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A new CNN-based algorithm improves Fourier ptychography for faster, more robust image reconstruction.

problem Slow and inefficient Fourier ptychography reconstruction under system aberrations.
method A CNN-based iterative phase retrieval algorithm trained on GPUs.
result Significantly faster and more robust image reconstruction under system aberrations.

One of the most powerful approaches to imaging at the nanometer or subnanometer length scale is coherent diffraction imaging using X-ray sources. For amorphous (non-crystalline) samples, the raw data can be interpreted as the modulus of the continuous Fourier transform of the unknown object. Making use of prior informa…

2018-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian ptychography method reduces overlap for faster imaging.

problem Reduced overlap leads to large data volumes and long acquisition times.
method Generative model combined with MCMC for posterior sampling.
result Framework consistently outperforms iterative reconstruction methods with reduced overlap.

Phase retrieval algorithms have become an important component in many modern computational imaging systems. For instance, in the context of ptychography and speckle correlation imaging, they enable imaging past the diffraction limit and through scattering media, respectively. Unfortunately, traditional phase retrieval …

2018-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Generates coherent storybooks from plain text using diffusion models.

problem Ensuring coherency in a sequence of images for storytelling applications.
method Combines pre-trained LLM and text-guided Latent Diffusion Model for zero-shot generation.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art image editing baselines in generating coherent storybooks.

Express Wavenet reduces neural network parameters to 1% of standard networks.

problem Optical neural networks with high parameter count.
method Wavelet modulation, random shift wavelets, expressway structure.
result Express Wavenet achieves high accuracy with significantly fewer parameters.

The paper addresses speckle noise in coherent imaging systems.

problem Speckle noise degrades image quality in coherent imaging systems.
method Theoretical and algorithmic analysis of likelihood-based approaches for multilook coherent imaging.
result Established the first theoretical upper bound on MSE of the maximum likelihood estimator.

Paper develops a framework for generating coherent image captions using visual features and hierarchical topics.

problem Generating semantically coherent paragraphs to describe image content.
method Plug-and-play hierarchical-topic-guided image paragraph generation framework integrating visual extractor and deep topic model.
result Proposed models can distill interpretable multi-layer semantic topics and generate diverse and coherent captions.

GenInSAR uses CNNs to filter InSAR phase and estimate coherence without supervision.

problem Improving accuracy in InSAR phase filtering and coherence estimation.
method Unsupervised CNN-based generative model for joint phase filtering and coherence estimation.
result GenInSAR outperforms five related methods in residue reduction and coherence estimation.

Recognizing facial expressions from static images or video sequences is a widely studied but still challenging problem. The recent progresses obtained by deep neural architectures, or by ensembles of heterogeneous models, have shown that integrating multiple input representations leads to state-of-the-art results. In p…

2018-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Autoregressive generative models of images tend to be biased towards capturing local structure, and as a result they often produce samples which are lacking in terms of large-scale coherence. To address this, we propose two methods to learn discrete representations of images which abstract away local detail. We show th…

2019-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop a method for user-controllable semantic image inpainting: Given an arbitrary set of observed pixels, the unobserved pixels can be imputed in a user-controllable range of possibilities, each of which is semantically coherent and locally consistent with the observed pixels. We achieve this using a deep generat…

2018-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

A new video prediction model treats videos as continuous processes, reducing sampling steps and improving efficiency.

problem Efficiency and temporal coherence in video prediction models.
method Treats videos as a continuous multi-dimensional process, reducing sampling steps.
result Reduction of 75% sampling steps, state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.

Deep learning solves wave-based inverse problems, including super-resolution imaging.

problem Solving inverse wave scattering problems across all length scales.
method Wide-band butterfly network coupled with dynamic noise injection.
result Framework successfully solves super-resolution imaging problems.

DeepCap automates coronary artery segmentation from IVOCT images.

problem Automated segmentation of coronary arteries from IVOCT images is challenging.
method Developed a deep learning method based on capsules for robust, unbiased segmentation.
result DeepCap achieves segmentation quality comparable to state-of-the-art methods.

Most existing text-to-image synthesis tasks are static single-turn generation, based on pre-defined textual descriptions of images. To explore more practical and interactive real-life applications, we introduce a new task - Interactive Image Editing, where users can guide an agent to edit images via multi-turn textual …

2018-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

ConvNP improves SP prediction with translation equivariance and coherent samples.

problem Predicting stationary stochastic processes with coherent samples.
method Convolutional Neural Processes (ConvNP) with a new maximum-likelihood objective.
result ConvNP outperforms standard NPs and demonstrates strong generalization on various tasks.

Diffusion models learn hierarchical composition rules from data.

problem How many samples do generative models need to learn hierarchical composition rules?
method Theoretical and empirical investigation of diffusion models on probabilistic context-free grammars.
result Diffusion models learn hierarchical composition rules with sample complexity scaling polynomially with context size.

We present a new model DrNET that learns disentangled image representations from video. Our approach leverages the temporal coherence of video and a novel adversarial loss to learn a representation that factorizes each frame into a stationary part and a temporally varying component. The disentangled representation can …

2017-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Synthesizing high resolution photorealistic images has been a long-standing challenge in machine learning. In this paper we introduce new methods for the improved training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for image synthesis. We construct a variant of GANs employing label conditioning that results in 128x128 r…

2016-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

AuxiLearn combines auxiliary tasks into a single loss function.

problem Improving neural network performance on a main task using auxiliary tasks.
method Implicit differentiation to learn a network that combines auxiliary tasks into a single coherent objective function.
result AuxiLearn consistently outperforms competing methods in various tasks and domains.

Regularization plays an important role in generalization of deep neural networks, which are often prone to overfitting with their numerous parameters. L1 and L2 regularizers are common regularization tools in machine learning with their simplicity and effectiveness. However, we observe that imposing strong L1 or L2 reg…

2018-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Let MM be a hyperkaehler manifold, and FF a torsion-free and reflexive coherent sheaf on MM. Assume that FF (outside of its singularities) admits a connection with a curvature which is invariant under the standard SU(2)-action on 2-forms. If the curvature is square-integrable, then FF is stable and its singulariti…

2001-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Clustering methods group a set of data points into a few coherent groups or clusters of similar data points. As an example, consider clustering pixels in an image (or video) if they belong to the same object. Different clustering methods are obtained by using different notions of similarity and different representation…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗