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In the paper, we propose a class of accelerated stochastic gradient-free and projection-free (a.k.a., zeroth-order Frank-Wolfe) methods to solve the constrained stochastic and finite-sum nonconvex optimization. Specifically, we propose an…

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One of the most prominent challenges in the field of diffractive imaging is the phase retrieval (PR) problem: In order to reconstruct an object from its diffraction pattern, the inverse Fourier transform must be computed. This is only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Simon Welker , Tal Peer , Henry N. Chapman , Timo Gerkmann

Underwater images suffer from light refraction and absorption, which impairs visibility and interferes the subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods mainly focus on image quality improvement, ignoring the effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

In this study, we introduce BirdNeRF, an adaptation of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) designed specifically for reconstructing large-scale scenes using aerial imagery. Unlike previous research focused on small-scale and object-centric NeRF…

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By chaining a sequence of differentiable invertible transformations, normalizing flows (NF) provide an expressive method of posterior approximation, exact density evaluation, and sampling. The trend in normalizing flow literature has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Robert Giaquinto , Arindam Banerjee

We present Piecewise Rectified Flow (PeRFlow), a flow-based method for accelerating diffusion models. PeRFlow divides the sampling process of generative flows into several time windows and straightens the trajectories in each interval via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hanshu Yan , Xingchao Liu , Jiachun Pan , Jun Hao Liew , Qiang Liu , Jiashi Feng

We demonstrate a new computational illumination technique that achieves large space-bandwidth-time product, for quantitative phase imaging of unstained live samples in vitro. Microscope lenses can have either large field of view (FOV) or…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-16 Lei Tian , Ziji Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Michael Chen , Jingshan Zhong , Laura Waller

Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in real-world image super-resolution (SR), yet their reliance on time-consuming multi-step sampling largely hinders their practical applications. While recent efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jiaqi Xu , Wenbo Li , Haoze Sun , Fan Li , Zhixin Wang , Long Peng , Jingjing Ren , Haoran Yang , Xiaowei Hu , Renjing Pei , Pheng-Ann Heng

Dense image correspondence is central to many applications, such as visual odometry, 3D reconstruction, object association, and re-identification. Historically, dense correspondence has been tackled separately for wide-baseline scenarios…

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Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has been widely applied in both preclinical and clinical applications. With a significantly increasing number of data acquisition channels, fast and high-quality image reconstruction for real-time PA imaging is an…

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We present a method for transferring the artistic features of an arbitrary style image to a 3D scene. Previous methods that perform 3D stylization on point clouds or meshes are sensitive to geometric reconstruction errors for complex…

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The current data acquisition rate of astronomical transient surveys and the promise for significantly higher rates during in the next decade necessitate the development of novel approaches to analyze astronomical data sets and promptly…

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In this article, we revisit iterative methods for solving the inverse problem of photoacoustic tomography in free space. Recently, there have been interesting developments on explicit formulations of the adjoint operator, demonstrating that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Markus Haltmeier , Linh V. Nguyen

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is a crucial component in various applications, including localization and mapping in robotics, object tracking, and activity recognition in computer vision. While recent learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zhiyong Zhang , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

This paper develops a computationally efficient algorithm which speeds up the probabilistic power flow (PPF) problem by exploiting the inherently low-rank nature of the voltage profile in electrical power distribution networks. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-15 Samuel Chevalier , Luca Schenato , Luca Daniel

NeRFs have achieved incredible success in novel view synthesis. However, the accuracy of the implicit geometry is unsatisfactory because the passive static environmental illumination has low spatial frequency and cannot provide enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jianyu Tao , Changping Hu , Edward Yang , Jing Xu , Rui Chen

Masked autoregressive flow (MAF) is a state-of-the-art non-parametric density estimation technique. It is based on the idea (known as a normalizing flow) that a simple base probability distribution can be mapped into a complicated target…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-25 Rico K. L. Lo

Although methods for estimating the pose of objects in indoor scenes have achieved great success, the pose estimation of underwater objects remains challenging due to difficulties brought by the complex underwater environment, such as…

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We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard formulations of image restoration and reconstruction which consists of an unconstrained optimization problem where the objective includes an $\ell_2$ data-fidelity term and a…

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