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A method for solving the inverse problem of designing the structure of a one-dimensional photonic crystal is proposed and experimentally implemented. It is known that a one-dimensional photonic crystal with a spatial sinusoidal modulation…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-09 P. S. Emelyantsev , N. I. Pyshkov , S. E. Svyakhovskiy

Two of the main challenges of image restoration in real-world scenarios are the accurate characterization of an image prior and the precise modeling of the image degradation operator. Pre-trained diffusion models have been very successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hamadi Chihaoui , Paolo Favaro

Latest diffusion-based methods for many image restoration tasks outperform traditional models, but they encounter the long-time inference problem. To tackle it, this paper proposes a Wavelet-Based Diffusion Model (WaveDM). WaveDM learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yi Huang , Jiancheng Huang , Jianzhuang Liu , Mingfu Yan , Yu Dong , Jiaxi Lv , Chaoqi Chen , Shifeng Chen

Image Restoration (IR) methods based on a pre-trained diffusion model have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, they have two fundamental limitations: 1) they often assume that the degradation operator is completely known and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hamadi Chihaoui , Abdelhak Lemkhenter , Paolo Favaro

Reflection removal technology plays a crucial role in photography and computer vision applications. However, existing techniques are hindered by the lack of high-quality in-the-wild datasets. In this paper, we propose a novel paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kangning Yang , Ling Ouyang , Huiming Sun , Jie Cai , Lan Fu , Jiaming Ding , Chiu Man Ho , Zibo Meng

Inverse rendering remains a core challenge in graphics and vision, especially in the snapshot configurations required for lightweight desktop workflows, where the per-frame information budget is highly constrained. Previous inverse…

We study an inverse scattering problem for a generic hyperbolic system of equations with an unknown coefficient called the reflectivity. The solution of the system models waves (sound, electromagnetic or elastic), and the reflectivity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky , Jörn Zimmerling

Reflective ptychography is a promising lensless imaging technique with a wide field of view, offering significant potential for applications in semiconductor manufacturing and detection. However, many semiconductor materials are coated with…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Yun Gao , Qijun You , Peixiang Lu , Wei Cao

Following the remarkable success of diffusion models on image generation, recent works have also demonstrated their impressive ability to address a number of inverse problems in an unsupervised way, by properly constraining the sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Imaging inverse problems can be solved in an unsupervised manner using pre-trained diffusion models, but doing so requires approximating the gradient of the measurement-conditional score function in the diffusion reverse process. We show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Matt C. Bendel , Saurav K. Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Philip Schniter

Editing High Dynamic Range (HDR) environment maps using an inverse differentiable rendering architecture is a complex inverse problem due to the sparsity of relevant pixels and the challenges in balancing light sources and background. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Antonio D'Orazio , Davide Sforza , Fabio Pellacini , Iacopo Masi

Depth reconstruction and hyperspectral reflectance reconstruction are two active research topics in computer vision and image processing. Conventionally, these two topics have been studied separately using independent imaging setups and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Chunyu Li , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

This work aims to improve the applicability of diffusion models in realistic image restoration. Specifically, we enhance the diffusion model in several aspects such as network architecture, noise level, denoising steps, training image size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Blind image separation (BIS) refers to the inverse problem of simultaneously estimating and restoring multiple independent source images from a single observation image under conditions of unknown mixing mode and without prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jingwei Li , Wei Pu

In this work, we address the limitations of denoising diffusion models (DDMs) in image restoration tasks, particularly the shape and color distortions that can compromise image quality. While DDMs have demonstrated a promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Xinlong Cheng , Tiantian Cao , Guoan Cheng , Bangxuan Huang , Xinghan Tian , Ye Wang , Xiaoyu He , Weixin Li , Tianfan Xue , Xuan Dong

We consider the inverse problem of determining the geometry of penetrable objects from scattering data generated by one incident wave at a fixed frequency. We first study an orthogonality sampling type method which is fast, simple to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Thu Le , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Vu Nguyen , Trung Truong

Image super-resolution (SR) is a classical yet still active low-level vision problem that aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts, serving as a key technique for image enhancement. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yang Zou , Zhixin Chen , Zhipeng Zhang , Xingyuan Li , Long Ma , Jinyuan Liu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

We introduce SynthLight, a diffusion model for portrait relighting. Our approach frames image relighting as a re-rendering problem, where pixels are transformed in response to changes in environmental lighting conditions. Using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Sumit Chaturvedi , Mengwei Ren , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Jingyuan Liu , Julie Dorsey , Zhixin Shu

Inverse rendering methods aim to estimate geometry, materials and illumination from multi-view RGB images. In order to achieve better decomposition, recent approaches attempt to model indirect illuminations reflected from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Haoqian Wu , Zhipeng Hu , Lincheng Li , Yongqiang Zhang , Changjie Fan , Xin Yu

We study the problem of symmetry detection of 3D shapes from single-view RGB-D images, where severely missing data renders geometric detection approach infeasible. We propose an end-to-end deep neural network which is able to predict both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yifei Shi , Junwen Huang , Hongjia Zhang , Xin Xu , Szymon Rusinkiewicz , Kai Xu