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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) typically struggle to reconstruct and render highly specular objects, whose appearance varies quickly with changes in viewpoint. Recent works have improved NeRF's ability to render detailed specular appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dor Verbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Benjamin Attal , Richard Szeliski , Jonathan T. Barron

We consider an inverse source problem for partially coherent light propagating in the Fresnel regime. The data is the coherence of the field measured away from the source. The reconstruction is based on a minimum residue formulation, which…

High-order quadrilateral meshes offer superior accuracy and computational efficiency in numerical simulations. However, existing methods struggle to simultaneously preserve boundary/interface features, ensure high quality, and achieve…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yongjia Weng , Lufeng Liu , Zhonggui Chen , Xuan Zhou , Juan Cao

Wavefront shaping correction makes it possible to image fluorescent particles deep inside scattering tissue. This requires determining a correction mask to be placed in both excitation and emission paths. Standard approaches select…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Dror Aizik , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Anat Levin

The contouring methods described by Lewis et al. (1993) and Witt (1993) are very efficient and elegant for obtaining the magnification of a point source moving along a straight track in the source plane. The method is, however, not very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. H. Haugan

We consider a class of inverse problems characterized by forward operators that are partially specified, non-smooth, and non-differentiable. Although generative inverse solvers have made significant progress, we find that these forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sattwik Basu , Chaitanya Amballa , Zhongweiyang Xu , Jorge Vančo Sampedro , Srihari Nelakuditi , Romit Roy Choudhury

Inverse rendering methods that account for global illumination are becoming more popular, but current methods require evaluating and automatically differentiating millions of path integrals by tracing multiple light bounces, which remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Saeed Hadadan , Geng Lin , Jan Novák , Fabrice Rousselle , Matthias Zwicker

We propose an approach to 3D reconstruction via inverse procedural modeling and investigate two variants of this approach. The first option consists in the fitting set of input parameters using a genetic algorithm. We demonstrate the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Albert Garifullin , Nikolay Maiorov , Vladimir Frolov

Trajectory generation for visually impaired scenarios requires smooth and temporally consistent state in structured, low-speed dynamic environments. However, traditional jerk-based heuristic trajectory sampling with independent segment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yuting Zeng , Manping Fan , You Zhou , Yongbin Yu , Zhiwen Zheng , Jingtao Zhang , Liyong Ren , Zhenglin Yang

The optimizations of the track fittings require complex simulations of silicon strip detectors to be compliant with the fundamental properties of the hit heteroscedasticity. Many different generations of random numbers must be available…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-06 Gregorio Landi , Giovanni E. Landi

In this paper, we consider the problem of generating inspection paths for robots. These paths should allow an attached measurement device to perform high-quality measurements. We formally show that generating robot paths, while maximizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Boris Bogaerts , Seppe Sels , Steve Vanlanduit , Rudi Penne

Prime path coverage is a powerful structural testing criterion, but generating all prime paths in a directed graph remains computationally challenging due to the potentially exponential number of them. Existing approaches typically rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jakub Zelek , Jakub Ruszil , Adam Roman , Artur Polański

Similar to the obstacle or medium scattering problems, an important property of the phaseless far field patterns for source scattering problems is the translation invariance. Thus it is impossible to reconstruct the location of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

This work deals with the generation of theoretical correlation matrices with specific sparsity patterns, associated to graph structures. We present a novel approach based on convex optimization, offering greater flexibility compared to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Ali Fakhar , Kévin Polisano , Irène Gannaz , Sophie Achard

We show that customized optical patterns can be generated by employing feedback-based wavefront shaping without prior knowledge of the transmission matrix of optical systems. To control the spatial distribution of intensity within the…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-04 Peilong Hong

We present rectified flow, a surprisingly simple approach to learning (neural) ordinary differential equation (ODE) models to transport between two empirically observed distributions \pi_0 and \pi_1, hence providing a unified solution to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Xingchao Liu , Chengyue Gong , Qiang Liu

While text-to-video diffusion models have made significant strides, many still face challenges in generating videos with temporal consistency. Within diffusion frameworks, guidance techniques have proven effective in enhancing output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyelin Nam , Jaemin Kim , Dohun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Particle-based representations of radiance fields such as 3D Gaussian Splatting have found great success for reconstructing and re-rendering of complex scenes. Most existing methods render particles via rasterization, projecting them to…

In this paper, we propose a scheme to generate tunable coherent X-ray radiation for future light source applications. This scheme uses an energy chirped electron beam, a laser modulator, a laser chirper and two bunch compressors to generate…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ji Qiang , Juhao Wu

X-ray sources are developing rapidly and their coherent output is growing extremely rapidly. The increased coherent flux from modern X-ray sources is being matched with an associated rapid development in experimental methods. This article…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-09 Keith A Nugent