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Image-to-image translation is an ill-posed problem as unique one-to-one mapping may not exist between the source and target images. Learning-based methods proposed in this context often evaluate the performance on test data that is similar…

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We extend Helgason's classical definition of a generalized Radon transform, defined for a pair of homogeneous spaces of an lcsc group $G$, to a broader setting in which one of the spaces is replaced by a possibly non-homogeneous dynamical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Michael Björklund , Tobias Hartnick

We introduce an approach based on the Givens representation for posterior inference in statistical models with orthogonal matrix parameters, such as factor models and probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA). We show how the Givens…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 Arya A Pourzanjani , Richard M Jiang , Brian Mitchell , Paul J Atzberger , Linda R Petzold

A reliable perception has to be robust against challenging environmental conditions. Therefore, recent efforts focused on the use of radar sensors in addition to camera and lidar sensors for perception applications. However, the sparsity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Felix Fent , Philipp Bauerschmidt , Markus Lienkamp

This paper presents a novel network structure with illumination-aware gamma correction and complete image modelling to solve the low-light image enhancement problem. Low-light environments usually lead to less informative large-scale dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yinglong Wang , Zhen Liu , Jianzhuang Liu , Songcen Xu , Shuaicheng Liu

Structural pattern recognition describes and classifies data based on the relationships of features and parts. Topological invariants, like the Euler number, characterize the structure of objects of any dimension. Cohomology can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-07-14 Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz , Adrian Ion , Mabel Iglesias-Ham , Walter G. Kropatsch

A great deal of theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted in the last decades to the study of long-wavelength photodetection mechanisms in field-effect transistors hosting two-dimensional (2D) electron systems. A particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Alessandro Principi , Denis Bandurin , Habib Rostami , Marco Polini

The shape of a molecule determines its physicochemical and biological properties. However, it is often underrepresented in standard molecular representation learning approaches. Here, we propose using the Euler Characteristic Transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Victor Toscano-Duran , Florian Rottach , Bastian Rieck

Enhancement is an important step in post-processing digital images for personal use, in medical imaging, and for object recognition. Most existing manual techniques rely on region selection, similarity, and/or thresholding for editing,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Junyi Tu , Paul Rosen

Recently, variational methods were successfully applied for computing the optical flow in gray and RGB-valued image sequences. A crucial assumption in these models is that pixel-values do not change under transformations. Nowadays, modern…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Manuel Gräf , Sebastian Neumayer , Ralf Hielscher , Gabriele Steidl , Moritz Liesegang , Tilman Beck

The Radon cumulative distribution transform (R-CDT) exploits one-dimensional Wasserstein transport and the Radon transform to represent prominent features in images. It is closely related to the sliced Wasserstein distance and facilitates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Matthias Beckmann , Robert Beinert , Jonas Bresch

Topological descriptors, such as the Euler characteristic function and the persistence diagram, have grown increasingly popular for representing complex data. Recent work showed that a carefully chosen set of these descriptors encodes all…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Brittany Terese Fasy , Maksym Makarchuk , Samuel Micka , David L. Millman

This paper presents the Persistent Weisfeiler-Lehman Random walk scheme (abbreviated as PWLR) for graph representations, a novel mathematical framework which produces a collection of explainable low-dimensional representations of graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Sun Woo Park , Yun Young Choi , Dosang Joe , U Jin Choi , Youngho Woo

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to extract complementary features to synthesize a single fused image. Many methods employ convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract local features due to its translation invariance and locality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Jing Li , Lu Bai , Bin Yang , Chang Li , Lingfei Ma , Edwin R. Hancock

Using integral transforms to the end of lines detection in images with complex background, makes the detection a hard task needing additional processing to manage the detection. As an integral transform, the Scale Space Radon Transform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Aicha Baya Goumeidane , Djemel Ziou , Nafaa Nacereddine

We present an algorithm for the symbolic and numerical computation of the degrees of the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes of a closed subvariety of projective space P^n. As the degree of the top Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson class is the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Christine Jost

The Euler Curve Transform (ECT) of Turner et al.\ is a complete invariant of an embedded simplicial complex, which is amenable to statistical analysis. We generalize the ECT to provide a similarly convenient representation for weighted…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Qitong Jiang , Sebastian Kurtek , Tom Needham

Various kinds of data are routinely represented as discrete probability distributions. Examples include text documents summarized by histograms of word occurrences and images represented as histograms of oriented gradients. Viewing a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Herbert Edelsbrunner , Ziga Virk , Hubert Wagner

Organoids are multi-cellular structures which are cultured in vitro from stem cells to resemble specific organs (e.g., brain, liver) in their three-dimensional composition. Dynamic changes in the shape and composition of these model systems…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-23 Lewis Marsh , Felix Y. Zhou , Xiao Qin , Xin Lu , Helen M. Byrne , Heather A. Harrington

It was demonstrated that optical modulation together with simultaneous terahertz (THz) imaging application enables an increase in contrast by an order of magnitude illustrating hence the technique as convenient contactless tool for…