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We provide a general framework for learning diffusion bridges that transport prior to target distributions. It includes existing diffusion models for generative modeling, but also underdamped versions with degenerate diffusion matrices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Denis Blessing , Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Gerhard Neumann

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (diffusion models for short) require a large number of iterations in inference to achieve the generation quality that matches or surpasses the state-of-the-art generative models, which invariably…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Zehua Chen , Xu Tan , Ke Wang , Shifeng Pan , Danilo Mandic , Lei He , Sheng Zhao

Text-guided diffusion models have shown superior performance in image/video generation and editing. While few explorations have been performed in 3D scenarios. In this paper, we discuss three fundamental and interesting problems on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Gang Li , Heliang Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Chang Li , Changwen Zheng , Dacheng Tao

Although learning-based image restoration methods have made significant progress, they still struggle with limited generalization to real-world scenarios due to the substantial domain gap caused by training on synthetic data. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kang Liao , Zongsheng Yue , Zhouxia Wang , Chen Change Loy

This paper presents PolyDiffuse, a novel structured reconstruction algorithm that transforms visual sensor data into polygonal shapes with Diffusion Models (DM), an emerging machinery amid exploding generative AI, while formulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiacheng Chen , Ruizhi Deng , Yasutaka Furukawa

Diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable success in various domains. It trains a shared model on denoising tasks that encompass different noise levels simultaneously, representing a form of multi-task learning (MTL).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Hyojun Go , JinYoung Kim , Yunsung Lee , Seunghyun Lee , Shinhyeok Oh , Hyeongdon Moon , Seungtaek Choi

Diffusion models have emerged as the de facto choice for generating high-quality visual signals across various domains. However, training a single model to predict noise across various levels poses significant challenges, necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tiankai Hang , Shuyang Gu , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

Restoring low-resolution text images presents a significant challenge, as it requires maintaining both the fidelity and stylistic realism of the text in restored images. Existing text image restoration methods often fall short in hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglu Pan , Xiaogang Xu , Ganggui Ding , Yunke Zhang , Wenbo Li , Jiarong Xu , Qingbiao Wu

Scene text detection techniques have garnered significant attention due to their wide-ranging applications. However, existing methods have a high demand for training data, and obtaining accurate human annotations is labor-intensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Ling Fu , Zijie Wu , Yingying Zhu , Yuliang Liu , Xiang Bai

Diffusion Models (DMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in content generation without requiring adversarial training. These models are trained using a two-step process. First, a forward - diffusion - process gradually adds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar

Diffusion models have achieved great success in modeling continuous data modalities such as images, audio, and video, but have seen limited use in discrete domains such as language. Recent attempts to adapt diffusion to language have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Justin Lovelace , Varsha Kishore , Chao Wan , Eliot Shekhtman , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis tasks as well as density estimation. Applied in the latent space of a powerful pretrained autoencoder (LDM), their immense computational requirements can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jeremias Traub

Low-light photography produces images with low signal-to-noise ratios due to limited photons. In such conditions, common approximations like the Gaussian noise model fall short, and many denoising techniques fail to remove noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

We analyze, theoretically and empirically, the performance of generative diffusion models based on \emph{blind denoisers}, in which the denoiser is not given the noise amplitude in either the training or sampling processes. Assuming that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Sinho Chewi , Eero Simoncelli

Existing multi-modal image fusion methods fail to address the compound degradations presented in source images, resulting in fusion images plagued by noise, color bias, improper exposure, \textit{etc}. Additionally, these methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hao Zhang , Lei Cao , Jiayi Ma

Diffusion-based generative models (DBGMs) perturb data to a target noise distribution and reverse this process to generate samples. The choice of noising process, or inference diffusion process, affects both likelihoods and sample quality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Raghav Singhal , Mark Goldstein , Rajesh Ranganath

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a dominant approach for image generation, however they still suffer from slow convergence in training and color shift issues in sampling. In this paper, we identify that these obstacles can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hu Yu , Li Shen , Jie Huang , Hongsheng Li , Feng Zhao

Diffusion models generate samples through an iterative denoising process, guided by a neural network. While training the denoiser on real-world data is computationally demanding, the sampling procedure itself is more flexible. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Constant Bourdrez , Alexandre Vérine , Olivier Cappé

This paper presents a novel approach for denoising Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) patterns using diffusion models. We propose a two-stage training process with a UNet-based architecture, incorporating an auxiliary regression head…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Nikolay Falaleev , Nikolai Orlov

Image tokenization plays a central role in modern generative modeling by mapping visual inputs into compact representations that serve as an intermediate signal between pixels and generative models. Diffusion-based decoders have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chuhan Wang , Hao Chen