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The mismatch between the numerical and actual nonlinear models is a challenge to nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation (NAEC) when the nonlinear adaptive filter is utilized. To alleviate this problem, we combine a basis-generic expansion of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Guoliang Cheng , Lele Liao , Hongsheng Chen , Jing Lu

Audio inpainting seeks to restore missing segments in degraded recordings. Previous diffusion-based methods exhibit impaired performance when the missing region is large. We introduce the first approach that applies discrete diffusion over…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Tali Dror , Iftach Shoham , Moshe Buchris , Oren Gal , Haim Permuter , Gilad Katz , Eliya Nachmani

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of reconstructing an inhomogeneous medium from the acoustic far-field data at a fixed frequency in two dimensions. This inverse problem is severely ill-posed (and also strongly nonlinear),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Kai Li , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

Blind face restoration usually synthesizes degraded low-quality data with a pre-defined degradation model for training, while more complex cases could happen in the real world. This gap between the assumed and actual degradation hurts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhixin Wang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ziying Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Mingyuan Zhou , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Image interpolation based on diffusion models is promising in creating fresh and interesting images. Advanced interpolation methods mainly focus on spherical linear interpolation, where images are encoded into the noise space and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 PengFei Zheng , Yonggang Zhang , Zhen Fang , Tongliang Liu , Defu Lian , Bo Han

Score-based diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance for inverse problems, but their practical deployment is hindered by long inference times and cumbersome hyperparameter tuning. While pretrained diffusion models can be reused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Julio Oscanoa , Irmak Sivgin , Cagan Alkan , Daniel Ennis , John Pauly , Mert Pilanci , Shreyas Vasanawala

Diffusion bridge models establish probabilistic paths between arbitrary paired distributions and exhibit great potential for universal image restoration. Most existing methods merely treat them as simple variants of stochastic interpolants,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hebaixu Wang , Jing Zhang , Haoyang Chen , Haonan Guo , Di Wang , Jiayi Ma , Bo Du

We introduce a novel algorithm for nonlinear processing of data gathered by an active array of sensors which probes a medium with pulses and measures the resulting waves. The algorithm is motivated by the application of array imaging. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky

In this paper, we introduce a denoising diffusion algorithm to discover microstructures with nonlinear fine-tuned properties. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models are generative models that use diffusion-based dynamics to gradually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Nikolaos N. Vlassis , WaiChing Sun

Vision Language Model (VLM) typically assume complete modality input during inference. However, their effectiveness drops sharply when certain modalities are unavailable or incomplete. Current research on missing modality primarily faces…

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Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Shi , Yu Liu , Zhong-Cheng Wu , Juan Cheng , Huafeng Li , Xun Chen

Diffusion models have shown exceptional scaling properties in the image synthesis domain, and initial attempts have shown similar benefits for applying diffusion to unconditional text synthesis. Denoising diffusion models attempt to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Matthew Baas , Kevin Eloff , Herman Kamper

This paper introduces a discrete diffusion model (DDM) framework for text-aligned speech tokenization and reconstruction. By replacing the auto-regressive speech decoder with a discrete diffusion counterpart, our model achieves…

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Most image deblurring methods assume an over-simplistic image formation model and as a result are sensitive to more realistic image degradations. We propose a novel variational framework, that explicitly handles pixel saturation, noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jérémy Anger , Mauricio Delbracio , Gabriele Facciolo

Recent generative-prior-based methods have shown promising blind face restoration performance. They usually project the degraded images to the latent space and then decode high-quality faces either by single-stage latent optimization or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Maitreya Suin , Rama Chellappa

Pre-trained diffusion models have enabled significant advancements in All-in-One Restoration (AiOR), offering improved perceptual quality and generalization. However, diffusion-based restoration methods primarily rely on fine-tuning or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sudarshan Rajagopalan , Vishal M. Patel

Most existing image restoration networks are designed in a disposable way and catastrophically forget previously learned distortions when trained on a new distortion removal task. To alleviate this problem, we raise the novel lifelong image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Jianzhao Liu , Jianxin Lin , Xin Li , Wei Zhou , Sen Liu , Zhibo Chen

Despite today's prevalence of ultrasound imaging in medicine, ultrasound signal-to-noise ratio is still affected by several sources of noise and artefacts. Moreover, enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

Phase retrieval is the numerical procedure of recovering a complex-valued signal from knowledge about its amplitude and some additional information. Here, an indirect registration procedure, based on the large deformation diffeomorphic…

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