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GAN inversion aims to invert a given image back into the latent space of a pretrained GAN model, for the image to be faithfully reconstructed from the inverted code by the generator. As an emerging technique to bridge the real and fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Weihao Xia , Yulun Zhang , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue , Bolei Zhou , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The modern image search system requires semantic understanding of image, and a key yet under-addressed problem is to learn a good metric for measuring the similarity between images. While deep metric learning has yielded impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Jian Wang , Feng Zhou , Shilei Wen , Xiao Liu , Yuanqing Lin

Nowadays the geometric approach in optics is often used to find out media parameters based on propagation paths of the rays because in this case it is a direct problem. However inverse problem in the framework of geometrical optics is…

This letter describes an approach to lacunarity which adopts the pattern under analysis as the reference for the sliding window procedure. The superiority of such a scheme with respect to more traditional methodologies, especially when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Erbe P. Rodrigues , Marconi S. Barbosa , Luciano da F. Costa

The synthesis of a metasurface exhibiting a specific set of desired scattering properties is a time-consuming and resource-demanding process, which conventionally relies on many cycles of full-wave simulations. It requires an experienced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Parinaz Naseri , Sean V. Hum

Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Clemens Kirisits , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer

While invaluable for many computer vision applications, decomposing a natural image into intrinsic reflectance and shading layers represents a challenging, underdetermined inverse problem. As opposed to strict reliance on conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , Gang Hua , Baoquan Chen , David Wipf

Capturing geometric and material information from images remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. Traditional optimization-based methods often require hours of computational time to reconstruct geometry, material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Zhibing Li , Tong Wu , Jing Tan , Mengchen Zhang , Jiaqi Wang , Dahua Lin

Inverse design, where we seek to design input variables in order to optimize an underlying objective function, is an important problem that arises across fields such as mechanical engineering to aerospace engineering. Inverse design is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tailin Wu , Takashi Maruyama , Long Wei , Tao Zhang , Yilun Du , Gianluca Iaccarino , Jure Leskovec

We implemented the inverse design method to build a thin near-field lens that could produce a desired subwavelength focus by manipulating the near fields of a magnetic dipole source. The flat near-field lens represented by an artificial…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lu Lan , Wei Jiang , Yungui Ma

The purpose of this report is a study of the algebraic approach possibilities to reconstruct images. This approach is reduced to solution of the large system of linear algebraic equations. We also point out some possible further…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-01 E. E. Libin , S. V. Chakhlov , D. Trinca

A metasurface lens (meta-lens) bends light using nanostructures on a flat surface. Macroscopic meta-lenses (mm- to cm-scale diameter) have been quite difficult to simulate and optimize, due to the large area, the lack of periodicity, and…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-04 Steven J. Byrnes , Alan Lenef , Francesco Aieta , Federico Capasso

In this work, we propose an inverse rendering model that estimates 3D shape, spatially-varying reflectance, homogeneous subsurface scattering parameters, and an environment illumination jointly from only a pair of captured images of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenhao Li , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

In the error analysis of finite element methods, the shape regularity assumption on triangulations is typically imposed to obtain a priori error estimations. In practical computations, however, very thin or degenerated elements that violate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Kenta Kobayashi , Takuya Tsuchiya

Optical aberrations prevent telescopes from reaching their theoretical diffraction limit. Once estimated, these aberrations can be compensated for using deformable mirrors in a closed loop. Focal plane wavefront sensing enables the…

Normalizing flows attempt to model an arbitrary probability distribution through a set of invertible mappings. These transformations are required to achieve a tractable Jacobian determinant that can be used in high-dimensional scenarios.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-14 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

A method for calculating the meridian profile of the aspherical surface of a plane-convex lens excluding spherical aberration, without calculating the coefficients of the series, by direct solving the compiled differential equation is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-04 Ilia Evteev

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly non-smooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Manya V. Afonso , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

An optical imaging system forms an object image by recollecting light scattered by the object. However, intact optical information of the object delivered through the imaging system is deteriorated by imperfect optical elements and unwanted…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-28 SangYun Lee , Kyeoreh Lee , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park

The optical matrix formalism is applied to find parameters such as focal distance, back and front focal points, principal planes, and the equation relating object and image distances for a thick spherical lens immerse in air. Then, the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-20 Fulvio Andres Callegari