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Diffusion models have recently exhibited remarkable abilities to synthesize striking image samples since the introduction of denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs). Their key idea is to disrupt images into noise through a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zijian Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Jun Yu , Qi Tian

This paper presents the Text Encoding Diffusion Model (TEncDM), a novel approach to diffusion modeling that operates in the space of pre-trained language model encodings. In contrast to traditionally used embeddings, encodings integrate…

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are a learning-based approach to accelerate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisitions, particularly in scan-specific settings when only data from the under-sampled scan itself are available.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Yamin Arefeen , Brett Levac , Zach Stoebner , Jonathan Tamir

Diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) recently becomes one of the hottest topic in computer vision. Its image generation application such as Imagen, Latent Diffusion Models and Stable Diffusion have shown impressive generation capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Junde Wu , Rao Fu , Huihui Fang , Yu Zhang , Yehui Yang , Haoyi Xiong , Huiying Liu , Yanwu Xu

Diffusion models have emerged as a prominent technique in generative modeling with neural networks, making their mark in tasks like text-to-image translation and super-resolution. In this tutorial, we provide a comprehensive guide to build…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Harshith Bachimanchi , Giovanni Volpe

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) is a critical tool for imaging the properties of materials and biological specimens at atomic scale, yet our understanding of relevant electron beam damage mechanisms is incomplete. Recent…

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During recent years, dynamical decoupling (DD) has gained relevance as a tool for manipulating quantum systems and extracting information from them. This is particularly relevant for spins involved in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Gonzalo A. Alvarez , Noam Shemesh , Lucio Frydman

Purpose: Diffusion MRI (dMRI) suffers from eddy currents induced by strong diffusion gradients, which introduce artefacts that can impair subsequent diffusion metric analysis. Existing retrospective correction techniques that correct for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Jake J. Valsamis , Paul I. Dubovan , Corey A. Baron

Detail features of magnetic resonance images play a cru-cial role in accurate medical diagnosis and treatment, as they capture subtle changes that pose challenges for doc-tors when performing precise judgments. However, the widely utilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mengxiao Geng , Jiahao Zhu , Xiaolin Zhu , Qiqing Liu , Dong Liang , Qiegen Liu

In this work we investigate the emergence of the localization regime for diffusion in various geometries: inside slabs, inside cylinders and around rods arranged on a square array. At high gradients, the transverse magnetization is strongly…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Nicolas Moutal , Kerstin Demberg , Denis Grebenkov , Tristan Anselm Kuder

The relaxation of polarized spins in a porous medium has been utilized as a probe of its structure. We note that the governing diffusion problem has a close parallel to that of a particle in a box, an elementary Quantum mechanics toy model.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Seungoh Ryu

Diffusion is a fundamental phenomenon that occurs ubiquitously in nature and remains the subject of continuous research interest. Understanding diffusion is a key to understanding leaving systems. In this Chapter, I discuss diffusion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-15 Svyatoslav Kondrat

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that learn to synthesize samples by inverting a diffusion process that gradually maps data into noise. While these models have enjoyed great success recently, a full theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Raja Marjieh , Ilia Sucholutsky , Thomas A. Langlois , Nori Jacoby , Thomas L. Griffiths

We present the first text-based image editing approach for object parts based on pre-trained diffusion models. Diffusion-based image editing approaches capitalized on the deep understanding of diffusion models of image semantics to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Aleksandar Cvejic , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Peter Wonka

This paper concerns the use of the expectation-maximisation (EM) algorithm for inference in partially observed diffusion processes. In this context, a well known problem is that all except a few diffusion processes lack closed-form…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-18 Jimmy Olsson , Jonas Ströjby

Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) has become an essential tool in assessing the mechanical properties of soft tissues in-vivo, prompting significant progress in new inversion algorithms. This creates a need for a benchmarking framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yashasvi Verma , Jakob Schattenfroh , Ingolf Sack , Silvia Budday , Paul Steinmann , Luca Heltai

In this paper we consider parameter estimation for discretely observed diffusion processes. In particular, we focus on data that are observed at low frequency and methodology that can estimate parameters with uncertainty quantification.…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-01 Jingning Yao , Ajay Jasra , Sheng Jiang

Diffusion models, while trained for image generation, have emerged as powerful foundational feature extractors for downstream tasks. We find that off-the-shelf diffusion models, trained exclusively to generate natural RGB images, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nurislam Tursynbek , Hastings Greer , Basar Demir , Marc Niethammer

The purpose of this study is to present and compare three denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) that generate 3D $T_1$-weighted MRI human brain images. Three DDPMs were trained using 80,675 image volumes from 42,406 subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Samuel W. Remedios , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince , Blake E. Dewey

We report initial NMR studies of i) xenon gas diffusion in model heterogeneous porous media, and ii) continuous flow laser-polarized xenon gas. Both areas utilize the Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo techniques in the gas-phase, with the aim of…

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