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Denoising extreme low light images is a challenging task due to the high noise level. When the illumination is low, digital cameras increase the ISO (electronic gain) to amplify the brightness of captured data. However, this in turn…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Hao Guan , Liu Liu , Sean Moran , Fenglong Song , Gregory Slabaugh

Utilizing a low-dose CT approach significantly reduces the radiation exposure for patients, yet it introduces challenges, such as increased noise and artifacts in the resultant images, which can hinder accurate medical diagnostics.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Helena Shawn , Thompson Chyrikov , Jacob Lanet , Lam-chi Chen , Jim Zhao , Christina Chajo

High levels of noise usually exist in today's captured images due to the relatively small sensors equipped in the smartphone cameras, where the noise brings extra challenges to lossy image compression algorithms. Without the capacity to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Ka Leong Cheng , Yueqi Xie , Qifeng Chen

Deep learning had already demonstrated its power in medical images, including denoising, classification, segmentation, etc. All these applications are proposed to automatically analyze medical images beforehand, which brings more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Shao-Cheng Wen , Yu-Jen Chen , Zihao Liu , Wujie Wen , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho , Qianjun Jia , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang

In the last several years deep learning based approaches have come to dominate many areas of computer vision, and image denoising is no exception. Neural networks can learn by example to map noisy images to clean images. However, access to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Jason Lequyer , Reuben Philip , Amit Sharma , Laurence Pelletier

Image denoising algorithms are evaluated using images corrupted by artificial noise, which may lead to incorrect conclusions about their performances on real noise. In this paper we introduce a dataset of color images corrupted by natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Josue Anaya , Adrian Barbu

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

Ultrasound imaging is an incontestable vital tool for diagnosis, it provides in non-invasive manner the internal structure of the body to detect eventually diseases or abnormalities tissues. Unfortunately, the presence of speckle noise in…

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Object detection in sonar images is crucial for underwater robotics applications including autonomous navigation and resource exploration. However, complex noise patterns inherent in sonar imagery, particularly speckle, reverberation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ziyu Wang , Tao Xue , Jingyuan Li , Haibin Zhang , Zhiqiang Xu , Gaofei Xu , Zhen Wang , Yanbin Wang , Zhiquan Liu

Many microscopy applications are limited by the total amount of usable light and are consequently challenged by the resulting levels of noise in the acquired images. This problem is often addressed via (supervised) deep learning based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Anna S. Goncharova , Alf Honigmann , Florian Jug , Alexander Krull

Ultrasound images are widespread in medical diagnosis for musculoskeletal, cardiac, and obstetrical imaging due to the efficiency and non-invasiveness of the acquisition methodology. However, the acquired images are degraded by acoustic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Sobhan Goudarzi , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

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

Ultrasound is a widely used medical tool for non-invasive diagnosis, but its images often contain speckle noise which can lower their resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio. This can make it more difficult to extract, recognize, and analyze…

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Medical image denoising is essential for improving the reliability of clinical diagnosis and guiding subsequent image-based tasks. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale approach that integrates anisotropic Gaussian filtering with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Arghya Pal , Sailaja Rajanala , CheeMing Ting , Raphael Phan

Denoising diffusion models have recently shown impressive results in generative tasks. By learning powerful priors from huge collections of training images, such models are able to gradually modify complete noise to a clean natural image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Naama Pearl , Yaron Brodsky , Dana Berman , Assaf Zomet , Alex Rav Acha , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

Denoising is of utmost importance for the visualization and processing of images featuring low signal-to-noise ratio. Total variation methods are among the most popular techniques to perform this task improving the signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-24 Gonzalo D. Maso Talou , Pablo J. Blanco

Endoscopic images often suffer from diverse and co-occurring degradations such as low lighting, smoke, and bleeding, which obscure critical clinical details. Existing restoration methods are typically task-specific and often require prior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Tong Chen , Xinyu Ma , Long Bai , Wenyang Wang , Yue Sun , Luping Zhou

Purpose: Surgical scene understanding plays a critical role in the technology stack of tomorrow's intervention-assisting systems in endoscopic surgeries. For this, tracking the endoscope pose is a key component, but remains challenging due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Michel Hayoz , Christopher Hahne , Mathias Gallardo , Daniel Candinas , Thomas Kurmann , Maximilian Allan , Raphael Sznitman

In the last few years, with the rapid development of deep learning technologies, supervised methods based on convolutional neural networks have greatly enhanced the performance of medical image denoising. However, these methods require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Langrui Zhou , Ziteng Zhou , Xinyu Huang , Huiru Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Guang Li

Ultrasound plane wave imaging is a cutting-edge technique that enables high frame-rate imaging. However, one challenge associated with high frame-rate ultrasound imaging is the high noise associated with them, hindering their wider…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Sobhan Goudarzi , Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz