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This work is focussed on the inversion task of inferring the distribution over parameters of interest leading to multiple sets of observations. The potential to solve such distributional inversion problems is driven by increasing…

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Image registration is an ill-posed dense vision task, where multiple solutions achieve similar loss values, motivating probabilistic inference. Variational inference has previously been employed to capture these distributions, however…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Ivor J. A. Simpson , Neill D. F. Campbell

Many imaging problems require solving an inverse problem that is ill-conditioned or ill-posed. Imaging methods typically address this difficulty by regularising the estimation problem to make it well-posed. This often requires setting the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-17 Ana F. Vidal , Valentin De Bortoli , Marcelo Pereyra , Alain Durmus

This paper rigorously solves the challenging problem of recognizing periodic patterns under rigid motion in Euclidean geometry. The 3-dimensional case is practically important for justifying the novelty of solid crystalline materials…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Olga Anosova , Daniel Widdowson , Vitaliy Kurlin

From an image of a person, we can easily infer the natural 3D pose and shape of the person even if ambiguity exists. This is because we have a mental model that allows us to imagine a person's appearance at different viewing directions from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hanbyel Cho , Yooshin Cho , Jaesung Ahn , Junmo Kim

Robotics is shifting from rigid, articulated systems to more sophisticated and heterogeneous mechanical structures. Soft robots, for example, have continuously deformable elements capable of large deformations. The flourishing of control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Pietro Pustina , Cosimo Della Santina , Alessandro De Luca

Tumor spatial heterogeneity analysis requires precise correlation between Hematoxylin and Eosin H&E morphology and immunohistochemical (IHC) biomarker expression, yet current methods suffer from spatial misalignment in consecutive sections,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yizhe Yuan , Bingsen Xue , Bangzheng Pu , Chengxiang Wang , Cheng Jin

Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CDI), a technique where an object is reconstructed from a single (2D or 3D) diffraction pattern, recovers the lost diffraction phases without a priori knowledge of the extent (support) of the object, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-27 Vincent Favre-Nicolin , Steven Leake , Yuriy Chushkin

Deformable image registration (DIR), aiming to find spatial correspondence between images, is one of the most critical problems in the domain of medical image analysis. In this paper, we present a novel, generic, and accurate diffeomorphic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yifan Wu , Tom Z. Jiahao , Jiancong Wang , Paul A. Yushkevich , M. Ani Hsieh , James C. Gee

Understanding structure-property relationships in complex materials requires integrating complementary measurements across multiple length scales. Here we propose an interpretable "multimodal" machine learning framework that unifies…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Shun Muroga , Hideaki Nakajima , Taiyo Shimizu , Kazufumi Kobashi , Kenji Hata

Recent advances in meta-optics have enabled diverse functionalities in compact optical devices; however, conventional forward design approaches become inadequate as device complexity and scale grow. Inverse design offers a powerful…

Identifying changes in a pair of 3D aerial LiDAR point clouds, obtained during two distinct time periods over the same geographic region presents a significant challenge due to the disparities in spatial coverage and the presence of noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Peter Naylor , Diego Di Carlo , Arianna Traviglia , Makoto Yamada , Marco Fiorucci

Parallel imaging is a commonly used technique to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data acquisition. Mathematically, parallel MRI reconstruction can be formulated as an inverse problem relating the sparsely sampled k-space…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Ruimin Feng , Qing Wu , Jie Feng , Huajun She , Chunlei Liu , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

Direct imaging methods recover the presence, position, and shape of the unknown obstacles in time-harmonic inverse scattering without a priori knowledge of either the physical properties or the number of disconnected components of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-29 General Ozochiawaeze

In this paper we the formulation of inverse problems as constrained minimization problems and their iterative solution by gradient or Newton type. We carry out a convergence analysis in the sense of regularization methods and discuss…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Kha Van Huynh

Reversible image conversion (RIC) suffers from ill-posedness issues due to its forward conversion process being considered an underdetermined system. Despite employing invertible neural networks (INN), existing RIC methods intrinsically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Yuanfei Huang , Hua Huang

In this work, we propose an inverse rendering model that estimates 3D shape, spatially-varying reflectance, homogeneous subsurface scattering parameters, and an environment illumination jointly from only a pair of captured images of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenhao Li , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

Inverse problems describe the process of estimating the causal factors from a set of measurements or data. Mapping of often incomplete or degraded data to parameters is ill-posed, thus data-driven iterative solutions are required, for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Weitong Zhang , Chengqi Zang , Liu Li , Sarah Cechnicka , Cheng Ouyang , Bernhard Kainz

Pathologists need to combine information from differently stained pathology slices for accurate diagnosis. Deformable image registration is a necessary technique for fusing multi-modal pathology slices. This paper proposes a hybrid deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Chulong Zhang , Yuming Jiang , Na Li , Zhicheng Zhang , Md Tauhidul Islam , Jingjing Dai , Lin Liu , Wenfeng He , Wenjian Qin , Jing Xiong , Yaoqin Xie , Xiaokun Liang

From biological organs to soft robotics, highly deformable materials are essential components of natural and engineered systems. These highly deformable materials can have heterogeneous material properties, and can experience heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Quan Nguyen , Emma Lejeune