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Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained for image denoising are able to generate high-quality samples with score-based reverse diffusion algorithms. These impressive capabilities seem to imply an escape from the curse of dimensionality, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Florentin Guth , Eero P. Simoncelli , Stéphane Mallat

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) holds significant importance in clinical diagnosis and neuroscience research. However, conventional model-based fitting methods often suffer from sensitivity to noise, leading to decreased accuracy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jialong Li , Zhicheng Zhang , Yunwei Chen , Qiqi Lu , Ye Wu , Xiaoming Liu , QianJin Feng , Yanqiu Feng , Xinyuan Zhang

This work proposes a learning-based statistical refinement method for improving the denoising results of a given denoiser without knowing the precise noise distribution or accessing clean images or calibration data. While there are many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Rihuan Ke

An accurate initial heading angle is essential for efficient and safe navigation across diverse domains. Unlike magnetometers, gyroscopes can provide accurate heading reference independent of the magnetic disturbances in a process known as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Gershy Ben-Arie , Daniel Engelsman , Rotem Dror , Itzik Klein

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao

The advent of deep learning has brought a revolutionary transformation to image denoising techniques. However, the persistent challenge of acquiring noise-clean pairs for supervised methods in real-world scenarios remains formidable,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Dan Zhang , Fangfang Zhou , Felix Albu , Yuanzhou Wei , Xiao Yang , Yuan Gu , Qiang Li

Diffusion models (DMs) have rapidly emerged as a powerful framework for image generation and restoration. However, existing DMs are primarily trained in a supervised manner by using a large corpus of clean images. This reliance on clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Brett Levac , Jon Tamir , Marcelo Pereyra , Julian Tachella

Anisotropic Diffusion is widely used for noise reduction with simultaneous preservation of vascular structures in maximum intensity projected (MIP) angiograms. However, extension to minimum intensity projected (mIP) venograms in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-15 P. K. Akshara , J. S. Paul

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) plays a vital role in both clinical diagnostics and neuroscience research. However, its inherently low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), especially under high diffusion weighting, significantly…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Jine Xie , Zhicheng Zhang , Yunwei Chen , Yanqiu Feng , Xinyuan Zhang

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

Recently, cross domain transfer has been applied for unsupervised image restoration tasks. However, directly applying existing frameworks would lead to domain-shift problems in translated images due to lack of effective supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Hongyu Yang

Large denoising diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have been trained on billions of image-caption pairs to perform text-conditioned image generation. As a byproduct of this training, these models have acquired general knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alexandros Graikos , Nebojsa Jojic , Dimitris Samaras

Owing to flexible architectures of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), CNNs are successfully used for image denoising. However, they suffer from the following drawbacks: (i) deep network architecture is very difficult to train. (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Lunke Fei , Junqian Wang , Jie Wen , Nan Luo

Most of the classical denoising methods restore clear results by selecting and averaging pixels in the noisy input. Instead of relying on hand-crafted selecting and averaging strategies, we propose to explicitly learn this process with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Xiangyu Xu , Muchen Li , Wenxiu Sun

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including diffusion MRI (dMRI), serves as a ``microscope'' for anatomical structures and routinely mitigates the influence of low signal-to-noise ratio scans by compromising temporal or spatial resolution.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Chenxu Wu , Qingpeng Kong , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

Supervised learning-based methods yield robust denoising results, yet they are inherently limited by the need for large-scale clean/noisy paired datasets. The use of unsupervised denoisers, on the other hand, necessitates a more detailed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Nahyun Kim , Donggon Jang , Sunhyeok Lee , Bomi Kim , Dae-Shik Kim

Image denoising (removal of additive white Gaussian noise from an image) is one of the oldest and most studied problems in image processing. An extensive work over several decades has led to thousands of papers on this subject, and to many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Michael Elad , Bahjat Kawar , Gregory Vaksman

Image denoising methods must effectively model, implicitly or explicitly, the vast diversity of patterns and textures that occur in natural images. This is challenging, even for modern methods that leverage deep neural networks trained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Zhihao Xia , Ayan Chakrabarti

Self-supervised image denoising methods have traditionally relied on either architectural constraints or specialized loss functions that require prior knowledge of the noise distribution to avoid the trivial identity mapping. Among these,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Brayan Monroy , Jorge Bacca , Julián Tachella

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a dominant approach for image generation, however they still suffer from slow convergence in training and color shift issues in sampling. In this paper, we identify that these obstacles can be…

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