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Image denoising is a typical ill-posed problem due to complex degradation. Leading methods based on normalizing flows have tried to solve this problem with an invertible transformation instead of a deterministic mapping. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , H. Yang

Training deep neural networks has become a common approach for addressing image restoration problems. An alternative for training a "task-specific" network for each observation model is to use pretrained deep denoisers for imposing only the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Tomer Garber , Tom Tirer

Learned progressive image compression is gaining momentum as it allows improved image reconstruction as more bits are decoded at the receiver. We propose a progressive image compression method in which an image is first represented as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Alberto Presta , Enzo Tartaglione , Attilio Fiandrotti , Marco Grangetto , Pamela Cosman

There remains an important need for the development of image reconstruction methods that can produce diagnostically useful images from undersampled measurements. In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for example, such methods can facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Varun A. Kelkar , Sayantan Bhadra , Mark A. Anastasio

By optimizing the rate-distortion-realism trade-off, generative compression approaches produce detailed, realistic images, even at low bit rates, instead of the blurry reconstructions produced by rate-distortion optimized models. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Eirikur Agustsson , David Minnen , George Toderici , Fabian Mentzer

For lossy image compression systems, we develop an algorithm, iterative refinement, to improve the decoder's reconstruction compared to standard decoding techniques. Specifically, we propose a recurrent neural network approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Alexander G. Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Jian Wu , Scott O'Connell , David Miller , C. Lee Giles

Noisy images are a challenge to image compression algorithms due to the inherent difficulty of compressing noise. As noise cannot easily be discerned from image details, such as high-frequency signals, its presence leads to extra bits…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Yuxin Xie , Li Yu , Farhad Pakdaman , Moncef Gabbouj

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, research on denoising diffusion models has expanded its application to the field of image restoration. Traditional diffusion-based image restoration methods utilize degraded images as conditional input to effectively guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhenning Shi , Haoshuai Zheng , Chen Xu , Changsheng Dong , Bin Pan , Xueshuo Xie , Along He , Tao Li , Huazhu Fu

Image compression is a method to remove spatial redundancy between adjacent pixels and reconstruct a high-quality image. In the past few years, deep learning has gained huge attention from the research community and produced promising image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Khawar Islam , L. Minh Dang , Sujin Lee , Hyeonjoon Moon

In recent years, deep learning-based image compression, particularly through generative models, has emerged as a pivotal area of research. Despite significant advancements, challenges such as diminished sharpness and quality in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Ryugo Morita , Hitoshi Nishimura , Ko Watanabe , Andreas Dengel , Jinjia Zhou

Microscopy images often suffer from high levels of noise, which can hinder further analysis and interpretation. Content-aware image restoration (CARE) methods have been proposed to address this issue, but they often require large amounts of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Felix Fuentes-Hurtado , Jean-Baptiste Sibarita , Virgile Viasnoff

Recent advances in text-guided image compression have shown great potential to enhance the perceptual quality of reconstructed images. These methods, however, tend to have significantly degraded pixel-wise fidelity, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hagyeong Lee , Minkyu Kim , Jun-Hyuk Kim , Seungeon Kim , Dokwan Oh , Jaeho Lee

We propose and study the problem of distribution-preserving lossy compression. Motivated by recent advances in extreme image compression which allow to maintain artifact-free reconstructions even at very low bitrates, we propose to optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Michael Tschannen , Eirikur Agustsson , Mario Lucic

Compressive sensing is a method to recover the original image from undersampled measurements. In order to overcome the ill-posedness of this inverse problem, image priors are used such as sparsity in the wavelet domain, minimum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Magauiya Zhussip , Shakarim Soltanayev , Se Young Chun

Modern digital cameras rely on the sequential execution of separate image processing steps to produce realistic images. The first two steps are usually related to denoising and demosaicking where the former aims to reduce noise from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Image recovery from compressive measurements requires a signal prior for the images being reconstructed. Recent work has explored the use of deep generative models with low latent dimension as signal priors for such problems. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Niklas Smedemark-Margulies , Jung Yeon Park , Max Daniels , Rose Yu , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Paul Hand

Existing approaches towards single image dehazing including both model-based and learning-based heavily rely on the estimation of so-called transmission maps. Despite its conceptual simplicity, using transmission maps as an intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Yixin Du , Xin Li

Structure-preserved denoising of 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images is a critical step in medical image analysis. Over the past few years, many algorithms with impressive performances have been proposed. In this paper, inspired by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Maosong Ran , Jinrong Hu , Yang Chen , Hu Chen , Huaiqiang Sun , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

We propose a compressive sensing algorithm that exploits geometric properties of images to recover images of high quality from few measurements. The image reconstruction is done by iterating the two following steps: 1) estimation of normal…

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