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Deep learning has made a breakthrough in medical image segmentation in recent years due to its ability to extract high-level features without the need for prior knowledge. In this context, U-Net is one of the most advanced medical image…

Image restoration is a low-level vision task which is to restore degraded images to noise-free images. With the success of deep neural networks, the convolutional neural networks surpass the traditional restoration methods and become the…

To discover powerful yet compact models is an important goal of neural architecture search. Previous two-stage one-shot approaches are limited by search space with a fixed depth. It seems handy to include an additional skip connection in…

Real-noise denoising is a challenging task because the statistics of real-noise do not follow the normal distribution, and they are also spatially and temporally changing. In order to cope with various and complex real-noise, we propose a…

Self-supervised blind denoising for Poisson-Gaussian noise remains a challenging task. Pseudo-supervised pairs constructed from single noisy images re-corrupt the signal and degrade the performance. The visible blindspots solve the…

We study CT image denoising in the unpaired and self-supervised regimes by evaluating two strong, training-data-efficient paradigms: a CycleGAN-based residual translator and a Noise2Score (N2S) score-matching denoiser. Under a common…

In existing semantic communication systems for image transmission, some images are generally reconstructed with considerably low quality. As a result, the reliable transmission of each image cannot be guaranteed, bringing significant…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a popular choice of model for tasks in computer vision. When CNNs are made with many layers, resulting in a deep neural network, skip connections may be added to create an easier gradient…

Coherent noise regularly plagues seismic recordings, causing artefacts and uncertainties in products derived from down-the-line processing and imaging tasks. The outstanding capabilities of deep learning in denoising of natural and medical…

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The convolution neural nets (conv nets) have achieved a state-of-the-art performance in many applications of image and video processing. The most recent studies illustrate that the conv nets are fragile in terms of recognition accuracy to…

It is a challenging task to extract the best of both worlds by combining the spatial characteristics of a visible image and the spectral content of an infrared image. In this work, we propose a spatially constrained adversarial autoencoder…

Nowadays, pre-trained encoders are widely used in medical image segmentation due to their strong capability in extracting rich and generalized feature representations. However, existing methods often fail to fully leverage these features,…

Many imaging tasks require global information about all pixels in an image. Conventional bottom-up classification networks globalize information by decreasing resolution; features are pooled and downsampled into a single output. But for…

The rapid advancements in deep learning necessitate better training methods for deep neural networks (DNNs). As models grow in complexity, vanishing and exploding gradients impede performance, particularly in skip-connected architectures…

Models based on U-like structures have improved the performance of medical image segmentation. However, the single-layer decoder structure of U-Net is too "thin" to exploit enough information, resulting in large semantic differences between…

Deep learning-based image denoising techniques often struggle with poor generalization performance to out-of-distribution real-world noise. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel noise translation framework that performs denoising on…

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to convey the intended meaning of messages rather than merely transmitting bits, thereby offering greater efficiency and robustness, particularly in resource-constrained or noisy environments. In this…

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…