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LiDARs are being increasingly deployed for consumer imaging in handheld, wearable, and robotic applications. These sensors can capture the time-of-flight of light at picosecond resolution, which in principle, enables them to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Siddharth Somasundaram , Aaron Young , Akshat Dave , Adithya Pediredla , Ramesh Raskar

We introduce a generative smoothness regularization on manifolds (SToRM) model for the recovery of dynamic image data from highly undersampled measurements. The model assumes that the images in the dataset are non-linear mappings of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Qing Zou , Abdul Haseeb Ahmed , Prashant Nagpal , Stanley Kruger , Mathews Jacob

Purpose: To develop generic optimization strategies for image reconstruction using graphical processing units (GPUs) in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to exemplarily report about our experience with a highly accelerated implementation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Sebastian Schaetz , Dirk Voit , Jens Frahm , Martin Uecker

We describe a method for 3D human pose estimation from transient images (i.e., a 3D spatio-temporal histogram of photons) acquired by an optical non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging system. Our method can perceive 3D human pose by `looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Mariko Isogawa , Ye Yuan , Matthew O'Toole , Kris Kitani

Existing rectified flow models are based on linear trajectories between data and noise distributions. This linearity enforces zero curvature, which can inadvertently force the image generation process through low-probability regions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yan Luo , Drake Du , Hao Huang , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The recent years have given rise to a large number of techniques for "looking around corners", i.e., for reconstructing occluded objects from time-resolved measurements of indirect light reflections off a wall. While the direct view of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Jonathan Klein , Martin Laurenzis , Matthias B. Hullin , Julian Iseringhausen

The curvature regularities are well-known for providing strong priors in the continuity of edges, which have been applied to a wide range of applications in image processing and computer vision. However, these models are usually non-convex,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Qiuxiang Zhong , Ke Yin , Yuping Duan

This article presents original work combining a NURBS-based inverse analysis with both kinematic and constitutive nonlinearities to recover the applied loads and deformations of thin shell structures. The inverse formulation is tackled by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-07 N. Vu-Bac , T. X. Duong , T. Lahmer , X. Zhuang , R. A. Sauer , H. S. Parke , T. Rabczuk

This paper focuses on solving the multiplicative gamma denoising problem via a variation model. Variation-based regularization models have been extensively employed in a variety of inverse problem tasks in image processing. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shengkun Yang , Zhichang Guo , Jia Li , Fanghui Song , Wenjuan Yao

Structured light (SL) 3D reconstruction captures the precise surface shape of objects, providing high-accuracy 3D data essential for industrial inspection and cultural heritage digitization. However, existing methods suffer from two key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Tinglei Wan , Tonghua Su , Zhongjie Wang

We introduce a novel formulation for curvature regularization by penalizing normal curvatures from multiple directions. This total normal curvature regularization is capable of producing solutions with sharp edges and precise isotropic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Tianle Lu , Ke Chen , Yuping Duan

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging enables monitoring around corners and is promising for diverse applications. The resolution of transient NLOS imaging is limited to a centimeter scale, mainly by the temporal resolution of the detectors.…

Many challenging image processing tasks can be described by an ill-posed linear inverse problem: deblurring, deconvolution, inpainting, compressed sensing, and superresolution all lie in this framework. Traditional inverse problem solvers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Davis Gilton , Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett

The field of computational imaging has witnessed a promising paradigm shift with the emergence of untrained neural networks, offering novel solutions to inverse computational imaging problems. While existing techniques have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Abeer Banerjee , Sanjay Singh

Non-uniform blind deblurring for general dynamic scenes is a challenging computer vision problem as blurs arise not only from multiple object motions but also from camera shake, scene depth variation. To remove these complicated motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Seungjun Nah , Tae Hyun Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

Sensing in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) is one of the major challenges for integrated sensing and communication systems. Existing countermeasures for NLOS either use prior knowledge on the environment to characterize all the multiple bounces or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Davide Tornielli Bellini , Dario Tagliaferri , Pietro Grassi , Davide Scazzoli , Stefano Tebaldini , Umberto Spagnolini

This paper presents a novel method for reformulating non-differentiable collision avoidance constraints into smooth nonlinear constraints using strong duality of convex optimization. We focus on a controlled object whose goal is to avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Xiaojing Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Francesco Borrelli

Recent methods for 3D reconstruction and rendering increasingly benefit from end-to-end optimization of the entire image formation process. However, this approach is currently limited: effects of the optical hardware stack and in particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Wenqi Xian , Aljaž Božič , Noah Snavely , Christoph Lassner

In this paper, a sensing-assisted non-line-of-sight (NLoS) identification method for dynamic uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) positioning is proposed for the first time. For urban UAV-to-ground scenarios, a new multi-modal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Huijuan Qiao , Lu Bai , Mingran Sun , Mengyuan Lu , Jiajing Chen , Xiang Cheng