Alexandru Brateanu

I am currently a third-year student pursuing a BSc in Computer Science at the University of Manchester. I am collaborating with prof. Cosmin Ancuti on research projects around deep learning methods for image restoration and enhancement.

I am open to collaborations, so feel free to contact me using my email address.

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Publications

AKDT: Adaptive Kernel Dilation Transformer for Effective Image Denoising

Alexandru Brateanu, Raul Balmez, Adrian Avram, Ciprian Orhei
VISAPP 2025
Scitepress PDF / Code / Ranking

Image denoising Transformer network with state-of-the-art synthetic noise removal capabilities.

Enhancing Low-Light Images with Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks in Transformer Attention

Alexandru Brateanu, Raul Balmez, Ciprian Orhei, Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta Ancuti
Sensors 2025
MDPI Paper

Extended work on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for low-light image enhancement Transformers.

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Transformer Attention for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Alexandru Brateanu, Raul Balmez
IEEE ISETC 2024
IEEE Paper

Low-light Transformer leveraging the Kolmogorov-Arnold Representation Theorem.

DepthLux: Depthwise Separable Convolution Transformer

Raul Balmez, Alexandru Brateanu
IEEE ISETC 2024
IEEE Paper

Efficient scalable Transformer for low-light image enhancement.

LYT-Net: Lightweight YUV Transformer-based Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Alexandru Brateanu, Raul Balmez, Adrian Avram, Ciprian Orhei, Cosmin Ancuti
IEEE SPL 2025 – arXiv 2024
IEEE Paper / arXiv / PDF / Code / Ranking

Most efficient high-ranking deep learning transformer-based network for low-light image enhancement.