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We present a unified, finite-element-native variational inference framework for very high-dimensional Bayesian spatial field reconstruction in physics-based problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) that are nonlinear in…

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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has emerged as a compelling framework for scene representation and 3D recovery. To improve its performance on real-world data, depth regularizations have proven to be the most effective ones. However, depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aoxiang Fan , Corentin Dumery , Nicolas Talabot , Pascal Fua

Photometric stereo (PS) techniques nowadays remain constrained to an ideal laboratory setup where modeling and calibration of lighting is amenable. To eliminate such restrictions, we propose an efficient principled variational approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Bjoern Haefner , Zhenzhang Ye , Maolin Gao , Tao Wu , Yvain Quéau , Daniel Cremers

We present first a brief review of the existing literature on shape optimization, stressing the recent use of Hamiltonian systems in topology optimization. In the second section, we collect some preliminaries on the implicit parametrization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

While variational methods have been among the most powerful tools for solving linear inverse problems in imaging, deep (convolutional) neural networks have recently taken the lead in many challenging benchmarks. A remaining drawback of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tim Meinhardt , Michael Moeller , Caner Hazirbas , Daniel Cremers

We present a method for supervised learning of sparsity-promoting regularizers for image denoising. Sparsity-promoting regularization is a key ingredient in solving modern image reconstruction problems; however, the operators underlying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Michael T. McCann , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Reconstructing object geometry and material from multiple views typically requires optimization. Differentiable path tracing is an appealing framework as it can reproduce complex appearance effects. However, it is difficult to use due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Purvi Goel , Loudon Cohen , James Guesman , Vikas Thamizharasan , James Tompkin , Daniel Ritchie

Photoacoustic tomography is a hybrid imaging technique that combines high optical tissue contrast with high ultrasound resolution. Direct reconstruction methods such as filtered backprojection, time reversal and least squares suffer from…

We describe a non-parametric, "example-based" method for estimating the depth of an object, viewed in a single photo. Our method consults a database of example 3D geometries, searching for those which look similar to the object in the…

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We propose a new model-order reduction framework to poorly reducible problems arising from parametric partial differential equations with geometric variability. In such problems, the solution manifold exhibits a slowly decaying Kolmogorov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Abbas Kabalan , Fabien Casenave , Felipe Bordeu , Virginie Ehrlacher , Alexandre Ern

We develop a framework for extracting a concise representation of the shape information available from diffuse shading in a small image patch. This produces a mid-level scene descriptor, comprised of local shape distributions that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Ying Xiong , Ayan Chakrabarti , Ronen Basri , Steven J. Gortler , David W. Jacobs , Todd Zickler

We derive necessary conditions for locally optimal shapes of a design problem governed by a non-smooth PDE. The main particularity of the state system is the lack of differentiability of the nonlinearity. We work in the framework of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Livia Betz

We introduce a new general framework for the approximation of evolution equations at low regularity and develop a new class of schemes for a wide range of equations under lower regularity assumptions than classical methods require. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Frédéric Rousset , Katharina Schratz

Today, three-dimensional reconstruction of objects has many applications in various fields, and therefore, choosing a suitable method for high resolution three-dimensional reconstruction is an important issue and displaying high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 F. S. Mortazavi , S. Dajkhosh , M. Saadatseresht

We show how to learn discrete field theories from observational data of fields on a space-time lattice. For this, we train a neural network model of a discrete Lagrangian density such that the discrete Euler--Lagrange equations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Christian Offen , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

This paper presents a geometric variational discretization of compressible fluid dynamics. The numerical scheme is obtained by discretizing, in a structure preserving way, the Lie group formulation of fluid dynamics on diffeomorphism groups…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Werner Bauer , François Gay-Balmaz

We present a method to infer a dense depth map from a color image and associated sparse depth measurements. Our main contribution lies in the design of an annealing process for determining co-visibility (occlusions, disocclusions) and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Alex Wong , Xiaohan Fei , Byung-Woo Hong , Stefano Soatto

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) represents a significant advancement in the field of efficient and high-fidelity novel view synthesis. Despite recent progress, achieving accurate geometric reconstruction under sparse-view conditions remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zexu Huang , Min Xu , Stuart Perry

Optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) naturally arise in scientific computing, as those constraints often model physical systems or the simulation thereof. In an implicitly constrained approach, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Akwum Onwunta , Clément W. Royer

Most problems involving simultaneous localization and mapping can nowadays be solved using one of two fundamentally different approaches. The traditional approach is given by a least-squares objective, which minimizes many local photometric…

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