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Diffusion models, as a kind of powerful generative model, have given impressive results on image super-resolution (SR) tasks. However, due to the randomness introduced in the reverse process of diffusion models, the performances of…

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Many inverse problems are ill-posed and need to be complemented by prior information that restricts the class of admissible models. Bayesian approaches encode this information as prior distributions that impose generic properties on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Julian L. Möbius , Michael Habeck

We present a concise, self-contained derivation of diffusion-based generative models. Starting from basic properties of Gaussian distributions (densities, quadratic expectations, re-parameterisation, products, and KL divergences), we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sepehr Maleki , Negar Pourmoazemi

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the domain of text-guided image generation and, more recently, in text-guided image editing. A commonly adopted strategy for editing real images involves inverting the diffusion process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Wonjun Kang , Kevin Galim , Hyung Il Koo

We develop a diffusion approximation for systems subject to fast random resetting by small amplitudes. Equivalently, this describes systems with frequent but small catastrophes. We demonstrate the validity of the approximation by computing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-26 Tobias Galla

Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Clemens Kirisits , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) utilises near-infrared light for imaging spatially distributed optical parameters, typically the absorption and scattering coefficients. The image reconstruction problem of DOT is an ill-posed inverse…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Meghdoot Mozumder , Andreas Hauptmann , Ilkka Nissilä , Simon R. Arridge , Tanja Tarvainen

Diffusion-based inpainting is a powerful tool for the reconstruction of images from sparse data. Its quality strongly depends on the choice of known data. Optimising their spatial location -- the inpainting mask -- is challenging. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Tobias Alt , Pascal Peter , Joachim Weickert

Flow and Diffusion Distributed Structures (FDS) are stationary spatially periodic patterns that can be observed in reaction-diffusion-advection systems. These structures arise when the flow rate exceeds a certain bifurcation point provided…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-11-19 Pavel V. Kuptsov , Razvan A. Satnoianu

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have shown a powerful capacity of generating high-quality image samples. Recently, diffusion autoencoders (Diff-AE) have been proposed to explore DPMs for representation learning via autoencoding. Their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zijian Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Zhijie Lin

Conditional diffusion inversion provides a powerful framework for unpaired image-to-image translation. However, we demonstrate through an extensive analysis that standard deterministic inversion (e.g. DDIM) fails when the source domain is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Nicolas Bourriez , Alexandre Verine , Auguste Genovesio

This paper considers the problem of utilizing a large-scale text-to-image diffusion model to tackle the challenging Inexact Segmentation (IS) task. Unlike traditional approaches that rely heavily on discriminative-model-based paradigms or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tianjiao Zhang , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models for solving inverse problems, offering a good approximation of prior distributions of real-world image data. Typically, diffusion models rely on large-scale clean signals to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yifei Wang , Weimin Bai , Weijian Luo , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

Multi-modal image fusion aims to consolidate complementary information from diverse source images into a unified representation. The fused image is expected to preserve fine details and maintain high visual fidelity. While diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xingxin Xu , Bing Cao , DongDong Li , Qinghua Hu , Pengfei Zhu

Microstructure reconstruction has been an essential part of computational material engineering to reveal the relationship between microstructures and material properties. However, finding a general solution for microstructure…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-24 Kang-Hyun Lee , Gun Jin Yun

The rapid progress of diffusion models highlights the growing need for detecting generated images. Previous research demonstrates that incorporating diffusion-based measurements, such as reconstruction error, can enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yingsong Huang , Hui Guo , Jing Huang , Bing Bai , Qi Xiong

Partial differential equation (PDE) models and their associated variational energy formulations are often rotationally invariant by design. This ensures that a rotation of the input results in a corresponding rotation of the output, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tobias Alt , Karl Schrader , Joachim Weickert , Pascal Peter , Matthias Augustin

We address the problem of data augmentation in a rotating turbulence set-up, a paradigmatic challenge in geophysical applications. The goal is to reconstruct information in two-dimensional (2D) cuts of the three-dimensional flow fields,…

Image-generative artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered significant attention in recent years. In particular, the diffusion model, a core component of generative AI, produces high-quality images with rich diversity. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Sho Ozaki , Shizuo Kaji , Toshikazu Imae , Kanabu Nawa , Hideomi Yamashita , Keiichi Nakagawa

Computational image reconstruction algorithms generally produce a single image without any measure of uncertainty or confidence. Regularized Maximum Likelihood (RML) and feed-forward deep learning approaches for inverse problems typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 He Sun , Katherine L. Bouman