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Colorization is an ambiguous problem, with multiple viable colorizations for a single grey-level image. However, previous methods only produce the single most probable colorization. Our goal is to model the diversity intrinsic to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Aditya Deshpande , Jiajun Lu , Mao-Chuang Yeh , Min Jin Chong , David Forsyth

In recent years, the field of image inpainting has developed rapidly, learning based approaches show impressive results in the task of filling missing parts in an image. But most deep methods are strongly tied to the resolution of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Andrey Moskalenko , Mikhail Erofeev , Dmitriy Vatolin

We investigate the problem of producing diverse solutions to an image super-resolution problem. From a probabilistic perspective, this can be done by sampling from the posterior distribution of an inverse problem, which requires the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jean Prost , Antoine Houdard , Andrés Almansa , Nicolas Papadakis

We present the vector quantized diffusion (VQ-Diffusion) model for text-to-image generation. This method is based on a vector quantized variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) whose latent space is modeled by a conditional variant of the recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Jianmin Bao , Fang Wen , Bo Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Lu Yuan , Baining Guo

Recent visual generative models often struggle with consistency during image editing due to the entangled nature of raster images, where all visual content is fused into a single canvas. In contrast, professional design tools employ layered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Shengming Yin , Zekai Zhang , Zecheng Tang , Kaiyuan Gao , Xiao Xu , Kun Yan , Jiahao Li , Yilei Chen , Yuxiang Chen , Heung-Yeung Shum , Lionel M. Ni , Jingren Zhou , Junyang Lin , Chenfei Wu

Variational auto-encoder (VAE) is a powerful unsupervised learning framework for image generation. One drawback of VAE is that it generates blurry images due to its Gaussianity assumption and thus L2 loss. To allow the generation of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Lei Cai , Hongyang Gao , Shuiwang Ji

Recent video inpainting methods have achieved encouraging improvements by leveraging optical flow to guide pixel propagation from reference frames either in the image space or feature space. However, they would produce severe artifacts in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chaohao Xie , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Vector-quantized variational autoencoders (VQ-VAEs) are central to models that rely on high reconstruction fidelity, from neural compression to generative pipelines. Hierarchical extensions, such as VQ-VAE2, are often credited with superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shirin Reyhanian , Laurenz Wiskott

Existing image inpainting methods often produce artifacts when dealing with large holes in real applications. To address this challenge, we propose an iterative inpainting method with a feedback mechanism. Specifically, we introduce a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yu Zeng , Zhe Lin , Jimei Yang , Jianming Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Huchuan Lu

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

We present a unified framework for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using video-inpainting diffusion transformer models. Unlike existing methods that devise specialized strategies for either forward or inverse problems under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Edward Li , Zichen Wang , Jiahe Huang , Jeong Joon Park

Generative learning models in medical research are crucial in developing training data for deep learning models and advancing diagnostic tools, but the problem of high-quality, diverse images is an open topic of research. Quantum-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz , Nora M. Bauer , Pranay Jain , Max Masnick

We present a novel and flexible learning-based method for generating tileable image sets. Our method goes beyond simple self-tiling, supporting sets of mutually tileable images that exhibit a high degree of diversity. To promote diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Sam Sartor , Pieter Peers

We present a novel introspective variational autoencoder (IntroVAE) model for synthesizing high-resolution photographic images. IntroVAE is capable of self-evaluating the quality of its generated samples and improving itself accordingly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Huaibo Huang , Zhihang Li , Ran He , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

Generating high-quality Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) from text remains a significant challenge. Existing LLM-based models that generate SVG code as a flat token sequence struggle with poor structural understanding and error accumulation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ximing Xing , Juncheng Hu , Ziteng Xue , Jing Zhang , Buyu Li , Sheng Wang , Dong Xu , Qian Yu

In this paper, we propose a generative multi-column network for image inpainting. This network synthesizes different image components in a parallel manner within one stage. To better characterize global structures, we design a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Yi Wang , Xin Tao , Xiaojuan Qi , Xiaoyong Shen , Jiaya Jia

Video inpainting is the task of filling a region in a video in a visually convincing manner. It is very challenging due to the high dimensionality of the data and the temporal consistency required for obtaining convincing results. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nicolas Cherel , Andrés Almansa , Yann Gousseau , Alasdair Newson

Sensor fusion can significantly improve the performance of many computer vision tasks. However, traditional fusion approaches are either not data-driven and cannot exploit prior knowledge nor find regularities in a given dataset or they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Fabian Duffhauss , Ngo Anh Vien , Hanna Ziesche , Gerhard Neumann

Recent deep generative models have achieved promising performance in image inpainting. However, it is still very challenging for a neural network to generate realistic image details and textures, due to its inherent spectral bias. By our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Shuyi Qu , Zhenxing Niu , Kaizhu Huang , Jianke Zhu , Matan Protter , Gadi Zimerman , Yinghui Xu

Recent advances in image inpainting increasingly use generative models to handle large irregular masks. However, these models can create unrealistic inpainted images due to two main issues: (1) Unwanted object insertion: Even with unmasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yikai Wang , Chenjie Cao , Junqiu Yu , Ke Fan , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu