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Mathematical models in neural networks are powerful tools for solving complex differential equations and optimizing their parameters; that is, solving the forward and inverse problems, respectively. A forward problem predicts the output of…

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Humans have a remarkable capacity to understand the physical dynamics of objects in their environment, flexibly capturing complex structures and interactions at multiple levels of detail. Inspired by this ability, we propose a hierarchical…

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We propose a novel composite framework to find unknown fields in the context of inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs). We blend the high expressibility of deep neural networks as universal function estimators with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Samira Pakravan , Pouria A. Mistani , Miguel Angel Aragon-Calvo , Frederic Gibou

In this work, we address the problem of jointly estimating albedo, normals, depth and 3D spatially-varying lighting from a single image. Most existing methods formulate the task as image-to-image translation, ignoring the 3D properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zian Wang , Jonah Philion , Sanja Fidler , Jan Kautz

BRDF models are ubiquitous tools for the representation of material appearance. However, there is now an astonishingly large number of different models in practical use. Both a lack of BRDF model standardisation across implementations found…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Alejandro Sztrajman , Jaroslav Krivanek , Alexander Wilkie , Tim Weyrich

By absorbing the merits of both the model- and data-driven methods, deep physics-engaged learning scheme achieves high-accuracy and interpretable image reconstruction. It has attracted growing attention and become the mainstream for inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Bin Chen , Jiechong Song , Jingfen Xie , Jian Zhang

A 3D digital scene contains many components: lights, materials and geometries, interacting to reach the desired appearance. Staging such a scene is time-consuming and requires both artistic and technical skills. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Kai Yan , Fujun Luan , MiloŠ HaŠAn , Thibault Groueix , Valentin Deschaintre , Shuang Zhao

Blur is an image degradation that is difficult to remove. Invariants with respect to blur offer an alternative way of a~description and recognition of blurred images without any deblurring. In this paper, we present an original unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jan Flusser , Matej Lebl , Matteo Pedone , Filip Sroubek , Jitka Kostkova

Differentiable render is widely used in optimization-based 3D reconstruction which requires gradients from differentiable operations for gradient-based optimization. The existing differentiable renderers obtain the gradients of rendering…

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Inverse Problems in medical imaging and computer vision are traditionally solved using purely model-based methods. Among those variational regularization models are one of the most popular approaches. We propose a new framework for applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Sebastian Lunz , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Differentiable programming, enabled by automatic differentiation (AD), provides a robust framework for gradient-based optimization in computational plasma physics. While optimization is often only used towards design, we demonstrate that it…

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We present a Bayesian machine learning architecture that combines a physically motivated parametrization and an analytic error model for the likelihood with a deep generative model providing a powerful data-driven prior for complex signals.…

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Disordered metamaterials are promising for programming physical properties across diverse applications, yet their inverse design remains challenging due to the non-intuitive structure-property relationships and large design spaces. Recent…

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Deep learning is a powerful tool for solving data driven differential problems and has come out to have successful applications in solving direct and inverse problems described by PDEs, even in presence of integral terms. In this paper, we…

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We introduce differentiable indirection -- a novel learned primitive that employs differentiable multi-scale lookup tables as an effective substitute for traditional compute and data operations across the graphics pipeline. We demonstrate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sayantan Datta , Carl Marshall , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Zhao Dong , Zhengqin Li

Video representation learning has recently attracted attention in computer vision due to its applications for activity and scene forecasting or vision-based planning and control. Video prediction models often learn a latent representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Rama Krishna Kandukuri , Jan Achterhold , Michael Möller , Jörg Stückler

Data-driven methods have increasingly been applied to the development of optical systems as inexpensive and effective inverse design approaches. Optical properties (e.g., band-gap properties) of photonic crystals (PCs) are closely…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-01 Tao Zhan , Quan-Shan Liu , Lu Qiu , Yuan-Jie Sun , Tao Wen , Rui Zhang

Current differentiable renderers provide light transport gradients with respect to arbitrary scene parameters. However, the mere existence of these gradients does not guarantee useful update steps in an optimization. Instead, inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Michael Fischer , Tobias Ritschel

Physics Informed Neural Networks is a numerical method which uses neural networks to approximate solutions of partial differential equations. It has received a lot of attention and is currently used in numerous physical and engineering…

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