
Computer Vision 101: Image Restoration
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Gabriele Mattioli
Originally published on Towards AI.
What is noise, and how does it affect images
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Image restoration is the operation of taking a corrupt/noisy image and estimating the clean, original image.
If you haven’t already, I recommend going back to the beginning of this computer vision series, particularly to the introductory article.
The fundamental concepts of Computer vision
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Image restoration is a branch of image processing that aims to enhance image quality by removing noise.
This is not to be confused with image enhancement, used in image editing, which improves image quality to make it more pleasant to the observer but does not necessarily produce realistic data from a scientific point of… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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