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Diffusion models conditioned on identity embeddings enable the generation of synthetic face images that consistently preserve identity across multiple samples. Recent work has shown that introducing an additional negative condition through…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Eduarda Caldeira , Tahar Chettaoui , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

Typical diffusion models are trained to accept a particular form of conditioning, most commonly text, and cannot be conditioned on other modalities without retraining. In this work, we propose a universal guidance algorithm that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Arpit Bansal , Hong-Min Chu , Avi Schwarzschild , Soumyadip Sengupta , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

Large generative diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation and offer immense potential for conditional generation tasks such as image enhancement, restoration, editing, and compositing. However, their widespread adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Kangfu Mei , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Zhengzhong Tu , Vishal M. Patel , Peyman Milanfar

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable progress in image generation quality, especially when guidance is used to control the generative process. However, guidance requires a large amount of image-annotation pairs for training and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Vincent Tao Hu , David W Zhang , Yuki M. Asano , Gertjan J. Burghouts , Cees G. M. Snoek

Diffusion models have shown an impressive ability to model complex data distributions, with several key advantages over GANs, such as stable training, better coverage of the training distribution's modes, and the ability to solve inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yinbo Chen , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Xiaolong Wang , Michael Gharbi

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

Diffusion models for continuous data gained widespread adoption owing to their high quality generation and control mechanisms. However, controllable diffusion on discrete data faces challenges given that continuous guidance methods do not…

Despite the tremendous success of diffusion generative models in text-to-image generation, replicating this success in the domain of image compression has proven difficult. In this paper, we demonstrate that diffusion can significantly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Emiel Hoogeboom , Eirikur Agustsson , Fabian Mentzer , Luca Versari , George Toderici , Lucas Theis

Discriminative classifiers have become a foundational tool in deep learning for medical imaging, excelling at learning separable features of complex data distributions. However, these models often need careful design, augmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Gian Mario Favero , Parham Saremi , Emily Kaczmarek , Brennan Nichyporuk , Tal Arbel

Training machine learning models on massive datasets is expensive and time-consuming. Dataset distillation addresses this by creating a small synthetic dataset that achieves the same performance as the full dataset. Recent methods use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jeffrey A. Chan-Santiago , Mubarak Shah

One highly promising direction for enabling flexible real-time on-device image editing is utilizing data distillation by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models to generate paired datasets used for training generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yifan Gong , Zheng Zhan , Qing Jin , Yanyu Li , Yerlan Idelbayev , Xian Liu , Andrey Zharkov , Kfir Aberman , Sergey Tulyakov , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Ren

Despite the remarkable progress in generative modelling, current diffusion models lack a quantitative approach to assess image quality. To address this limitation, we propose to estimate the pixel-wise aleatoric uncertainty during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Michele De Vita , Vasileios Belagiannis

Diffusion models are among the most effective methods for image generation. This is in particular because, unlike GANs, they can be easily conditioned during training to produce elements with desired class or properties. However, guiding a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Mateusz Poleski , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

Deep learning methods have impacted almost every research field, demonstrating notable successes in medical imaging tasks such as denoising and super-resolution. However, the prerequisite for deep learning is data at scale, but data sharing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Yongyi Shi , Wenjun Xia , Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Many existing conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) are limited to conditioning on pre-defined and fixed class-level semantic labels or attributes. We propose an open set GAN architecture (OpenGAN) that is conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Luke Ditria , Benjamin J. Meyer , Tom Drummond

Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have shown incredible promise for zero shot image-to-image translation and editing. Most of these approaches work by combining or replacing network-specific features used in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zeqi Gu , Ethan Yang , Abe Davis

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in generating high-quality images. However, adapting large pre-trained diffusion models to new domains remains an open challenge, which is critical for real-world applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Enze Xie , Lewei Yao , Han Shi , Zhili Liu , Daquan Zhou , Zhaoqiang Liu , Jiawei Li , Zhenguo Li

Diffusion models have shown significant progress in image translation tasks recently. However, due to their stochastic nature, there's often a trade-off between style transformation and content preservation. Current strategies aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Gihyun Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results on many modalities including images, speech, and video. However, existing models are not tailored to support remote sensing data, which is widely used in important applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Samar Khanna , Patrick Liu , Linqi Zhou , Chenlin Meng , Robin Rombach , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon