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Neural rendering techniques promise efficient photo-realistic image synthesis while at the same time providing rich control over scene parameters by learning the physical image formation process. While several supervised methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hassan Abu Alhaija , Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Justus Thies , Varun Jampani , Matthias Nießner , Andreas Geiger , Carsten Rother

Reconstructing 3D objects from images is inherently an ill-posed problem due to ambiguities in geometry, appearance, and topology. This paper introduces collaborative inverse rendering with persistent homology priors, a novel strategy that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiang Gao , Xinmu Wang , Yuanpeng Liu , Yue Wang , Junqi Huang , Wei Chen , Xianfeng Gu

Computed medical imaging systems require a computational reconstruction procedure for image formation. In order to recover a useful estimate of the object to-be-imaged when the recorded measurements are incomplete, prior knowledge about the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Varun A. Kelkar , Mark A. Anastasio

Recent advancements in text-guided diffusion models have unlocked powerful image manipulation capabilities. However, applying these methods to real images necessitates the inversion of the images into the domain of the pretrained diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Daniel Garibi , Or Patashnik , Andrey Voynov , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Daniel Cohen-Or

Deep learning-based models have demonstrated remarkable success in solving illposed inverse problems; however, many fail to strictly adhere to the physical constraints imposed by the measurement process. In this work, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jorge Bacca

Image inverse problems have numerous applications, including image processing, super-resolution, and computer vision, which are important areas in image science. These application models can be seen as a three-function composite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yunfei Qu , Deren Han

In recent years, large convolutional neural networks have been widely used as tools for image deblurring, because of their ability in restoring images very precisely. It is well known that image deblurring is mathematically modeled as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Davide Evangelista , Elena Morotti , Elena Loli Piccolomini , James Nagy

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

Phase retrieval seeks to recover a complex signal from amplitude-only measurements, a challenging nonlinear inverse problem. Current theory and algorithms often ignore signal priors. By contrast, we evaluate here a variety of image priors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Stanislas Ducotterd , Zhiyuan Hu , Michael Unser , Jonathan Dong

An optical imaging system forms an object image by recollecting light scattered by the object. However, intact optical information of the object delivered through the imaging system is deteriorated by imperfect optical elements and unwanted…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-28 SangYun Lee , Kyeoreh Lee , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park

Compressive lensless imagers enable novel applications in an extremely compact device, requiring only a phase or amplitude mask placed close to the sensor. They have been demonstrated for 2D and 3D microscopy, single-shot video, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Kristina Monakhova , Vi Tran , Grace Kuo , Laura Waller

Lensless cameras disregard the conventional design that imaging should mimic the human eye. This is done by replacing the lens with a thin mask, and moving image formation to the digital post-processing. State-of-the-art lensless imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Eric Bezzam , Yohann Perron , Martin Vetterli

Recovering clear structures from severely blurry inputs is a challenging problem due to the large movements between the camera and the scene. Although some works apply segmentation maps on human face images for deblurring, they cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Pei Wang , Danna Xue , Yu Zhu , Jinqiu Sun , Qingsen Yan , Sung-eui Yoon , Yanning Zhang

Many learning-based approaches have difficulty scaling to unseen data, as the generality of its learned prior is limited to the scale and variations of the training samples. This holds particularly true with 3D learning tasks, given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Mingyue Yang , Yuxin Wen , Weikai Chen , Yongwei Chen , Kui Jia

Recently, deep generative models have been used for posterior inference in inverse problems, including high-stakes applications in medical imaging and scientific discovery, where the uncertainty of a prediction can matter as much as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuxin Guo , Dongrui Deng , Pulkit Grover

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Darshan Thaker , Abhishek Goyal , René Vidal

We propose a data-driven approach for intrinsic image decomposition, which is the process of inferring the confounding factors of reflectance and shading in an image. We pose this as a two-stage learning problem. First, we train a model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Tinghui Zhou , Philipp Krähenbühl , Alexei A. Efros

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam protocols consist of multiple contrast-weighted images of the same anatomy to emphasize different tissue properties. Due to the long acquisition times required to collect fully sampled k-space…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Brett Levac , Ajil Jalal , Kannan Ramchandran , Jonathan I. Tamir

We propose a structured prior for high-dimensional Bayesian inverse problems based on a disentangled deep generative model whose latent space is partitioned into auxiliary variables aligned with known and interpretable physical parameters…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-03 Arkaprabha Ganguli , Emil Constantinescu

Image rescaling is a commonly used bidirectional operation, which first downscales high-resolution images to fit various display screens or to be storage- and bandwidth-friendly, and afterward upscales the corresponding low-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Mingqing Xiao , Shuxin Zheng , Chang Liu , Zhouchen Lin , Tie-Yan Liu