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Many machine learning methods operate by inverting a neural network at inference time, which has become a popular technique for solving inverse problems in computer vision, robotics, and graphics. However, these methods often involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruoshi Liu , Chengzhi Mao , Purva Tendulkar , Hao Wang , Carl Vondrick

Learning-based methods have demonstrated remarkable performance in solving inverse problems, particularly in image reconstruction tasks. Despite their success, these approaches often lack theoretical guarantees, which are crucial in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Clemens Arndt , Judith Nickel

Differentiable rendering has paved the way to training neural networks to perform "inverse graphics" tasks such as predicting 3D geometry from monocular photographs. To train high performing models, most of the current approaches rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuxuan Zhang , Wenzheng Chen , Huan Ling , Jun Gao , Yinan Zhang , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Current differentiable renderers provide light transport gradients with respect to arbitrary scene parameters. However, the mere existence of these gradients does not guarantee useful update steps in an optimization. Instead, inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Michael Fischer , Tobias Ritschel

Inverse rendering, the process of inferring scene properties from images, is a challenging inverse problem. The task is ill-posed, as many different scene configurations can give rise to the same image. Most existing solutions incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Marc Habermann , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Thomas Leimkühler , Christian Theobalt

In recent years, deep generative models have gained significance due to their ability to synthesize natural-looking images with applications ranging from virtual reality to data augmentation for training computer vision models. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Paul Sanzenbacher , Lars Mescheder , Andreas Geiger

This work considers identifying parameters characterizing a physical system's dynamic motion directly from a video whose rendering configurations are inaccessible. Existing solutions require massive training data or lack generalizability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Pingchuan Ma , Tao Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Wojciech Matusik , Chuang Gan

Neural network systems describe complex mappings that can be very difficult to understand. In this paper, we study the inverse problem of determining the input images that get mapped to specific neural network classes. Ultimately, we expect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Rebecca Pattichis , Sebastian Janampa , Constantinos S. Pattichis , Marios S. Pattichis

Deep neural networks have dramatically advanced the state of the art for many areas of machine learning. Recently they have been shown to have a remarkable ability to generate highly complex visual artifacts such as images and text rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler

In many tasks, in particular in natural science, the goal is to determine hidden system parameters from a set of measurements. Often, the forward process from parameter- to measurement-space is a well-defined function, whereas the inverse…

Neural networks allow solving many ill-posed inverse problems with unprecedented performance. Physics informed approaches already progressively replace carefully hand-crafted reconstruction algorithms in real applications. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Alban Gossard , Pierre Weiss

Traffic simulators act as an essential component in the operating and planning of transportation systems. Conventional traffic simulators usually employ a calibrated physical car-following model to describe vehicles' behaviors and their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guanjie Zheng , Hanyang Liu , Kai Xu , Zhenhui Li

Tomographic image reconstruction is relevant for many medical imaging modalities including X-ray, ultrasound (US) computed tomography (CT) and photoacoustics, for which the access to full angular range tomographic projections might be not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-14 Valery Vishnevskiy , Richard Rau , Orcun Goksel

State-of-the-art methods in generative representation learning yield semantic disentanglement, but typically do not consider physical scene parameters, such as geometry, albedo, lighting, or camera. We posit that inverse rendering, a way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Tzofi Klinghoffer , Kushagra Tiwary , Arkadiusz Balata , Vivek Sharma , Ramesh Raskar

Inverse problems exist in many domains such as phase imaging, image processing, and computer vision. These problems are often solved with application-specific algorithms, even though their nature remains the same: mapping input image(s) to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Feng Wang , Alberto Eljarrat , Johannes Müller , Trond Henninen , Erni Rolf , Christoph Koch

Deep neural networks have been applied successfully to a wide variety of inverse problems arising in computational imaging. These networks are typically trained using a forward model that describes the measurement process to be inverted,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

The ability to edit materials of objects in images is desirable by many content creators. However, this is an extremely challenging task as it requires to disentangle intrinsic physical properties of an image. We propose an end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Guilin Liu , Duygu Ceylan , Ersin Yumer , Jimei Yang , Jyh-Ming Lien

Recent work in machine learning shows that deep neural networks can be used to solve a wide variety of inverse problems arising in computational imaging. We explore the central prevailing themes of this emerging area and present a taxonomy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Gregory Ongie , Ajil Jalal , Christopher A. Metzler , Richard G. Baraniuk , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Rebecca Willett

Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

In this document, a neural network is employed in order to estimate the solution of the initial value problem in the context of non linear trajectories. Such trajectories can be subject to gravity, thrust, drag, centrifugal force,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Theodoros Ntakouris