English
Related papers

Related papers: Open-vocabulary Object Segmentation with Diffusion…

200 papers

While originally designed for image generation, diffusion models have recently shown to provide excellent pretrained feature representations for semantic segmentation. Intrigued by this result, we set out to explore how well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Rui Gong , Martin Danelljan , Han Sun , Julio Delgado Mangas , Luc Van Gool

We propose an efficient method to ground pretrained text-only language models to the visual domain, enabling them to process arbitrarily interleaved image-and-text data, and generate text interleaved with retrieved images. Our method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jing Yu Koh , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Daniel Fried

Producing quality segmentation masks for images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recent research has explored large-scale supervised training to enable zero-shot segmentation on virtually any image style and unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Junjiao Tian , Lavisha Aggarwal , Andrea Colaco , Zsolt Kira , Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Recently, large-scale diffusion models, e.g., Stable diffusion and DallE2, have shown remarkable results on image synthesis. On the other hand, large-scale cross-modal pre-trained models (e.g., CLIP, ALIGN, and FILIP) are competent for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Runhui Huang , Jianhua Han , Guansong Lu , Xiaodan Liang , Yihan Zeng , Wei Zhang , Hang Xu

This paper introduces the first gradient-based framework for prompt optimization in text-to-image diffusion models. We formulate prompt engineering as a discrete optimization problem over the language space. Two major challenges arise in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ruochen Wang , Ting Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Boqing Gong

The goal of this work is to establish a scalable pipeline for expanding an object detector towards novel/unseen categories, using zero manual annotations. To achieve that, we make the following four contributions: (i) in pursuit of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chengjian Feng , Yujie Zhong , Zequn Jie , Xiangxiang Chu , Haibing Ren , Xiaolin Wei , Weidi Xie , Lin Ma

In recent years large model trained on huge amount of cross-modality data, which is usually be termed as foundation model, achieves conspicuous accomplishment in many fields, such as image recognition and generation. Though achieving great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Shiqi Yang , Atsushi Hashimoto , Yoshitaka Ushiku

Blind face restoration aims to recover high-quality facial images from various unidentified sources of degradation, posing significant challenges due to the minimal information retrievable from the degraded images. Prior knowledge-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wanglong Lu , Jikai Wang , Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Xianta Jiang , Hanli Zhao

In text-to-image generation tasks, the advancements of diffusion models have facilitated the fidelity of generated results. However, these models encounter challenges when processing text prompts containing multiple entities and attributes.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yihang Wu , Xiao Cao , Kaixin Li , Zitan Chen , Haonan Wang , Lei Meng , Zhiyong Huang

The recent surge of generative AI has been fueled by the generative power of diffusion probabilistic models and the scalable capabilities of large language models. Despite their potential, it remains elusive whether diffusion language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jiasheng Ye , Zaixiang Zheng , Yu Bao , Lihua Qian , Quanquan Gu

We introduce Transfusion, a recipe for training a multi-modal model over discrete and continuous data. Transfusion combines the language modeling loss function (next token prediction) with diffusion to train a single transformer over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chunting Zhou , Lili Yu , Arun Babu , Kushal Tirumala , Michihiro Yasunaga , Leonid Shamis , Jacob Kahn , Xuezhe Ma , Luke Zettlemoyer , Omer Levy

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to recognize and segment objects from arbitrary natural language descriptions, offering the flexibility to handle novel, fine-grained, or functionally defined categories beyond fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chongyu Wang , Kunlei Jing , Jihua Zhu , Di Wang

Collecting and annotating images with pixel-wise labels is time-consuming and laborious. In contrast, synthetic data can be freely available using a generative model (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion). In this paper, we show that it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Weijia Wu , Yuzhong Zhao , Mike Zheng Shou , Hong Zhou , Chunhua Shen

This paper introduces a diffusion-based framework for universal image segmentation, making agnostic segmentation possible without depending on mask-based frameworks and instead predicting the full segmentation in a holistic manner. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jakob Lønborg Christensen , Morten Rieger Hannemose , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Vedrana Andersen Dahl

Foundation models have emerged as powerful tools across various domains including language, vision, and multimodal tasks. While prior works have addressed unsupervised image segmentation, they significantly lag behind supervised models. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Paul Couairon , Mustafa Shukor , Jean-Emmanuel Haugeard , Matthieu Cord , Nicolas Thome

As the most fundamental scene understanding tasks, object detection and segmentation have made tremendous progress in deep learning era. Due to the expensive manual labeling cost, the annotated categories in existing datasets are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chaoyang Zhu , Long Chen

This paper introduces an audio-visual speech enhancement system that leverages score-based generative models, also known as diffusion models, conditioned on visual information. In particular, we exploit audio-visual embeddings obtained from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Julius Richter , Simone Frintrop , Timo Gerkmann

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding presents a significant challenge in the field. Recent works have sought to transfer knowledge embedded in vision-language models from 2D to 3D domains. However, these approaches often require prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Hanchen Tai , Qingdong He , Jiangning Zhang , Yijie Qian , Zhenyu Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yabiao Wang , Yong Liu

Most recent 3D instance segmentation methods are open vocabulary, offering a greater flexibility than closed-vocabulary methods. Yet, they are limited to reasoning within a specific set of concepts, \ie the vocabulary, prompted by the user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Guofeng Mei , Luigi Riz , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi

The evolution of semantic segmentation has long been dominated by learning more discriminative image representations for classifying each pixel. Despite the prominent advancements, the priors of segmentation masks themselves, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Zeqiang Lai , Yuchen Duan , Jifeng Dai , Ziheng Li , Ying Fu , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao , Wenhai Wang