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Models for image representation learning are typically designed for either recognition or generation. Various forms of contrastive learning help models learn to convert images to embeddings that are useful for classification, detection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthew Gwilliam , Xiao Wang , Xuefeng Hu , Zhenheng Yang

Recovering high-resolution images from limited sensory data typically leads to a serious ill-posed inverse problem, demanding inversion algorithms that effectively capture the prior information. Learning a good inverse mapping from training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Morteza Mardani , Qingyun Sun , Shreyas Vasawanala , Vardan Papyan , Hatef Monajemi , John Pauly , David Donoho

In this work, we investigate the application of deep learning methods for computed tomography in the context of having a low-data regime. As motivation, we review some of the existing approaches and obtain quantitative results after…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Daniel Otero Baguer , Johannes Leuschner , Maximilian Schmidt

Recent advances in implicit neural representations and differentiable rendering make it possible to simultaneously recover the geometry and materials of an object from multi-view RGB images captured under unknown static illumination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yuanqing Zhang , Jiaming Sun , Xingyi He , Huan Fu , Rongfei Jia , Xiaowei Zhou

Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems (EISP) have gained wide applications in computational imaging. By solving EISP, the internal relative permittivity of the scatterer can be non-invasively determined based on the scattered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ziyuan Luo , Boxin Shi , Haoliang Li , Renjie Wan

Existing image inpainting methods typically fill holes by borrowing information from surrounding pixels. They often produce unsatisfactory results when the holes overlap with or touch foreground objects due to lack of information about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Wei Xiong , Jiahui Yu , Zhe Lin , Jimei Yang , Xin Lu , Connelly Barnes , Jiebo Luo

Can a diffusion model trained on bedrooms recover human faces? Diffusion models are widely used as priors for inverse problems, but standard approaches usually assume a high-fidelity model trained on data that closely match the unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jing Jia , Wei Yuan , Sifan Liu , Liyue Shen , Guanyang Wang

In this work, a method for obtaining pixel-wise error bounds in Bayesian regularization of inverse imaging problems is introduced. The proposed method employs estimates of the posterior variance together with techniques from conformal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Dominik Narnhofer , Andreas Habring , Martin Holler , Thomas Pock

Recently it has been shown that using diffusion models for inverse problems can lead to remarkable results. However, these approaches require a closed-form expression of the degradation model and can not support complex degradations. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Di You , Andreas Floros , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Many inverse problems arising in engineering and applied sciences involve unknown quantities with pronounced spatial inhomogeneity, such as localized defects or spatially varying material properties, making reliable uncertainty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Tomas Soto , Mirza Karamehmedovic , Lassi Roininen

Conventional image reconstruction models for lensless cameras often assume that each measurement results from convolving a given scene with a single experimentally measured point-spread function. These image reconstruction models fall short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Oliver Kingshott , Nick Antipa , Emrah Bostan , Kaan Akşit

Basis pursuit is a compressed sensing optimization in which the l1-norm is minimized subject to model error constraints. Here we use a deep neural network prior instead of l1-regularization. Using known noise statistics, we jointly learn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Jonathan I. Tamir , Stella X. Yu , Michael Lustig

Existing unpaired low-light image enhancement approaches prefer to employ the two-way GAN framework, in which two CNN generators are deployed for enhancement and degradation separately. However, such data-driven models ignore the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jize Zhang , Haolin Wang , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

The high complexity of various inverse problems poses a significant challenge to model-based reconstruction schemes, which in such situations often reach their limits. At the same time, we witness an exceptional success of data-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 T. A. Bubba , G. Kutyniok , M. Lassas , M. März , W. Samek , S. Siltanen , V. Srinivasan

We study the 3D-aware image attribute editing problem in this paper, which has wide applications in practice. Recent methods solved the problem by training a shared encoder to map images into a 3D generator's latent space or by per-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jianhui Li , Jianmin Li , Haoji Zhang , Shilong Liu , Zhengyi Wang , Zihao Xiao , Kaiwen Zheng , Jun Zhu

In this work, we present and investigate the novel blind inverse problem of position-blind ptychography, i.e., ptychographic phase retrieval without any knowledge of scan positions, which then must be recovered jointly with the image. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Simon Welker , Lorenz Kuger , Tim Roith , Berthy Feng , Martin Burger , Timo Gerkmann , Henry Chapman

Intrinsic decomposition from a single image is a highly challenging task, due to its inherent ambiguity and the scarcity of training data. In contrast to traditional fully supervised learning approaches, in this paper we propose learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Michael Janner , Jiajun Wu , Tejas D. Kulkarni , Ilker Yildirim , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Limited-angle X-ray tomography reconstruction is an ill-conditioned inverse problem in general. Especially when the projection angles are limited and the measurements are taken in a photon-limited condition, reconstructions from classical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Zhen Guo , Jung Ki Song , George Barbastathis , Michael E. Glinsky , Courtenay T. Vaughan , Kurt W. Larson , Bradley K. Alpert , Zachary H. Levine

Recent efforts on solving inverse problems in imaging via deep neural networks use architectures inspired by a fixed number of iterations of an optimization method. The number of iterations is typically quite small due to difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

Reversible image conversion (RIC) suffers from ill-posedness issues due to its forward conversion process being considered an underdetermined system. Despite employing invertible neural networks (INN), existing RIC methods intrinsically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Yuanfei Huang , Hua Huang