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Despite recent successes in synthesizing faces and bedrooms, existing generative models struggle to capture more complex image types, potentially due to the oversimplification of their latent space constructions. To tackle this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wenling Shang , Kihyuk Sohn , Yuandong Tian

The two-dimensional discrete cosine transform (DCT) can be found in the heart of many image compression algorithms. Specifically, the JPEG format uses a lossy form of compression based on that transform. Since the standardization of the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Stanislav Svoboda , David Barina

Natural signals and images are well-known to be approximately sparse in transform domains such as Wavelets and DCT. This property has been heavily exploited in various applications in image processing and medical imaging. Compressed sensing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yoram Bresler

Utilization of classification latent space information for downstream reconstruction and generation is an intriguing and a relatively unexplored area. In general, discriminative representations are rich in class-specific features but are…

Discrete transforms play an important role in many signal processing applications, and low-complexity alternatives for classical transforms became popular in recent years. Particularly, the discrete cosine transform (DCT) has proven to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 D. R. Canterle , T. L. T. da Silveira , F. M. Bayer , R. J. Cintra

Image compression has been investigated as a fundamental research topic for many decades. Recently, deep learning has achieved great success in many computer vision tasks, and is gradually being used in image compression. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Zhengxue Cheng , Heming Sun , Masaru Takeuchi , Jiro Katto

We propose a practical approach to JPEG image decoding, utilizing a local implicit neural representation with continuous cosine formulation. The JPEG algorithm significantly quantizes discrete cosine transform (DCT) spectra to achieve a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Woo Kyoung Han , Sunghoon Im , Jaedeok Kim , Kyong Hwan Jin

Image denoising aims to remove noise while preserving structural details and perceptual realism, yet distortion-driven methods often produce over-smoothed reconstructions, especially under strong noise and distribution shift. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

Most existing image compression approaches perform transform coding in the pixel space to reduce its spatial redundancy. However, they encounter difficulties in achieving both high-realism and high-fidelity at low bitrate, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Zhaoyang Jia , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Houqiang Li , Yan Lu

We propose a new approach to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve an improved performance with additional robustness to its so-called and well recognized mode collapse. We first proceed by mapping the desired data onto a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim

Large-scale generative models, such as text-to-image diffusion models, have garnered widespread attention across diverse domains due to their creative and high-fidelity image generation. Nonetheless, existing large-scale diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Younghyun Kim , Geunmin Hwang , Junyu Zhang , Eunbyung Park

Computational photography involves sophisticated capture methods. A new trend is to capture projection of higher dimensional visual signals such as videos, multi-spectral data and lightfields on lower dimensional sensors. Carefully designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-09-12 Rohit Pandharkar , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Ramesh Raskar

Popularized by their strong image generation performance, diffusion and related methods for generative modeling have found widespread success in visual media applications. In particular, diffusion methods have enabled new approaches to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt

Recent developments related to generative models have made it possible to generate diverse high-fidelity images. In particular, layout-to-image generation models have gained significant attention due to their capability to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Bryan G. Cardenas , Devanshu Arya , Deepak K. Gupta

Although two-stage Vector Quantized (VQ) generative models allow for synthesizing high-fidelity and high-resolution images, their quantization operator encodes similar patches within an image into the same index, resulting in a repeated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Chuanxia Zheng , Long Tung Vuong , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

Image generation has been successfully cast as an autoregressive sequence generation or transformation problem. Recent work has shown that self-attention is an effective way of modeling textual sequences. In this work, we generalize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Niki Parmar , Ashish Vaswani , Jakob Uszkoreit , Łukasz Kaiser , Noam Shazeer , Alexander Ku , Dustin Tran

Typical convolutional networks are trained and conducted on RGB images. However, images are often compressed for memory savings and efficient transmission in real-world applications. In this paper, we explore methods for performing semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Shao-Yuan Lo , Hsueh-Ming Hang

Most recent advances in 3D generative modeling rely on diffusion or flow-matching formulations. We instead explore a fully autoregressive alternative and introduce GaussianGPT, a transformer-based model that directly generates 3D Gaussians…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Nicolas von Lützow , Barbara Rössle , Katharina Schmid , Matthias Nießner

We consider the problem of trustworthy image restoration, taking the form of a constrained optimization over the prior density. To this end, we develop generative models for the task of image super-resolution that respect the degradation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Andreas Floros , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pier Luigi Dragotti

A property of sparse representations in relation to their capacity for information storage is discussed. It is shown that this feature can be used for an application that we term Encrypted Image Folding. The proposed procedure is realizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-13 James Bowley , Laura Rebollo-Neira