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With 3D data rapidly emerging as an important form of multimedia information, 3D human mesh recovery technology has also advanced accordingly. However, current methods mainly focus on handling humans wearing tight clothing and perform…

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Hiding data using neural networks (i.e., neural steganography) has achieved remarkable success across both discriminative classifiers and generative adversarial networks. However, the potential of data hiding in diffusion models remains…

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Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers (DIS) have recently shown outstanding performance in compressed-sensing parallel MRI reconstruction by combining diffusion priors with physical measurement models. However, they typically rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Tingjun Liu , Chicago Y. Park , Yuyang Hu , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Previous methods for 3D human motion recovery from monocular images often fall short due to reliance on camera coordinates, leading to inaccuracies in real-world applications. The limited availability and diversity of focal length labels…

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Diffusion models are gaining widespread use in cutting-edge image, video, and audio generation. Score-based diffusion models stand out among these methods, necessitating the estimation of score function of the input data distribution. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Fangzhao Zhang , Mert Pilanci

Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-3D human generation, which employ the human model prior (eg, SMPL) or Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) with pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models, have been groundbreaking. However, SDS may provide…

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In-bed human mesh recovery can be crucial and enabling for several healthcare applications, including sleep pattern monitoring, rehabilitation support, and pressure ulcer prevention. However, it is difficult to collect large real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jing Gao , Ce Zheng , Laszlo A. Jeni , Zackory Erickson

Reconstructing visual stimuli from fMRI signals is a central challenge bridging machine learning and neuroscience. Recent diffusion-based methods typically map fMRI activity to a single high-level embedding, using it as fixed guidance…

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One of the mainstream schemes for 2D human pose estimation (HPE) is learning keypoints heatmaps by a neural network. Existing methods typically improve the quality of heatmaps by customized architectures, such as high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Zhongwei Qiu , Qiansheng Yang , Jian Wang , Xiyu Wang , Chang Xu , Dongmei Fu , Kun Yao , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

3D human pose estimation from 2D images is a challenging problem due to depth ambiguity and occlusion. Because of these challenges the task is underdetermined, where there exists multiple -- possibly infinite -- poses that are plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Francis Snelgar , Ming Xu , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng , Akshay Asthana

Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) is fundamentally ambiguous: under occlusion or weak depth cues, multiple 3D bodies can explain the same image evidence. This ambiguity is not uniform across the body, as torso pose and root structure are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Patrick Kwon , Chen Chen

Recovering signals from low-order moments is a fundamental yet notoriously difficult task in inverse problems. This recovery process often reduces to solving ill-conditioned systems of polynomial equations. In this work, we propose a new…

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Solving ill-posed inverse problems requires careful formulation of prior beliefs over the signals of interest and an accurate description of their manifestation into noisy measurements. Handcrafted signal priors based on e.g. sparsity are…

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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…

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Diffusion models have established new state of the art in a multitude of computer vision tasks, including image restoration. Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers generate reconstructions of exceptional visual quality from heavily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Existing diffusion-based methods for inverse problems sample from the posterior using score functions and accept the generated random samples as solutions. In applications that posterior mean is preferred, we have to generate multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhipeng Xue , Penghao Cai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xiqi Gao

Diffusion models are extensively used for modeling image priors for inverse problems. We introduce \emph{Diff-Unfolding}, a principled framework for learning posterior score functions of \emph{conditional diffusion models} by explicitly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yuanhao Wang , Shirin Shoushtari , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Score-based diffusion models are a recently developed framework for posterior sampling in Bayesian inverse problems with a state-of-the-art performance for severely ill-posed problems by leveraging a powerful prior distribution learned from…

Diffusion models have become a popular approach for image generation and reconstruction due to their numerous advantages. However, most diffusion-based inverse problem-solving methods only deal with 2D images, and even recently published 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Suhyeon Lee , Hyungjin Chung , Minyoung Park , Jonghyuk Park , Wi-Sun Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

Human mesh recovery can be approached using either regression-based or optimization-based methods. Regression models achieve high pose accuracy but struggle with model-to-image alignment due to the lack of explicit 2D-3D correspondences. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chongyang Xu , Buzhen Huang , Chengfang Zhang , Ziliang Feng , Yangang Wang