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In optical imaging, light propagation is affected by the inhomogeneities of the medium. Sample-induced aberrations and multiple scattering can strongly degrade the image resolution and contrast. Based on a dynamic correction of the incident…

The problem of a spatially discontinuous diffusion coefficient ($D(\boldsymbol x)$) is one that may be encountered in hydrogeologic systems due to natural geological features or as a consequence of numerical discretization of flow…

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Conventional physically based rendering (PBR) pipelines generate photorealistic images through computationally intensive light transport simulations. Although recent deep learning approaches leverage diffusion model priors with geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shenghao Zhang , Runtao Liu , Christopher Schroers , Yang Zhang

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant promise in various generative tasks; however, they often struggle to satisfy challenging constraints. Our approach addresses this limitation by rethinking training-free loss-guided diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 William Huang , Yifeng Jiang , Tom Van Wouwe , C. Karen Liu

DragDiffusion is a diffusion-based method for interactive point-based image editing that enables users to manipulate images by directly dragging selected points. The method claims that accurate spatial control can be achieved by optimizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ali Subhan , Ashir Raza

Recent progress in diffusion models has profoundly enhanced the fidelity of image generation, but it has raised concerns about copyright infringements. While prior methods have introduced adversarial perturbations to prevent style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Namhyuk Ahn , Wonhyuk Ahn , KiYoon Yoo , Daesik Kim , Seung-Hun Nam

Simple finite differencing of the anisotropic diffusion equation, where diffusion is only along a given direction, does not ensure that the numerically calculated heat fluxes are in the correct direction. This can lead to negative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Prateek Sharma , Gregory W. Hammett

The diffusion of molecules in complex intracellular environments can be strongly influenced by spatial heterogeneity and stochasticity. A key challenge when modelling such processes using stochastic random walk frameworks is that negative…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Elliot J. Carr , Matthew J. Simpson

We present an extensive Monte Carlo study on light transport in optically thin slabs, addressing both axial and transverse propagation. We completely characterize the so-called ballistic-to-diffusive transition, notably in terms of the…

Frequency domain super-heterodyne laser light scattering is utilized in a low angle integral measurement configuration to determine flow and diffusion in charged sphere suspensions showing moderate to strong multiple scattering. We…

Automatically generating multiview illusions is a compelling challenge, where a single piece of visual content offers distinct interpretations from different viewing perspectives. Traditional methods, such as shadow art and wire art, create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yue Feng , Vaibhav Sanjay , Spencer Lutz , Badour AlBahar , Songwei Ge , Jia-Bin Huang

Diffusion with multipole-moment conservation gives rise to transport laws that generalize Fick's law and has attracted growing attention following experimental advances in strongly tilted optical lattices. It was recently shown that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 Vaibhav Mohanty , Sunghan Ro

We consider a nonlinear drift-diffusion system for multiple charged species in a porous medium in 2D and 3D with periodic microstructure. The system consists of a transport equation for the concentration of the species and Poisson's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Apratim Bhattacharya , Markus Gahn , Maria Neuss-Radu

Adaptive optics can focus light through opaque media by compensating the random phase delay acquired while crossing a scattering curtain. The technique is commonly exploited in many fields, including astrophysics, microscopy, biomedicine…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-24 Diego Di Battista , Giannis Zacharakis , Marco Leonetti

The aim of this paper is to develop a mathematical framework for opto-elastography. In opto-elastography, a mechanical perturbation of the medium produces a decorrelation of optical speckle patterns due to the displacements of optical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-19 Habib Ammari , Emmanuel Bossy , Josselin Garnier , Wenjia Jing , Laurent Seppecher

Sampling from pretrained diffusion and flow-matching models typically requires many forward passes to generate diverse and high-fidelity images. Existing distillation methods often rely on multiple auxiliary networks, carefully designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuan Zhang , Chenyi Li , Guoqing Ma , Jiajun Zha , Yuanming Yang , Bo Wang , Wei Tang , Wenbo Li , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan

Scattering, especially multiple scattering, is a well known problem in imaging, ranging from astronomy to medicine. In particular it is often desirable to be able to perform non-invasive imaging through turbid and/or opaque media. Many…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-23 Harry Penketh , Jacopo Bertolotti

Text-conditioned diffusion models can generate impressive images, but fall short when it comes to fine-grained control. Unlike direct-editing tools like Photoshop, text conditioned models require the artist to perform "prompt engineering,"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Michelle Shu , Charles Herrmann , Richard Strong Bowen , Forrester Cole , Ramin Zabih

Video deblurring presents a considerable challenge owing to the complexity of blur, which frequently results from a combination of camera shakes, and object motions. In the field of video deblurring, many previous works have primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Haoyang Long , Yan Wang , Wendong Wang

The remarkable capabilities of pretrained image diffusion models have been utilized not only for generating fixed-size images but also for creating panoramas. However, naive stitching of multiple images often results in visible seams.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuseung Lee , Kunho Kim , Hyunjin Kim , Minhyuk Sung