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Recent advancements in diffusion models have showcased their impressive capacity to generate visually striking images. Nevertheless, ensuring a close match between the generated image and the given prompt remains a persistent challenge. In…

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We learn visual features by captioning images with an image-conditioned masked diffusion language model, a formulation we call masked diffusion captioning (MDC). During training, text tokens in each image-caption pair are masked at a…

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Masked image modeling (MIM) as pre-training is shown to be effective for numerous vision downstream tasks, but how and where MIM works remain unclear. In this paper, we compare MIM with the long-dominant supervised pre-trained models from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Zhenda Xie , Zigang Geng , Jingcheng Hu , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu , Yue Cao

As one of the most successful generative models, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in synthesizing high-quality images. These models learn the underlying high-dimensional data distribution in an unsupervised manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Min Hou , Yueying Wu , Chang Xu , Yu-Hao Huang , Chenxi Bai , Le Wu , Jiang Bian

Functional MRI (fMRI) has become the most common method for investigating the human brain. However, fMRI data present some complications for statistical analysis and modeling. One recently developed approach to these data focuses on…

Applications · Statistics 2015-03-19 Vincent Q. Vu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Thomas Naselaris , Kendrick N. Kay , Jack L. Gallant , Bin Yu

This paper seeks to combine dictionary learning and hierarchical image representation in a principled way. To make dictionary atoms capturing additional information from extended receptive fields and attain improved descriptive capacity, we…

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Brain decoding is a key neuroscience field that reconstructs the visual stimuli from brain activity with fMRI, which helps illuminate how the brain represents the world. fMRI-to-image reconstruction has achieved impressive progress by…

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The functional and structural representation of the brain as a complex network is marked by the fact that the comparison of noisy and intrinsically correlated high-dimensional structures between experimental conditions or groups shuns…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-25 Tommaso Furlanello , Marco Cristoforetti , Cesare Furlanello , Giuseppe Jurman

Diffusion models generate high-quality images through progressive denoising but are computationally intensive due to large model sizes and repeated sampling. Knowledge distillation, which transfers knowledge from a complex teacher to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Dohyun Kim , Sehwan Park , Geonhee Han , Seung Wook Kim , Paul Hongsuck Seo

The Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) has demonstrated strong capabilities in high-resolution image generation and has been widely employed for Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis (PGPIS), yielding promising results. However, the compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiaqi Liu , Jichao Zhang , Paolo Rota , Nicu Sebe

Image super-resolution (SR) has attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications. However, current SR methods generally suffer from over-smoothing and artifacts, and most work only with fixed magnifications. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sicheng Gao , Xuhui Liu , Bohan Zeng , Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Xiaoyan Luo , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Baochang Zhang

Event camera, a novel neuromorphic vision sensor, records data with high temporal resolution and wide dynamic range, offering new possibilities for accurate visual representation in challenging scenarios. However, event data is inherently…

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Reconstructing perceived natural images from fMRI signals is one of the most engaging topics of neural decoding research. Prior studies had success in reconstructing either the low-level image features or the semantic/high-level aspects,…

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Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) suffer from inefficient inference due to their slow sampling and high memory consumption, which limits their applicability to various medical imaging applications. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

We propose a cross-modal attention distillation framework to train a dual-encoder model for vision-language understanding tasks, such as visual reasoning and visual question answering. Dual-encoder models have a faster inference speed than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zekun Wang , Wenhui Wang , Haichao Zhu , Ming Liu , Bing Qin , Furu Wei

Generative models based on deep learning have shown significant potential in medical imaging, particularly for modality transformation and multimodal fusion in MRI-based brain imaging. This study introduces GM-LDM, a novel framework that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Hu Xu , Yang Jingling , Jia Sihan , Bi Yuda , Calhoun Vince

Sparse-view sampling in dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) significantly reduces radiation dose and increases imaging speed, yet is highly prone to artifacts. Although diffusion models have demonstrated potential in effectively handling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Zini Chen , Yao Xiao , Junyan Zhang , Shaoyu Wang , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

The use of supervised deep learning techniques to detect pathologies in brain MRI scans can be challenging due to the diversity of brain anatomy and the need for annotated data sets. An alternative approach is to use unsupervised anomaly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

In the quest for efficient neural network models for neural data interpretation and user intent classification in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), learning meaningful sparse representations of the underlying neural subspaces is crucial.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hye-Bin Shin , Kang Yin , Seong-Whan Lee

Multimodal representation learning has shown promising improvements on various vision-language tasks. Most existing methods excel at building global-level alignment between vision and language while lacking effective fine-grained image-text…

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