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Removing noise from images, a.k.a image denoising, can be a very challenging task since the type and amount of noise can greatly vary for each image due to many factors including a camera model and capturing environments. While there have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Changjin Kim , Tae Hyun Kim , Sungyong Baik

Recent work has shown how denoising and contractive autoencoders implicitly capture the structure of the data-generating density, in the case where the corruption noise is Gaussian, the reconstruction error is the squared error, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Yoshua Bengio , Li Yao , Guillaume Alain , Pascal Vincent

We propose a deep-learning approach based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) to reduce noise in weak lensing mass maps under realistic conditions. We apply image-to-image translation using conditional GANs to the mass map obtained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-30 Masato Shirasaki , Kana Moriwaki , Taira Oogi , Naoki Yoshida , Shiro Ikeda , Takahiro Nishimichi

A learning-based framework for representation of domain-specific images is proposed where joint compression and denoising can be done using a VQ-based multi-layer network. While it learns to compress the images from a training set, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Sohrab Ferdowsi , Slava Voloshynovskiy , Dimche Kostadinov

Supervised training for real-world denoising presents challenges due to the difficulty of collecting large datasets of paired noisy and clean images. Recent methods have attempted to address this by utilizing unpaired datasets of clean and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hamadi Chihaoui , Paolo Favaro

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained neural network numerous times to obtain the final output,…

Diffusion-based image compression methods have achieved notable progress, delivering high perceptual quality at low bitrates. However, their practical deployment is hindered by significant inference latency and heavy computational overhead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiwen Jia , Hao Wei , Yanhui Zhou , Chenyang Ge

This paper presents a generation-based debiasing framework for object detection. Prior debiasing methods are often limited by the representation diversity of samples, while naive generative augmentation often preserves the biases it aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Xinhao Cai , Liulei Li , Gensheng Pei , Tao Chen , Jinshan Pan , Yazhou Yao , Wenguan Wang

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

End-to-end deep trainable models are about to exceed the performance of the traditional handcrafted compression techniques on videos and images. The core idea is to learn a non-linear transformation, modeled as a deep neural network,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Muhammet Balcilar , Bharath Damodaran , Pierre Hellier

Preprocessing is a well-established technique for optimizing compression, yet existing methods are predominantly Rate-Distortion (R-D) optimized and constrained by pixel-level fidelity. This work pioneers a shift towards Rate-Perception…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Mengxi Guo , Shijie Zhao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

It has long been considered a significant problem to improve the visual quality of lossy image and video compression. Recent advances in computing power together with the availability of large training data sets has increased interest in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Aaditya Prakash , Nick Moran , Solomon Garber , Antonella DiLillo , James Storer

Image denoising can be described as the problem of mapping from a noisy image to a noise-free image. The best currently available denoising methods approximate this mapping with cleverly engineered algorithms. In this work we attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Harold Christopher Burger , Christian J. Schuler , Stefan Harmeling

The goal of compressed sensing is to estimate a vector from an underdetermined system of noisy linear measurements, by making use of prior knowledge on the structure of vectors in the relevant domain. For almost all results in this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-10 Ashish Bora , Ajil Jalal , Eric Price , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We propose a GAN-based image compression method working at extremely low bitrates below 0.1bpp. Most existing learned image compression methods suffer from blur at extremely low bitrates. Although GAN can help to reconstruct sharp images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Shoma Iwai , Tomo Miyazaki , Yoshihiro Sugaya , Shinichiro Omachi

Dose reduction in computed tomography (CT) is essential for decreasing radiation risk in clinical applications. Iterative reconstruction is one of the most promising ways to compensate for the increased noise due to reduction of photon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Zhuonan He , Yikun Zhang , Yu Guan , Shanzhou Niu , Yi Zhang , Yang Chen , Qiegen Liu

Decompositional reconstruction of 3D scenes, with complete shapes and detailed texture of all objects within, is intriguing for downstream applications but remains challenging, particularly with sparse views as input. Recent approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Junfeng Ni , Yu Liu , Ruijie Lu , Zirui Zhou , Song-Chun Zhu , Yixin Chen , Siyuan Huang

Nonlocal image representation has been successfully used in many image-related inverse problems including denoising, deblurring and deblocking. However, a majority of reconstruction methods only exploit the nonlocal self-similarity (NSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Zhiyuan Zha , Xinggan Zhang , Qiong Wang , Yechao Bai , Lan Tang

Compression techniques for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have recently achieved considerable success in minimizing storage overhead for 3D Gaussians while preserving high rendering quality. Despite the impressive storage reduction, the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Seungjoo Shin , Jaesik Park , Sunghyun Cho

Existing plug-and-play image restoration methods typically employ off-the-shelf Gaussian denoisers as proximal operators within classical optimization frameworks based on variable splitting. Recently, denoisers induced by generative priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ji Li , Chao Wang