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Lensless imaging offers a lightweight, compact alternative to traditional lens-based systems, ideal for exploration in space-constrained environments. However, the absence of a focusing lens and limited lighting in such environments often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Ziyang Liu , Tianjiao Zeng , Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Edmund Y. Lam

A solution to the inversion problem of scattering would offer aberration-free diffraction-limited 3D images without the resolution and depth-of-field limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. Powerful algorithms are increasingly being…

Image restoration (IR) aims to recover images degraded by unknown mixtures while preserving semanticsconditions under which discriminative restorers and UNet-based diffusion priors often oversmooth, hallucinate, or drift. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Song Fei , Tian Ye , Lujia Wang , Lei Zhu

We demonstrate a compact and easy-to-build computational camera for single-shot 3D imaging. Our lensless system consists solely of a diffuser placed in front of a standard image sensor. Every point within the volumetric field-of-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Nick Antipa , Grace Kuo , Reinhard Heckel , Ben Mildenhall , Emrah Bostan , Ren Ng , Laura Waller

FlatCam is a thin form-factor lensless camera that consists of a coded mask placed on top of a bare, conventional sensor array. Unlike a traditional, lens-based camera where an image of the scene is directly recorded on the sensor pixels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-28 M. Salman Asif , Ali Ayremlou , Aswin Sankaranarayanan , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Richard Baraniuk

Incorporating diffusion models in the image compression domain has the potential to produce realistic and detailed reconstructions, especially at extremely low bitrates. Previous methods focus on using diffusion models as expressive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Lucas Relic , Roberto Azevedo , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained neural network numerous times to obtain the final output,…

This work presents a flexible system to reconstruct 3D models of objects captured with an RGB-D sensor. A major advantage of the method is that our reconstruction pipeline allows the user to acquire a full 3D model of the object. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Aitor Aldoma , Johann Prankl , Alexander Svejda , Markus Vincze

Lensless imaging seeks to replace/remove the lens in a conventional imaging system. The earliest cameras were in fact lensless, relying on long exposure times to form images on the other end of a small aperture in a darkened room/container…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-06 Eric Bezzam , Sepand Kashani , Martin Vetterli , Matthieu Simeoni

Motivated by their great potential to reduce the size, cost and weight, flat lenses, a category that includes diffractive lenses and metalenses, are rapidly emerging as key components with the potential to replace the traditional refractive…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-25 Roy Maman , Eitan Mualem , Noa Mazurski , Jacob Engelberg , Uriel Levy

Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Dohoon Ryu , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

Mask-based lensless imagers use simple optics and computational reconstruction to design compact form factor cameras with compressive imaging ability. However, these imagers generally suffer from poor reconstruction quality. Here, we…

Image-based 3D reconstruction or 3D photogrammetry of small-scale objects including insects and biological specimens is challenging due to the use of high magnification lens with inherent limited depth of field, and the object's fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Hengjia Li , Chuong Nguyen

Denoising diffusion models have found applications in image segmentation by generating segmented masks conditioned on images. Existing studies predominantly focus on adjusting model architecture or improving inference, such as test-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Yunguan Fu , Yiwen Li , Shaheer U Saeed , Matthew J Clarkson , Yipeng Hu

Photography usually requires optics in conjunction with a recording device (an image sensor). Eliminating the optics could lead to new form factors for cameras. Here, we report a simple demonstration of imaging using a bare CMOS sensor that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Ganghun Kim , Kyle Isaacson , Racheal Palmer , Rajesh Menon

We present a simple, yet effective diffusion-based method for fine-grained, parametric control over light sources in an image. Existing relighting methods either rely on multiple input views to perform inverse rendering at inference time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Nadav Magar , Amir Hertz , Eric Tabellion , Yael Pritch , Alex Rav-Acha , Ariel Shamir , Yedid Hoshen

We develop a lensless compressive imaging architecture, which consists of an aperture assembly and a single sensor, without using any lens. An anytime algorithm is proposed to reconstruct images from the compressive measurements; the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Xin Yuan , Hong Jiang , Gang Huang , Paul Wilford

We present LayerDiffuse, an approach enabling large-scale pretrained latent diffusion models to generate transparent images. The method allows generation of single transparent images or of multiple transparent layers. The method learns a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Lvmin Zhang , Maneesh Agrawala

Accurate camera calibration is a fundamental task for 3D perception, especially when dealing with real-world, in-the-wild environments where complex optical distortions are common. Existing methods often rely on pre-rectified images or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Liuyue Xie , Jiancong Guo , Ozan Cakmakci , Andre Araujo , Laszlo A. Jeni , Zhiheng Jia

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv