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Inverse problems have many applications in science and engineering. In Computer vision, several image restoration tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution can be formally modeled as inverse problems. Recently, methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , Ricardo Vinuesa , Hossein Azizpour

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation, with applications broadening across various domains. Inpainting is one such application that can benefit significantly from diffusion models. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Sora Kim , Sungho Suh , Minsik Lee

Recent video inpainting algorithms integrate flow-based pixel propagation with transformer-based generation to leverage optical flow for restoring textures and objects using information from neighboring frames, while completing masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaowen Li , Haolan Xue , Peiran Ren , Liefeng Bo

Limited by the encoder-decoder architecture, learning-based edge detectors usually have difficulty predicting edge maps that satisfy both correctness and crispness. With the recent success of the diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yunfan Ye , Kai Xu , Yuhang Huang , Renjiao Yi , Zhiping Cai

In the image inpainting task, the ability to repair both high-frequency and low-frequency information in the missing regions has a substantial influence on the quality of the restored image. However, existing inpainting methods usually fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Huali Xu , Xiangdong Su , Meng Wang , Xiang Hao , Guanglai Gao

We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wanchang Yu , Qing Zhang , Rongjia Zheng , Wei-Shi Zheng

Image editing has advanced significantly with the introduction of text-conditioned diffusion models. Despite this progress, seamlessly adding objects to images based on textual instructions without requiring user-provided input masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Navve Wasserman , Noam Rotstein , Roy Ganz , Ron Kimmel

Image interpolation based on diffusion models is promising in creating fresh and interesting images. Advanced interpolation methods mainly focus on spherical linear interpolation, where images are encoded into the noise space and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 PengFei Zheng , Yonggang Zhang , Zhen Fang , Tongliang Liu , Defu Lian , Bo Han

This paper explores the use of score-based diffusion models for Bayesian image reconstruction. Diffusion models are an efficient tool for generative modeling. Diffusion models can also be used for solving image reconstruction problems. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Michael T. McCann , Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye , Marc L. Klasky

In this work, we address a challenge in video inpainting: reconstructing occluded regions in dynamic, real-world scenarios. Motivated by the need for continuous human motion monitoring in healthcare settings, where facial features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zheyan Zhang , Diego Klabjan , Renee CB Manworren

Image restoration is a classic low-level problem aimed at recovering high-quality images from low-quality images with various degradations such as blur, noise, rain, haze, etc. However, due to the inherent complexity and non-uniqueness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

We present the first framework to solve linear inverse problems leveraging pre-trained latent diffusion models. Previously proposed algorithms (such as DPS and DDRM) only apply to pixel-space diffusion models. We theoretically analyze our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Litu Rout , Negin Raoof , Giannis Daras , Constantine Caramanis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sanjay Shakkottai

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

Exploiting pre-trained diffusion models for restoration has recently become a favored alternative to the traditional task-specific training approach. Previous works have achieved noteworthy success by limiting the solution space using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Peiqing Yang , Shangchen Zhou , Qingyi Tao , Chen Change Loy

Large-scale text-to-image models have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize diverse and high-fidelity images. However, these models are often violated by several limitations. Firstly, they require the user to provide precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Xiaojun Yang , Xiao Wang , Yukai Shi

The outstanding capability of diffusion models in generating high-quality images poses significant threats when misused by adversaries. In particular, we assume malicious adversaries exploiting diffusion models for inpainting tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Joonsung Jeon , Woo Jae Kim , Suhyeon Ha , Sooel Son , Sung-eui Yoon

Image retargeting is a new image processing task that renders the change of aspect ratio in images. One of the most famous image-retargeting algorithms is seam-carving. Although seam-carving is fast and straightforward, it usually distorts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Mahdi Ahmadi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Generic image inpainting aims to complete a corrupted image by borrowing surrounding information, which barely generates novel content. By contrast, multi-modal inpainting provides more flexible and useful controls on the inpainted content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shaoan Xie , Zhifei Zhang , Zhe Lin , Tobias Hinz , Kun Zhang

Although image inpainting, or the art of repairing the old and deteriorated images, has been around for many years, it has gained even more popularity because of the recent development in image processing techniques. With the improvement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Omar Elharrouss , Noor Almaadeed , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Younes Akbari

Erase inpainting, or object removal, aims to precisely remove target objects within masked regions while preserving the overall consistency of the surrounding content. Despite diffusion-based methods have made significant strides in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yi Liu , Hao Zhou , Wenxiang Shang , Ran Lin , Benlei Cui