Study subjective perception of low light restored images and develop an unsupervised QA model.
problem Lack of subjective QA for low light restored images and challenges in collecting human opinion scores.
method Create a dataset, conduct subjective QA study, develop self-supervised contrastive learning technique to extract features.
result Unsupervised NR QA model achieves state-of-the-art performance for low light restored images.
Paper proposes a method to enhance low-quality retinal images using optimal transport.
problem Artifacts and imperfections in retinal images lead to diagnostic inaccuracies.
method Leveraging optimal transport theory, an unpaired image-to-image translation scheme is proposed.
result The method improves perceptually and quantitatively the quality of low-quality retinal images.
A method merges two pretrained diffusion experts to improve image quality and likelihood.
problem Trade-off between image quality and data likelihood in diffusion models.
method Combining two pretrained diffusion experts by switching between them along the denoising trajectory.
result The merged model consistently matches or outperforms its base components, improving or preserving both likelihood and sample quality.
In coronary CT angiography, a series of CT images are taken at different levels of radiation dose during the examination. Although this reduces the total radiation dose, the image quality during the low-dose phases is significantly degraded. To address this problem, here we propose a novel semi-supervised learning tech…
A major challenge in computed tomography (CT) is to reduce X-ray dose to a low or even ultra-low level while maintaining the high quality of reconstructed images. We propose a new method for CT reconstruction that combines penalized weighted-least squares reconstruction (PWLS) with regularization based on a sparsifying…
The development of computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction methods that significantly reduce patient radiation exposure while maintaining high image quality is an important area of research in low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging. We propose a new penalized weighted least squares (PWLS) reconstruction method that exploits …
New hierarchical VQ-VAE scheme improves image compression quality and features at low bitrates.
problem Low bitrate image compression maintaining quality and features.
method Hierarchical VQ-VAE with stochastic quantization and Markovian latent variables.
result High perceptual quality and semantic features at low bitrates.
Proposes new terms for neural image compression to improve quality and efficiency.
problem Improving the quality and efficiency of neural image compression.
method Introduces a compression objective and a cycle loss term, applied to autoencoder encoder outputs, combined with reconstruction losses.
result Different autoencoders trained with varying losses produce images with distinct perceptual qualities and image-domain distortions.
New method reduces memorization in diffusion models without sacrificing image quality.
problem Diffusion models often memorize training data, especially with small datasets.
method Train models using noisy data at large noise scales to reduce memorization.
result Significant reduction in memorization without compromising image quality.
MRI image quality affects statistical and predictive analysis of brain morphology.
problem Impact of MRI image quality on statistical and predictive analysis of brain morphology.
method Systematic testing of image quality on univariate statistics and machine learning classification using three large datasets.
result Low-quality MRI data significantly affects detecting significant sex/gender differences in smaller samples, but not in larger ones.
Enhances high-throughput imaging of microtubule networks, improving clarity and consistency.
problem Fluorescence noise obscures microtubule structures in high-throughput imaging.
method CycleGAN learning to enhance low-resolution images of microtubule networks.
result CycleGAN effectively identifies microtubules with high accuracy (0.93+ AUC-ROC).
OTRE uses OT to improve retinal images, outperforming existing methods.
problem Improving quality of non-mydriatic retinal images for accurate diagnoses.
method OT theory for image-to-image translation, regularization by enhancing.
result OTRE outperforms state-of-the-art methods on various retinal image tasks.
New SSIM measure improves adversarial attacks' perceptual quality.
problem Lack of perceptual quality in traditional adversarial attacks.
method Replaced Lp norms with SSIM measure for better quality. result SSIM-constrained attacks achieve better quality and similar success rate.
Dataset of 50k hotels aids in human trafficking investigations.
problem Identify hotels from low-quality, occluded images.
method Curated dataset of 1M annotated hotel room images, baseline model with data augmentation.
result Demonstrated the feasibility of hotel recognition from challenging images.
Magnetic resonance image (MRI) reconstruction is a severely ill-posed linear inverse task demanding time and resource intensive computations that can substantially trade off {\it accuracy} for {\it speed} in real-time imaging. In addition, state-of-the-art compressed sensing (CS) analytics are not cognizant of the imag…
Deep-neural-network-based image reconstruction has demonstrated promising performance in medical imaging for under-sampled and low-dose scenarios. However, it requires large amount of memory and extensive time for the training. It is especially challenging to train the reconstruction networks for three-dimensional comp…
We describe a new training methodology for generative adversarial networks. The key idea is to grow both the generator and discriminator progressively: starting from a low resolution, we add new layers that model increasingly fine details as training progresses. This both speeds the training up and greatly stabilizes i…
Gaussian Process upsampling boosts OCR accuracy from low-res images.
problem Low-quality and downsampled image data hinders OCR accuracy.
method Gaussian Process upsampling model for improving OCR on low-resolution documents.
result Upsampling improves OCR accuracy on low-resolution images.
Improved computed tomography reconstruction with deep learning and deep image prior.
problem Low data efficiency in computed tomography reconstruction.
method Combining learned primal-dual methods with deep image prior for improved quality and generalization.
result Proposed methods outperform state-of-the-art in low data regime.
DSM improves visual quality of fetoscopic videos by mosaicking.
problem Challenges in identifying all vascular connections during fetoscopy due to low visual quality and drift.
method Proposes a Deep Sequential Mosaicking (DSM) framework using deep learning techniques to handle visual variations and reduce drift.
result DSM framework reduces accumulated drift and improves visual quality of fetoscopic videos.
Improved image quality in diffusion models by limiting guidance to a specific noise level range.
problem Improving image quality in diffusion models with guidance.
method Restricting guidance to a specific noise level range.
result Significantly improved FID score from 1.81 to 1.40 in ImageNet-512.
We propose approaches based on deep learning to localize objects in images when only a small training dataset is available and the images have low quality. That applies to many problems in medical image processing, and in particular to the analysis of fluoroscopic (low-dose) X-ray images, where the images have low cont…
Improves image quality in generative models by estimating pixel-wise aleatoric uncertainty.
problem Lack of quantitative assessment of image quality in diffusion models.
method Estimate pixel-wise aleatoric uncertainty during sampling phase using a perturbation scheme designed for diffusion models.
result Uncertainty-guided sampling leads to better sample generation quality as shown by FID scores.
IntroVAC learns interpretable latent subspaces for better image quality.
problem Difficulties in interpreting latent spaces and limitations in image generation.
method Introspective Variational Classifier (IntroVAC) using additional labels and adversarial training.
result Improved image quality and meaningful latent directions for fine-grained manipulation.
BCD-Net improves low-dose CT image reconstruction.
problem Challenges in obtaining accurate low-dose CT images.
method Modified iterative regression CNN, BCD-Net, with faster numerical solvers.
result BCD-Net achieves better image quality and generalization than state-of-the-art methods.
Edge device deep learning improved with noise handling model.
problem Noise and low quality data degrade deep learning performance on edge devices.
method Mixture of Pre-processing Experts (MoPE) model with adversarially trained autoencoder.
result The MoPE model achieves better accuracy on noisy images without sacrificing clean image accuracy.
Improved score-based models generate high-quality images up to 256x256.
problem Training score-based models for high-resolution images is unstable and limited.
method Theoretical analysis, exponential moving average of model weights.
result Score-based models can generate high-fidelity images up to 256x256.
CNN improves frame selection for ultrasound elastography.
problem Choosing suitable frames for accurate strain estimation in ultrasound elastography.
method Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for frame selection.
result CNN selects frames in 5.4 ms for high-quality strain images.
Deep learning speeds up whole heart MRI to 30 seconds.
problem Long acquisition times in whole heart MRI.
method Deep learning, specifically a 3D residual U-Net, to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution data.
result Super-resolution images show better edge sharpness and fewer artefacts than low-resolution images.
Proposes a cross-scale residual network for multiple image restoration tasks.
problem Image restoration tasks (super-resolution, denoising, deblocking) have strong correlations.
method Cross-scale residual network exploiting scale-related features and inter-task correlations.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods in multiple image restoration tasks.
Single image super-resolution is the task of inferring a high-resolution image from a single low-resolution input. Traditionally, the performance of algorithms for this task is measured using pixel-wise reconstruction measures such as peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) which have been shown to correlate poorly with the …
DEER network improves few-view breast CT image reconstruction efficiency and quality.
problem Efficient and high-quality few-view breast CT image reconstruction.
method Deep Efficient End-to-end Reconstruction (DEER) network with low model complexity.
result DEER network achieves competitive image quality with significantly fewer parameters compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Super-resolution methods form high-resolution images from low-resolution images. In this paper, we develop a new Bayesian nonparametric model for super-resolution. Our method uses a beta-Bernoulli process to learn a set of recurring visual patterns, called dictionary elements, from the data. Because it is nonparametric…
DVGS identifies low-quality data quickly and accurately.
problem Identifying and filtering mislabeled or noisy data in machine learning.
method Data Valuation with Gradient Similarity (DVGS) algorithm.
result DVGS outperforms baseline methods in identifying low-value data across various domains.
A new CNN-based algorithm improves Fourier ptychography for faster, more robust image reconstruction.
problem Slow and inefficient Fourier ptychography reconstruction under system aberrations.
method A CNN-based iterative phase retrieval algorithm trained on GPUs.
result Significantly faster and more robust image reconstruction under system aberrations.
This work combines GANs and A3C for high-resolution image compression.
problem Image compression for high-resolution images without loss of quality.
method Hybrid approach using GANs and A3C for end-to-end learning.
result Improves PSNR for high-resolution images through end-to-end learning.
Classical convolutional neural networks (cCNNs) are very good at categorizing objects in images. But, unlike human vision which is relatively robust to noise in images, the performance of cCNNs declines quickly as image quality worsens. Here we propose to use recurrent connections within the convolutional layers to mak…
Improved image restoration using frequency-guided sampling.
problem Restoring high-quality images from degraded observations with known degradation processes.
method Proposed a frequency-guided sampling approach for diffusion-based image restoration, incorporating a time-varying low-pass filter.
result Significantly improved performance on challenging image restoration tasks, including motion deblurring and image dehazing.
Medical image reconstruction advances from sparse models to machine learning.
problem Improving image quality and reducing noise in medical imaging.
method Iterative reconstruction, modified data acquisition methods, and machine learning models.
result Machine learning methods show promise in improving image quality.
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging offers a wide variety of imaging techniques. A large amount of data is created per examination which needs to be checked for sufficient quality in order to derive a meaningful diagnosis. This is a manual process and therefore time- and cost-intensive. Any imaging artifacts originating fr…
ControlVAE improves VAE performance by adding a controller to tune hyperparameters.
problem Existing VAE models struggle with KL vanishing and low reconstruction quality.
method ControlVAE combines a controller inspired by automatic control theory with VAE to improve performance.
result ControlVAE achieves better disentangling and reconstruction quality than existing methods.
Synthesizing high resolution photorealistic images has been a long-standing challenge in machine learning. In this paper we introduce new methods for the improved training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for image synthesis. We construct a variant of GANs employing label conditioning that results in 128x128 r…
Improved StyleGAN model enhances image quality and invertibility.
problem Characteristics artifacts in StyleGAN's image quality.
method Redesigned generator normalization, revisited progressive growing, and introduced a capacity problem.
result Improved image quality and easier inversion of generated images.
Paper proposes a method to protect DCNNs from adversarial attacks and poor quality images.
problem DCNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples and perceptual quality issues.
method Combines image quality assessment with knowledge distillation.
result Detector effectively identifies poor quality and adversarial images.
Automatically evaluates image quality based on human judgment.
problem Difficulty in rigorously evaluating generated image quality.
method Generative model embeddings, human labels regression, and statistical matching.
result 66% accuracy in predicting human scores of image realism.
This paper presents a deep learning method for faster magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by reducing k-space data with sub-Nyquist sampling strategies and provides a rationale for why the proposed approach works well. Uniform subsampling is used in the time-consuming phase-encoding direction to capture high-resolution im…
Robust high-dimensional data processing has witnessed an exciting development in recent years, as theoretical results have shown that it is possible using convex programming to optimize data fit to a low-rank component plus a sparse outlier component. This problem is also known as Robust PCA, and it has found applicati…
A new metric FRD improves comparing medical images.
problem Comparing medical images for distribution or domain differences.
method Developed a new metric FRD using standardized radiomic features.
result FRD outperforms other metrics in various medical imaging applications.