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Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) can model data distributions with expressive infinite-length architectures. But this modeling involves computationally expensive process of solving an ordinary differential equation (ODE) during maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Denis Gudovskiy , Tomoyuki Okuno , Yohei Nakata

Neural Fields (NF) have gained prominence as a versatile framework for complex data representation. This work unveils a new problem setting termed \emph{Meta-Continual Learning of Neural Fields} (MCL-NF) and introduces a novel strategy that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Seungyoon Woo , Junhyeog Yun , Gunhee Kim

An approach to utilize recent advances in deep generative models for anomaly detection in a granular (continuous) sense on a real-world image dataset with quality issues is detailed using recent normalizing flow models, with implications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 John Just

Reconstructing ghosting-free high dynamic range (HDR) images of dynamic scenes from a set of multi-exposure images is a challenging task, especially with large object motion and occlusions, leading to visible artifacts using existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Qian Ye , Masanori Suganuma , Jun Xiao , Takayuki Okatani

Diffusion models have emerged as one of the most promising frameworks for deep generative modeling. In this work, we explore the potential of non-uniform diffusion models. We show that non-uniform diffusion leads to multi-scale diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Georgios Batzolis , Jan Stanczuk , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Christian Etmann

Normalizing flows are a class of generative models that enable exact likelihood evaluation. While these models have already found various applications in particle physics, normalizing flows are not flexible enough to model many of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Rob Verheyen

Dense optical flow estimation is challenging when there are large displacements in a scene with heterogeneous motion dynamics, occlusion, and scene homogeneity. Traditional approaches to handle these challenges include hierarchical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Ali Salehi , Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian

State-of-the-art maximum entropy models for texture synthesis are built from statistics relying on image representations defined by convolutional neural networks (CNN). Such representations capture rich structures in texture images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Antoine Brochard , Sixin Zhang , Stéphane Mallat

To facilitate reliable deployments of autonomous robots in the real world, Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection capabilities are often required. A powerful approach for OOD detection is based on density estimation with Normalizing Flows…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Jianxiang Feng , Jongseok Lee , Simon Geisler , Stephan Gunnemann , Rudolph Triebel

Normalizing flows are a powerful class of generative models for continuous random variables, showing both strong model flexibility and the potential for non-autoregressive generation. These benefits are also desired when modeling discrete…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Zachary M. Ziegler , Alexander M. Rush

Modern deep generative models can assign high likelihood to inputs drawn from outside the training distribution, posing threats to models in open-world deployments. While much research attention has been placed on defining new test-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Mu Cai , Yixuan Li

Modeling statistical regularity plays an essential role in ill-posed image processing problems. Recently, deep learning based methods have been presented to implicitly learn statistical representation of pixel distributions in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Yang Wang , Chenglin Wen , Chang Wen Chen

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data is crucial for robust machine learning systems. Normalizing flows are flexible deep generative models that often surprisingly fail to distinguish between in- and out-of-distribution data: a flow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-16 Polina Kirichenko , Pavel Izmailov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

In this paper, we propose an approach to effectively accelerating the computation of continuous normalizing flow (CNF), which has been proven to be a powerful tool for the tasks such as variational inference and density estimation. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Han-Hsien Huang , Mi-Yen Yeh

Diffusion models for image generation often exhibit a trade-off between perceptual sample quality and data likelihood: training objectives emphasizing high-noise denoising steps yield realistic images but poor likelihoods, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yasin Esfandiari , Stefan Bauer , Sebastian U. Stich , Andrea Dittadi

Recent advances in diffusion and flow-based generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in image restoration tasks, achieving superior perceptual quality compared to traditional deep learning approaches. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuanzhi Zhu , Ruiqing Wang , Shilin Lu , Junnan Li , Hanshu Yan , Kai Zhang

The convolutional neural network model for optical flow estimation usually outputs a low-resolution(LR) optical flow field. To obtain the corresponding full image resolution,interpolation and variational approach are the most common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Liping Zhang , Zongqing Lu , Qingmin Liao

Flow-based generative models have highly desirable properties like exact log-likelihood evaluation and exact latent-variable inference, however they are still in their infancy and have not received as much attention as alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Albert Pumarola , Stefan Popov , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Vittorio Ferrari

The visibility of real-world images is often limited by both low-light and low-resolution, however, these issues are only addressed in the literature through Low-Light Enhancement (LLE) and Super- Resolution (SR) methods. Admittedly, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Ziyu Yue , Jiaxin Gao , Sihan Xie , Yang Liu , Zhixun Su

Recently, there has been discussions on the ill-posed nature of super-resolution that multiple possible reconstructions exist for a given low-resolution image. Using normalizing flows, SRflow[23] achieves state-of-the-art perceptual quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Sieun Park , Eunho Lee