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In this letter, we derive the impulse response of the channel with a spherical absorbing receiver, a spherical reflecting boundary, and a point transmitter in molecular communication domain. By exploring the channel characteristics and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Fatih Dinc , Bayram Cevdet Akdeniz , Ali Emre Pusane , Tuna Tugcu

Diffusion and flow-based generative models have shown strong potential for image restoration. However, image denoising under unknown and varying noise conditions remains challenging, because the learned vector fields may become inconsistent…

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Recent advances in image generation have made diffusion models powerful tools for creating high-quality images. However, their iterative denoising process makes understanding and interpreting their semantic latent spaces more challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 E. Zhixuan Zeng , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

This work tackles the challenging task of achieving real-time novel view synthesis for reflective surfaces across various scenes. Existing real-time rendering methods, especially those based on meshes, often have subpar performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Chaojie Ji , Yufeng Li , Yiyi Liao

This paper addresses the problem of inverse rendering from photometric images. Existing approaches for this problem suffer from the effects of self-shadows, inter-reflections, and lack of constraints on the surface reflectance, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jingzhi Bao , Guanying Chen , Shuguang Cui

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing, but guiding these models to produce specific outputs remains a challenge. Conventional approaches rely on conditioning mechanisms, such as text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nithesh Chandher Karthikeyan , Jonas Unger , Gabriel Eilertsen

In this work we investigate the possibility of using the reflection algebra as a source of functional equations. More precisely, we obtain functional relations determining the partition function of the six-vertex model with domain-wall…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 W. Galleas , J. Lamers

Proposed are alternative generator architectures for Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Networks, motivated by Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training. It disentangles the need for a noise-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Alex Nasser

Localizing the source of graph diffusion phenomena, such as misinformation propagation, is an important yet extremely challenging task. Existing source localization models typically are heavily dependent on the hand-crafted rules.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junxiang Wang , Junji Jiang , Liang Zhao

Imaging point sources in heterogeneous environments from boundary or far-field measurements has been extensively studied in the past. In most existing results, the environment, represented by the refractive index function in the model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Kui Ren , Yimin Zhong

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) often struggle with reconstructing and rendering highly reflective scenes. Recent advancements have developed various reflection-aware appearance models to enhance NeRF's capability to render specular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Ji Shi , Xianghua Ying , Ruohao Guo , Bowei Xing , Wenzhen Yue

In this article we study inverse source problems for time-fractional diffusion equations from \textit{a posteriori} boundary measurement. Using the memory effect of these class of equations, we solve these inverse problems for several class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Jaan Janno , Yavar Kian

Boundary estimation in images and videos has been a very active topic of research, and organizing visual information into boundaries and segments is believed to be a corner stone of visual perception. While prior work has focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Apratim Bhattacharyya , Mateusz Malinowski , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

We introduce a novel, training-free method for sampling differentiable representations (diffreps) using pretrained diffusion models. Rather than merely mode-seeking, our method achieves sampling by "pulling back" the dynamics of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yash Savani , Marc Finzi , J. Zico Kolter

We revisit the inverse source problem in a two dimensional absorbing and scattering medium and present a non-iterative reconstruction method using measurements of the radiating flux at the boundary. The attenuation and scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Hiroshi Fujiwara , Kamran Sadiq , Alexandru Tamasan

Electromagnetic wave control using the concept of a reflecting surface is first studied as a near-field and a far-field problem. Using a secondary source present in a wireless communication environment, such as a backscatter tag, it is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Okan Yurduseven , Stylianos D. Assimonis , Michail Matthaiou

Boundaries are among the primary visual cues used by human and computer vision systems. One of the key problems in boundary detection is the label representation, which typically leads to class imbalance and, as a consequence, to thick…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Edoardo Mello Rella , Ajad Chhatkuli , Yun Liu , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

In an era where numerous studies claim to achieve almost photorealism with real-time automated environment capture, there is a need for assessments and reproducibility in this domain. This paper presents a transparent and reproducible user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sven Kluge , Oliver Staadt

Curving beams are a promising new method for bypassing obstacles in future millimeter-wave to sub-terahertz (sub-THz) networks but lack a general predictive model for their reflections from arbitrary surfaces. We show that, unfortunately,…

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