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Merging multi-exposure images is a common approach for obtaining high dynamic range (HDR) images, with the primary challenge being the avoidance of ghosting artifacts in dynamic scenes. Recent methods have proposed using deep neural…

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Inspired by the latest developments in multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods and randomised sketching for linear algebra problems we propose a MLMC estimator for real-time processing of matrix structured random data. Our algorithm is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Yue Wu , Nick Polydorides

Real-world data processing problems often involve various image modalities associated with a certain scene, including RGB images, infrared images or multi-spectral images. The fact that different image modalities often share certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Pingfan Song , Xin Deng , João F. C. Mota , Nikos Deligiannis , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Classically, rasterization techniques are performed for real-time rendering to meet the constraint of interactive frame rates. However, such techniques do not produce realistic results as compared to ray tracing approaches. Hence, hybrid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yu Wei Tan , Alden Tan , Nicholas Nge , Anand Bhojan

Real-time rendering for video games has become increasingly challenging due to the need for higher resolutions, framerates and photorealism. Supersampling has emerged as an effective solution to address this challenge. Our work introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Antoine Mercier , Ruan Erasmus , Yashesh Savani , Manik Dhingra , Fatih Porikli , Guillaume Berger

Monte Carlo simulations are widely employed to measure the physical properties of glass-forming liquids in thermal equilibrium. Combined with local Monte Carlo moves, the Metropolis algorithm can also be used to simulate the relaxation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-23 Ludovic Berthier , Federico Ghimenti Frédéric van Wijland

The efficient evaluation of high-dimensional integrals is of importance in both theoretical and practical fields of science, such as data science, statistical physics, and machine learning. However, exact computation methods suffer from the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Radislav Vaisman , Robert Salomone , Dirk P. Kroese

The rendering procedure used by neural radiance fields (NeRF) samples a scene with a single ray per pixel and may therefore produce renderings that are excessively blurred or aliased when training or testing images observe scene content at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Jonathan T. Barron , Ben Mildenhall , Matthew Tancik , Peter Hedman , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Pratul P. Srinivasan

Classical algorithms in numerical analysis for numerical integration (quadrature/cubature) follow the principle of approximate and integrate: the integrand is approximated by a simple function (e.g. a polynomial), which is then integrated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Yuji Nakatsukasa

The self-learning Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is a powerful Monte Carlo method that, with the help of machine learning, adaptively generates an easy-to-sample probability distribution for approximating a given hard-to-sample distribution.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Katsuhiro Endo , Taichi Nakamura , Keisuke Fujii , Naoki Yamamoto

Background: Monte Carlo simulations of diffusion are commonly used as a model validation tool as they are especially suitable for generating the diffusion MRI signal in complicated tissue microgeometries. New method: Here we describe the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Hong-Hsi Lee , Els Fieremans , Dmitry S Novikov

Novel view synthesis is a long-standing problem in machine learning and computer vision. Significant progress has recently been made in developing neural scene representations and rendering techniques that synthesize photorealistic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Alexander W. Bergman , Petr Kellnhofer , Gordon Wetzstein

In this work we detail the application of a fast convolution algorithm computing high dimensional integrals to the context of multiplicative noise stochastic processes. The algorithm provides a numerical solution to the problem of…

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Computing systems interacting with real-world processes must safely and reliably process uncertain data. The Monte Carlo method is a popular approach for computing with such uncertain values. This article introduces a framework for…

Applications that require substantial computational resources today cannot avoid the use of heavily parallel machines. Embracing the opportunities of parallel computing and especially the possibilities provided by a new generation of…

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Most learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods aim to recover high-resolution (HR) image from a given low-resolution (LR) image via learning on LR-HR image pairs. The SR methods learned on synthetic data do not perform well in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Dong Gong , Wei Sun , Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Yanning Zhang

We present a general-purpose method to train Markov chain Monte Carlo kernels, parameterized by deep neural networks, that converge and mix quickly to their target distribution. Our method generalizes Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and is trained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Daniel Levy , Matthew D. Hoffman , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Learning-based image super-resolution aims to reconstruct high-frequency (HF) details from the prior model trained by a set of high- and low-resolution image patches. In this paper, HF to be estimated is considered as a combination of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jian Zhang , Chen Zhao , Ruiqin Xiong , Siwei Ma , Debin Zhao

In this paper, we consider a natural extension of the edge-preserving bilateral filter for vector-valued images. The direct computation of this non-linear filter is slow in practice. We demonstrate how a fast algorithm can be obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Sanjay Ghosh , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Despite significant advances in algorithms and hardware, global illumination continues to be a challenge in the real-time domain. Time constraints often force developers to either compromise on the quality of global illumination or…

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