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Diffusion models are widely recognized for generating high-quality and diverse images, but their poor real-time performance has led to numerous acceleration works, primarily focusing on UNet-based structures. With the more successful…

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Structural parameters are normally extracted from observed galaxies by fitting analytic light profiles to the observations. Obtaining accurate fits to high-resolution images is a computationally expensive task, requiring many model…

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We introduce microJAX, the first fully differentiable implementation of the image-centered ray-shooting (ICRS) algorithm for gravitational microlensing. Built on JAX and its XLA just-in-time compiler, microJAX exploits GPU parallelism while…

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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in reconstructing complex scenes with high fidelity. However, NeRF's view dependency can only handle low-frequency reflections. It falls short when handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Chen Gao , Yipeng Wang , Changil Kim , Jia-Bin Huang , Johannes Kopf

Due to the real-time rendering performance, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as the leading method for radiance field reconstruction. However, its reliance on spherical harmonics for color encoding inherently limits its ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yixin Yang , Bojian Wu , Yang Zhou , Hui Huang

Differentiable simulation establishes the mathematical foundation for solving challenging inverse problems in computer graphics and robotics, such as physical system identification and inverse dynamics control. However, rigor in frictional…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ziqiu Zeng , Gang Yang , Zhenhao Huang , Bingyang Zhou , Yulin Li , Jason Pho , Siyuan Luo , Fan Shi

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

Regular path queries (RPQs) are fundamental for path-constrained reachability analysis, and more complex variants such as conjunctive regular path queries (CRPQs) are increasingly used in graph analytics. Evaluating these queries is…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sungwoo Park , Seohyeon Kim , Min-Soo Kim

FFT (fast Fourier transform) plays a very important role in many fields, such as digital signal processing, digital image processing and so on. However, in application, FFT becomes a factor of affecting the processing efficiency, especially…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Fan Zhang , Chen Hu , Qiang Yin , Wei Hu

This paper presents Neural-GASh, a novel real-time shading pipeline for 3D meshes, that leverages a neural radiance field architecture to perform image-based rendering (IBR) using Conformal Geometric Algebra (CGA)-encoded vertex information…

Graph matching is a fundamental tool in computer vision and pattern recognition. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for graph matching based on the proximal operator, referred to as differentiable proximal graph matching (DPGM).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Haoru Tan , Chuang Wang , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Current differentiable renderers provide light transport gradients with respect to arbitrary scene parameters. However, the mere existence of these gradients does not guarantee useful update steps in an optimization. Instead, inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Michael Fischer , Tobias Ritschel

We propose the use of automatic differentiation through the programming framework jax for accelerating a variety of analysis tasks throughout gravitational wave (GW) science. Firstly, we demonstrate that complete waveforms which cover the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-13 Thomas D. P. Edwards , Kaze W. K. Wong , Kelvin K. H. Lam , Adam Coogan , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Maximiliano Isi , Aaron Zimmerman

Ultrashort laser pulses enable attosecond-scale measurements and drive breakthroughs across science and technology, but their routine use hinges on reliable pulse characterization. Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG) is a leading…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-29 Abhimanyu Borthakur , Jack Eden Hirschman , Sergio Carbajo

This paper introduces FlowMap, an end-to-end differentiable method that solves for precise camera poses, camera intrinsics, and per-frame dense depth of a video sequence. Our method performs per-video gradient-descent minimization of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Cameron Smith , David Charatan , Ayush Tewari , Vincent Sitzmann

Accelerating neural radiance fields training is of substantial practical value, as the ray sampling strategy profoundly impacts network convergence. More efficient ray sampling can thus directly enhance existing NeRF models' training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Shilei Sun , Ming Liu , Zhongyi Fan , Yuxue Liu , Chengwei Lv , Liquan Dong , Lingqin Kong

Recent literature has effectively leveraged diffusion models trained on continuous variables as priors for solving inverse problems. Notably, discrete diffusion models with discrete latent codes have shown strong performance, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Naoki Murata , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Bac Nguyen , Stefano Ermon , Yuki Mitsufuji

Differentiable rendering has received increasing interest for image-based inverse problems. It can benefit traditional optimization-based solutions to inverse problems, but also allows for self-supervision of learning-based approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linjie Lyu , Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Christian Theobalt

We present an improved inverse ray-shooting code based on GPUs for generating microlensing magnification maps. In addition to introducing GPUs for acceleration, we put the efforts in two aspects: (i) A standard circular lens plane is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Wenwen Zheng , Xuechun Chen , Guoliang Li , Hou-zun Chen

We present Diffusion Restore, a real-time framework for diffusion-based MCMC light transport. MCMC methods are highly suitable for sampling from complex high-dimensional distributions and for approximating integrals over them. In practice,…

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