arXiv Computer Vision

Frozen CLIP Priors for Robust Self-Supervised Poisson Inverse Problems

The paper introduces a self‑supervised approach for Poisson inverse imaging problems that leverages frozen CLIP RN50 features as a lightweight prior within an ADMM‑inspired unrolled solver. By decoupling data‑consistency from the prior and using a parameter‑efficient decoder, the method adapts foundation vision representations without extensive fine‑tuning. Experiments on Poisson CFA demosaicing and deblurring demonstrate competitive image quality, enhanced robustness to dataset and acquisition shifts, and self‑supervised performance close to that of supervised training.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

SlowFast-SCI: Slow-Fast Deep Unfolding Learning for Spectral Compressive Imaging

SlowFast‑SCI introduces a dual‑speed deep‑unfolding framework for spectral compressive imaging that combines a slow, pre‑trained backbone with a fast, test‑time adaptation stage. The slow phase distills a priors‑based model into a compact fast‑unfolding network, while the fast phase embeds lightweight modules that self‑supervise at test time without retraining the backbone. This design yields significant reductions in parameters and FLOPs, improves out‑of‑distribution PSNR by up to 5.79 dB, and accelerates adaptation four‑fold, all while remaining modular enough to integrate with any existing deep‑unfolding system.

By Haijin Zeng, Xuan Lu, Jiezhang Cao, Kai Zhang, Yurong Zhang, Qiangqiang Shen, Guoqing Chao, Li Jiang, Yongyong Chen, Jingyong Su, Jie Liu
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

One Photon, Many Worlds: Posteriors and Predictions with Single-Photon Cameras

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) cameras produce binary images where each pixel records zero or one photon arrival, making scene reconstruction a fundamentally one-to-many inverse problem. As more binary frames are accumulated, the uncertainty diminishes, transitioning from stochastic to near-deterministic scene understanding. The study introduces a conditional generative framework using a Hypergeometric frame‑thinning process to model this ambiguity and evaluates its impact on tasks such as character recognition, QR code decoding, and facial analysis.

By Haejoon Lee (Carnegie Mellon University), Mohit Gupta (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Vijayakumar Bhagavatula (Carnegie Mellon University), Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University)
arXiv AI
Sep 4

A Posterior-Dynamics Framework for Imaging Inverse Problems with Pretrained Diffusion Priors

The paper introduces a Posterior‑Dynamics Framework that leverages pretrained diffusion models as multiscale priors for linear imaging inverse problems such as deblurring, super‑resolution, and inpainting. By constructing a surrogate likelihood centered on the clean image and incorporating diffusion uncertainty, the authors derive continuous posterior dynamics and a tunable Langevin component for adaptive exploration. They prove theoretical guarantees (endpoint consistency, finite‑horizon tracking, weak accuracy) and present the PD‑IMEX sampler, which achieves high‑quality reconstructions with only 100 score evaluations and controllable fidelity‑diversity trade‑offs.

By Zhaoqiang Liu, Tongyao Pang, Ruibing Wang, Yang Zheng
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

Trajectory Stitching for Solving Inverse Problems with Flow-Based Models

The paper introduces MS-Flow, a method that represents a flow-based generative model’s trajectory as a sequence of intermediate latent states instead of a single initial code. By enforcing local flow dynamics and coupling trajectory segments with matching penalties, the approach alternates between updating latent states and ensuring consistency with observed data. This strategy reduces memory usage and improves reconstruction quality on tasks such as image inpainting, super‑resolution, and computed tomography.

By Alexander Denker, Zeljko Kereta, Carola-Bibiane Sch\"onlieb, Moshe Eliasof
arXiv AI
Sep 10

WildRelight: A Real-World Benchmark and Physics-Guided Adaptation for Single-Image Relighting

WildRelight is the first in-the-wild dataset designed to evaluate single-image relighting models, featuring high-resolution outdoor scenes captured under strictly aligned, temporally varying natural illuminations paired with high-dynamic-range environment maps. The benchmark demonstrates that state-of-the-art models trained on synthetic data suffer severe domain shifts when applied to real-world imagery. Leveraging the dataset’s temporal structure, the authors introduce a physics-guided inference framework combining Diffusion Posterior Sampling with Temporal Sampling-Aware Test-Time Adaptation, enabling synthetic models to self-supervise and align with real-world statistics on-the-fly.

By Lezhong Wang, Mehmet Onurcan Kaya, Siavash Bigdeli, Jeppe Revall Frisvad
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Plug-and-Play Diffusion Meets ADMM: Dual-Variable Coupling for Robust Medical Image Reconstruction

arXiv:2602. 23214v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Plug-and-Play diffusion prior (PnPDP) frameworks have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving imaging inverse problems by treating pretrained generative models as modular priors.

By Chenhe Du, Xuanyu Tian, Qing Wu, Muyu Liu, Jingyi Yu, Hongjiang Wei, Yuyao Zhang