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Image smoothing is by reducing pixel-wise gradients to smooth out details. As existing methods always rely on gradients to determine smoothing manners, it is difficult to distinguish structures and details to handle distinctively due to the…
Edge-preserving smoothing is a fundamental procedure for many computer vision and graphic applications. This can be achieved with either local methods or global methods. In most cases, global methods can yield superior performance over…
Edge-preserving smoothing (EPS) can be formulated as minimizing an objective function that consists of data and prior terms. This global EPS approach shows better smoothing performance than a local one that typically has a form of weighted…
In image processing, it can be a useful pre-processing step to smooth away small structures, such as noise or unimportant details, while retaining the overall structure of the image by keeping edges, which separate objects, sharp. Typically…
Edge-preserving image smoothing is an important step for many low-level vision problems. Though many algorithms have been proposed, there are several difficulties hindering its further development. First, most existing algorithms cannot…
Multi-view mesh reconstruction remains a core challenge in computer graphics and vision, especially for recovering high-frequency geometry from sparse observations. Recent methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance…
High-resolution images are prevalent in various applications, such as autonomous driving and computer-aided diagnosis. However, training neural networks on such images is computationally challenging and easily leads to out-of-memory errors…
The indefinite least squares (ILS) problem is a generalization of the famous linear least squares problem. It minimizes an indefinite quadratic form with respect to a signature matrix. For this problem, we first propose an impressively…
Given a linear regression setting, Iterative Least Trimmed Squares (ILTS) involves alternating between (a) selecting the subset of samples with lowest current loss, and (b) re-fitting the linear model only on that subset. Both steps are…
Recent advances in generative image restoration (IR) have demonstrated impressive results. However, these methods are hindered by their substantial size and computational demands, rendering them unsuitable for deployment on edge devices.…
In this work we present a novel optimization strategy for image reconstruction tasks under analysis-based image regularization, which promotes sparse and/or low-rank solutions in some learned transform domain. We parameterize such…
Iteratively Re-weighted Least Squares (IRLS) is a method for solving minimization problems involving non-quadratic cost functions, perhaps non-convex and non-smooth, which however can be described as the infimum over a family of quadratic…
We propose a novel method of efficient upsampling of a single natural image. Current methods for image upsampling tend to produce high-resolution images with either blurry salient edges, or loss of fine textural detail, or spurious noise…
Solving an integer least squares (ILS) problem usually consists of two stages: reduction and search. This thesis is concerned with the reduction process for the ordinary ILS problem and the ellipsoid-constrained ILS problem. For the…
Robust subspace estimation is fundamental to many machine learning and data analysis tasks. Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) is an elegant and empirically effective approach to this problem, yet its theoretical properties remain…
Dimensionality reduction plays an important role in computer vision problems since it reduces computational cost and is often capable of yielding more discriminative data representation. In this context, Partial Least Squares (PLS) has…
In computer vision, image processing and computer graphics, image smoothing filtering is a very basic and important task and to be expected possessing good edge-preserving smoothing property. Here we address the problem that the…
We consider the simultaneous deblurring of a set of noisy images whose point spread functions are different but known and spatially invariant, and the noise is Gaussian. Currently available iterative algorithms that are typically used for…
Neural Radiance Fields achieve high-fidelity scene representation but suffer from costly training and rendering, while 3D Gaussian splatting offers real-time performance with strong empirical results. Recently, solutions that harness the…
Image downscaling is one of the key operations in recent display technology and visualization tools. By this process, the dimension of an image is reduced, aiming to preserve structural integrity and visual fidelity. In this paper, we…