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Diffusion models have significantly advanced the fields of image, audio, and video generation, but they depend on an iterative sampling process that causes slow generation. To overcome this limitation, we propose consistency models, a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yang Song , Prafulla Dhariwal , Mark Chen , Ilya Sutskever

Generating a 3D point cloud from a single 2D image is of great importance for 3D scene understanding applications. To reconstruct the whole 3D shape of the object shown in the image, the existing deep learning based approaches use either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Wei , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Existing feedforward image-to-3D methods mainly rely on 2D multi-view diffusion models that cannot guarantee 3D consistency. These methods easily collapse when changing the prompt view direction and mainly handle object-centric cases. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuanhao Cai , He Zhang , Kai Zhang , Yixun Liang , Mengwei Ren , Fujun Luan , Qing Liu , Soo Ye Kim , Jianming Zhang , Zhifei Zhang , Yuqian Zhou , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang , Zhe Lin , Alan Yuille

Diffusion models have recently shown great promise for generative modeling, outperforming GANs on perceptual quality and autoregressive models at density estimation. A remaining downside is their slow sampling time: generating high quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Tim Salimans , Jonathan Ho

Probabilistic diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis, inpainting, and text-to-image tasks. However, they are still in the early stages of generating complex 3D shapes. This work proposes Diffusion-SDF, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Gene Chou , Yuval Bahat , Felix Heide

Diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation with its exceptional quality and creativity. However, its multi-step sampling process is known to be slow, often requiring tens of inference steps to obtain satisfactory results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xingchao Liu , Xiwen Zhang , Jianzhu Ma , Jian Peng , Qiang Liu

Point cloud denoising aims to restore clean point clouds from raw observations corrupted by noise and outliers while preserving the fine-grained details. We present a novel deep learning-based denoising model, that incorporates normalizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Aihua Mao , Zihui Du , Yu-Hui Wen , Jun Xuan , Yong-Jin Liu

Taming the generation outcome of state of the art Diffusion and Flow-Matching (FM) models without having to re-train a task-specific model unlocks a powerful tool for solving inverse problems, conditional generation, and controlled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Heli Ben-Hamu , Omri Puny , Itai Gat , Brian Karrer , Uriel Singer , Yaron Lipman

As a popular representation of 3D data, point cloud may contain noise and need to be filtered before use. Existing point cloud filtering methods either cannot preserve sharp features or result in uneven point distribution in the filtered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shuaijun Chen , Jinxi Wang , Wei Pan , Shang Gao , Meili Wang , Xuequan Lu

We present PointInfinity, an efficient family of point cloud diffusion models. Our core idea is to use a transformer-based architecture with a fixed-size, resolution-invariant latent representation. This enables efficient training with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zixuan Huang , Justin Johnson , Shoubhik Debnath , James M. Rehg , Chao-Yuan Wu

Diffusion models generate high-quality images but require dozens of forward passes. We introduce Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), a procedure to transform a diffusion model into a one-step image generator with minimal impact on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tianwei Yin , Michaël Gharbi , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Fredo Durand , William T. Freeman , Taesung Park

Point cloud upsampling focuses on generating a dense, uniform and proximity-to-surface point set. Most previous approaches accomplish these objectives by carefully designing a single-stage network, which makes it still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hang Du , Xuejun Yan , Jingjing Wang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

We present SD3.5-Flash, an efficient few-step distillation framework that brings high-quality image generation to accessible consumer devices. Our approach distills computationally prohibitive rectified flow models through a reformulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hmrishav Bandyopadhyay , Rahim Entezari , Jim Scott , Reshinth Adithyan , Yi-Zhe Song , Varun Jampani

We propose a new framework that formulates point cloud registration as a denoising diffusion process from noisy transformation to object transformation. During training stage, object transformation diffuses from ground-truth transformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yue Wu , Yongzhe Yuan , Xiaolong Fan , Xiaoshui Huang , Maoguo Gong , Qiguang Miao

As 3D point clouds become a cornerstone of modern technology, the need for sophisticated generative models and reliable evaluation metrics has grown exponentially. In this work, we first expose that some commonly used metrics for evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Matteo Bastico , David Ryckelynck , Laurent Corté , Yannick Tillier , Etienne Decencière

Discrete diffusion models excel at visual synthesis but rely on slow, iterative decoding. Existing single-step distillation methods attempt to bypass this bottleneck, either by training auxiliary score networks that effectively double…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chaoyang Wang , Yunhai Tong

Pre-trained diffusion models are commonly used to generate clean data (e.g., images) from random noises, effectively forming pairs of noises and corresponding clean images. Distillation on these pre-trained models can be viewed as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zhangkai Wu , Xuhui Fan , Hongyu Wu , Longbing Cao

We introduce StreamDiffusion, a real-time diffusion pipeline designed for interactive image generation. Existing diffusion models are adept at creating images from text or image prompts, yet they often fall short in real-time interaction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Akio Kodaira , Chenfeng Xu , Toshiki Hazama , Takanori Yoshimoto , Kohei Ohno , Shogo Mitsuhori , Soichi Sugano , Hanying Cho , Zhijian Liu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer

We propose a novel point cloud U-Net diffusion architecture for 3D generative modeling capable of generating high-quality and diverse 3D shapes while maintaining fast generation times. Our network employs a dual-branch architecture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ioannis Romanelis , Vlassios Fotis , Athanasios Kalogeras , Christos Alexakos , Konstantinos Moustakas , Adrian Munteanu

Point clouds are naturally sparse, while image pixels are dense. The inconsistency limits feature fusion from both modalities for point-wise scene flow estimation. Previous methods rarely predict scene flow from the entire point clouds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Chensheng Peng , Guangming Wang , Xian Wan Lo , Xinrui Wu , Chenfeng Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan , Hesheng Wang