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When it comes to image compression in digital cameras, denoising is traditionally performed prior to compression. However, there are applications where image noise may be necessary to demonstrate the trustworthiness of the image, such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Mateen Ulhaq , Hyomin Choi , Ivan V. Bajić

Prior-based methods for low-light image enhancement often face challenges in extracting available prior information from dim images. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a simple yet effective Retinex model with the proposed edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chaoyan Huang , Zhongming Wu , Tieyong Zeng

Poor lighting conditions significantly impact image quality, posing substantial challenges for image editing and visualization. Many existing enhancement methods aim at proposing complex models while neglecting the intrinsic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xuanshuo Fu , Lei Kang , Javier Vazquez-Corral

A novel method of contrast enhancement is proposed for underexposed images, in which heavy noise is hidden. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in dark or bright regions. This is due to a limited…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Chien-Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

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

Image denoising is a prerequisite for downstream tasks in many fields. Low-dose and photon-counting computed tomography (CT) denoising can optimize diagnostic performance at minimized radiation dose. Supervised deep denoising methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Chuang Niu , Mengzhou Li , Fenglei Fan , Weiwen Wu , Xiaodong Guo , Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in noninvasive medical diagnostics due to its efficiency, portability, and avoidance of ionizing radiation. However, its utility is limited by the quality of the signal. Signal-dependent speckle noise,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Soumee Guha , Scott T. Acton

Real noisy-clean pairs on a large scale are costly and difficult to obtain. Meanwhile, supervised denoisers trained on synthetic data perform poorly in practice. Self-supervised denoisers, which learn only from single noisy images, solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Zejin Wang , Jiazheng Liu , Guoqing Li , Hua Han

Image denoising based on a probabilistic model of local image patches has been employed by various researchers, and recently a deep (denoising) autoencoder has been proposed by Burger et al. [2012] and Xie et al. [2012] as a good model for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-03-05 Kyunghyun Cho

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

Contemporary Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) techniques have made notable advancements in preserving image details and enhancing contrast, achieving commendable results on specific datasets. Nevertheless, these approaches encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xiaofeng Liu , Jiaxin Gao , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Enhancing a low-light noisy RAW image into a well-exposed and clean sRGB image is a significant challenge for modern digital cameras. Prior approaches have difficulties in recovering fine-grained details and true colors of the scene under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Qiang Wen , Zhefan Rao , Yazhou Xing , Qifeng Chen

Real-world low-light images captured by imaging devices suffer from poor visibility and require a domain-specific enhancement to produce artifact-free outputs that reveal details. In this paper, we propose an unpaired low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Aupendu Kar , Sobhan K. Dhara , Debashis Sen , Prabir K. Biswas

Intrinsic decomposition from a single image is a highly challenging task, due to its inherent ambiguity and the scarcity of training data. In contrast to traditional fully supervised learning approaches, in this paper we propose learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Michael Janner , Jiajun Wu , Tejas D. Kulkarni , Ilker Yildirim , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Image noise is ubiquitous in photography. However, image noise is not compressible nor desirable, thus attempting to convey the noise in compressed image bitstreams yields sub-par results in both rate and distortion. We propose to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Benoit Brummer , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

Images taken in low light often show color shift, low contrast, noise, and other artifacts that hurt computer-vision accuracy. Retinex theory addresses this by viewing an image S as the pixel-wise product of reflectance R and illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sos Agaian , Vladimir Frants

This paper proposes a learning-based denoising method called FlashLight CNN (FLCNN) that implements a deep neural network for image denoising. The proposed approach is based on deep residual networks and inception networks and it is able to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Pham Huu Thanh Binh , Cristóvão Cruz , Karen Egiazarian

Recent denoising algorithms based on the "blind-spot" strategy show impressive blind image denoising performances, without utilizing any external dataset. While the methods excel in recovering highly contaminated images, we observe that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Chaewon Kim , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Deep neural networks have been widely used in image denoising during the past few years. Even though they achieve great success on this problem, they are computationally inefficient which makes them inappropriate to be implemented in mobile…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Lu Xu , Jiawei Zhang , Xuanye Cheng , Feng Zhang , Xing Wei , Jimmy Ren