Yanyang Yan,Siyuan Yao,Wenqi Ren,Rui Zhang,Qi Guo,Xiaochun Cao
{"title":"CAN: Cascade Augmentations against Noise for Image Restoration.","authors":"Yanyang Yan,Siyuan Yao,Wenqi Ren,Rui Zhang,Qi Guo,Xiaochun Cao","doi":"10.1109/tip.2025.3595374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tip.2025.3595374","url":null,"abstract":"Image restoration aims to recover the latent clean image from a degraded counterpart. In general, the prevailing state-of-the-art image restoration methods concentrate on solving only a specific degradation type according to the task, e.g. deblurring or deraining. However, if the corresponding well-trained frameworks confront other real-world image corruptions, i.e., the corruptions are not covered in the training phase, and state-of-the-art restoration models will suffer from a lack of generalization ability. We have observed that an image restoration model can be easily confused by noise corruption. Towards improving the robustness of image restoration networks, in this paper, we focus on alleviating the corruption of noise in various image restoration tasks, which is almost inevitable in real-world scenes. To this end, we devise a novel Multifarious Augmentation strategy against Noise (CAN) to enhance the robustness of specific image restoration. Specifically, the given degraded images are sequentially augmented from different perspectives, i.e., noise-aware augmentation, and model-aware augmentation. The noise-aware augmentation is proposed to enrich the samples by introducing various noise operations. Moreover, to adapt to more unknown corruptions, we propose a novel model-aware augmentation mechanism, which enhances the scalability by exploring useful both spatial and frequency clues with the help of model randomness. It is worth noting that the proposed augmentation scheme is model-agnostic, and it can plug and play into arbitrary state-of-the-art image restoration architectures. In addition, we construct noise corruption benchmark datasets, derived from the validation set of standard image restoration datasets, to assist us in evaluating the robustness of restoration networks. Extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations demonstrate that the proposed method has strong generalization capability which can enhance the robustness of various image restoration frameworks when facing diverse noises.","PeriodicalId":13217,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Image Processing","volume":"169 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144802608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bing Tu,Tao Zhou,Bo Liu,Yan He,Jun Li,Antonio Plaza
{"title":"Multi-scale Autoencoder Suppression Strategy for Hyperspectral Image Anomaly Detection.","authors":"Bing Tu,Tao Zhou,Bo Liu,Yan He,Jun Li,Antonio Plaza","doi":"10.1109/tip.2025.3595408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tip.2025.3595408","url":null,"abstract":"Autoencoders (AEs) have received extensive attention in hyperspectral anomaly detection (HAD) due to their capability to separate the background from the anomaly based on the reconstruction error. However, the existing AE methods routinely fail to adequately exploit spatial information and may precisely reconstruct anomalies, thereby affecting the detection accuracy. To address these issues, this study proposes a novel Multi-scale Autoencoder Suppression Strategy (MASS). The underlying principle of MASS is to prioritize the reconstruction of background information over anomalies. In the encoding stage, the Local Feature Extractor, which integrates Convolution and Omni-Dimensional Dynamic Convolution (ODConv), is combined with the Global Feature Extractor based on Transformer to effectively extract multi-scale features. Furthermore, a Self-Attention Suppression module (SAS) is devised to diminish the influence of anomalous pixels, enabling the network to focus more intently on the precise reconstruction of the background. During the process of network learning, a mask derived from the test outcomes of each iteration is integrated into the loss function computation, encompassing only the positions with low anomaly scores from the preceding detection round. Experiments on eight datasets demonstrate that the proposed method is significantly superior to several traditional methods and deep learning methods in terms of performance.","PeriodicalId":13217,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Image Processing","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144802660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qi Zheng, Li-Heng Chen, Chenlong He, Neil Berkbeck, Yilin Wang, Balu Adsumilli, Alan C. Bovik, Yibo Fan, Zhengzhong Tu
{"title":"Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of Banding Artifacts on Compressed Videos","authors":"Qi Zheng, Li-Heng Chen, Chenlong He, Neil Berkbeck, Yilin Wang, Balu Adsumilli, Alan C. Bovik, Yibo Fan, Zhengzhong Tu","doi":"10.1109/tip.2025.3592543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tip.2025.3592543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13217,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Image Processing","volume":"149 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144747509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}