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Real-world image super-resolution is a critical image processing task, where two key evaluation criteria are the fidelity to the original image and the visual realness of the generated results. Although existing methods based on diffusion…

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Medical imaging has revolutionized disease diagnosis, yet the potential is hampered by limited access to diverse and privacy-conscious datasets. Open-source medical datasets, while valuable, suffer from data quality and clinical information…

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Super-resolution is widely used in medical imaging to enhance low-quality data, reducing scan time and improving abnormality detection. Conventional super-resolution approaches typically rely on paired datasets of downsampled and original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiaoyi Wen , Fei Jiang

With the development of deep learning, medical image processing has been widely used to assist clinical research. This paper focuses on the denoising problem of low-dose computed tomography using deep learning. Although low-dose computed…

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While burst LR images are useful for improving the SR image quality compared with a single LR image, prior SR networks accepting the burst LR images are trained in a deterministic manner, which is known to produce a blurry SR image. In…

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Data scarcity in medical imaging poses significant challenges due to privacy concerns. Diffusion models, a recent generative modeling technique, offer a potential solution by generating synthetic and realistic data. However, questions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Abdullah al Nomaan Nafi , Md. Alamgir Hossain , Rakib Hossain Rifat , Md Mahabub Uz Zaman , Md Manjurul Ahsan , Shivakumar Raman

Despite the growing importance of dental CBCT scans for diagnosis and treatment planning, generating anatomically realistic scans with fine-grained control remains a challenge in medical image synthesis. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Said Djafar Said , Torkan Gholamalizadeh , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models are becoming increasingly popular in solving the Real-World Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR) problem because of their rich generative priors. The recent development of diffusion transformer (DiT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei Zhang , Xin Jin , Ziheng Zhang , Zheng Xiong , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy S. Ren , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

Image Restoration (IR) methods based on a pre-trained diffusion model have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, they have two fundamental limitations: 1) they often assume that the degradation operator is completely known and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hamadi Chihaoui , Abdelhak Lemkhenter , Paolo Favaro

With the advent of depth-to-image diffusion models, text-guided generation, editing, and transfer of realistic textures are no longer difficult. However, due to the limitations of pre-trained diffusion models, they can only create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhibin Tang , Tiantong He

Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, their restored images still suffer from unsatisfactory boundary artifacts, due to the lack of degradation prior embedding and the deficiency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Lanqing Guo , Chong Wang , Wenhan Yang , Siyu Huang , Yufei Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Bihan Wen

The generation of medical images presents significant challenges due to their high-resolution and three-dimensional nature. Existing methods often yield suboptimal performance in generating high-quality 3D medical images, and there is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Haoshen Wang , Zhentao Liu , Kaicong Sun , Xiaodong Wang , Dinggang Shen , Zhiming Cui

Satellites are widely used to estimate and monitor ground cover, providing critical information to address the challenges posed by climate change. High-resolution satellite images help to identify smaller features on the ground and…

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Semantic Image Segmentation facilitates a multitude of real-world applications ranging from autonomous driving over industrial process supervision to vision aids for human beings. These models are usually trained in a supervised fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Volker Knauthe , Arne Rak , Tristan Wirth , Thomas Pöllabauer , Simon Metzler , Arjan Kuijper , Dieter W. Fellner

State-of-the-art deep neural network models have reached near perfect face recognition accuracy rates on controlled high-resolution face images. However, their performance is drastically degraded when they are tested with very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Vahid Reza Khazaie , Nicky Bayat , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Humans can infer the missing parts of an occluded object by leveraging prior knowledge and visible cues. However, enabling deep learning models to accurately predict such occluded regions remains a challenging task. De-occlusion addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Seung Young Noh , Ju Yong Chang

Diffusion models have gained significant popularity in the field of image-to-image translation. Previous efforts applying diffusion models to image super-resolution (SR) have demonstrated that iteratively refining pure Gaussian noise using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Axi Niu , Pham Xuan Trung , Kang Zhang , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Scene text image super-resolution aims to increase the resolution and readability of the text in low-resolution images. Though significant improvement has been achieved by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), it remains difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jianqi Ma , Zhetong Liang , Lei Zhang

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is an advanced imaging technique characterizing tissue microstructure and white matter structural connectivity of the human brain. The demand for high-quality dMRI data is growing, driven by the need for better…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xi Zhu , Wei Zhang , Yijie Li , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a critical tool in modern medical diagnostics, yet its prolonged acquisition time remains a critical limitation, especially in time-sensitive clinical scenarios. While undersampling strategies can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Mohammed Alsubaie , Wenxi Liu , Linxia Gu , Ovidiu C. Andronesi , Sirani M. Perera , Xianqi Li