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We introduce VistaFlow, a scalable three-dimensional imaging technique capable of reconstructing fully interactive 3D volumetric images from a set of 2D photographs. Our model synthesizes novel viewpoints through a differentiable rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jayram Palamadai , William Yu

While vision transformers show promise in numerous image restoration (IR) tasks, the challenge remains in efficiently generalizing and scaling up a model for multiple IR tasks. To strike a balance between efficiency and model capacity for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Yawei Li , Bin Ren , Jingyun Liang , Rakesh Ranjan , Mengyuan Liu , Nicu Sebe , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Luca Benini

We introduce AdvantageFlow, a forward-process reinforcement learning algorithm for rectified flow models. Unlike Flow-GRPO, which optimizes the reverse process, we optimize an advantage-weighted forward-process prediction loss. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Branislav Kveton , Anup Rao , Subhojyoti Mukherjee , Krishna Kumar Singh , Viet Dac Lai

The reconstruction of unsteady flow fields from limited measurements is a challenging and crucial task for many engineering applications. Machine learning models are gaining popularity for solving this problem due to their ability to learn…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Marc Amorós-Trepat , Luis Medrano-Navarro , Qiang Liu , Luca Guastoni , Nils Thuerey

Recent advances in flow-based generative models have enabled training-free, text-guided image editing by inverting an image into its latent noise and regenerating it under a new target conditional guidance. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Thinh Dao , Zhen Wang , Kien T. Pham , Long Chen

The employment of convolutional neural networks has achieved unprecedented performance in the task of image restoration for a variety of degradation factors. However, high-performance networks have been specifically designed for a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Xing Liu , Masanori Suganuma , Xiyang Luo , Takayuki Okatani

While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods have shown impressive outcomes with synthetic degradation scenarios such as bicubic downsampling, they frequently struggle to perform well on real-world images that feature complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hyeonjae Kim , Dongjin Kim , Eugene Jin , Tae Hyun Kim

Generative modeling techniques such as Diffusion and Flow Matching have achieved significant successes in generating designable and diverse protein backbones. However, many current models are computationally expensive, requiring hundreds or…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-30 Junhua Chen , Simon Mathis , Charles Harris , Kieran Didi , Pietro Lio

Reconstructing High Dynamic Range (HDR) video from image sequences captured with alternating exposures is challenging, especially in the presence of large camera or object motion. Existing methods typically align low dynamic range sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Gangwei Xu , Yujin Wang , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue , Xin Yang

Despite the progress of learning-based methods for 6D object pose estimation, the trade-off between accuracy and scalability for novel objects still exists. Specifically, previous methods for novel objects do not make good use of the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sungphill Moon , Hyeontae Son , Dongcheol Hur , Sangwook Kim

Ground-to-space astronomical super-resolution requires recovering space-quality images from ground-based observations that are simultaneously limited by pixel sampling resolution and atmospheric seeing, which imposes a stochastic, spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shuhong Liu , Xining Ge , Ziteng Cui , Liuzhuozheng Li , Gengjia Chang , Jun Liu , Ziying Gu , Dong Li , Xuangeng Chu , Lin Gu , Tatsuya Harada

Underwater images are degraded by the selective attenuation of light that distorts colours and reduces contrast. The degradation extent depends on the water type, the distance between an object and the camera, and the depth under the water…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Chau Yi Li , Riccardo Mazzon , Andrea Cavallaro

IQUAFLOW is a new image quality framework that provides a set of tools to assess image quality. The user can add custom metrics that can be easily integrated. Furthermore, iquaflow allows to measure quality by using the performance of AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 P. Gallés , K. Takats , M. Hernández-Cabronero , D. Berga , L. Pega , L. Riordan-Chen , C. Garcia , G. Becker , A. Garriga , A. Bukva , J. Serra-Sagristà , D. Vilaseca , J. Marín

Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various forms of degradation. Recently, the diffusion model has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xin Li , Yulin Ren , Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Xingrui Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Xinchao Wang , Zhibo Chen

Super-resolution reconstruction techniques entail the utilization of software algorithms to transform one or more sets of low-resolution images captured from the same scene into high-resolution images. In recent years, considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Hao Yan , Zixiang Wang , Zhengjia Xu , Zhuoyue Wang , Zhizhong Wu , Ranran Lyu

LoRa technology, crucial for low-power wide-area networks, faces significant performance degradation at extremely low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). We present LoRaFlow, a novel approach using rectified flow to reconstruct high-quality LoRa…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Mohamed Osman , Tamer Nadeem

New technologies such as Rectified Flow and Flow Matching have significantly improved the performance of generative models in the past two years, especially in terms of control accuracy, generation quality, and generation efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sen Fang , Hongbin Zhong , Yalin Feng , Yanxin Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

In real-world scenarios, image impairments often manifest as composite degradations, presenting a complex interplay of elements such as low light, haze, rain, and snow. Despite this reality, existing restoration methods typically target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yu Guo , Yuan Gao , Yuxu Lu , Huilin Zhu , Ryan Wen Liu , Shengfeng He

Optical flow models trained on high-quality data often degrade severely when confronted with real-world corruptions such as blur, noise, and compression artifacts. To overcome this limitation, we formulate Degradation-Aware Optical Flow, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jaewon Min , Jaeeun Lee , Yeji Choi , Paul Hyunbin Cho , Jin Hyeon Kim , Tae-Young Lee , Jongsik Ahn , Hwayeong Lee , Seonghyun Park , Seungryong Kim

This thesis presents novel contributions in two primary areas: advancing the efficiency of generative models, particularly normalizing flows, and applying generative models to solve real-world computer vision challenges. The first part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sandeep Nagar