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Recently, diffusion models have shown remarkable results in image synthesis by gradually removing noise and amplifying signals. Although the simple generative process surprisingly works well, is this the best way to generate image data? For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sangyun Lee , Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyeon Kim , Jong Chul Ye

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

Diffusion models are extensively used for modeling image priors for inverse problems. We introduce \emph{Diff-Unfolding}, a principled framework for learning posterior score functions of \emph{conditional diffusion models} by explicitly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yuanhao Wang , Shirin Shoushtari , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Recent progress in imitation learning has been enabled by policy architectures that scale to complex visuomotor tasks, multimodal distributions, and large datasets. However, these methods often rely on learning from large amount of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Amber Xie , Oleh Rybkin , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

In the field of computer vision, visible light images often exhibit low contrast in low-light conditions, presenting a significant challenge. While infrared imagery provides a potential solution, its utilization entails high costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yijia Chen , Pinghua Chen , Xiangxin Zhou , Yingtie Lei , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li

Purpose To develop a computer based method for the automated assessment of image quality in the context of diabetic retinopathy (DR) to guide the photographer. Methods A deep learning framework was trained to grade the images automatically.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Sajib Kumar Saha , Basura Fernando , Jorge Cuadros , Di Xiao , Yogesan Kanagasingam

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success, yet their training remains inefficient due to a severe optimization bottleneck, which we term Representation Degradation. As noise levels increase, the outputs of the trained model exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhipeng Yao , Dazhou Li , Zitong Zhang , Durude Mahee , Fan Zhu , Wenbin Zhang , Xinwei He , Yeying Jin , Rui Yu

Diffusion models have shown significant progress in image translation tasks recently. However, due to their stochastic nature, there's often a trade-off between style transformation and content preservation. Current strategies aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Gihyun Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

Recent advancements have explored text-to-image diffusion models for synthesizing out-of-distribution (OOD) samples, substantially enhancing the performance of OOD detection. However, existing approaches typically rely on perturbing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xin Gao , Jiyao Liu , Guanghao Li , Yueming Lyu , Jianxiong Gao , Weichen Yu , Ningsheng Xu , Liang Wang , Caifeng Shan , Ziwei Liu , Chenyang Si

While machine learning approaches to image restoration offer great promise, current methods risk training models fixated on performing well only for image corruption of a particular level of difficulty---such as a certain level of noise or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Ruohan Gao , Kristen Grauman

Integrating deep learning with clinical expertise holds great potential for addressing healthcare challenges and empowering medical professionals with improved diagnostic tools. However, the need for annotated medical images is often an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Romain Hardy , Joe Klepich , Ryan Mitchell , Steve Hall , Jericho Villareal , Cornelia Ilin

Diffusion models are a powerful generative framework, but come with expensive inference. Existing acceleration methods often compromise image quality or fail under complex conditioning when operating in an extremely low-step regime. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jonas Kohler , Albert Pumarola , Edgar Schönfeld , Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Roshan Sumbaly , Peter Vajda , Ali Thabet

Classifier-guided diffusion models have emerged as a powerful approach for conditional image generation, but they suffer from overconfident predictions during early denoising steps, causing the guidance gradient to vanish. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Seyed Alireza Javid , Amirhossein Bagheri , Nuria González-Prelcic

Diffusion models has emerged as a powerful framework for tasks like image controllable generation and dense prediction. However, existing models often struggle to capture underlying semantics (e.g., edges, textures, shapes) and effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhong Ji , Weilong Cao , Yan Zhang , Yanwei Pang , Jungong Han , Xuelong Li

Diffusion models have garnered considerable interest in computer vision, owing both to their capacity to synthesize photorealistic images and to their proven effectiveness in image reconstruction tasks. However, existing approaches fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jonas Dornbusch , Emanuel Pfarr , Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Frank Werner , Radu Timofte

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models for solving inverse problems, offering a good approximation of prior distributions of real-world image data. Typically, diffusion models rely on large-scale clean signals to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yifei Wang , Weimin Bai , Weijian Luo , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

Deep learning-based image generation has seen significant advancements with diffusion models, notably improving the quality of generated images. Despite these developments, generating images with unseen characteristics beneficial for…

Light fields (LFs), conducive to comprehensive scene radiance recorded across angular dimensions, find wide applications in 3D reconstruction, virtual reality, and computational photography.However, the LF acquisition is inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Ruisheng Gao , Yutong Liu , Zeyu Xiao , Zhiwei Xiong

Learned image compression codecs have recently achieved impressive compression performances surpassing the most efficient image coding architectures. However, most approaches are trained to minimize rate and distortion which often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Daniele Mari , Simone Milani

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable performance of diffusion models in various vision tasks. However, for image restoration that aims to recover clear images with sharper details from given degraded observations, diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Liyan Wang , Qinyu Yang , Cong Wang , Wei Wang , Jinshan Pan , Zhixun Su