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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Boris Zalesky

While Markov Random Fields (MRFs) are widely used in computer vision, they present a quite challenging inference problem. MRF inference can be accelerated by pre-processing techniques like Dead End Elimination (DEE) or QPBO-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Chen Wang , Charles Herrmann , Ramin Zabih

This paper presents a comprehensive study and benchmark on Efficient Perceptual Super-Resolution (EPSR). While significant progress has been made in efficient PSNR-oriented super resolution, approaches focusing on perceptual quality metrics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Bruno Longarela , Marcos V. Conde , Alvaro Garcia , Radu Timofte

We propose a novel compact linear programming (LP) relaxation for binary sub-modular MRF in the context of object segmentation. Our model is obtained by linearizing an $l_1^+$-norm derived from the quadratic programming (QP) form of the MRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Junyan Wang , Sai-Kit Yeung

It is well-known that by adding integrality constraints to the semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the max-cut problem, the resulting integer semidefinite program is an exact formulation of the problem. In this paper we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Frank de Meijer , Renata Sotirov

We study a general class of convex submodular optimization problems with indicator variables. Many applications such as the problem of inferring Markov random fields (MRFs) with a sparsity or robustness prior can be naturally modeled in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Andres Gomez , Shaoning Han

The submodular function maximization is an attractive optimization model that appears in many real applications. Although a variety of greedy algorithms quickly find good feasible solutions for many instances while guaranteeing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Naoya Uematsu , Shunji Umetani , Yoshinobu Kawahara

We present a practical and powerful new framework for both unconstrained and constrained submodular function optimization based on discrete semidifferentials (sub- and super-differentials). The resulting algorithms, which repeatedly compute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Rishabh Iyer , Stefanie Jegelka , Jeff Bilmes

Recent years have seen the emergence of nonlinear methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), such as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). While these approaches often perform well in practice, their theoretical analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Alexandre Magueresse , Santiago Badia

We propose a novel spatially continuous framework for convex relaxations based on functional lifting. Our method can be interpreted as a sublabel-accurate solution to multilabel problems. We show that previously proposed functional lifting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Thomas Möllenhoff , Emanuel Laude , Michael Moeller , Jan Lellmann , Daniel Cremers

This work explores an extension of machine learning-optimized piecewise polynomial approximation by incorporating energy optimization as an additional objective. Traditional closed-form solutions enable continuity and approximation targets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Hannes Waclawek , Stefan Huber

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is widely acknowledged as one of the most effective methods for deriving the tightest lower bounds of the optimal power flow (OPF) problems. In this paper, an enhanced semidefinite relaxation model that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Zhaojun Ruan , Libao Shi

Drawings of highly connected (dense) graphs can be very difficult to read. Power Graph Analysis offers an alternate way to draw a graph in which sets of nodes with common neighbours are shown grouped into modules. An edge connected to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-11-28 Tim Dwyer , Christopher Mears , Kerri Morgan , Todd Niven , Kim Marriott , Mark Wallace

The need for efficient monitoring of spatio-temporal dynamics in large environmental applications, such as the water quality monitoring in rivers and lakes, motivates the use of robotic sensors in order to achieve sufficient spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Amarjeet Singh , Andreas Krause , Carlos Guestrin , William J. Kaiser

Compressed sensing of simultaneously sparse and low-rank matrices enables recovery of sparse signals from a few linear measurements of their bilinear form. One important question is how many measurements are needed for a stable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Kiryung Lee , Yihong Wu , Yoram Bresler

With the popularity of mobile devices, e.g., smartphone and wearable devices, lighter and faster model is crucial for the application of video super resolution. However, most previous lightweight models tend to concentrate on reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Tianyu Xu , Zhuang Jia , Yijian Zhang , Long Bao , Heng Sun

We consider move-making algorithms for energy minimization of multi-label Markov Random Fields (MRFs). Since this is not a tractable problem in general, a commonly used heuristic is to minimize over subsets of labels and variables in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Richard Hartley , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan

We study a general class of convex submodular optimization problems with indicator variables. Many applications such as the problem of inferring Markov random fields (MRFs) with a sparsity or robustness prior can be naturally modeled in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Shaoning Han , Andrés Gómez

A novel general formalism for the maximal symetrization and reduction of fields (MSRF) is proposed and applied to wavefunctions in solid state nanostructures. Its primary target is to provide an essential tool for the study and analysis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Dalessi , M. -A. Dupertuis

The Minimum Cost Multicut Problem (MP) is a popular way for obtaining a graph decomposition by optimizing binary edge labels over edge costs. While the formulation of a MP from independently estimated costs per edge is highly flexible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Steffen Jung , Sebastian Ziegler , Amirhossein Kardoost , Margret Keuper