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Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of degraded images to better align with human visual perception. While diffusion-based methods have shown promising performance due to their strong generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jinhong He , Minglong Xue , Zhipu Liu , Mingliang Zhou , Aoxiang Ning , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara

Current successful approaches for generic (non-semantic) segmentation rely mostly on edge detection and have leveraged the strengths of deep learning mainly by improving the edge detection stage in the algorithmic pipeline. This is in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Or Isaacs , Oran Shayer , Michael Lindenbaum

Product distribution matching (PDM) is proposed to generate target distributions over large alphabets by combining the output of several parallel distribution matchers (DMs) with smaller output alphabets. The parallel architecture of PDM…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Georg Böcherer , Patrick Schulte , Fabian Steiner

Diffusion posterior sampling solves inverse problems by combining a pretrained diffusion prior with measurement-consistency guidance, but it often fails to recover fine details because measurement terms are applied in a manner that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Feng Tian , Yixuan Li , Weili Zeng , Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Dataset distillation aims to minimize the time and memory needed for training deep networks on large datasets, by creating a small set of synthetic images that has a similar generalization performance to that of the full dataset. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xuxi Chen , Yu Yang , Zhangyang Wang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

This paper proves a theorem about bounding orbits of a time dependent dynamical system. The maps that are involved are examples in convex dynamics, by which we mean the dynamics of piecewise isometries where the pieces are convex. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. L. Adler , B. Kitchens , M. Martens , C. Pugh , M. Shub , C. Tresser

This work presents a halftoning technique to manufacture 3D objects with the appearance of continuous grayscale imagery for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) printers. While droplet-based dithering is a common halftoning technique, this is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Tim Kuipers , Willemijn Elkhuizen , Jouke Verlinden , Eugeni Doubrovski

As deep learning models grow in complexity and the volume of training data increases, reducing storage and computational costs becomes increasingly important. Dataset distillation addresses this challenge by synthesizing a compact set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhe Li , Sarah Cechnicka , Cheng Ouyang , Katharina Breininger , Peter Schüffler , Bernhard Kainz

Partial Differential Equation (PDE)-based approaches have gained significant attention in image despeckling due to their strong capability to preserve structural details while suppressing noise. However, conventional second-order PDE models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Manish Kumar , Rajendra K. Ray

The performance of single image super-resolution depends heavily on how to generate and complement high-frequency details to low-resolution images. Recently, diffusion-based DDPM models exhibit great potential in generating high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xingjian Wang , Li Chai , Jiming Chen

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have markedly advanced the quality of image inpainting and local editing. However, the inherent latent compression often introduces pixel-level inconsistencies, such as chromatic shifts, texture mismatches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Haitian Zheng , Yuan Yao , Yongsheng Yu , Yuqian Zhou , Jiebo Luo , Zhe Lin

Traditional halftoning usually drops colors when dithering images with binary dots, which makes it difficult to recover the original color information. We proposed a novel halftoning technique that converts a color image into a binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Cheuk-Kit Lau , Menghan Xia , Tien-Tsin Wong

A new generation of sensors, hardware random number generators, and quantum and classical signal detectors are exploiting strong responses to external perturbations of system noise. Here, we study noise amplification by asymmetric dyads in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Alexander Johnston , Natalia G. Berloff

Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability to model data distributions. To solve image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiang Li , Soo Min Kwon , Shijun Liang , Ismail R. Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Qing Qu

Image inpainting is the task of reconstructing missing or damaged parts of an image in a way that seamlessly blends with the surrounding content. With the advent of advanced generative models, especially diffusion models and generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xingzhong Hou , Jie Wu , Boxiao Liu , Yi Zhang , Guanglu Song , Yunpeng Liu , Yu Liu , Haihang You

Despite their groundbreaking performance for many generative modeling tasks, diffusion models have fallen short on discrete data domains such as natural language. Crucially, standard diffusion models rely on the well-established theory of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-10 Aaron Lou , Chenlin Meng , Stefano Ermon

Accurate noise modelling is important for training of deep learning reconstruction algorithms. While noise models are well known for traditional imaging techniques, the noise distribution of a novel sensor may be difficult to determine a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Felix Horger , Tobias Würfl , Vincent Christlein , Andreas Maier

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have become a popular approach to conditional generation, due to their promising results and support for cross-modal synthesis. A key desideratum in conditional synthesis is to achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Ye Zhu , Yu Wu , Kyle Olszewski , Jian Ren , Sergey Tulyakov , Yan Yan

Discrete diffusion models are a new class of text generators that offer advantages such as bidirectional context use, parallelizable generation, and flexible prompting compared to autoregressive models. However, a critical limitation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Andrew Zhang , Anushka Sivakumar , Chiawei Tang , Chris Thomas

Coherent diffraction imaging is a high-resolution imaging technique whose potential can be greatly enhanced by applying the extrapolation method presented here. We demonstrate enhancement in resolution of a non-periodical object…