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Spatio-temporal forecasting is crucial in various fields and requires a careful balance between identifying subtle patterns and filtering out noise. Vector quantization (VQ) appears well-suited for this purpose, as it quantizes input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chao Chen , Tian Zhou , Yanjun Zhao , Hui Liu , Liang Sun , Rong Jin

Diffusion models have been widely adopted in image and video generation. However, their complex network architecture leads to high inference overhead for its generation process. Existing diffusion quantization methods primarily focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yihua Shao , Deyang Lin , Fanhu Zeng , Minxi Yan , Muyang Zhang , Siyu Chen , Yuxuan Fan , Ziyang Yan , Haozhe Wang , Jingcai Guo , Yan Wang , Haotong Qin , Hao Tang

Diffusion models create data from noise by inverting the forward paths of data towards noise and have emerged as a powerful generative modeling technique for high-dimensional, perceptual data such as images and videos. Rectified flow is a…

Conventional class-guided diffusion models generally succeed in generating images with correct semantic content, but often struggle with texture details. This limitation stems from the usage of class priors, which only provide coarse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyu Yue , Zidong Wang , Zeyu Lu , Shuyang Sun , Meng Wei , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Luping Zhou

Diffusion models have attained remarkable success in the domains of image generation and editing. It is widely recognized that employing larger inversion and denoising steps in diffusion model leads to improved image reconstruction quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Chen Hou , Guoqiang Wei , Zhibo Chen

Text-driven video generation has advanced significantly due to developments in diffusion models. Beyond the training and sampling phases, recent studies have investigated noise priors of diffusion models, as improved noise priors yield…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Yunlong Yuan , Yuanfan Guo , Chunwei Wang , Wei Zhang , Hang Xu , Li Zhang

Recent large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable text-to-image generation capabilities, yet their visual fidelity remains constrained by the discrete image tokenization, which poses a major challenge. Although several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ji Woo Hong , Hee Suk Yoon , Gwanhyeong Koo , Eunseop Yoon , SooHwan Eom , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Chang D. Yoo

Whilst diffusion probabilistic models can generate high quality image content, key limitations remain in terms of both generating high-resolution imagery and their associated high computational requirements. Recent Vector-Quantized image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Sam Bond-Taylor , Peter Hessey , Hiroshi Sasaki , Toby P. Breckon , Chris G. Willcocks

The diffusion model has gained popularity in vision applications due to its remarkable generative performance and versatility. However, high storage and computation demands, resulting from the model size and iterative generation, hinder its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Junhyuk So , Jungwon Lee , Daehyun Ahn , Hyungjun Kim , Eunhyeok Park

Detecting visual anomalies in diverse, multi-class real-world images is a significant challenge. We introduce \ours, a novel unsupervised multi-class visual anomaly detection framework. It integrates a Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Samet Hicsonmez , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Djamila Aouada

Product quantisation (PQ) is a classical method for scalable vector encoding, yet it has seen limited usage for latent representations in high-fidelity image generation. In this work, we introduce PQGAN, a quantised image autoencoder that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Denis Zavadski , Nikita Philip Tatsch , Carsten Rother

Vector-Quantized Image Modeling (VQIM) is a fundamental research problem in image synthesis, which aims to represent an image with a discrete token sequence. Existing studies effectively address this problem by learning a discrete codebook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Baoquan Zhang , Huaibin Wang , Luo Chuyao , Xutao Li , Liang Guotao , Yunming Ye , Xiaochen Qi , Yao He

We explore the use of Vector Quantized Variational AutoEncoder (VQ-VAE) models for large scale image generation. To this end, we scale and enhance the autoregressive priors used in VQ-VAE to generate synthetic samples of much higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ali Razavi , Aaron van den Oord , Oriol Vinyals

Generally, humans are more skilled at perceiving differences between high-quality (HQ) and low-quality (LQ) images than directly judging the quality of a single LQ image. This situation also applies to image quality assessment (IQA).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Guanghao Yin , Wei Wang , Zehuan Yuan , Chuchu Han , Wei Ji , Shouqian Sun , Changhu Wang

Discretization of semantic features enables interoperability between semantic and digital communication systems, showing significant potential for practical applications. The fundamental difficulty in digitizing semantic features stems from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jianqiao Chen , Tingting Zhu , Huishi Song , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu

Diffusion models have transformed image synthesis by establishing unprecedented quality and creativity benchmarks. Nevertheless, their large-scale deployment faces challenges due to computationally intensive iterative denoising processes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Songwei Liu , Chao Zeng , Chenqian Yan , Xurui Peng , Xing Wang , Fangmin Chen , Xing Mei

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-resolution, realistic images across diverse natural distributions. However, their performance heavily relies on high-quality training data, making it challenging to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tianyu Chen , Yasi Zhang , Zhendong Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong , Mingyuan Zhou

Recent studies have demonstrated that the forward diffusion process is crucial for the effectiveness of diffusion models in terms of generative quality and sampling efficiency. We propose incorporating an analytical image attenuation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yuhang Huang , Zheng Qin , Xinwang Liu , Kai Xu

Consistency learning with feature perturbation is a widely used strategy in semi-supervised medical image segmentation. However, many existing perturbation methods rely on dropout, and thus require a careful manual tuning of the dropout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sicheng Yang , Zhaohu Xing , Lei Zhu

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