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We propose a very fast and effective one-step restoring method for blurry face images. In the last decades, many blind deblurring algorithms have been proposed to restore latent sharp images. However, these algorithms run slowly because of…

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Fetal motion discernment utilizing spectral images extracted from accelerometric data incident on pregnant mothers abdomen has gained substantial attention in the state-of-the-art research. It is an essential practice to avoid adverse…

Positron emission tomographs (PET) do not measure an image directly. Instead, they measure at the boundary of the field-of-view (FOV) of PET tomograph a sinogram that consists of measurements of the sums of all the counts along the lines…

In this paper, a novel method to enhance Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) THz imaging resolution beyond its diffraction limit is proposed. Our method comprises two stages. Firstly, we reconstruct the signal in depth-direction…

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Imaging distributions of radioactive sources plays a substantial role in nuclear medicine as well as in monitoring nuclear waste and its deposit. Coded Aperture Imaging has been proposed as an alternative to parallel or pinhole collimators,…

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This study presents a practical and dose-efficient strategy for resolution enhancement in planar radiography, based on mechanically supersampled acquisition with high-Z photon-counting detectors (PCDs). Unlike prior event-based or cluster…

Optimal extraction of cosmological information from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background critically relies on our ability to accurately undo the distortions caused by weak gravitational lensing. In this work, we demonstrate the…

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The details of an image with noise may be restored by removing noise through a suitable image de-noising method. In this research, a new method of image de-noising based on using median filter (MF) in the wavelet domain is proposed and…

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Ultrasound plane wave imaging is a cutting-edge technique that enables high frame-rate imaging. However, one challenge associated with high frame-rate ultrasound imaging is the high noise associated with them, hindering their wider…

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Kernelized maximum-likelihood (ML) expectation maximization (EM) methods have recently gained prominence in PET image reconstruction, outperforming many previous state-of-the-art methods. But they are not immune to the problems of…

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This paper develops a resolution enhancement method for post-processing the images from Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). This method is based on deep learning neural networks in the AFM topography measurements. In this study, a very deep…

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Over the past three decades, defocus has consistently provided groundbreaking depth information in scene images. However, accurately estimating depth from 2D images continues to be a persistent and fundamental challenge in the field of 3D…

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We target the problem of estimating the center of mass of noisy 2-D images. We assume that the noise dominates the image, and thus many standard approaches are vulnerable to estimation errors. Our approach uses a surrogate function to the…

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This paper proposes a precise signal recovery method with multilayered non-convex regularization, enhancing sparsity/low-rankness for high-dimensional signals including images and videos. In optimization-based signal recovery, multilayered…

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A maximum entropy method (MEM) is presented for separating the emission due to different foreground components from simulated satellite observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). In particular, the method is applied…

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Image degradation caused by noise and blur remains a persistent challenge in imaging systems, stemming from limitations in both hardware and methodology. Single-image solutions face an inherent tradeoff between noise reduction and motion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Yuzhi Zhao , Lai-Man Po , Xin Ye , Yongzhe Xu , Qiong Yan

Rotating synthetic aperture (RSA) imaging system captures images of the target scene at different rotation angles by rotating a rectangular aperture. Deblurring acquired RSA images plays a critical role in reconstructing a latent sharp…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-03 Dao Lin , Jian Zhang , Martin Benning

Dielectric tensor tomography is an imaging technique for mapping three-dimensional distributions of dielectric properties in transparent materials. This work introduces an enhanced illumination strategy employing a micro-electromechanical…

Recently a number of CNN-based techniques were proposed to remove image compression artifacts. As in other restoration applications, these techniques all learn a mapping from decompressed patches to the original counterparts under the…

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