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This study introduces LRDif, a novel diffusion-based framework designed specifically for facial expression recognition (FER) within the context of under-display cameras (UDC). To address the inherent challenges posed by UDC's image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

Diffusion model (DM) has achieved SOTA performance by modeling the image synthesis process into a sequential application of a denoising network. However, different from image synthesis, image restoration (IR) has a strong constraint to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Bin Xia , Yulun Zhang , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Luc Van Gool

Deep learning has shown great potential in accelerating diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Nevertheless, existing methods tend to suffer from Rician noise and detail loss in reconstructing the DTI-derived parametric maps especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Wenxin Fan , Jian Cheng , Cheng Li , Xinrui Ma , Jing Yang , Juan Zou , Ruoyou Wu , Qiegen Liu , Shanshan Wang

Low-dose computed tomography (CT) images suffer from noise and artifacts due to photon starvation and electronic noise. Recently, some works have attempted to use diffusion models to address the over-smoothness and training instability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Qi Gao , Zilong Li , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

Deep denoising models require extensive real-world training data, which is challenging to acquire. Current noise synthesis techniques struggle to accurately model complex noise distributions. We propose a novel Realistic Noise Synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Qi Wu , Mingyan Han , Ting Jiang , Chengzhi Jiang , Jinting Luo , Man Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Thermal images from low-cost cameras often suffer from low resolution, fixed pattern noise, and other localized degradations. Available datasets for thermal imaging are also limited in both size and diversity. To address these challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Piyush Dashpute , Niki Nezakati , Wolfgang Heidrich , Vishwanath Saragadam

As vision based perception methods are usually built on the normal light assumption, there will be a serious safety issue when deploying them into low light environments. Recently, deep learning based methods have been proposed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Junjie Hu , Xiyue Guo , Junfeng Chen , Guanqi Liang , Fuqin Deng , Tin lun Lam

Images captured in challenging environments often experience various forms of degradation, including noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. These effects significantly reduce image quality, hindering their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Abbas Anwar , Mohammad Shullar , Ali Arshad Nasir , Mudassir Masood , Saeed Anwar

Capturing High Dynamic Range (HDR) scenery using 8-bit cameras often suffers from over-/underexposure, loss of fine details due to low bit-depth compression, skewed color distributions, and strong noise in dark areas. Traditional LDR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Baiang Li , Sizhuo Ma , Yanhong Zeng , Xiaogang Xu , Youqing Fang , Zhao Zhang , Jian Wang , Kai Chen

Enhancing RAW images captured under low light conditions is a challenging task. Recent deep learning based RAW enhancement methods have shifted from using real paired data to relying on synthetic datasets. These synthetic datasets are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Juntai Zeng

The development of video diffusion models unveils a significant challenge: the substantial computational demands. To mitigate this challenge, we note that the reverse process of diffusion exhibits an inherent entropy-reducing nature. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Lingmin Ran , Mike Zheng Shou

Low-light images suffer from severe noise and low illumination. Current deep learning models that are trained with real-world images have excellent noise reduction, but a ratio parameter must be chosen manually to complete the enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Qingxu Fu , Xiaoguang Di , Yu Zhang

Deep learning has shown great potential in accelerating diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Nevertheless, existing methods tend to suffer from Rician noise and eddy current, leading to detail loss in reconstructing the DTI-derived parametric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Wenxin Fan , Jian Cheng , Cheng Li , Jing Yang , Ruoyou Wu , Juan Zou , Shanshan Wang

The event camera, benefiting from its high dynamic range and low latency, provides performance gain for low-light image enhancement. Unlike frame-based cameras, it records intensity changes with extremely high temporal resolution, capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Chunyan She , Fujun Han , Chengyu Fang , Shukai Duan , Lidan Wang

In this paper, we rethink the low-light image enhancement task and propose a physically explainable and generative diffusion model for low-light image enhancement, termed as Diff-Retinex. We aim to integrate the advantages of the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xunpeng Yi , Han Xu , Hao Zhang , Linfeng Tang , Jiayi Ma

Spike camera, a type of neuromorphic sensor with high-temporal resolution, shows great promise for high-speed visual tasks. Unlike traditional cameras, spike camera continuously accumulates photons and fires asynchronous spike streams. Due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Liwen Hu , Yang Li , Mianzhi Liu , Yijia Guo , Shenghao Xie , Ziluo Ding , Tiejun Huang , Lei Ma

Capturing images is a key part of automation for high-level tasks such as scene text recognition. Low-light conditions pose a challenge for high-level perception stacks, which are often optimized on well-lit, artifact-free images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Cindy M. Nguyen , Eric R. Chan , Alexander W. Bergman , Gordon Wetzstein

Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration. To address these issues, we propose a robust and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Songchen Han , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Current deep learning methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) typically rely on pixel-wise mapping learned from paired data. However, these methods often overlook the importance of considering degradation representations, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ziqian Shao , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tae-Kyun Kim , Wei Liu , Hongdong Li

Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have made significant strides in high-quality image generation. However, the multi-step denoising process often results in considerable computational overhead, impeding deployment on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yu-Shan Tai , An-Yeu , Wu