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Probabilistic inverse optimal control for non-linear partially observable systems disentangles perceptual uncertainty and behavioral costs

Neural Information Processing Systems

Inverse optimal control can be used to characterize behavior in sequential decisionmaking tasks. Most existing work, however, is limited to fully observable or linear systems, or requires the action signals to be known. Here, we introduce a probabilistic approach to inverse optimal control for partially observable stochastic non-linear systems with unobserved action signals, which unifies previous approaches to inverse optimal control with maximum causal entropy formulations. Using an explicit model of the noise characteristics of the sensory and motor systems of the agent in conjunction with local linearization techniques, we derive an approximate likelihood function for the model parameters, which can be computed within a single forward pass.


Flare7K: APhenomenological Nighttime Flare Removal Dataset (Supplementary Material)

Neural Information Processing Systems

In this supplementary material, we present additional details of the proposed Flare7K dataset and experimental settings and show more results. Figure 1: Illustration of a simplified lens system. In the lens and aperture plane, the light passes through the dirty aperture and lens system, leaving a scattering flare on the image plane. In this section, we use a simplified Fourier optics model to illustrate how different kinds of scattering flares occur. A basic lens system can be viewed as a combination of one convex lens, one aperture, and an image plane as shown in Figure 1. We set the optical center as the origin of a coordinate system. Then, the light source's position is (x0,y0, z0). It is a combination of aperture function eAλ(x,y) and a lens function eTL(x,y). Supposing the focus of the lens is f and the lens is ideal. After adjusting the origin of x1 and x2, Equation (11) can be viewed as a standard Fourier transformation. Thus, the point spread function (PSF) which is the square of the amplitude of the image plane's optical field can be written as: PSFλ = |F{eAλ(x,y)}|2. Since stains with depth may bring phase shift for the aperture function, the PSFλ may vary with the wavelength λof the light source.


Flare7K: APhenomenological Nighttime Flare Removal Dataset

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Artificial lights commonly leave strong lens flare artifacts on images captured at night. Nighttime flare not only affects the visual quality but also degrades the performance of vision algorithms. Existing flare removal methods mainly focus on removing daytime flares and fail in nighttime. Nighttime flare removal is challenging because of the unique luminance and spectrum of artificial lights and the diverse patterns and image degradation of the flares captured at night. The scarcity of nighttime flare removal datasets limits the research on this crucial task.


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