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Consistent improvement of image priors over the years has led to the development of better inverse problem solvers. Diffusion models are the newcomers to this arena, posing the strongest known prior to date. Recently, such models operating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ron Raphaeli , Sean Man , Michael Elad

While diffusion-based image restoration (IR) methods have achieved remarkable success, they are still limited by the low inference speed attributed to the necessity of executing hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

We present the first framework to solve linear inverse problems leveraging pre-trained latent diffusion models. Previously proposed algorithms (such as DPS and DDRM) only apply to pixel-space diffusion models. We theoretically analyze our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Litu Rout , Negin Raoof , Giannis Daras , Constantine Caramanis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sanjay Shakkottai

We propose a data-efficient, physics-aware generative framework in function space for inverse PDE problems. Existing plug-and-play diffusion posterior samplers represent physics implicitly through joint coefficient-solution modeling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Thomas Y. L. Lin , Jiachen Yao , Lufang Chiang , Julius Berner , Anima Anandkumar

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful priors for single-image restoration, but their application to zero-shot video restoration suffers from temporal inconsistencies due to the stochastic nature of sampling and complexity of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Nasrin Rahimi , A. Murat Tekalp

Diffusion models offer stable training and state-of-the-art performance for deep generative modeling tasks. Here, we consider their use in the context of multivariate subsurface modeling and probabilistic inversion. We first demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Roberto Miele , Niklas Linde

Diffusion models have been demonstrated as strong priors for solving general inverse problems. Most existing Diffusion model-based Inverse Problem Solvers (DIS) employ a plug-and-play approach to guide the sampling trajectory with either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jiankun Zhao , Bowen Song , Liyue Shen

While diffusion priors generate high-quality posterior samples across many inverse problems, they are often trained on limited training sets or purely simulated data, thus inheriting the errors and biases of these underlying sources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Frederic Wang , Katherine L. Bouman

There has been a flurry of activity around using pretrained diffusion models as informed data priors for solving inverse problems, and more generally around steering these models using reward models. Training-free methods like diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Aayush Karan , Kulin Shah , Sitan Chen

Inverse problems aim to determine parameters from observations, a crucial task in engineering and science. Lately, generative models, especially diffusion models, have gained popularity in this area for their ability to produce realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Gabriel della Maggiora , Luis Alberto Croquevielle , Nikita Deshpande , Harry Horsley , Thomas Heinis , Artur Yakimovich

We propose Diff-Shadow, a global-guided diffusion model for shadow removal. Previous transformer-based approaches can utilize global information to relate shadow and non-shadow regions but are limited in their synthesis ability and recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jinting Luo , Ru Li , Chengzhi Jiang , Xiaoming Zhang , Mingyan Han , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

In this paper, we propose an approach combining diffusion models and inverse problems for the reconstruction of circumstellar disk images. Our method builds upon the Rhapsodie framework for polarimetric imaging, substituting its classical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Quentin Villegas , Laurence Denneulin , Simon Prunet , André Ferrari , Nelly Pustelnik , Éric Thiébaut , Julian Tachella , Maud Langlois

The computer vision community has developed numerous techniques for digitally restoring true scene information from single-view degraded photographs, an important yet extremely ill-posed task. In this work, we tackle image restoration from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yucheng Mao , Boyang Wang , Nilesh Kulkarni , Jeong Joon Park

Using image models naively for solving inverse video problems often suffers from flickering, texture-sticking, and temporal inconsistency in generated videos. To tackle these problems, in this paper, we view frames as continuous functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Giannis Daras , Weili Nie , Karsten Kreis , Alex Dimakis , Morteza Mardani , Nikola Borislavov Kovachki , Arash Vahdat

This tutorial provides an in-depth guide on inference-time guidance and alignment methods for optimizing downstream reward functions in diffusion models. While diffusion models are renowned for their generative modeling capabilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masatoshi Uehara , Yulai Zhao , Chenyu Wang , Xiner Li , Aviv Regev , Sergey Levine , Tommaso Biancalani

Diffusion-based inpainting can reconstruct missing image areas with high quality from sparse data, provided that their location and their values are well optimised. This is particularly useful for applications such as image compression,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Pascal Peter , Karl Schrader , Tobias Alt , Joachim Weickert

Person search aims to jointly perform person detection and re-identification by localizing and identifying a query person within a gallery of uncropped scene images. Existing methods predominantly utilize ImageNet pre-trained backbones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Giyeol Kim , Sooyoung Yang , Jihyong Oh , Myungjoo Kang , Chanho Eom

Diffusion models have made remarkable progress in solving various inverse problems, attributing to the generative modeling capability of the data manifold. Posterior sampling from the conditional score function enable the precious data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jinghao Zhang , Zizheng Yang , Qi Zhu , Feng Zhao

Inverse problems describe the process of estimating the causal factors from a set of measurements or data. Mapping of often incomplete or degraded data to parameters is ill-posed, thus data-driven iterative solutions are required, for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Weitong Zhang , Chengqi Zang , Liu Li , Sarah Cechnicka , Cheng Ouyang , Bernhard Kainz

Deep generative models have emerged as state-of-the-art for solving inverse problems, but applying them to inverse problems for PDEs, like electrical impedance tomography (EIT) remains challenging. Because physical domains are naturally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Giovanni S. Alberti , Damiana Lazzaro , Serena Morigi , Matteo Santacesaria , Shibo Wang