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Diffusion models achieved great success in image synthesis, but still face challenges in high-resolution generation. Through the lens of discrete cosine transformation, we find the main reason is that \emph{the same noise level on a higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jiayan Teng , Wendi Zheng , Ming Ding , Wenyi Hong , Jianqiao Wangni , Zhuoyi Yang , Jie Tang

NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) era constraints, high sensitivity to noise and limited qubit count, impose significant barriers on the usability of QPUs (Quantum Process Units) capabilities. To overcome these challenges, researchers…

From fundamental studies of light-matter interaction to applications in quantum networking and sensing, cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) provides a platform-crossing toolbox to control interactions between atoms and photons. The…

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography is an emerging imaging technique aimed at estimating the distribution of optical parameters inside tissues from photoacoustic images, which are formed by combining optical information and ultrasonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Antti Hannukainen , Nuutti Hyvönen , Helle Majander , Tanja Tarvainen

This paper introduces MIDI, a novel paradigm for compositional 3D scene generation from a single image. Unlike existing methods that rely on reconstruction or retrieval techniques or recent approaches that employ multi-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zehuan Huang , Yuan-Chen Guo , Xingqiao An , Yunhan Yang , Yangguang Li , Zi-Xin Zou , Ding Liang , Xihui Liu , Yan-Pei Cao , Lu Sheng

By profiting from recent developments in detector technologies, making it possible to access a stream of detection events with few-ns time resolutions, a new ptychographic workflow is established. This methodological framework, referred to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Hoelen L. Lalandec Robert , Arno Annys , Tamazouzt Chennit , Jo Verbeeck

We propose a scheme for generating a high-purity single photon on the basis of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). This scheme employs a four-level system including two excited states, two ground states, and two driving lasers; this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Seigo Kikura , Rui Asaoka , Masato Koashi , Yuuki Tokunaga

The lack of spatial dimensional information remains a challenge in normal estimation from a single image. Recent diffusion-based methods have demonstrated significant potential in 2D-to-3D implicit mapping, they rely on data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yanxing Liang , Yinghui Wang , Jinlong Yang , Wei Li

Photonic quantum processors naturally produce intrinsically stochastic measurement outcomes, offering a hardware-native source of structured randomness that can be exploited during machine-learning training. Here we introduce Photonic…

In this paper, we propose a new methodology to design quantum hybrid diffusion models, derived from classical U-Nets with ResNet and Attention layers. Specifically, we propose two possible different hybridization schemes combining quantum…

Single-pixel imaging is a novel imaging scheme that has gained popularity due to its huge computational gain and potential for a low-cost alternative to imaging beyond the visible spectrum. The traditional reconstruction methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Nazmul Karim , Nazanin Rahnavard

Diffusion models (DMs) have exhibited remarkable efficacy in various image restoration tasks. However, existing approaches typically operate within the high-dimensional pixel space, resulting in high computational overhead. While methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yang Zheng , Wen Li , Zhaoqiang Liu

Advances in nanotechnology provide techniques for the realisation of integrated quantum-optical circuits for on-chip quantum information processing(QIP). The indistinguishable single photons, required for such devices can be generated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 M. N. Makhonin , J. E. Dixon , R. J. Coles , B. Royall , E. Clarke , M. S. Skolnick , A. M. Fox

Recently, research on denoising diffusion models has expanded its application to the field of image restoration. Traditional diffusion-based image restoration methods utilize degraded images as conditional input to effectively guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhenning Shi , Haoshuai Zheng , Chen Xu , Changsheng Dong , Bin Pan , Xueshuo Xie , Along He , Tao Li , Huazhu Fu

A high-quality quantum dot (QD) single-photon source is a key resource for quantum information processing. Exciting a QD emitter resonantly can greatly suppress decoherence processes and lead to highly indistinguishable single-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Xiaoyan Zhou , Peter Lodahl , Leonardo Midolo

Standard diffusion corrupts data using Gaussian noise whose Fourier coefficients have random magnitudes and random phases. While effective for unconditional or text-to-image generation, corrupting phase components destroys spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yu Zeng , Charles Ochoa , Mingyuan Zhou , Vishal M. Patel , Vitor Guizilini , Rowan McAllister

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging technique widely used for visualizing structures within the human body and in other fields such as plant sciences. However, there is a demand to develop fast 3D-MRI reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Arya Bangun , Zhuo Cao , Alessio Quercia , Hanno Scharr , Elisabeth Pfaehler

Popularized by their strong image generation performance, diffusion and related methods for generative modeling have found widespread success in visual media applications. In particular, diffusion methods have enabled new approaches to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt

Quantum illumination (QI) is a quantum sensing protocol mainly for target detection which uses entangled signal-idler photon pairs to enhance the detection efficiency of low-reflectivity objects immersed in thermal noisy environments.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Qizhi Cai , Jinkun Liao , Bohai Shen , Guangcan Guo , Qiang Zhou

Full waveform inversion (FWI) has the potential to provide high-resolution subsurface model estimations. However, due to limitations in observation, e.g., regional noise, limited shots or receivers, and band-limited data, it is hard to…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Fu Wang , Xinquan Huang , Tariq Alkhalifah