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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…

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Generative diffusion models have advanced image editing with high-quality results and intuitive interfaces such as prompts and semantic drawing. However, these interfaces lack precise control, and the associated methods typically specialize…

It is well known the adversarial optimization of GAN-based image super-resolution (SR) methods makes the preceding SR model generate unpleasant and undesirable artifacts, leading to large distortion. We attribute the cause of such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Joshua Tian Jin Tee , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Chang D. Yoo , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Despite all recent progress, it is still challenging to edit and manipulate natural images with modern generative models. When using Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), one major hurdle is in the inversion process mapping a real image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zhihong Pan , Riccardo Gherardi , Xiufeng Xie , Stephen Huang

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

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 models have achieved remarkable success in image generation and editing tasks. Inversion within these models aims to recover the latent noise representation for a real or generated image, enabling reconstruction, editing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zixiang Li , Haoyu Wang , Wei Wang , Chuangchuang Tan , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao

Generative graph models struggle to scale due to the need to predict the existence or type of edges between all node pairs. To address the resulting quadratic complexity, existing scalable models often impose restrictive assumptions such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yiming Qin , Clement Vignac , Pascal Frossard

Diffusion-based generative models (DGMs) have recently attracted attention in speech enhancement research (SE) as previous works showed a remarkable generalization capability. However, DGMs are also computationally intensive, as they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Chenda Li , Samuele Cornell , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Jie Liang , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) enables intelligence systems to autonomously refine their capabilities. This paper explores the application of RSI in text-to-image diffusion models, addressing the challenge of training collapse caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Xulu Zhang , Xiaoyong Wei , Jinlin Wu , Jiaxin Wu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Zhen Lei , Qing Li

Conditional diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in image manipulation tasks. The general pipeline involves adding noise to the image and then denoising it. However, this method faces a trade-off problem: adding too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Luozhou Wang , Shuai Yang , Shu Liu , Ying-cong Chen

Inferring the 3D structure underlying a set of multi-view images typically requires solving two co-dependent tasks -- accurate 3D reconstruction requires precise camera poses, and predicting camera poses relies on (implicitly or explicitly)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Qitao Zhao , Shubham Tulsiani

Generative models have demonstrated strong performance in conditional settings and can be viewed as a form of data compression, where the condition serves as a compact representation. However, their limited controllability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiao Li , Liangji Zhu , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Generating high-resolution 3D shapes using volumetric representations such as Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) presents substantial computational and memory challenges. We introduce Direct3D-S2, a scalable 3D generation framework based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Shuang Wu , Youtian Lin , Feihu Zhang , Yifei Zeng , Yikang Yang , Yajie Bao , Jiachen Qian , Siyu Zhu , Xun Cao , Philip Torr , Yao Yao

Generative models make huge progress to the photorealistic image synthesis in recent years. To enable human to steer the image generation process and customize the output, many works explore the interpretable dimensions of the latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jianyuan Wang , Lalit Bhagat , Ceyuan Yang , Yinghao Xu , Yujun Shen , Hongdong Li , Bolei Zhou

Network pruning can reduce the high computation cost of deep neural network (DNN) models. However, to maintain their accuracies, sparse models often carry randomly-distributed weights, leading to irregular computations. Consequently, sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Cong Guo , Bo Yang Hsueh , Jingwen Leng , Yuxian Qiu , Yue Guan , Zehuan Wang , Xiaoying Jia , Xipeng Li , Minyi Guo , Yuhao Zhu

Semantic image synthesis, i.e., generating images from user-provided semantic label maps, is an important conditional image generation task as it allows to control both the content as well as the spatial layout of generated images. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tariq Berrada , Jakob Verbeek , Camille Couprie , Karteek Alahari

Diffusion models have achieved success in high-fidelity data synthesis, yet their capacity for more complex, structured reasoning like text following tasks remains constrained. While advances in language models have leveraged strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuwei Sun , Yuxuan Yao , Hui Li , Siyu Zhu

We present a novel, training-free approach for textual editing of real images using diffusion models. Unlike prior methods that rely on computationally expensive finetuning, our approach leverages LAtent SPatial Alignment (LASPA) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yazeed Alharbi , Peter Wonka