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Blind deconvolution is a challenging problem, but in low-light it is even more difficult. Existing algorithms, both classical and deep-learning based, are not designed for this condition. When the photon shot noise is strong, conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Yash Sanghvi , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Zhiyuan Mao , Stanley H. Chan

Accurate characterization of the noise influencing a quantum system of interest has far-reaching implications across quantum science, ranging from microscopic modeling of decoherence dynamics to noise-optimized quantum control. While the…

We propose an approach to construction of robust non-Euclidean iterative algorithms for convex composite stochastic optimization based on truncation of stochastic gradients. For such algorithms, we establish sub-Gaussian confidence bounds…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Anatoli Juditsky , Alexander Nazin , Arkadi Nemirovsky , Alexandre Tsybakov

We consider the problem of recovering a signal observed in Gaussian noise. If the set of signals is convex and compact, and can be specified beforehand, one can use classical linear estimators that achieve a risk within a constant factor of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-05 Dmitry Ostrovsky , Zaid Harchaoui , Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Defect detection by ultrasonic method is limited by the pulse width. Resolution can be improved through a deconvolution process with a priori information of the pulse or by its estimation. In this paper a regularization of the Wiener filter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Roberto H. Herrera , Eduardo Moreno , Héctor Calas , Rubén Orozco

In recent years, the widespread use of deep neural networks (DNNs) has facilitated great improvements in performance for computer vision tasks like image classification and object recognition. In most realistic computer vision applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tejas Borkar , Lina Karam

We propose to constrain the primordial (local-type) non-Gaussianity signal by first reconstructing the initial density field to remove the late time non-Gaussianities introduced by gravitational evolution. Our reconstruction algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Xinyi Chen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Daniel J. Eisenstein

The detection of kilohertz-band gravitational waves promises discoveries in astrophysics, exotic matter, and cosmology. To improve the kilohertz quantum noise-limited sensitivity of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, we…

We present new algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning (IRL, or inverse optimal control) in convex optimization settings. We argue that finite-space IRL can be posed as a convex quadratic program under a Bayesian inference framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Qifeng Qiao , Peter A. Beling

Gravitational wave detectors will need optimal signal-processing algorithms to extract weak signals from the detector noise. Most algorithms designed to date are based on the unrealistic assumption that the detector noise may be modeled as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruce Allen , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Eanna E. Flanagan , Joseph D. Romano

Blind inverse problems in imaging arise from uncertainties in the system used to collect (noisy) measurements of images. Recovering clean images from these measurements typically requires identifying the imaging system, either implicitly or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Brett Levac , Ajil Jalal , Kannan Ramchandran , Jonathan I. Tamir

For lossy image compression systems, we develop an algorithm, iterative refinement, to improve the decoder's reconstruction compared to standard decoding techniques. Specifically, we propose a recurrent neural network approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Alexander G. Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Jian Wu , Scott O'Connell , David Miller , C. Lee Giles

This paper deals with the problem of finding suboptimal values of an unknown function on the basis of measured data corrupted by bounded noise. As a prior, we assume that the unknown function is parameterized in terms of a number of basis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jaap Eising , Jorge Cortes

Image deblurring remains a central research area within image processing, critical for its role in enhancing image quality and facilitating clearer visual representations across diverse applications. This paper tackles the optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Qingsong Wang , Shengze Xu , Xiaojiao Tong , Tieyong Zeng

We propose two novel approaches to the recovery of an (approximately) sparse signal from noisy linear measurements in the case that the signal is a priori known to be non-negative and obey given linear equality constraints, such as simplex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jeremy Vila , Philip Schniter

We study the convolutional phase retrieval problem, of recovering an unknown signal $\mathbf x \in \mathbb C^n $ from $m$ measurements consisting of the magnitude of its cyclic convolution with a given kernel $\mathbf a \in \mathbb C^m $.…

Computation · Statistics 2019-10-08 Qing Qu , Yuqian Zhang , Yonina C. Eldar , John Wright

Quantum computational devices, currently under development, have the potential to accelerate data analysis techniques beyond the ability of any classical algorithm. We propose the application of a quantum algorithm for the detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Sijia Gao , Fergus Hayes , Sarah Croke , Chris Messenger , John Veitch

Blind deconvolution is a technique to recover an original signal without knowing a convolving filter. It is naturally formulated as a minimization of a quartic objective function under some assumption. Because its differentiable part does…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Shota Takahashi , Mirai Tanaka , Shiro Ikeda

In quantum information processing, knowledge of the noise in the system is crucial for high-precision manipulation and tomography of coherent quantum operations. Existing strategies for identifying this noise require the use of additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Re-Bing Wu , Tie-Fu Li , A. G. Kofman , Jing Zhang , Yu-xi Liu , Yu. A. Pashkin , Jaw-Shen Tsai , Franco Nori

The Kalman filter is extensively used for state estimation for linear systems under Gaussian noise. When non-Gaussian L\'evy noise is present, the conventional Kalman filter may fail to be effective due to the fact that the non-Gaussian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Xu Sun , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaofan Li , Xiangjun Wang