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Diffusion probabilistic models have achieved enormous success in the field of image generation and manipulation. In this paper, we explore a novel paradigm of using the diffusion model and classifier guidance in the latent semantic space…

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Synthetic data is a scalable alternative to manual supervision, but it requires overcoming the sim-to-real domain gap. This discrepancy between virtual and real worlds is addressed by two seemingly opposed approaches: improving the realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Sergey Zakharov , Rares Ambrus , Vitor Guizilini , Wadim Kehl , Adrien Gaidon

This paper studies the dynamic generator model for spatial-temporal processes such as dynamic textures and action sequences in video data. In this model, each time frame of the video sequence is generated by a generator model, which is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-31 Jianwen Xie , Ruiqi Gao , Zilong Zheng , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

We propose a novel approach to image generation by decomposing an image into a structured sequence, where each element in the sequence shares the same spatial resolution but differs in the number of unique tokens used, capturing different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yikai Wang , Zhouxia Wang , Zhonghua Wu , Qingyi Tao , Kang Liao , Chen Change Loy

NeRF provides unparalleled fidelity of novel view synthesis: rendering a 3D scene from an arbitrary viewpoint. NeRF requires training on a large number of views that fully cover a scene, which limits its applicability. While these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Pol Moreno , Adam R. Kosiorek , Heiko Strathmann , Daniel Zoran , Rosalia G. Schneider , Björn Winckler , Larisa Markeeva , Théophane Weber , Danilo J. Rezende

Image downscaling is critical for efficient storage and transmission of high-resolution (HR) images. Existing learning-based methods focus on performing downscaling within the sRGB domain, which typically suffers from blurred details and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Yang Ren , Hai Jiang , Wei Li , Menglong Yang , Heng Zhang , Zehua Sheng , Qingsheng Ye , Shuaicheng Liu

Scaling and architectural advances have produced strikingly photorealistic image generative models, yet their mechanisms still remain opaque. Rather than advancing scaling, our goal is to strip away complicated engineering tricks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Vincent Lu , Aaron Truong , Zeyu Yun , Yubei Chen

We propose NeRF-VAE, a 3D scene generative model that incorporates geometric structure via NeRF and differentiable volume rendering. In contrast to NeRF, our model takes into account shared structure across scenes, and is able to infer the…

We present a method to learn compositional multi-object dynamics models from image observations based on implicit object encoders, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), and graph neural networks. NeRFs have become a popular choice for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Danny Driess , Zhiao Huang , Yunzhu Li , Russ Tedrake , Marc Toussaint

Generating graph structures is a challenging problem due to the diverse representations and complex dependencies among nodes. In this paper, we introduce Graph Variational Recurrent Neural Network (GraphVRNN), a probabilistic autoregressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Shih-Yang Su , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Greg Mori

Novel architectures have recently improved generative image synthesis leading to excellent visual quality in various tasks. Much of this success is due to the scalability of these architectures and hence caused by a dramatic increase in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Kaan Oktay , Jonas Müller , Björn Ommer

Recent work has shown the ability to learn generative models for 3D shapes from only unstructured 2D images. However, training such models requires differentiating through the rasterization step of the rendering process, therefore past work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Sebastian Lunz , Yingzhen Li , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Nate Kushman

We describe a method to train a generative model with latent factors that are (approximately) independent and localized. This means that perturbing the latent variables affects only local regions of the synthesized image, corresponding to…

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Non-parametric models, such as Gaussian Processes (GP), show promising results in the analysis of complex data. Their applications in neuroscience data have recently gained traction. In this research, we introduce a novel neural decoder…

The development of high-dimensional generative models has recently gained a great surge of interest with the introduction of variational auto-encoders and generative adversarial neural networks. Different variants have been proposed where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Mickaël Chen , Ludovic Denoyer , Thierry Artières

We introduce a novel generative framework for functions by integrating Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) and Transformer-based hypernetworks into latent variable models. Unlike prior approaches that rely on MLP-based hypernetworks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ignacio Peis , Batuhan Koyuncu , Isabel Valera , Jes Frellsen

This study introduces PV-RNN, a novel variational RNN inspired by the predictive-coding ideas. The model learns to extract the probabilistic structures hidden in fluctuating temporal patterns by dynamically changing the stochasticity of its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Ahmadreza Ahmadi , Jun Tani

Recent deep generative models are able to provide photo-realistic images as well as visual or textual content embeddings useful to address various tasks of computer vision and natural language processing. Their usefulness is nevertheless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Antoine Plumerault , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

Representation learning over graph structure data has been widely studied due to its wide application prospects. However, previous methods mainly focus on static graphs while many real-world graphs evolve over time. Modeling such evolution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-02 Tijin Yan , Hongwei Zhang , Zirui Li , Yuanqing Xia

Understanding, predicting, and generating object motions and transformations is a core problem in artificial intelligence. Modeling sequences of evolving images may provide better representations and models of motion and may ultimately be…

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