Microservices are popular and widely used in the cloud. However, realizing cost-effective and high-performance microservice orchestration is challenging for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Current orchestration mechanisms have limited flexibility and resource efficiency in scheduling and would cause sluggishness in scaling, which brings unnecessary costs to CSP. This paper presents PROPHET, a microservice orchestrator for optimizing service scheduling and scaling. To improve scheduling flexibility and resource utilization, we propose aranking-based p-batch scheduling mechanism, which adopts a pairwise ranker to obtain resource-efficient scheduling plans for large-scale microservice applications rapidly. To advance the scaling agility, we design aproactive prediction-based scaling mechanism, which performs scaling in advance based on resource usage prediction. Our evaluations are conducted on a real-world cluster with the public Alibaba cluster dataset and datasets collected from the cluster. The results indicate that PROPHET can significantly reduce the number of nodes running in the cluster and improve scaling. This shows great potential in achieving cost-effective and high-performance microservice orchestration.

Obtaining planetary images with good visual quality is not an easy task since they are usually degenerated by atmospheric turbulence during the imaging procedure. Existing atmospheric turbulence mitigation methods designed for conventional images cannot be applied to planetary images, since the objects on the Earth have totally different degeneration patterns to planets. Besides, in planetary imaging, photographers often capture as many frames as possible to reduce the noise level of planetary images, which requires the method designed for planetary images to support an arbitrary number of input frames. In this paper, we propose a vertical distance-aware turbulence simulation pipeline to synthesize realistic planetary images in accordance with their unique degeneration patterns at a large scale with affordable computational cost, and design a neural network to mitigate the turbulence with flexible input frames by adopting an edge-based supervision strategy to handle the background scarcity issue. Experimental results show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on both synthetic and real-world images.

In cloud-native systems, microservices communicate with each other through remote calls. This communication side channel contains various information that can be leveraged to carry out topology probing attacks, DDoS attacks, etc. To defend against these attacks, researchers conducted work on critical path analysis and topology obfuscation. However, these works can not be applied to cloud-native scenarios because of limited flexibility and the long calculation time. In this paper, we propose MeshGuard, a novel obfuscation framework for mitigating topology probing attacks in cloud-native systems. Specifically, we construct a service-level dynamic labyrinth to achieve adaptive topology obfuscation. To avoid leaking traffic patterns when obfuscating topology, we disguise obfuscated traffic with tailored parameters. Finally, we design a tag-based obfuscation mechanism to avoid affecting normal microservices. The preliminary results show that MeshGuard can effectively protect the critical path and services with acceptable resource overhead.

We introduce BokehDiff, a novel lens blur rendering method that achieves physically accurate and visually appealing outcomes, with the help of generative diffusion prior. Previous methods are bounded by the accuracy of depth estimation, generating artifacts in depth discontinuities. Our method employs a physics-inspired self-attention module that aligns with the image formation process, incorporating depth-dependent circle of confusion constraint and self-occlusion effects. We adapt the diffusion model to the one-step inference scheme without introducing additional noise, and achieve results of high quality and fidelity. To address the lack of scalable paired data, we propose to synthesize photorealistic foregrounds with transparency with diffusion models, balancing authenticity and scene diversity.

Though Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can produce colorful 3D representations of the world by using a set of 2D images, such ability becomes non-existent when only monochromatic images are provided. Since color is necessary in representing the world, reproducing color from monochromatic radiance fields becomes crucial. To achieve this goal, instead of manipulating the monochromatic radiance fields directly, we consider it as a representation-prediction task in the Lab color space. By first constructing the luminance and density representation using monochromatic images, our prediction stage can recreate color representation on the basis of an image colorization module. We then reproduce a colorful implicit model through the representation of luminance, density, and color. Extensive experiments have been conducted to validate the effectiveness of our approaches. Our project page: https://liquidammonia.github.io/color-nerf.

Among the numerous efforts towards digitally recovering the physical world, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have proved effective in most cases. However, underwater scene introduces unique challenges due to the absorbing water medium, the local change in lighting and the dynamic contents in the scene. We aim at developing a neural under-water scene representation for these challenges, modeling the complex process of attenuation, unstable in-scattering and moving objects during light transport. The proposed method can reconstruct the scenes from both established datasets and in-the-wild videos with outstanding fidelity.

The removal of atmospheric turbulence is crucial for long-distance imaging. Leveraging the stochastic nature of atmospheric turbulence, numerous algorithms have been developed that employ multi-frame input to mitigate the tur-bulence. However, when limited to a single frame, existing algorithms face substantial performance drops, partic-ularly in diverse real-world scenes. In this paper, we propose a robust solution to turbulence removal from an RGB image under the guidance of an additional narrow-band image, broadening the applicability of turbulence mitigation techniques in real-world imaging scenarios. Our approach exhibits a substantial suppression in the magnitude of tur-bulence artifacts by using only a pair of images, thereby enhancing the clarity and fidelity of the captured scene.

Our everyday lives are filled with occlusions that we strive to see through. By aggregating desired background information from different viewpoints, we can easily eliminate such occlusions without any external occlusion-free supervision. Though several occlusion removal methods have been proposed to empower machine vision systems with such ability, their performances are still unsatisfactory due to reliance on external supervision. We propose a novel method for occlusion removal by directly building a mapping between position and viewing angles and the corresponding occlusion-free scene details leveraging Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). We also develop an effective scheme to jointly optimize camera parameters and scene reconstruction when occlusions are present. An additional depth constraint is applied to supervise the entire optimizaion without labeled external data for training. The experimental results on existing and newly collected datasets validate the effectiveness of our method. Our project page: https://freebutuselesssoul.github.io/occnerf.

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have brought tremendous progress to novel view synthesis. Though NeRF enables the rendering of subtle details in a scene by learning from a dense set of images, it also reconstructs the undesired reflections when we capture images through glass. As a commonly observed interference, the reflection would undermine the visibility of the desired transmitted scene behind glass by occluding the transmitted light rays. In this paper, we aim at addressing the problem of rendering novel transmitted views given a set of reflection-corrupted images. By introducing the transmission encoder and recurring edge constraints as guidance, our neural transmitted radiance fields can resist such reflection interference during rendering and reconstruct high-fidelity results even under sparse views. The proposed method achieves superior performance from the experiments on a newly collected dataset compared with state-of-the-art methods.