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Generative diffusion models can provide powerful prior probability models for inverse problems in imaging, but existing implementations suffer from two key limitations: $(i)$ the prior density is represented implicitly, and $(ii)$ they rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra , Eero Simoncelli , Florentin Guth

In this paper, we consider the highly ill-posed problem of jointly recovering two real-valued signals from the phaseless measurements of their circular convolution. The problem arises in various imaging modalities such as Fourier…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

Although much research has been devoted to the problem of restoring Poissonian images, namely in the fields of medical and astronomical imaging, applying the state of the art regularizers (such as those based on wavelets or total variation)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-01 Mario A. T. Figueiredo , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias

In inverse problems, it is widely recognized that the incorporation of a sparsity prior yields a regularization effect on the solution. This approach is grounded on the a priori assumption that the unknown can be appropriately represented…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 Giovanni S. Alberti , Luca Ratti , Matteo Santacesaria , Silvia Sciutto

Over the past three decades, defocus has consistently provided groundbreaking depth information in scene images. However, accurately estimating depth from 2D images continues to be a persistent and fundamental challenge in the field of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Akbar Saadat

Machine learning methods for computational imaging require uncertainty estimation to be reliable in real settings. While Bayesian models offer a computationally tractable way of recovering uncertainty, they need large data volumes to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Francesco Tonolini , Jack Radford , Alex Turpin , Daniele Faccio , Roderick Murray-Smith

Our work considers the optimization of the sum of a non-smooth convex function and a finite family of composite convex functions, each one of which is composed of a convex function and a bounded linear operator. This type of problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Yu-Chao Tang , Chuan-Xi Zhu , Meng Wen , Ji-Gen Peng

As generative models become increasingly capable of producing high-fidelity visual content, the demand for efficient, interpretable, and editable image representations has grown substantially. Recent advances in 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hao Wang , Ashish Bastola , Chaoyi Zhou , Wenhui Zhu , Xiwen Chen , Xuanzhao Dong , Siyu Huang , Abolfazl Razi

Diffusion models can be used as learned priors for solving various inverse problems. However, most existing approaches are restricted to linear inverse problems, limiting their applicability to more general cases. In this paper, we build…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Bahjat Kawar , Jiaming Song , Stefano Ermon , Michael Elad

Defocus blur is one kind of blur effects often seen in images, which is challenging to remove due to its spatially variant amount. This paper presents an end-to-end deep learning approach for removing defocus blur from a single image, so as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yuhui Quan , Zicong Wu , Hui Ji

Regularization-based image restoration has remained an active research topic in computer vision and image processing. It often leverages a guidance signal captured in different fields as an additional cue. In this work, we present a general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Youngjung Kim , Hyungjoo Jung , Dongbo Min , Kwanghoon Sohn

In this paper, the problem of Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction from partial Fourier samples has been considered. To this aim, we leverage the evidence that MR images are sparser than their zero-filled reconstructed ones from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Fateme Ghayem , Farokh Marvasti

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) can be utilized to recover a clean signal from its degraded observation(s) by conditioning the model on the degraded signal. The degraded signals are themselves contaminated versions of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Ching-Hua Lee , Chouchang Yang , Jaejin Cho , Yashas Malur Saidutta , Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

We present an image representation method which is derived from analyzing Gaussian probability density function (\emph{pdf}) space using Lie group theory. In our proposed method, images are modeled by Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Liyu Gong , Meng Chen , Chunlong Hu

Recently variational models with priors involving first and second order derivatives resp. differences were successfully applied for image restoration. There are several ways to incorporate the derivatives of first and second order into the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Ronny Bergmann , Jan Henrik Fitschen , Johannes Persch , Gabriele Steidl

In coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging (CASSI) system, the real-world hyperspectral image (HSI) can be reconstructed from the captured compressive image in a snapshot. Model-based HSI reconstruction methods employed hand-crafted priors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Tao Huang , Weisheng Dong , Xin Yuan , Jinjian Wu , Guangming Shi

Surface reconstruction with differentiable rendering has achieved impressive performance in recent years, yet the pervasive photometric ambiguities have strictly bottlenecked existing approaches. This paper presents AmbiSuR, a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jiahe Li , Jiawei Zhang , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng , Xiaohan Yu , Lin Gu , Gim Hee Lee

A Bayesian hierarchical model for total variation regularisation is presented in this paper. All the parameters of an inverse problem, including the "regularisation parameter", are estimated simultaneously from the data in the model. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Marko Järvenpää , Robert Piché

In this work, we consider the inverse problem of reconstructing the internal structure of an object from limited x-ray projections. We use a Gaussian process prior to model the target function and estimate its (hyper)parameters from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Zenith Purisha , Carl Jidling , Niklas Wahlström , Simo Särkkä , Thomas B. Schön

Restore lost images due to noise and blurred is a burgeoning subject in image processing and despite the different algorithms on this subject, but the effort to improve is always considered. The definition of fractional derivatives in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Reza Parvaz