Null-Space Diffusion Distillation for Efficient Photorealistic Lensless Imaging

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Main Authors: Neto, Jose Reinaldo Cunha Santos A V Silva, Kawachi, Hodaka, Yagi, Yasushi, Nakamura, Tomoya
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author Neto, Jose Reinaldo Cunha Santos A V Silva
Kawachi, Hodaka
Yagi, Yasushi
Nakamura, Tomoya
author_facet Neto, Jose Reinaldo Cunha Santos A V Silva
Kawachi, Hodaka
Yagi, Yasushi
Nakamura, Tomoya
contents State-of-the-art photorealistic reconstructions for lensless cameras often rely on paired lensless-lensed supervision, which can bias models due to lens-lensless domain mismatch. To avoid this, ground-truth-free diffusion priors are attractive; however, generic formulations tuned for conventional inverse problems often break under the noisy, highly multiplexed, and ill-posed lensless deconvolution setting. We observe that methods which separate range-space enforcement from null-space diffusion-prior updates yield stable, realistic reconstructions. Building on this, we introduce Null-Space Diffusion Distillation (NSDD): a single-pass student that distills the null-space component of an iterative DDNM+ solver, conditioned on the lensless measurement and on a range-space anchor. NSDD preserves measurement consistency and achieves photorealistic results without paired supervision at a fraction of the runtime and memory. On Lensless-FFHQ and PhlatCam, NSDD is the second fastest, behind Wiener, and achieves near-teacher perceptual quality (second-best LPIPS, below DDNM+), outperforming DPS and classical convex baselines. These results suggest a practical path toward fast, ground-truth-free, photorealistic lensless imaging.
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spellingShingle Null-Space Diffusion Distillation for Efficient Photorealistic Lensless Imaging
Neto, Jose Reinaldo Cunha Santos A V Silva
Kawachi, Hodaka
Yagi, Yasushi
Nakamura, Tomoya
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
State-of-the-art photorealistic reconstructions for lensless cameras often rely on paired lensless-lensed supervision, which can bias models due to lens-lensless domain mismatch. To avoid this, ground-truth-free diffusion priors are attractive; however, generic formulations tuned for conventional inverse problems often break under the noisy, highly multiplexed, and ill-posed lensless deconvolution setting. We observe that methods which separate range-space enforcement from null-space diffusion-prior updates yield stable, realistic reconstructions. Building on this, we introduce Null-Space Diffusion Distillation (NSDD): a single-pass student that distills the null-space component of an iterative DDNM+ solver, conditioned on the lensless measurement and on a range-space anchor. NSDD preserves measurement consistency and achieves photorealistic results without paired supervision at a fraction of the runtime and memory. On Lensless-FFHQ and PhlatCam, NSDD is the second fastest, behind Wiener, and achieves near-teacher perceptual quality (second-best LPIPS, below DDNM+), outperforming DPS and classical convex baselines. These results suggest a practical path toward fast, ground-truth-free, photorealistic lensless imaging.
title Null-Space Diffusion Distillation for Efficient Photorealistic Lensless Imaging
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12024