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Inverse rendering is the problem of decomposing an image into its intrinsic components, i.e. albedo, normal and lighting. To solve this ill-posed problem from single image, state-of-the-art methods in shape from shading mostly resort to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Mona Zehni , Shaona Ghosh , Krishna Sridhar , Sethu Raman

The computer vision community has developed numerous techniques for digitally restoring true scene information from single-view degraded photographs, an important yet extremely ill-posed task. In this work, we tackle image restoration from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yucheng Mao , Boyang Wang , Nilesh Kulkarni , Jeong Joon Park

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the \textit{ill-posed} and \textit{non-linear} blind image deconvolution (blind deblurring) using deep generative networks as priors. We employ two separate generative models --- one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Muhammad Asim , Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

Inverse problems exist in many domains such as phase imaging, image processing, and computer vision. These problems are often solved with application-specific algorithms, even though their nature remains the same: mapping input image(s) to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Feng Wang , Alberto Eljarrat , Johannes Müller , Trond Henninen , Erni Rolf , Christoph Koch

Consistent improvement of image priors over the years has led to the development of better inverse problem solvers. Diffusion models are the newcomers to this arena, posing the strongest known prior to date. Recently, such models operating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ron Raphaeli , Sean Man , Michael Elad

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

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in imaging inverse problems owing to their powerful generative capabilities. However, existing approaches typically rely on models trained for specific degradation types, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhen Wang , Hongyi Liu , Zhihui Wei

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

We address the problem of image reconstruction from incomplete measurements, encompassing both upsampling and inpainting, within a learning-based framework. Conventional supervised approaches require fully sampled ground truth data, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Benjamin Walder , Daniel Toader , Robert Nuster , Günther Paltauf , Peter Burgholzer , Gregor Langer , Lukas Krainer , Markus Haltmeier

Modern inexpensive imaging sensors suffer from inherent hardware constraints which often result in captured images of poor quality. Among the most common ways to deal with such limitations is to rely on burst photography, which nowadays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

In this paper, we study the problem of image recovery from given partial (corrupted) observations. Recovering an image using a low-rank model has been an active research area in data analysis and machine learning. But often, images are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Pawan Goyal , Hussam Al Daas , Peter Benner

It is well-known that in inverse problems, end-to-end trained networks overfit the degradation model seen in the training set, i.e., they do not generalize to other types of degradations well. Recently, an approach to first map images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Cansu Korkmaz , A. Murat Tekalp , Zafer Dogan

The inherent generative power of denoising diffusion models makes them well-suited for image restoration tasks where the objective is to find the optimal high-quality image within the generative space that closely resembles the input image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zheng Ding , Xuaner Zhang , Zhuowen Tu , Zhihao Xia

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

Enhancing visual qualities for underexposed images is an extensively concerned task that plays important roles in various areas of multimedia and computer vision. Most existing methods often fail to generate high-quality results with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Risheng Liu , Long Ma , Yuxi Zhang , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

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

Tomographic image reconstruction can be mapped to a problem of finding solutions to a large system of linear equations which maximize a function that includes \textit{a priori} knowledge regarding features of typical images such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Anna Paola Muntoni , Rafael Díaz Hernández Rojas , Alfredo Braunstein , Andrea Pagnani , Isaac Pérez Castillo

In digital images, the performance of optical aberration is a multivariate degradation, where the spectral of the scene, the lens imperfections, and the field of view together contribute to the results. Besides eliminating it at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Shiqi Chen , Jinwen Zhou , Menghao Li , Yueting Chen , Tingting Jiang

Learning a good image prior is a long-term goal for image restoration and manipulation. While existing methods like deep image prior (DIP) capture low-level image statistics, there are still gaps toward an image prior that captures rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Xingang Pan , Xiaohang Zhan , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy , Ping Luo

We propose a neural inverse rendering approach that jointly reconstructs geometry, spatially varying reflectance, and lighting conditions from multi-view images captured under varying directional lighting. Unlike prior multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xu Cao , Takafumi Taketomi