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In recent years, large convolutional neural networks have been widely used as tools for image deblurring, because of their ability in restoring images very precisely. It is well known that image deblurring is mathematically modeled as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Davide Evangelista , Elena Morotti , Elena Loli Piccolomini , James Nagy

Phase retrieval algorithms have become an important component in many modern computational imaging systems. For instance, in the context of ptychography and speckle correlation imaging, they enable imaging past the diffraction limit and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-03 Christopher A. Metzler , Philip Schniter , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Richard G. Baraniuk

Single-image super-resolution is a fundamental task for vision applications to enhance the image quality with respect to spatial resolution. If the input image contains degraded pixels, the artifacts caused by the degradation could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Xinyi Zhang , Hang Dong , Zhe Hu , Wei-Sheng Lai , Fei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computational photography, where achieving high perception with low distortion is highly demanding. Current methods either struggle with perceptual quality or suffer from significant distortion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tong Li , Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong , Hua Huang

Ill-posed imaging inverse problems remain challenging due to the ambiguity in mapping degraded observations to clean images. Diffusion-based generative priors have recently shown promise, but typically rely on computationally intensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Ayush Varshney , Katherine L. Bouman , Berthy T. Feng

Many interesting tasks in image restoration can be cast as linear inverse problems. A recent family of approaches for solving these problems uses stochastic algorithms that sample from the posterior distribution of natural images given the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Bahjat Kawar , Michael Elad , Stefano Ermon , Jiaming Song

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which uses a single pre-training stage to address both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Srinidhi Hegde , Tianyi Zhou , Abhinav Shrivastava

Recovering high-dimensional statistical structure from limited measurements is a fundamental challenge in hyperspectral imaging, where capturing full-resolution data is often infeasible due to sensor, bandwidth, or acquisition constraints.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Jonathan Monsalve , Kumar Vijay Mishra

We propose self-diffusion, a novel framework for solving inverse problems without relying on pretrained generative models. Traditional diffusion-based approaches require training a model on a clean dataset to learn to reverse the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guanxiong Luo , Shoujin Huang , Yanlong Yang

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved impressive results in real-time 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, these methods struggle in large-scale, unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Tuan Pham , Qiao Wang , Ben Southall , Kshitij Minhas , Bogdan Matei , Stephan Mandt , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Summary: Errors in gradient trajectories introduce significant artifacts and distortions in magnetic resonance images, particularly in non-Cartesian imaging sequences, where imperfect gradient waveforms can greatly reduce image quality.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Jonathan B. Martin , Hannah E. Alderson , John C. Gore , Mark D. Does , Kevin D. Harkins

Document dewarping aims to rectify deformations in photographic document images, thus improving text readability, which has attracted much attention and made great progress, but it is still challenging to preserve document structures. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Weiguang Zhang , Huangcheng Lu , Maizhen Ning , Xiaowei Huang , Wei Wang , Kaizhu Huang , Qiufeng Wang

Diffusion models have achieved impressive performance on multi-focus image fusion (MFIF). However, a key challenge in applying diffusion models to the ill-posed MFIF problem is that defocus blur can make common symmetric geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bo Li , Tingting Bao , Lingling Zhang , Weiping Fu , Yaxian Wang , Jun Liu

Existing image restoration methods mostly leverage the posterior distribution of natural images. However, they often assume known degradation and also require supervised training, which restricts their adaptation to complex real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ben Fei , Zhaoyang Lyu , Liang Pan , Junzhe Zhang , Weidong Yang , Tianyue Luo , Bo Zhang , Bo Dai

Image completion is a challenging task, particularly when ensuring that generated content seamlessly integrates with existing parts of an image. While recent diffusion models have shown promise, they often struggle with maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Michael Felsberg , Dacheng Tao , Xuelong Li

This paper studies a diffusion-based framework to address the low-light image enhancement problem. To harness the capabilities of diffusion models, we delve into this intricate process and advocate for the regularization of its inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Jinhui Hou , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Hui Liu , Huanqiang Zeng , Hui Yuan

In this paper, we introduce DiffusionMat, a novel image matting framework that employs a diffusion model for the transition from coarse to refined alpha mattes. Diverging from conventional methods that utilize trimaps merely as loose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yangyang Xu , Shengfeng He , Wenqi Shao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

This paper explores image modeling from the frequency space and introduces DCTdiff, an end-to-end diffusion generative paradigm that efficiently models images in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) space. We investigate the design space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Mang Ning , Mingxiao Li , Jianlin Su , Haozhe Jia , Lanmiao Liu , Martin Beneš , Wenshuo Chen , Albert Ali Salah , Itir Onal Ertugrul

Endoscopic images often suffer from diverse and co-occurring degradations such as low lighting, smoke, and bleeding, which obscure critical clinical details. Existing restoration methods are typically task-specific and often require prior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Tong Chen , Xinyu Ma , Long Bai , Wenyang Wang , Yue Sun , Luping Zhou