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Image denoising can remove natural noise that widely exists in images captured by multimedia devices due to low-quality imaging sensors, unstable image transmission processes, or low light conditions. Recent works also find that image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yupeng Cheng , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Wei Feng , Shang-Wei Lin , Weisi Lin , Yang Liu

One of the fundamental challenges in image restoration is denoising, where the objective is to estimate the clean image from its noisy measurements. To tackle such an ill-posed inverse problem, the existing denoising approaches generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Haosen Liu , Bihan Wen

Development of optical technology has enabled imaging of two-dimensional (2D) sound fields. This acousto-optic sensing enables understanding of the interaction between sound and objects such as reflection and diffraction. Moreover, it is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Risako Tanigawa , Kenji Ishikawa , Noboru Harada , Yasuhiro Oikawa

Noise pollution investigation takes advantage of two common methods of diagnosis: measurement using a Sound Level Meter and acoustical imaging. The former enables a detailed analysis of the surrounding noise spectrum whereas the latter is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-28 Charles Vanwynsberghe , Régis Marchiano , François Ollivier , Pascal Challande , Hélène Moingeon , Jacques Marchal

As PET imaging is accompanied by substantial radiation exposure and cancer risk, reducing radiation dose in PET scans is an important topic. However, low-count PET scans often suffer from high image noise, which can negatively impact image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Huidong Xie , Qiong Liu , Bo Zhou , Xiongchao Chen , Xueqi Guo , Chi Liu

Low-resolution and signal-dependent noise distribution in positron emission tomography (PET) images makes denoising process an inevitable step prior to qualitative and quantitative image analysis tasks. Conventional PET denoising methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Awais Mansoor , Ulas Bagci , Daniel J. Mollura

Scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) has been employed since microscopic images are widely used for biomedical or materials research. Acoustic imaging is an important and well-established method used in nondestructive testing (NDT),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Shubham Kumar Gupta , Azeem Ahmad , Prakhar Kumar , Frank Melandso , Anowarul Habib

Zero-shot denoisers address the dataset dependency of deep-learning-based denoisers, enabling the denoising of unseen single images. Nonetheless, existing zero-shot methods suffer from long training times and rely on the assumption of noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yanlin Jiang , Yuchen Liu , Mingren Liu

Image denoising is a well-known and well studied problem, commonly targeting a minimization of the mean squared error (MSE) between the outcome and the original image. Unfortunately, especially for severe noise levels, such Minimum MSE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Bahjat Kawar , Gregory Vaksman , Michael Elad

Music discovery services let users identify songs from short mobile recordings. These solutions are often based on Audio Fingerprinting, and rely more specifically on the extraction of spectral peaks in order to be robust to a number of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Kamil Akesbi

As quotidian use of sophisticated cameras surges, people in modern society are more interested in capturing fine-quality images. However, the quality of the images might be inferior to people's expectations due to the noise contamination in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Yonggi Park , Kelum Gajamannage , Alexey Sadovski

In this work, an approach based on a data-driven paradigm to denoise and mosaic acoustic camera images is proposed. Acoustic cameras, also known as 2D forward-looking sonar, could collect high-resolution acoustic images in dark and turbid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Xiaoteng Zhou , Yilong Zhang , Katsunori Mizuno , Kenichiro Tsutsumi , Hideki Sugimoto

Noise, an unwanted component in an image, can be the reason for the degradation of Image at the time of transmission or capturing. Noise reduction from images is still a challenging task. Digital Image Processing is a component of Digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Sahil Ali Akbar , Ananya Verma

Fluoroscopy is critical for real-time X-ray visualization in medical imaging. However, low-dose images are compromised by noise, potentially affecting diagnostic accuracy. Noise reduction is crucial for maintaining image quality, especially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Sun-Young Jeon , Sen Wang , Adam S. Wang , Garry E. Gold , Jang-Hwan Choi

Stereo Imaging technology integration into medical diagnostics and surgeries brings a great revolution in the field of medical sciences. Now, surgeons and physicians have better insight into the anatomy of patients' organs. Like other…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Mansoor Hayat , Supavadee Armvith , Titipat Achakulvisut

Learning-based denoising algorithms achieve state-of-the-art performance across various denoising tasks. However, training such models relies on access to large training datasets consisting of clean and noisy image pairs. On the other hand,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Ali Zafari , Xi Chen , Shirin Jalali

Operando microscopy provides direct insight into the dynamic chemical and physical processes that govern functional materials, yet measurement noise limits the effective resolution and undermines quantitative analysis. Here, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Samuel Degnan-Morgenstern , Alexander E. Cohen , Rajeev Gopal , Megan Gober , George J. Nelson , Peng Bai , Martin Z. Bazant

Echocardiography (echo), or cardiac ultrasound, is the most widely used imaging modality for cardiac form and function due to its relatively low cost, rapid acquisition time, and non-invasive nature. However, ultrasound acquisitions are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-18 David Choi , Milos Vukadinovic , Bryan He , Christina Binder , Yuki Sahashi , David Ouyang

We propose a new microscopy simulation system that can depict atomistic models in a micrograph visual style, similar to results of physical electron microscopy imaging. This system is scalable, able to represent simulation of electron…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-27 Ngan Nguyen , Feng Liang , Dominik Engel , Ciril Bohak , Peter Wonka , Timo Ropinski , Ivan Viola

The bilateral filter is known to be quite effective in denoising images corrupted with small dosages of additive Gaussian noise. The denoising performance of the filter, however, is known to degrade quickly with the increase in noise level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Kunal N. Chaudhury , Kollipara Rithwik