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The development of energy selective, photon counting X-ray detectors allows for a wide range of new possibilities in the area of computed tomographic image formation. Under the assumption of perfect energy resolution, here we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Oguz Semerci , Ning Hao , Misha E. Kilmer , Eric L. Miller

Diffusion has shown great success in improving accuracy of unsupervised image retrieval systems by utilizing high-order structures of image manifold. However, existing diffusion methods suffer from three major limitations: 1) they usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zhiyong Dou , Haotian Cui , Lin Zhang , Bo Wang

Limited-angle and sparse-view computed tomography (LACT and SVCT) are crucial for expanding the scope of X-ray CT applications. However, they face challenges due to incomplete data acquisition, resulting in diverse artifacts in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Chenhe Du , Xiyue Lin , Qing Wu , Xuanyu Tian , Ying Su , Zhe Luo , Rui Zheng , Yang Chen , Hongjiang Wei , S. Kevin Zhou , Jingyi Yu , Yuyao Zhang

Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Inverse problems generally require a regularizer or prior for a good solution. A recent trend is to train a convolutional net to denoise images, and use this net as a prior when solving the inverse problem. Several proposals depend on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Kyle Luther , H. Sebastian Seung

Neural networks have emerged as effective tools for solving ill-posed inverse problems. In many scientific applications, however, observational training data are insufficient, and learned inverse operators must instead be trained on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Sandra R. Babyale , Jodi Mead

Recent research has demonstrated that the combination of pretrained diffusion models with neural radiance fields (NeRFs) has emerged as a promising approach for text-to-3D generation. Simply coupling NeRF with diffusion models will result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Lu Yu , Wei Xiang , Kang Han

We present ControlSR, a new method that can tame Diffusion Models for consistent real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). Previous Real-ISR models mostly focus on how to activate more generative priors of text-to-image diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuhao Wan , Peng-Tao Jiang , Qibin Hou , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Li

Diffusion models have established new state of the art in a multitude of computer vision tasks, including image restoration. Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers generate reconstructions of exceptional visual quality from heavily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Segmentation of 3D medical images is a critical task for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field, achieving significant success in 3D medical image segmentation. However, CNNs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Canxuan Gang

This paper presents three distributed techniques to find a sparse solution of the underdetermined linear problem $\textbf{g}=\textbf{Hu}$ with a norm-1 regularization, based on the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). These…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Juan Heredia-Juesas , Ali Molaei , Luis Tirado , Jose A. Martinez-Lorenzo

Image denoising is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most supervised denoising methods learn to reconstruct clean images from noisy inputs, which have intrinsic spectral bias and tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yujin Wang , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important clinical imaging tool but inevitably introduces radiation hazards to patients and healthcare providers. Reducing the tracer injection dose and eliminating the CT acquisition for attenuation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tianqi Chen , Jun Hou , Yinchi Zhou , Huidong Xie , Xiongchao Chen , Qiong Liu , Xueqi Guo , Menghua Xia , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu , Bo Zhou

We present DiSR-NeRF, a diffusion-guided framework for view-consistent super-resolution (SR) NeRF. Unlike prior works, we circumvent the requirement for high-resolution (HR) reference images by leveraging existing powerful 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jie Long Lee , Chen Li , Gim Hee Lee

A long-standing challenge in tomography is the 'missing wedge' problem, which arises when the acquisition of projection images within a certain angular range is restricted due to geometrical constraints. This incomplete dataset results in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-26 Chonghang Zhao , Mingyuan Ge , Xiaogang Yang , Yong S. Chu , Hanfei Yan

Diffusion models achieve remarkable quality in image generation, but at a cost. Iterative denoising requires many time steps to produce high fidelity images. We argue that the denoising process is crucially limited by an accumulation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hui Lu , Albert ali Salah , Ronald Poppe

Generative models have demonstrated significant success in anomaly detection and segmentation over the past decade. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful alternative, outperforming previous approaches such as GANs and VAEs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Mehrdad Moradi , Marco Grasso , Bianca Maria Colosimo , Kamran Paynabar

Electrical Impedance Tomography gives rise to the severely ill-posed Calder\'on problem of determining the electrical conductivity distribution in a bounded domain from knowledge of the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the governing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Kim Knudsen , Aksel K. Rasmussen

Discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional autoregressive approaches, offering the flexibility to generate tokens in arbitrary orders and the potential of parallel decoding.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Enshu Liu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang , Zinan Lin

Guided diffusion is a technique for conditioning the output of a diffusion model at sampling time without retraining the network for each specific task. One drawback of diffusion models, however, is their slow sampling process. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Suttisak Wizadwongsa , Supasorn Suwajanakorn