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Image denoising aims to remove noise while preserving structural details and perceptual realism, yet distortion-driven methods often produce over-smoothed reconstructions, especially under strong noise and distribution shift. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

Image denoising is a fundamental task in low-level computer vision. While recent deep learning-based image denoising methods have achieved impressive performance, they are black-box models and the underlying denoising principle remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Jingwei Niu , Jun Cheng , Shan Tan

Noise is ubiquitous during image acquisition. Sufficient denoising is often an important first step for image processing. In recent decades, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used for image denoising. Most DNN-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Chenyin Gao , Shu Yang , Anru R. Zhang

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

Scientific imaging often involves long acquisition times to obtain high-quality data, especially when probing complex, heterogeneous systems. However, reducing acquisition time to increase throughput inevitably introduces significant noise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Petrus H. Zwart , Tamas Varga , Odeta Qafoku , James A. Sethian

Recent advancements in text-guided diffusion models have unlocked powerful image manipulation capabilities. However, applying these methods to real images necessitates the inversion of the images into the domain of the pretrained diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Daniel Garibi , Or Patashnik , Andrey Voynov , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Daniel Cohen-Or

When capturing and storing images, devices inevitably introduce noise. Reducing this noise is a critical task called image denoising. Deep learning has become the de facto method for image denoising, especially with the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Haoyu Chen , Jinjin Gu , Yihao Liu , Salma Abdel Magid , Chao Dong , Qiong Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Lei Zhu

Machine learning techniques work best when the data used for training resembles the data used for evaluation. This holds true for learned single-image denoising algorithms, which are applied to real raw camera sensor readings but, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Tim Brooks , Ben Mildenhall , Tianfan Xue , Jiawen Chen , Dillon Sharlet , Jonathan T. Barron

Deep neural networks provide state-of-the-art performance for image denoising, where the goal is to recover a near noise-free image from a noisy observation. The underlying principle is that neural networks trained on large datasets have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Reinhard Heckel , Wen Huang , Paul Hand , Vladislav Voroninski

Natural images tend to mostly consist of smooth regions with individual pixels having highly correlated spectra. This information can be exploited to recover hyperspectral images of natural scenes from their incomplete and noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Reza Arablouei , Frank de Hoog

Image denoising is the process of removing noise from noisy images, which is an image domain transferring task, i.e., from a single or several noise level domains to a photo-realistic domain. In this paper, we propose an effective image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Xianxu Hou , Hongming Luo , Jingxin Liu , Bolei Xu , Ke Sun , Yuanhao Gong , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu

Decomposition of digital signals and images into other basis or dictionaries than time or space domains is a very common approach in signal and image processing and analysis. Such a decomposition is commonly obtained using fixed transforms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

Denoising is omnipresent in image processing. It is usually addressed with algorithms relying on a set of hyperparameters that control the quality of the recovered image. Manual tuning of those parameters can be a daunting task, which calls…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Arthur Floquet , Sayantan Dutta , Emmanuel Soubies , Duong Hung Pham , Denis Kouame

Existing denoising methods typically restore clear results by aggregating pixels from the noisy input. Instead of relying on hand-crafted aggregation schemes, we propose to explicitly learn this process with deep neural networks. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xiangyu Xu , Muchen Li , Wenxiu Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Lacking realistic ground truth data, image denoising techniques are traditionally evaluated on images corrupted by synthesized i.i.d. Gaussian noise. We aim to obviate this unrealistic setting by developing a methodology for benchmarking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Tobias Plötz , Stefan Roth

Digital images are commonly represented as regular 2D arrays, so pixels are organized in form of a matrix addressed by integers. However, there are many image processing operations, such as rotation or motion compensation, that produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ján Koloda , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Image denoising is a classical signal processing problem that has received significant interest within the image processing community during the past two decades. Most of the algorithms for image denoising has focused on the paradigm of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Varuna De Silva

Sparse representation of images under certain transform domain has been playing a fundamental role in image restoration tasks. One such representative method is the widely used wavelet tight frame systems. Instead of adopting fixed filters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Dai-Qiang Chen

Real-world imaging systems acquire measurements that are degraded by noise, optical aberrations, and other imperfections that make image processing for human viewing and higher-level perception tasks challenging. Conventional cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Frank Julca-Aguilar , Stephen Boyd , Gordon Wetzstein , Felix Heide

A successful class of image denoising methods is based on Bayesian approaches working in wavelet representations. However, analytical estimates can be obtained only for particular combinations of analytical models of signal and noise, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Valero Laparra , Juan Gutiérrez , Gustavo Camps-Valls , Jesús Malo