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Autonomous driving and advanced driver-assistance systems rely on a set of sensors and algorithms to perform the appropriate actions and provide alerts as a function of the driving scene. Typically, the sensors include color cameras, radar,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Michael Baltaxe , Tomer Pe'er , Dan Levi

In the realm of image generation, the quest for realism and customization has never been more pressing. While existing methods like concept sliders have made strides, they often falter when it comes to no-AIGC images, particularly images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yufei Tang , Daiheng Gao , Pingyu Wu , Wenbo Zhou , Bang Zhang , Weiming Zhang

Polarizers are essential in diverse photonics applications including display [1], microscopy [2], polarimetric astrophysical observation [3], laser machining [4], and quantum information processing [5]. Whereas conventional polarizers based…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-09 Jae Woong Yoon , Kyu Jin Lee , Robert Magnusson

Despeckling is a crucial noise reduction task in improving the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Directly obtaining noise-free SAR images is a challenging task that has hindered the development of accurate despeckling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shunya Kato , Masaki Saito , Katsuhiko Ishiguro , Sol Cummings

Polarization, as a new optical imaging tool, has been explored to assist in the diagnosis of pathology. Moreover, converting the polarimetric Mueller Matrix (MM) to standardized stained images becomes a promising approach to help…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Xiaoyu Zheng , Jing Wen , Jiaxin Zhuang , Yao Du , Jing Cong , Limei Guo , Chao He , Lin Luo , Hao Chen

Recent advances in computer vision have led to significant progress in the generation of realistic image data, with denoising diffusion probabilistic models proving to be a particularly effective method. In this study, we demonstrate that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Dennis Eschweiler , Rüveyda Yilmaz , Matisse Baumann , Ina Laube , Rijo Roy , Abin Jose , Daniel Brückner , Johannes Stegmaier

Polarimetric imaging, a technique that captures the invisible polarization-related properties of given materials, has broad applications from fundamental physics to advanced fields such as target recognition, stress detection, biomedical…

Ultra-high-resolution image generation poses great challenges, such as increased semantic planning complexity and detail synthesis difficulties, alongside substantial training resource demands. We present UltraPixel, a novel architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jingjing Ren , Wenbo Li , Haoyu Chen , Renjing Pei , Bin Shao , Yong Guo , Long Peng , Fenglong Song , Lei Zhu

In controllable generation tasks, flexibly manipulating the generated images to attain a desired appearance or structure based on a single input image cue remains a critical and longstanding challenge. Achieving this requires the effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xi Wang , Yichen Peng , Heng Fang , Yilin Wang , Haoran Xie , Xi Yang , Chuntao Li

Creating realistic avatars from a single RGB image is an attractive yet challenging problem. Due to its ill-posed nature, recent works leverage powerful prior from 2D diffusion models pretrained on large datasets. Although 2D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Riccardo Marin , Gerard Pons-Moll

Polarization-based underwater 3D imaging exploits polarization cues to suppress background scattering, exhibiting distinct advantages in turbid water. Although data-driven polarization-based underwater 3D reconstruction methods show great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Puyun Wang , Kaimin Yu , Huayang He , Xianyu Wu

We propose a novel 3d colored shape reconstruction method from a single RGB image through diffusion model. Diffusion models have shown great development potentials for high-quality 3D shape generation. However, most existing work based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Bo Li , Xiaolin Wei , Fengwei Chen , Bin Liu

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained neural network numerous times to obtain the final output,…

This paper introduces a novel method for detailed 3D shape reconstruction utilizing thermal polarization cues. Unlike state-of-the-art methods, the proposed approach is independent of illumination and material properties. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Takahiro Kushida , Kenichiro Tanaka

Image deblurring is an ill-posed problem with multiple plausible solutions for a given input image. However, most existing methods produce a deterministic estimate of the clean image and are trained to minimize pixel-level distortion. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jay Whang , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Chitwan Saharia , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Peyman Milanfar

Despite recent progress in diffusion models, generating realistic head portraits from novel viewpoints remains a significant challenge. Most current approaches are constrained to limited angular ranges, predominantly focusing on frontal or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Stathis Galanakis , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Bernhard Kainz , Stefanos Zafeiriou

This paper proposes a novel learning based high-dynamic-range (HDR) reconstruction method using a polarization camera. We utilize a previous observation that polarization filters with different orientations can attenuate natural light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Juiwen Ting , Moein Shakeri , Hong Zhang

Diffusion-based generative models are a design framework that allows generating new images from processes analogous to those found in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. These models model the reversal of a physical diffusion process in which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jordi de la Torre

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

Acquisition and modeling of polarized light reflection and scattering help reveal the shape, structure, and physical characteristics of an object, which is increasingly important in computer graphics. However, current polarimetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Hyunho Ha , Inseung Hwang , Nestor Monzon , Jaemin Cho , Donggun Kim , Seung-Hwan Baek , Adolfo Muñoz , Diego Gutierrez , Min H. Kim