their noise-inverting generative process does not explicitly consider the structure of images, such as their inherent multi-scale nature. Inspired by diffusion models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Severi Rissanen , Markus Heinonen , Arno Solin

This paper introduces two key contributions aimed at improving the speed and quality of images generated through inverse diffusion processes. The first contribution involves reparameterizing the diffusion process in terms of the angle on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhenkai Zhang , Krista A. Ehinger , Tom Drummond

During the last decades, denoising methods have attracted much attention of researchers. The conventional method for removing the Moire' pattern from images is using notch filters in the Frequency-domain. In this paper a new method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Seyede Mahya Hazavei , Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

Many self-supervised denoising approaches have been proposed in recent years. However, these methods tend to overly smooth images, resulting in the loss of fine structures that are essential for medical applications. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Basar Demir , Yikang Liu , Xiao Chen , Eric Z. Chen , Lin Zhao , Boris Mailhe , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

Recently, research on denoising diffusion models has expanded its application to the field of image restoration. Traditional diffusion-based image restoration methods utilize degraded images as conditional input to effectively guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhenning Shi , Haoshuai Zheng , Chen Xu , Changsheng Dong , Bin Pan , Xueshuo Xie , Along He , Tao Li , Huazhu Fu

This paper investigates a novel class of regularizations of the Perona-Malik equation with variable exponents, of forward-backward parabolic type, which possess a variational structure and have potential applications in image processing.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Yihui Tong , Wenjie Liu , Zhichang Guo , Wenjuan Yao

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

We aim to leverage diffusion to address the challenging image matting task. However, the presence of high computational overhead and the inconsistency of noise sampling between the training and inference processes pose significant obstacles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yihan Hu , Yiheng Lin , Wei Wang , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

Existing diffusion-based purification methods aim to disrupt adversarial perturbations by introducing a certain amount of noise through a forward diffusion process, followed by a reverse process to recover clean examples. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Gaozheng Pei , Shaojie Lyu , Gong Chen , Ke Ma , Qianqian Xu , Yingfei Sun , Qingming Huang

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

We study image inverse problems with a normalizing flow prior. Our formulation views the solution as the maximum a posteriori estimate of the image conditioned on the measurements. This formulation allows us to use noise models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Jay Whang , Qi Lei , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

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This paper addresses the problem of image denoising for grayscale images. We propose a probabilistic image generative model that combines a quadtree region-partitioning model with a mixture autoregressive model, and propose a framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Shota Saito , Yuta Nakahara , Kohei Horinouchi , Naoki Ichijo , Manabu Kobayashi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

We study the existence of monotone traveling wave solutions in a class of nonclassical diffusion equations that include both standard diffusion and a higher-order mixed space-time dispersive term. The reaction term is nonlinear and subject…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 William Barker , Le Xuan Dong , Vu Trong Luong , Nguyen Duong Toan

Recently, diffusion models have shown remarkable results in image synthesis by gradually removing noise and amplifying signals. Although the simple generative process surprisingly works well, is this the best way to generate image data? For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sangyun Lee , Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyeon Kim , Jong Chul Ye

We address the denoising of images contaminated with multiplicative noise, e.g. speckle noise. Classical ways to solve such problems are filtering, statistical (Bayesian) methods, variational methods, and methods that convert the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Sylvain Durand , Jalal Fadili , Mila Nikolova

In this paper we introduce and study a new feature-preserving nonlinear anisotropic diffusion for denoising signals. The proposed partial differential equation is based on a novel diffusivity coefficient that uses a nonlocal automatically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Giacomo Aletti , Monica Moroni , Giovanni Naldi

Iterative denoising-based generation, also known as denoising diffusion models, has recently been shown to be comparable in quality to other classes of generative models, and even surpass them. Including, in particular, Generative…

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