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Super-resolution is an ill-posed problem, since it allows for multiple predictions for a given low-resolution image. This fundamental fact is largely ignored by state-of-the-art deep learning based approaches. These methods instead train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

While deep learning has shown tremendous success in a wide range of domains, it remains a grand challenge to incorporate physical principles in a systematic manner to the design, training, and inference of such models. In this paper, we aim…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Rui Wang , Karthik Kashinath , Mustafa Mustafa , Adrian Albert , Rose Yu

3D particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is a key technique for analyzing turbulent flow, one of the most challenging computational problems of our century. At the core of 3D PTV is the dual-frame fluid motion estimation algorithm, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yifei Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Zhou Jiang , Hao Zhao

Self-supervised representation learning is able to learn semantically meaningful features; however, much of its recent success relies on multiple crops of an image with very few objects. Instead of learning view-invariant representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Yuwen Xiong , Mengye Ren , Wenyuan Zeng , Raquel Urtasun

We present FractalPINN-Flow, an unsupervised deep learning framework for dense optical flow estimation that learns directly from consecutive grayscale frames without requiring ground truth. The architecture centers on the Fractal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sara Behnamian , Rasoul Khaksarinezhad , Andreas Langer

Neural network approaches have been demonstrated to work quite well to solve partial differential equations in practice. In this context approaches like physics-informed neural networks and the Deep Ritz method have become popular. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Andreas Langer , Sara Behnamian

Total variation (TV) regularization has proven effective for a range of computer vision tasks through its preferential weighting of sharp image edges. Existing TV-based methods, however, often suffer from the over-smoothing issue and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Dong Gong , Mingkui Tan , Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Yanning Zhang

The objectives of this chapter are: (i) to introduce a concise overview of regularization; (ii) to define and to explain the role of a particular type of regularization called total variation norm (TV-norm) in computer vision tasks; (iii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Vania V. Estrela , Hermes Aguiar Magalhaes , Osamu Saotome

Scene flow represents the motion of points in the 3D space, which is the counterpart of the optical flow that represents the motion of pixels in the 2D image. However, it is difficult to obtain the ground truth of scene flow in the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Xiaoyu Tian , Ruiqi Ding , Hesheng Wang

While medical imaging typically provides massive amounts of data, the extraction of relevant information for predictive diagnosis remains a difficult challenge. Functional MRI (fMRI) data, that provide an indirect measure of task-related or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Vincent Michel , Alexandre Gramfort , Gaël Varoquaux , Evelyn Eger , Bertrand Thirion

Total variation (TV) regularization is popular in image restoration and reconstruction due to its ability to preserve image edges. To date, most research activities on TV models concentrate on image restoration from blurry and noisy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Yunhai Xiao , Junfeng Yang

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative framework, with recent few-step methods achieving remarkable inference acceleration. However, we identify a critical yet overlooked limitation: these models suffer from severe diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yexiong Lin , Jia Shi , Shanshan Ye , Wanyu Wang , Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu

Neural networks trained via gradient descent with random initialization and without any regularization enjoy good generalization performance in practice despite being highly overparametrized. A promising direction to explain this phenomenon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Hancheng Min , Salma Tarmoun , Rene Vidal , Enrique Mallada

Dense and versatile image representations underpin the success of virtually all computer vision applications. However, state-of-the-art networks, such as transformers, produce low-resolution feature grids, which are suboptimal for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Nikita Araslanov , Anna Sonnweber , Daniel Cremers

This work presents DCFlow, a novel unsupervised cross-modal flow estimation framework that integrates a decoupled optimization strategy and a cross-modal consistency constraint. Unlike previous approaches that implicitly learn flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Runmin Zhang , Jialiang Wang , Si-Yuan Cao , Zhu Yu , Junchen Yu , Guangyi Zhang , Hui-Liang Shen

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) have recently shown promising results in low-level computer vision problems such as optical flow and disparity estimation, but still, have much room to further improve their performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Juan Luis Gonzalez , Muhammad Sarmad , Hyunjoo J. Lee , Munchurl Kim

Steepest descent algorithms, which are commonly used in deep learning, use the gradient as the descent direction, either as-is or after a direction shift using preconditioning. In many scenarios calculating the gradient is numerically hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Gal Lifshitz , Dan Raviv

Low-resolution image representation is a special form of sparse representation that retains only low-frequency information while discarding high-frequency components. This property reduces storage and transmission costs and benefits various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chenglong Bao , Tongyao Pang , Zuowei Shen , Dihan Zheng , Yihang Zou

A class of mixed-order \emph{PDE}-constraint regularizer for image processing problem is proposed, generalizing the standard first order total variation $(TV)$. A semi-supervised (bilevel) training scheme, which provides a simultaneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Pan Liu

One of the main challenges in deep learning-based underwater image enhancement is the limited availability of high-quality training data. Underwater images are difficult to capture and are often of poor quality due to the distortion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alzayat Saleh , Marcus Sheaves , Dean Jerry , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi