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Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have recently been employed for image deblurring, formulated as an image-conditioned generation process that maps Gaussian noise to the high-quality image, conditioned on the blurry input.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Mengwei Ren , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Guido Gerig , Peyman Milanfar

With the incredible results achieved from generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) and diffusion models, generative AI (GenAI) is envisioned to yield remarkable breakthroughs in various industrial and academic domains. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

In supervised image restoration tasks, one key issue is how to obtain the aligned high-quality (HQ) and low-quality (LQ) training image pairs. Unfortunately, such HQ-LQ training pairs are hard to capture in practice, and hard to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tao Yang , Peiran Ren , Xuansong xie , Lei Zhang

Access to high-quality datasets in the medical industry limits machine learning model performance. To address this issue, we propose a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) combined with a UNet architecture for X-ray image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-04 Praveen Mahaulpatha , Thulana Abeywardane , Tomson George

Conditional image synthesis based on user-specified requirements is a key component in creating complex visual content. In recent years, diffusion-based generative modeling has become a highly effective way for conditional image synthesis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zheyuan Zhan , Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Zhenghe Zhao , Jiawei Chen , Chun Chen , Siwei Lyu , Can Wang

Generating photos satisfying multiple constraints find broad utility in the content creation industry. A key hurdle to accomplishing this task is the need for paired data consisting of all modalities (i.e., constraints) and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Vishal M. Patel

Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS) is among the most popular and effective techniques in the field of face generation and editing, thanks to its good generation quality and the versatility is brings along. Recent works attempted to go beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Alex Ergasti , Claudio Ferrari , Tomaso Fontanini , Massimo Bertozzi , Andrea Prati

Diffusion Probabilistic Models stand as a critical tool in generative modelling, enabling the generation of complex data distributions. This family of generative models yields record-breaking performance in tasks such as image synthesis,…

In this paper, we present a novel approach to synthesize realistic images based on their semantic layouts. It hypothesizes that for objects with similar appearance, they share similar representation. Our method establishes dependencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yi Wang , Lu Qi , Ying-Cong Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Jiaya Jia

Semantic image synthesis aims at generating photorealistic images from semantic layouts. Previous approaches with conditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) show state-of-the-art performance on this task, which either feed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Xihui Liu , Guojun Yin , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Modern biomedical image analysis using deep learning often encounters the challenge of limited annotated data. To overcome this issue, deep generative models can be employed to synthesize realistic biomedical images. In this regard, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Yuli Wu , Weidong He , Dennis Eschweiler , Ningxin Dou , Zixin Fan , Shengli Mi , Peter Walter , Johannes Stegmaier

We present an approach to synthesizing photographic images conditioned on semantic layouts. Given a semantic label map, our approach produces an image with photographic appearance that conforms to the input layout. The approach thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

Due to various physical degradation factors and limited counts received, PET image quality needs further improvements. The denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) are distribution learning-based models, which try to transform a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Kuang Gong , Keith A. Johnson , Georges El Fakhri , Quanzheng Li , Tinsu Pan

Image synthesis has seen significant advancements with the advent of diffusion-based generative models like Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and text-to-image diffusion models. Despite their efficacy, there is a dearth of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ruipeng Ma , Jinhao Duan , Fei Kong , Xiaoshuang Shi , Kaidi Xu

We investigate the utility of diffusion generative models to efficiently synthesise datasets that effectively train deep learning models for image analysis. Specifically, we propose novel $\Gamma$-distribution Latent Denoising Diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 David Stojanovski , Mariana da Silva , Pablo Lamata , Arian Beqiri , Alberto Gomez

Semantic communication is expected to be one of the cores of next-generation AI-based communications. One of the possibilities offered by semantic communication is the capability to regenerate, at the destination side, images or videos…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eleonora Grassucci , Sergio Barbarossa , Danilo Comminiello

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have emerged as a powerful class of deep generative models, achieving remarkable performance in image synthesis tasks. However, these models face challenges in terms of widespread adoption due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Kidist Amde Mekonnen , Nicola Dall'Asen , Paolo Rota

The goal of semantic image synthesis is to generate photo-realistic images from semantic label maps. It is highly relevant for tasks like content generation and image editing. Current state-of-the-art approaches, however, still struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shijie Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Juergen Gall

Current deep networks are very data-hungry and benefit from training on largescale datasets, which are often time-consuming to collect and annotate. By contrast, synthetic data can be generated infinitely using generative models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Weijia Wu , Yuzhong Zhao , Hao Chen , Yuchao Gu , Rui Zhao , Yefei He , Hong Zhou , Mike Zheng Shou , Chunhua Shen

In this paper, we present the Directly Denoising Diffusion Model (DDDM): a simple and generic approach for generating realistic images with few-step sampling, while multistep sampling is still preserved for better performance. DDDMs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Dan Zhang , Jingjing Wang , Feng Luo