In this SPS Distinguished Industry Lecturer highlight, NVIDIA’s Morteza Mardani shares a practical, task-agnostic way to use diffusion models for image restoration and reconstruction—without retraining foundation models.

1–4 November 2025 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The 38th IEEE Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) Workshop brought together researchers, engineers, and industry leaders from around the world at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for four days of discussion and discovery on the design, implementation, and application of signal processing systems.

November 16, 2025 (Sunday), 1:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Shenzhen, China
Register here: https://conference.silassz.com/

The Low-Altitude Economy (LAE) — using airspace below 1,000m — integrates manned and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs/eVTOLs), air traffic management, and digital infrastructure, transforming mobility, logistics, agriculture, disaster response, and nearly every aspect of daily work and life.

Featuring Professor Antonio Torralba, MIT
Recorded live at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2025)

Modern computer vision relies on vast image datasets—but collecting and labeling those images comes at a high cost. What if AI systems could learn from synthetically generated images—even ones that look like abstract art with no recognizable objects?