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Ptychography is a popular imaging technique that combines diffractive imaging with scanning microscopy. The technique consists of a coherent beam that is scanned across an object in a series of overlapping positions, leading to reliable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Ricardo Parada , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher

Polynomial functions are a usual choice to model the nonlinearity of lenses. Typically, these models are obtained through physical analysis of the lens system or on purely empirical grounds. The aim of this work is to facilitate an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 José I. Ronda , Antonio Valdés

The common approach to radial distortion is by the means of polynomial approximation, which introduces distortion-specific parameters into the camera model and requires estimation of these distortion parameters. The task of estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lili Ma , YangQuan Chen , Kevin L. Moore

We introduce the Wasserstein Transform (WT), a general unsupervised framework for updating distance structures on given data sets with the purpose of enhancing features and denoising. Our framework represents each data point by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kun Jin , Facundo Mémoli , Zane Smith , Zhengchao Wan

The field of image generation has made significant progress thanks to the introduction of Diffusion Models, which learn to progressively reverse a given image corruption. Recently, a few studies introduced alternative ways of corrupting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Ayan Das , Stathi Fotiadis , Anil Batra , Farhang Nabiei , FengTing Liao , Sattar Vakili , Da-shan Shiu , Alberto Bernacchia

We discuss how the diffraction theory of a single translation bounded measure or a family of such measures can be understood within the framework of unitary group representations. This allows us to prove an orthogonality feature of measures…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Daniel Lenz , Nicolae Strungaru

Group Theory techniques can aid greatly the determination of magnetic structures. The integration of their calculations into new and existing refinement programs is an ongoing development that will simplify and make more rigorous the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 A. S. Wills

The Gaussian Filter (GF) is one of the most widely used filtering algorithms; instances are the Extended Kalman Filter, the Unscented Kalman Filter and the Divided Difference Filter. GFs represent the belief of the current state by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Manuel Wüthrich , Sebastian Trimpe , Daniel Kappler , Stefan Schaal

The Fisher-Rao distance between two probability distributions of a statistical model is defined as the Riemannian geodesic distance induced by the Fisher information metric. In order to calculate the Fisher-Rao distance in closed-form, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Frank Nielsen

Whenever inspected by humans, reconstructed signals should not be distinguished from real ones. Typically, such a high perceptual quality comes at the price of high reconstruction error, and vice versa. We study this distortion-perception…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Dror Freirich , Nir Weinberger , Ron Meir

Diffractive optical elements that divide an input beam into a set of replicas are used in many optical applications ranging from image processing to communications. Their design requires time-consuming optimization processes, which, for a…

The classical concept of affine locally symmetric spaces allows a generalization for various geometric structures on a smooth manifold. We remind the notion of symmetry for parabolic geometries and we summarize the known facts for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-25 Lenka Zalabova , Vojtech Zadnik

Fourier transforms are ubiquitous mathematical tools in basic and applied sciences. We here report classical and quantum optical realizations of the discrete fractional Fourier transform, a generalization of the Fourier transform. In the…

In this work, we investigate a novel approach for the simulation of two-dimensional, brittle, quasi-static fracture problems based on a shape optimization approach. In contrast to the commonly-used phase-field approach, this proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Tim Suchan , Winnifried Wollner , Kathrin Welker

Diffusion models have achieved impressive performance on multi-focus image fusion (MFIF). However, a key challenge in applying diffusion models to the ill-posed MFIF problem is that defocus blur can make common symmetric geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bo Li , Tingting Bao , Lingling Zhang , Weiping Fu , Yaxian Wang , Jun Liu

Any three-dimensional Riemannian metric can be locally obtained by deforming a constant curvature metric along one direction. The general interest of this result, both in geometry and physics, and related open problems are stressed.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Coll , J. Llosa , D. Soler

Derivative-free Riemannian optimization (DFRO) aims to minimize an objective function using only function evaluations, under the constraint that the decision variables lie on a Riemannian manifold. The rapid increase in problem dimensions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Timothé Taminiau , Estelle Massart , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

We present a technique for estimating the shape and reflectance of an object in terms of its surface normals and spatially-varying BRDF. We assume that multiple images of the object are obtained under fixed view-point and varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Zhuo Hui , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

In this paper, we propose a new variational model for image reconstruction by minimizing the $L^1$ norm of the \emph{Weingarten map} of image surface $(x,y,f(x,y))$ for a given image $f:{\mathrm{\Omega}}\rightarrow \mathbb R$. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Qiuxiang Zhong , Ryan Wen Liu , Yuping Duan

Estimating accurate high-dimensional transformations remains very challenging, especially in a clinical setting. In this paper, we introduce a multiscale parameterization of deformations to enhance registration and atlas estimation in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Fleur Gaudfernau , Eléonore Blondiaux , Stéphanie Allassonnière , Erwan Le Pennec