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Noise-Resilient Masked Face Detection Using Quantized DnCNN and YOLO

  • Rockhyun Choi,
  • Hyunki Lee,
  • Bong-seok Kim,
  • Sangdong Kim and
  • Min Young Kim

29 December 2025

This study presents a noise-resilient masked-face detection framework optimized for the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, which improves detection precision by approximately 30% under severe Gaussian noise (variance 0.10) while reducing denoising latency by ov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,164 Views
18 Pages

In underwater signal processing, accurate time delay estimation (TDE) is of crucial importance for ensuring the reliability of data transmission. However, the complex propagation of sound waves and strong noise interference in the underwater environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,637 Views
11 Pages

17 February 2025

Addressing the noise in seismic signals, a prevalent challenge within seismic signal processing, has been the focus of extensive research. Conventional algorithms for seismic signal denoising often fall short due to their reliance on manually determi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,817 Views
19 Pages

10 September 2023

To overcome the interference of noise on the exploration effectiveness of the controlled-source electromagnetic method (CSEM), we improved the deep learning algorithm by combining the denoising convolutional neural network (DnCNN) with the residual n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,644 Views
18 Pages

Denoising Phase-Unwrapped Images in Laser Imaging via Statistical Analysis and DnCNN

  • Yibo Xie,
  • Jin Cheng,
  • Shun Zhou,
  • Qing Fan,
  • Yue Jia,
  • Jingjin Xiao and
  • Weiguo Liu

14 November 2024

Three-dimensional imaging plays a crucial role at the micro-scale in fields such as precision manufacturing and materials science. However, image noise significantly impacts the accuracy of point cloud reconstruction, making image denoising technique...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,840 Views
13 Pages

Digital holography is a very efficient technique for 3D imaging and the characterization of changes at the surfaces of objects. However, during the process of holographic interferometry, the reconstructed phase images suffer from speckle noise. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
340 Views
37 Pages

28 January 2026

Medical image denoising is crucial for enhancing the diagnostic accuracy of CT and MRI images. This paper presents a modular hybrid framework that combines multiscale decomposition techniques (Empirical Mode Decomposition, Variational Mode Decomposit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,183 Views
17 Pages

27 June 2021

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a state-of-the-art technique for speech emotion recognition. However, CNNs have mostly been applied to noise-free emotional speech data, and limited evidence is available for their applicability in emotional s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,698 Views
14 Pages

Speckle Noise Removal in OCT Images via Wavelet Transform and DnCNN

  • Fangfang Li,
  • Qizhou Wu,
  • Bei Jia and
  • Zhicheng Yang

11 June 2025

(1) Background: Due to its imaging principle, OCT generates images laden with significant speckle noise. The quality of OCT images is a crucial factor influencing diagnostic effectiveness, highlighting the importance of OCT image denoising. (2) Metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,732 Views
16 Pages

A Second-Order Method for Removing Mixed Noise from Remote Sensing Images

  • Ying Zhou,
  • Chao Ren,
  • Shengguo Zhang,
  • Xiaoqin Xue,
  • Yuanyuan Liu,
  • Jiakai Lu and
  • Cong Ding

30 August 2023

Remote sensing image denoising is of great significance for the subsequent use and research of images. Gaussian noise and salt-and-pepper noise are prevalent noises in images. Contemporary denoising algorithms often exhibit limitations when addressin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
245 Views
21 Pages

11 February 2026

With ongoing growth in the implementation of CCTV networks, miniature sensors, and IoT devices, the quality of captured images in terms of authenticity has become a major security issue. Through advanced editing tools and generative models, the capab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,230 Views
29 Pages

Domain Name Server (DNS) amplification Distributed Reflection Denial of Service (DRDoS) attacks are a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack technique in which multiple IT systems forge the original IP of the target system, send a request to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,642 Views
16 Pages

Pedestrian detection is an essential task for computer vision and the automotive industry. Complex systems like advanced driver-assistance systems are based on far-infrared data sensors, used to detect pedestrians at nighttime, fog, rain, and direct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,430 Views
11 Pages

Deep Learning Network for Speckle De-Noising in Severe Conditions

  • Marie Tahon,
  • Silvio Montrésor and
  • Pascal Picart

Digital holography is well adapted to measure any modifications related to any objects. The method refers to digital holographic interferometry where the phase change between two states of the object is of interest. However, the phase images are corr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,822 Views
17 Pages

Robust Underwater Acoustic Channel Estimation Method Based on Bias-Free Convolutional Neural Network

  • Diya Wang,
  • Yonglin Zhang,
  • Lixin Wu,
  • Yupeng Tai,
  • Haibin Wang,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Fabrice Meriaudeau and
  • Fan Yang

In recent years, the study of deep learning techniques for underwater acoustic channel estimation has gained widespread attention. However, existing neural network channel estimation methods often overfit to training dataset noise levels, leading to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,923 Views
20 Pages

Boosting of Denoising Effect with Fusion Strategy

  • Fangjia Yang,
  • Shaoping Xu and
  • Chongxi Li

1 June 2020

Image denoising, a fundamental step in image processing, has been widely studied for several decades. Denoising methods can be classified as internal or external depending on whether they exploit the internal prior or the external noisy-clean image p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,726 Views
18 Pages

Model-Driven Deep-Learning-Based Underwater Acoustic OTFS Channel Estimation

  • Yuzhi Zhang,
  • Shumin Zhang,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Qingyuan Liu and
  • Xiangxiang Li

Accurate channel estimation is the fundamental requirement for recovering underwater acoustic orthogonal time–frequency space (OTFS) modulation signals. As the Doppler effect in the underwater acoustic channel is much more severe than that in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,125 Views
11 Pages

Median Filter Aided CNN Based Image Denoising: An Ensemble Approach

  • Subhrajit Dey,
  • Rajdeep Bhattacharya,
  • Friedhelm Schwenker and
  • Ram Sarkar

28 March 2021

Image denoising is a challenging research problem that aims to recover noise-free images from those that are contaminated with noise. In this paper, we focus on the denoising of images that are contaminated with additive white Gaussian noise. For thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,372 Views
11 Pages

Plug-and-Play Self-Supervised Denoising for Pulmonary Perfusion MRI

  • Changyu Sun,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Cody Thornburgh,
  • Ai-Ling Lin,
  • Kun Qing,
  • John P. Mugler and
  • Talissa A. Altes

Pulmonary dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI is clinically useful for assessing pulmonary perfusion, but its signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is limited. A self-supervised learning network-based plug-and-play (PnP) denoising model was developed to improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,188 Views
23 Pages

31 January 2024

In this paper, we explore the problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation for a non-uniform linear array (NULA) under strong noise. The compressed sensing (CS)-based methods are widely used in NULA DOA estimations. However, these methods commonl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,039 Views
21 Pages

14 March 2023

Although Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology is still the key transmission waveform technology in 5G, traditional channel estimation algorithms are no longer sufficient for the high-speed multipath time-varying channels faced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
415 Views
20 Pages

26 December 2025

Unlike high-dose scans, low-dose cardiac CT perfusion imaging reduces patient radiation exposure and thereby the risk of potential health effects. However, it introduces significant image noise, degrading diagnostic quality and limiting clinical asse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,630 Views
21 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Synthesized View Quality Enhancement with DIBR Distortion Mask Prediction Using Synthetic Images

  • Huan Zhang,
  • Jiangzhong Cao,
  • Dongsheng Zheng,
  • Ximei Yao and
  • Bingo Wing-Kuen Ling

24 October 2022

Recently, deep learning-based image quality enhancement models have been proposed to improve the perceptual quality of distorted synthesized views impaired by compression and the Depth Image-Based Rendering (DIBR) process in a multi-view video system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,585 Views
18 Pages

Dual Residual Denoising Autoencoder with Channel Attention Mechanism for Modulation of Signals

  • Ruifeng Duan,
  • Ziyu Chen,
  • Haiyan Zhang,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Wei Meng and
  • Guodong Sun

16 January 2023

Aiming to address the problems of the high bit error rate (BER) of demodulation or low classification accuracy of modulation signals with a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), we propose a double-residual denoising autoencoder method with a channel atte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,419 Views
23 Pages

6 November 2023

Denoising computed tomography (CT) medical images is crucial in preserving information and restoring images contaminated with noise. Standard filters have extensively been used for noise removal and fine details’ preservation. During the transm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,895 Views
11 Pages

A Local Search Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimator of Chirp Signal

  • Guangli Ben,
  • Xifeng Zheng,
  • Yongcheng Wang,
  • Ning Zhang and
  • Xin Zhang

12 January 2021

A local search Maximum Likelihood (ML) parameter estimator for mono-component chirp signal in low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) conditions is proposed in this paper. The approach combines a deep learning denoising method with a two-step parameter estim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,266 Views
18 Pages

The objective of this study is to propose an advanced image enhancement strategy to address the challenge of reducing radiation doses in pediatric renal scintigraphy. Data from a public dynamic renal scintigraphy database were used. Based on noisier...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,386 Views
23 Pages

24 February 2025

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is crucial for ensuring the safety and longevity of military training aircraft, which face demanding conditions such as high maneuverability, variable loads, and extreme environments, leading to structural fatigue....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,297 Views
15 Pages

22 February 2023

Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) is the benchmark to evaluate the quality of optical remote sensors. For SNR estimation, most of the traditional methods have complicated processes, low efficiency, and general accuracy. In particular, they are not suitable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,045 Views
22 Pages

PatchMask: A Data Augmentation Strategy with Gaussian Noise in Hyperspectral Images

  • Hong-Xia Dou,
  • Xing-Shun Lu,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Hao-Zhen Shen,
  • Yu-Wei Zhuo and
  • Liang-Jian Deng

13 December 2022

Data augmentation (DA) is an effective way to enrich the richness of data and improve a model’s generalization ability. It has been widely used in many advanced vision tasks (e.g., classification, recognition, etc.), while it can hardly be seen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,653 Views
18 Pages

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is often used to detect targets in a construction environment. Due to the different construction environments, the noise exhibits different characteristics on the GPR signal. When the noise is widely distributed on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,967 Views
11 Pages

Sensitive Ant Algorithm for Edge Detection in Medical Images

  • Cristina Ticala,
  • Camelia-M. Pintea and
  • Oliviu Matei

29 November 2021

Nowadays, reliable medical diagnostics from computed tomography (CT) and X-rays can be obtained by using a large number of image edge detection methods. One technique with a high potential to improve the edge detection of images is ant colony optimiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,603 Views
16 Pages

High-Resolution ISAR Imaging Based on Plug-and-Play 2D ADMM-Net

  • Xiaoyong Li,
  • Xueru Bai,
  • Yujie Zhang and
  • Feng Zhou

14 February 2022

We propose a deep learning architecture, dubbed Plug-and-play 2D ADMM-Net (PAN), by combining model-driven deep networks and data-driven deep networks for effective high-resolution 2D inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging with various signa...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
18,307 Views
23 Pages

12 October 2020

Digital images often become corrupted by undesirable noise during the process of acquisition, compression, storage, and transmission. Although the kinds of digital noise are varied, current denoising studies focus on denoising only a single and speci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,360 Views
18 Pages

Enhancing Microdroplet Image Analysis with Deep Learning

  • Sofia H. Gelado,
  • César Quilodrán-Casas and
  • Loïc Chagot

22 October 2023

Microfluidics is a highly interdisciplinary field where the integration of deep-learning models has the potential to streamline processes and increase precision and reliability. This study investigates the use of deep-learning methods for the accurat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,478 Views
22 Pages

Sensing and Deep CNN-Assisted Semi-Blind Detection for Multi-User Massive MIMO Communications

  • Fengxia Han,
  • Jin Zeng,
  • Le Zheng,
  • Hongming Zhang and
  • Jianhui Wang

8 January 2024

Attaining precise target detection and channel measurements are critical for guiding beamforming optimization and data demodulation in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems with hybrid structures, which requires large pi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,357 Views
24 Pages

28 August 2020

The deep-learning steganography of current hotspots can conceal an image secret message in a cover image of the same size. While the steganography secret message is primarily removed via active steganalysis. The document image as the secret message i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
245 Views
23 Pages

A Sparse Aperture ISAR Imaging Based on a Single-Layer Network Framework

  • Haoxuan Song,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Taonan Wu,
  • Jialiang Xu,
  • Yong Wang and
  • Hongzhi Li

19 January 2026

Under sparse aperture (SA) conditions, inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging becomes a severely ill-posed inverse problem due to undersampled and noisy measurements, leading to pronounced degradation in azimuth resolution and image quality....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,774 Views
35 Pages

3 April 2025

Medical imaging is crucial for disease diagnosis, but noise in CT and MRI scans can obscure critical details, making accurate diagnosis challenging. Traditional denoising methods and deep learning techniques often produce overly smooth images that la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
474 Views
23 Pages

13 November 2025

The accurate detection of high-impedance faults (HIFs) in distribution systems is fundamentally dependent on the extraction of weak fault signatures. However, these features are often obscured by complex and high-level noise present in current transf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,919 Views
15 Pages

Enabling Low-Dose In Vivo Benchtop X-ray Fluorescence Computed Tomography through Deep-Learning-Based Denoising

  • Naghmeh Mahmoodian,
  • Mohammad Rezapourian,
  • Asim Abdulsamad Inamdar,
  • Kunal Kumar,
  • Melanie Fachet and
  • Christoph Hoeschen

X-ray Fluorescence Computed Tomography (XFCT) is an emerging non-invasive imaging technique providing high-resolution molecular-level data. However, increased sensitivity with current benchtop X-ray sources comes at the cost of high radiation exposur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,281 Views
31 Pages

17 June 2025

In OFDM wireless communication systems, low-resolution channel characteristics and noise interference pose significant challenges to accurate channel estimation. To solve these problems, we propose a super-resolution denoising residual network (SDRNe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,148 Views
23 Pages

24 April 2025

Micro-Doppler signatures play a crucial role in capturing target features for the radar classification task, and the time–frequency distribution method is widely used to represent micro-Doppler signatures in many applications including human ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,200 Views
17 Pages

A Dual-Branch Self-Boosting Network Based on Noise2Noise for Unsupervised Image Denoising

  • Yuhang Geng,
  • Shaoping Xu,
  • Minghai Xiong,
  • Qiyu Chen and
  • Changfei Zhou

30 May 2024

While unsupervised denoising models have shown progress in recent years, their noise reduction capabilities still lag behind those of supervised denoising models. This limitation can be attributed to the lack of effective constraints during training,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,611 Views
18 Pages

7 February 2025

The adoption of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) has significantly enhanced user privacy and security by encrypting DNS queries. However, it also presents new challenges for detecting malicious activities, such as DNS tunneling, within encrypted traffic. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,002 Views
16 Pages

From Sparse to Dense Representations in Open Channel Flow Images with Convolutional Neural Networks

  • Filippos Sofos,
  • George Sofiadis,
  • Efstathios Chatzoglou,
  • Apostolos Palasis,
  • Theodoros E. Karakasidis and
  • Antonios Liakopoulos

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been widely adopted in fluid dynamics investigations over the past few years due to their ability to extract and process fluid flow field characteristics. Both in sparse-grid simulations and sensor-based exper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,484 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2022

The integration of renewable resources with distribution networks (DNs) is an effective way to reduce carbon emissions in energy systems. In this paper, an economic and low-carbon-oriented optimal planning solution for the integration of photovoltaic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,654 Views
14 Pages

Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System with Optical Coherent Tomography for Melanin Morphology Quantification in Melasma Patients

  • I-Ling Chen,
  • Yen-Jen Wang,
  • Chang-Cheng Chang,
  • Yu-Hung Wu,
  • Chih-Wei Lu,
  • Jia-Wei Shen,
  • Ling Huang,
  • Bor-Shyh Lin and
  • Hsiu-Mei Chiang

Dark skin-type individuals have a greater tendency to have pigmentary disorders, among which melasma is especially refractory to treat and often recurs. Objective measurement of melanin amount helps evaluate the treatment response of pigmentary disor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,083 Views
27 Pages

DNS over HTTPS Tunneling Detection System Based on Selected Features via Ant Colony Optimization

  • Hardi Sabah Talabani,
  • Zrar Khalid Abdul and
  • Hardi Mohammed Mohammed Saleh

DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is an advanced version of the traditional DNS protocol that prevents eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks by encrypting queries and responses. However, it introduces new challenges such as encrypted traffic communication,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,493 Views
22 Pages

1 February 2024

Landslide susceptibility assessment (LSA) is an essential tool for landslide hazard warning. The selection of earthquake-related factors is pivotal for seismic LSA. In this study, Newmark displacement (Dn) is employed as the earthquake-related factor...

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