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In this paper we propose a new efficient interpolation tool, extremely suitable for large scattered data sets. The partition of unity method is used and performed by blending Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) as local approximants and using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-18 R. Cavoretto , A. De Rossi , E. Perracchione

Generating high-quality 3D objects from textual descriptions remains a challenging problem due to computational cost, the scarcity of 3D data, and complex 3D representations. We introduce Geometry Image Diffusion (GIMDiffusion), a novel…

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We investigate possibilities to speed up iterative algorithms for non-blind image deconvolution. We focus on algorithms in which convolution with the point-spread function to be deconvolved is used in each iteration, and aim at accelerating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Martin Welk , Martin Erler

In computed tomography, the reconstruction is typically obtained on a voxel grid. In this work, however, we propose a mesh-based reconstruction method. For tomographic problems, 3D meshes have mostly been studied to simulate data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Jakeoung Koo , Anders B. Dahl , J. Andreas Bærentzen , Qiongyang Chen , Sara Bals , Vedrana A. Dahl

Differentiable rendering aims to compute the derivative of the image rendering function with respect to the rendering parameters. This paper presents a novel algorithm for 6-DoF pose estimation through gradient-based optimization using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ramchander Rao Bhaskara , Roshan Thomas Eapen , Manoranjan Majji

We introduce GRay, a massively parallel integrator designed to trace the trajectories of billions of photons in a curved spacetime. This GPU-based integrator employs the stream processing paradigm, is implemented in CUDA C/C++, and runs on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

Obtaining 3D information from a single X-ray exposure at high-brilliance sources, such as X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) [1] or diffraction-limited storage rings [2], allows the study of fast dynamical processes in their native…

Splotch is a rendering algorithm for exploration and visual discovery in particle-based datasets coming from astronomical observations or numerical simulations. The strengths of the approach are production of high quality imagery and…

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High-throughput computational imaging requires efficient processing algorithms to retrieve multi-dimensional and multi-scale information. In computational phase imaging, phase retrieval (PR) is required to reconstruct both amplitude and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Xuyang Chang , Liheng Bian , Jun Zhang

To assess how future progress in gravitational microlensing computation at high optical depth will rely on both hardware and software solutions, we compare a direct inverse ray-shooting code implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU)…

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Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) is widely used for the structural characterization of thin films, particularly for analyzing phase composition and the orientation distribution of crystallites. While various tools exist for…

We examine implicit representations of parametric or point cloud models, based on interpolation matrices, which are not sensitive to base points. We show how interpolation matrices can be used for ray shooting of a parametric ray with a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Christos Konaxis , Ilias S. Kotsireas , Clement Laroche

In recent years inpainting-based compression methods have been shown to be a viable alternative to classical codecs such as JPEG and JPEG2000. Unlike transform-based codecs, which store coefficients in the transform domain, inpainting-based…

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We propose a new algorithm to compute the X-ray transform of an image represented by unit (pixel/voxel) basis functions. The fundamental issue is equivalently calculating the intersection lengths of the ray with associated units. For any…

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Modern graphics computing units (GPUs) are designed and optimized to perform highly parallel numerical calculations. This parallelism has enabled (and promises) significant advantages, both in terms of energy performance and calculation. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quentin Gallouédec

Conventional physically based rendering (PBR) pipelines generate photorealistic images through computationally intensive light transport simulations. Although recent deep learning approaches leverage diffusion model priors with geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shenghao Zhang , Runtao Liu , Christopher Schroers , Yang Zhang

Recent works have demonstrated non-line of sight (NLOS) reconstruction by using the time-resolved signal frommultiply scattered light. These works combine ultrafast imaging systems with computation, which back-projects the recorded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Victor Arellano , Diego Gutierrez , Adrian Jarabo

Computed Tomography (CT) is a key 3D imaging technology that fundamentally relies on the compute-intense back-projection operation to generate 3D volumes. GPUs are typically used for back-projection in production CT devices. However, with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Peng Chen , Mohamed Wahib , Xiao Wang , Shinichiro Takizawa , Takahiro Hirofuchi , Hirotaka Ogawa , Satoshi Matsuoka

Deep learning-based methods have revolutionized the field of imaging inverse problems, yielding state-of-the-art performance across various imaging domains. The best performing networks incorporate the imaging operator within the network…

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