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The problem of inpainting involves reconstructing the missing areas of an image. Inpainting has many applications, such as reconstructing old damaged photographs or removing obfuscations from images. In this paper we present the directional…

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This paper introduces a novel watermarking method for diffusion models. It is based on guiding the diffusion process using the gradient computed from any off-the-shelf watermark decoder. The gradient computation encompasses different image…

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We present a rotation-equivariant unsupervised learning framework for the sparse deconvolution of non-negative scalar fields defined on the unit sphere. Spherical signals with multiple peaks naturally arise in Diffusion MRI (dMRI), where…

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Data-dependent metrics are powerful tools for learning the underlying structure of high-dimensional data. This article develops and analyzes a data-dependent metric known as diffusion state distance (DSD), which compares points using a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-10 Lenore Cowen , Kapil Devkota , Xiaozhe Hu , James M. Murphy , Kaiyi Wu

Recently, diffusion models have gained significant attention as a novel set of deep learning-based generative methods. These models attempt to sample data from a Gaussian distribution that adheres to a target distribution, and have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Chenyan Zhang , Yifei Chen , Zhenxiong Fan , Yiyu Huang , Wenchao Weng , Ruiquan Ge , Dong Zeng , Changmiao Wang

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have exhibited significant effectiveness in computer vision tasks, particularly in image generation. However, their notable performance heavily relies on labelled datasets, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Keqiang Fan , Xiaohao Cai , Mahesan Niranjan

We propose Diffusion-Sharpening, a fine-tuning approach that enhances downstream alignment by optimizing sampling trajectories. Existing RL-based fine-tuning methods focus on single training timesteps and neglect trajectory-level alignment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ye Tian , Ling Yang , Xinchen Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Mengdi Wang , Bin Cui

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for image generation, often times outperforming other generative models. Since their introduction, researchers have extended the powerful noise-to-image denoising pipeline to discriminative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

Data from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) can be used to reconstruct fiber tracts, for example, in muscle and white matter. Estimation of fiber orientations (FOs) is a crucial step in the reconstruction process and these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Chuyang Ye , Jiachen Zhuo , Rao P. Gullapalli , Jerry L. Prince

Intra-voxel models of the diffusion signal are essential for interpreting organization of the tissue environment at micrometer level with data at millimeter resolution. Recent advances in data driven methods have enabled direct compari-son…

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision with critical applications in autonomous driving and robotics. Multimodal MOT that integrates visible light and thermal infrared information is particularly essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Weiran Li , Yeqiang Liu , Yijie Wei , Mina Han , Qiannan Guo , Zhenbo Li

The movement of molecules inside living cells is a fundamental feature of biological processes. The ability to both observe and analyse the details of molecular diffusion in vivo at the single molecule and single cell level can add…

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Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is increasingly used to study the fetal brain in utero. An important computation enabled by dMRI is streamline tractography, which has unique applications such as tract-specific analysis…

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Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) provides the possibility of estimating the location and course of eloquent structures in the human brain. Knowledge about this is of high importance for preoperative planning of neurosurgical interventions and…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging modality, but long acquisition times limit throughput, patient comfort, and clinical accessibility. Diffusion-based generative models serve as strong image priors for reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sriram Ravula , Brett Levac , Yamin Arefeen , Ajil Jalal , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Jonathan I. Tamir

Fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool for imaging biological samples with molecular specificity. In contrast, phase microscopy provides label-free measurement of the sample's refractive index (RI), which is an intrinsic optical…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yi Xue , David Ren , Laura Waller

We demonstrate an experimental method for direct 2D and 3D imaging of magnetic radio-frequency (rf) field distribution in metal-dielectric structures based on traveling wave (TW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at ultra-high field (> 7T).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-19 A. Tonyushkin , D. K. Deelchand , P. -F. Van de Moortele , G. Adriany , A. Kiruluta

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) enables non-invasive investigation of tissue microstructure. The Standard Model (SM) of white matter aims to disentangle dMRI signal contributions from intra- and extra-axonal water compartments.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Tom Hendriks , Gerrit Arends , Edwin Versteeg , Anna Vilanova , Maxime Chamberland , Chantal M. W. Tax

The amygdala plays a vital role in emotional processing and exhibits structural diversity that necessitates fine-scale parcellation for a comprehensive understanding of its anatomico-functional correlations. Diffusion MRI tractography is an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Haolin He , Ce Zhu , Le Zhang , Yipeng Liu , Xiao Xu , Yuqian Chen , Leo Zekelman , Jarrett Rushmore , Yogesh Rathi , Nikos Makris , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Deep learning methods for accelerated MRI achieve state-of-the-art results but largely ignore additional speedups possible with noncartesian sampling trajectories. To address this gap, we created a generative diffusion model-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Trevor J. Chan , Chamith S. Rajapakse