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Intrinsic image decomposition, which is an essential task in computer vision, aims to infer the reflectance and shading of the scene. It is challenging since it needs to separate one image into two components. To tackle this, conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu

This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

Bayesian inference for inverse problems hinges critically on the choice of priors. In the absence of specific prior information, population-level distributions can serve as effective priors for parameters of interest. With the advent of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Gabriel Missael Barco , Alexandre Adam , Connor Stone , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

We address the ambiguities in the super-resolution problem under translation. We demonstrate that combinations of low-resolution images at different scales can be used to make the super-resolution problem well posed. Such differences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Daniel Fu , Gabby Litterio , Pedro Felzenszwalb , Rashid Zia

An unbiased method for improving the resolution of astronomical images is presented. The strategy at the core of this method is to establish a linear transformation between the recorded image and an improved image at some desirable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. P. Pijpers

We propose to leverage denoising autoencoder networks as priors to address image restoration problems. We build on the key observation that the output of an optimal denoising autoencoder is a local mean of the true data density, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli , Matthias Zwicker

We present a novel convolutional neural network architecture for photometric stereo (Woodham, 1980), a problem of recovering 3D object surface normals from multiple images observed under varying illuminations. Despite its long history in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Tatsunori Taniai , Takanori Maehara

Non-blind deblurring methods achieve decent performance under the accurate blur kernel assumption. Since the kernel uncertainty (i.e. kernel error) is inevitable in practice, semi-blind deblurring is suggested to handle it by introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Xiaole Tang , Xile Zhao , Jun Liu , Jianli Wang , Yuchun Miao , Tieyong Zeng

Blind inverse problems in imaging arise from uncertainties in the system used to collect (noisy) measurements of images. Recovering clean images from these measurements typically requires identifying the imaging system, either implicitly or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Brett Levac , Ajil Jalal , Kannan Ramchandran , Jonathan I. Tamir

There remains an important need for the development of image reconstruction methods that can produce diagnostically useful images from undersampled measurements. In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for example, such methods can facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Varun A. Kelkar , Sayantan Bhadra , Mark A. Anastasio

Inverse imaging problems that are ill-posed can be encountered across multiple domains of science and technology, ranging from medical diagnosis to astronomical studies. To reconstruct images from incomplete and distorted data, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Cesar F. Caiafa , Ramiro M. Irastorza

Indirect image registration is a promising technique to improve image reconstruction quality by providing a shape prior for the reconstruction task. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid method that seeks to reconstruct high quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-18 Jiulong Liu , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Hui Ji , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We consider the problem of trustworthy image restoration, taking the form of a constrained optimization over the prior density. To this end, we develop generative models for the task of image super-resolution that respect the degradation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Andreas Floros , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Image reconstruction is an inverse problem that solves for a computational image based on sampled sensor measurement. Sparsely sampled image reconstruction poses addition challenges due to limited measurements. In this work, we propose an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Liyue Shen , John Pauly , Lei Xing

Intrinsic image decomposition is the classical task of mapping image to albedo. The WHDR dataset allows methods to be evaluated by comparing predictions to human judgements ("lighter", "same as", "darker"). The best modern intrinsic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 D. A. Forsyth , Jason J. Rock

Undersampling the k-space during MR acquisitions saves time, however results in an ill-posed inversion problem, leading to an infinite set of images as possible solutions. Traditionally, this is tackled as a reconstruction problem by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Kerem C. Tezcan , Neerav Karani , Christian F. Baumgartner , Ender Konukoglu

Ill-posed imaging inverse problems remain challenging due to the ambiguity in mapping degraded observations to clean images. Diffusion-based generative priors have recently shown promise, but typically rely on computationally intensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Ayush Varshney , Katherine L. Bouman , Berthy T. Feng

Perceptual image restoration seeks for high-fidelity images that most likely degrade to given images. For better visual quality, previous work proposed to search for solutions within the natural image manifold, by exploiting the latent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Chaoyi Han , Yiping Duan , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu

This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible. Computational imaging, especially non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Lianfang Wang , Kuilin Qin , Xueying Liu , Huibin Chang , Yong Wang , Yuping Duan

We present the first framework to solve linear inverse problems leveraging pre-trained latent diffusion models. Previously proposed algorithms (such as DPS and DDRM) only apply to pixel-space diffusion models. We theoretically analyze our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Litu Rout , Negin Raoof , Giannis Daras , Constantine Caramanis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sanjay Shakkottai