English
Related papers

Related papers: DECADE: A Temporally-Consistent Unsupervised Diffu…

200 papers

Acquiring high-quality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images requires administering high-dose radiotracers, which increases radiation exposure risks. Generating standard-dose PET (SPET) from low-dose PET (LPET) has become a potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Xiaolong Niu , Zanting Ye , Xu Han , Yanchao Huang , Hao Sun , Hubing Wu , Lijun Lu

In this work, we propose a novel framework to enable diffusion models to adapt their generation quality based on real-time network bandwidth constraints. Traditional diffusion models produce high-fidelity images by performing a fixed number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xi Zhang , Hanwei Zhu , Yan Zhong , Jiamang Wang , Weisi Lin

Computed tomography (CT) has played a vital role in medical diagnosis, assessment, and therapy planning, etc. In clinical practice, concerns about the increase of X-ray radiation exposure attract more and more attention. To lower the X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Zhicheng Zhang , Xiaokun Liang , Wei Zhao , Lei Xing

Echocardiography plays a central role in cardiac imaging, offering dynamic views of the heart that are essential for diagnosis and monitoring. However, image quality can be significantly degraded by haze arising from multipath…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Tristan S. W. Stevens , Oisín Nolan , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Blood vessel segmentation is crucial for many diagnostic and research applications. In recent years, CNN-based models have leaded to breakthroughs in the task of segmentation, however, such methods usually lose high-frequency information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Mo Zhang , Fei Yu , Jie Zhao , Li Zhang , Quanzheng Li

Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) typically relies on movies containing hundreds or thousands of frames to accurately quantify motion in soft matter systems. Using movies much shorter in duration produces noisier and less accurate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-05 Gildardo Martinez , Justin Siu , Steven Dang , Dylan Gage , Emma Kao , Juan Carlos Avila , Ruilin You , Ryan McGorty

Speckle noise severely limits the quality of images acquired from coherent imaging systems such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and medical ultrasound. Traditional second-order PDE-based despeckling approaches, although popular, often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Manish Kumar , Rajendra K. Ray

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target detection has long been impeded by inherent speckle noise and the prevalence of diminutive, ambiguous targets. While deep neural networks have advanced SAR target detection, their intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yimian Dai , Minrui Zou , Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Kang Ni , Jian Yang

Diffusion and flow-based generative models have shown strong potential for image restoration. However, image denoising under unknown and varying noise conditions remains challenging, because the learned vector fields may become inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jigang Duan , Genwei Ma , Xu Jiang , Wenfeng Xu , Ping Yang , Xing Zhao

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard for assessing cardiac function, but individual cardiac cycles complicate automatic temporal comparison or sub-phase analysis. Accurate cardiac keyframe detection can eliminate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sven Koehler , Sarah Kaye Mueller , Jonathan Kiekenap , Gerald Greil , Tarique Hussain , Samir Sarikouch , Florian André , Norbert Frey , Sandy Engelhardt

Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Shi , Yu Liu , Zhong-Cheng Wu , Juan Cheng , Huafeng Li , Xun Chen

Recent weakly supervised video anomaly detection methods have achieved significant advances by employing unified frameworks for joint optimization. However, this paradigm is limited by a fundamental sensitivity-stability trade-off, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Hantao Zheng , Ning Han , Yawen Zeng , Hao Chen

Cardiovascular diseases, a leading cause of noncommunicable disease-related deaths, require early and accurate detection to improve patient outcomes. Taking advantage of advances in machine learning and deep learning, multiple approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Paula Ruiz-Barroso , Francisco M. Castro , José Miranda , Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu , David Atienza , Nicolás Guil

Computed tomography is widely used as an imaging tool to visualize three-dimensional structures with expressive bone-soft tissue contrast. However, CT resolution and radiation dose are tightly entangled, highlighting the importance of…

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

Multispectral computed tomography (CT) enables advanced material characterization by acquiring energy-resolved projection data. However, since the incoming X-ray flux is be distributed across multiple narrow energy bins, the photon count…

While deep learning holds great promise for disease diagnosis and prognosis in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, its progress is often constrained by highly imbalanced and biased training datasets. To address this issue, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Grzegorz Skorupko , Richard Osuala , Zuzanna Szafranowska , Kaisar Kushibar , Vien Ngoc Dang , Nay Aung , Steffen E Petersen , Karim Lekadir , Polyxeni Gkontra

Dual-energy X-ray Computed Tomography (DECT) constitutes an advanced technology which enables automatic decomposition of materials in clinical images without manual segmentation using the dependency of the X-ray linear attenuation with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Hang Xu , Alexandre Bousse , Alessandro Perelli

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

Most of the existing diffusion models use Gaussian noise for training and sampling across all time steps, which may not optimally account for the frequency contents reconstructed by the denoising network. Despite the diverse applications of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Xingchang Huang , Corentin Salaün , Cristina Vasconcelos , Christian Theobalt , Cengiz Öztireli , Gurprit Singh