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Mathematically representing the shape of an object is a key ingredient for solving inverse rendering problems. Explicit representations like meshes are efficient to render in a differentiable fashion but have difficulties handling topology…

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Traditional inverse rendering techniques are based on textured meshes, which naturally adapts to modern graphics pipelines, but costly differentiable multi-bounce Monte Carlo (MC) ray tracing poses challenges for modeling global…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jiakai Sun , Weijing Zhang , Zhanjie Zhang , Tianyi Chu , Guangyuan Li , Lei Zhao , Wei Xing

Recent research has proven neural networks to be a powerful tool for performing hyperspectral imaging (HSI) target identification. However, many deep learning frameworks deliver a single material class prediction and operate on a per-pixel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Joshua R. Tempelman , Kevin Mitchell , Adam J. Wachtor , Eric B. Flynn

Observations and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of solar and stellar atmospheres reveal an intermittent behavior or steep gradients in physical parameters, such as magnetic field, temperature, and bulk velocities. The numerical solution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gioele Janett

Coordinate transformation models often fail to account for nonlinear and spatially dependent distortions, leading to significant residual errors in geospatial applications. Here we propose a residual-based neural correction strategy, in…

Discontinuities in spatial derivatives appear in a wide range of physical systems, from creased thin sheets to materials with sharp stiffness transitions. Accurately modeling these features is essential for simulation but remains…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mengfei Liu , Yue Chang , Zhecheng Wang , Peter Yichen Chen , Eitan Grinspun

Variational inference using the reparameterization trick has enabled large-scale approximate Bayesian inference in complex probabilistic models, leveraging stochastic optimization to sidestep intractable expectations. The reparameterization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-13 Christian A. Naesseth , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , Scott W. Linderman , David M. Blei

Projection-based reduced order models are effective at approximating parameter-dependent differential equations that are parametrically separable. When parametric separability is not satisfied, which occurs in both linear and nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Peter Sentz , Kristian Beckwith , Eric C. Cyr , Luke N. Olson , Ravi Patel

Ray-tracing (RT) has become central to site-specific electromagnetic propagation modeling in dynamic complex environments. Yet its computational burden grows sharply as high-fidelity digital twins of these environments scale to millions of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Giacomo Melloni , Enrico M. Vitucci , Vittorio Degli Esposti , Samuel Berweger , Jack Chuang , Camillo Gentile , Nada Golmie

The Backprop algorithm for learning in neural networks utilizes two mechanisms: first, stochastic gradient descent and second, initialization with small random weights, where the latter is essential to the effectiveness of the former. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Shibhansh Dohare , Richard S. Sutton , A. Rupam Mahmood

Traditional computer graphics rendering pipeline is designed for procedurally generating 2D quality images from 3D shapes with high performance. The non-differentiability due to discrete operations such as visibility computation makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Chuan Li , Stephen Balaban , Yong-Liang Yang

This paper aims to systematically and comprehensively initiate a foundation for using concepts from computational differential geometry as instruments for power flow computing and research. At this point we focus our discussion on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Franz-Erich Wolter , Benjamin Berger , Alexander Vais

Forward Gradients - the idea of using directional derivatives in forward differentiation mode - have recently been shown to be utilizable for neural network training while avoiding problems generally associated with backpropagation gradient…

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We present an algorithm for reconstructing the radiance field of a large-scale scene from a single casually captured video. The task poses two core challenges. First, most existing radiance field reconstruction approaches rely on accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Andreas Meuleman , Yu-Lun Liu , Chen Gao , Jia-Bin Huang , Changil Kim , Min H. Kim , Johannes Kopf

Although Neural Differential Equations have shown promise on toy problems such as MNIST, they have yet to be successfully applied to more challenging tasks. Inspired by variational methods for image restoration relying on partial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Teven Le Scao

Recently, the problem of boundary stabilization and estimation for unstable linear constant-coefficient reaction-diffusion equation on n-balls (in particular, disks and spheres) has been solved by means of the backstepping method. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Rafael Vazquez , Jing Zhang , Jie Qi , Miroslav Krstic

We review the theory of, and develop algorithms for transforming a finite point set in ${\bf R}^d$ into a set in \emph{radial isotropic position} by a nonsingular linear transformation followed by rescaling each image point to the unit…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Haim Kaplan , Micha Sharir

The boundary integral method is extended to derive closed integro-differential equations applicable to computation of the shape and propagation speed of a steadily moving spot and to the analysis of dynamic instabilities in the sharp…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-07 L. M. Pismen

We present a novel deep learning framework that models the scene dependent image processing inside cameras. Often called as the radiometric calibration, the process of recovering RAW images from processed images (JPEG format in the sRGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Seonghyeon Nam , Seon Joo Kim

To accurately reproduce measurements from the real world, simulators need to have an adequate model of the physical system and require the parameters of the model be identified. We address the latter problem of estimating parameters through…

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