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Diffusion models have emerged as a popular family of deep generative models (DGMs). In the literature, it has been claimed that one class of diffusion models -- denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) -- demonstrate superior image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Rucha Deshpande , Muzaffer Özbey , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio , Frank J. Brooks

Semantic image synthesis aims to generate high-quality images given semantic conditions, i.e. segmentation masks and style reference images. Existing methods widely adopt generative adversarial networks (GANs). GANs take all conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Feng Liu , Xiaobin Chang

Diffusion-based semantic communication methods have shown significant advantages in image transmission by harnessing the generative power of diffusion models. However, they still face challenges, including generation randomness that leads…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang

Diffusion models achieve outstanding generative performance in various domains. Despite their great success, they lack semantic latent space which is essential for controlling the generative process. To address the problem, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mingi Kwon , Jaeseok Jeong , Youngjung Uh

Diffusion probabilistic models have achieved enormous success in the field of image generation and manipulation. In this paper, we explore a novel paradigm of using the diffusion model and classifier guidance in the latent semantic space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Changhao Shi , Haomiao Ni , Kai Li , Shaobo Han , Mingfu Liang , Martin Renqiang Min

Denoising Diffusion models are gaining increasing popularity in the field of generative modeling for several reasons, including the simple and stable training, the excellent generative quality, and the solid probabilistic foundation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Andrea Asperti , Davide Evangelista , Samuele Marro , Fabio Merizzi

Deep learning models in the Earth Observation domain heavily rely on the availability of large-scale accurately labeled satellite imagery. However, obtaining and labeling satellite imagery is a resource-intensive endeavor. While generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Orkhan Baghirli , Hamid Askarov , Imran Ibrahimli , Ismat Bakhishov , Nabi Nabiyev

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) inherently follow a coarse-to-fine generation process, where high-level semantic structure is generated slightly earlier than fine-grained texture. This indicates the preceding semantics potentially benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yueming Pan , Ruoyu Feng , Qi Dai , Yuqi Wang , Wenfeng Lin , Mingyu Guo , Chong Luo , Nanning Zheng

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently emerged as SoTA tools for generative modeling in various domains. Standard DMs can be viewed as an instantiation of hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) where the latent variables are inferred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jiatao Gu , Shuangfei Zhai , Yizhe Zhang , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been successfully applied in many fields like image generation, inpainting, super-resolution and drug discovery, etc., by now, the inner process of GANs is far from been understood. To get deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ziqiang Li , Rentuo Tao , Hongjing Niu , Bin Li

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models for image inpainting aim to add the noise to the texture of image during the forward process and recover masked regions with unmasked ones of the texture via the reverse denoising process. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Haipeng Liu , Yang Wang , Biao Qian , Meng Wang , Yong Rui

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) exhibit an impressive ability to produce realistic images, yet the inner workings of these models remain mysterious. Even when trained purely on images without explicit depth information, they typically output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yida Chen , Fernanda Viégas , Martin Wattenberg

Diffusion models have achieved unprecedented performance in generative modeling. The commonly-adopted formulation of the latent code of diffusion models is a sequence of gradually denoised samples, as opposed to the simpler (e.g., Gaussian)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Chen Henry Wu , Fernando De la Torre

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in rapid and high-fidelity personalization, even when provided with only a few user images. However, the effectiveness of personalization techniques has lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Naresh Kumar Devulapally , Shruti Agarwal , Tejas Gokhale , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande

This paper describes a simple technique to analyze Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and create interpretable controls for image synthesis, such as change of viewpoint, aging, lighting, and time of day. We identify important latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Erik Härkönen , Aaron Hertzmann , Jaakko Lehtinen , Sylvain Paris

A rich set of interpretable dimensions has been shown to emerge in the latent space of the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) trained for synthesizing images. In order to identify such latent dimensions for image editing, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

Text-guided diffusion models (TDMs) are widely applied but can fail unexpectedly. Common failures include: (i) natural-looking text prompts generating images with the wrong content, or (ii) different random samples of the latent variables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Qihao Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Yutong Bai , Song Bai , Alan Yuille

We present LatentCSI, a novel method for generating images of the physical environment from WiFi CSI measurements that leverages a pretrained latent diffusion model (LDM). Unlike prior approaches that rely on complex and computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Eshan Ramesh , Takayuki Nishio

We present SliderSpace, a framework for automatically decomposing the visual capabilities of diffusion models into controllable and human-understandable directions. Unlike existing control methods that require a user to specify attributes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Rohit Gandikota , Zongze Wu , Richard Zhang , David Bau , Eli Shechtman , Nick Kolkin

Modern Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically operate in low-level Variational Autoencoder (VAE) latent spaces that are primarily optimized for pixel-level reconstruction. To unify vision generation and understanding, a burgeoning trend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shilong Zhang , He Zhang , Zhifei Zhang , Chongjian Ge , Shuchen Xue , Shaoteng Liu , Mengwei Ren , Soo Ye Kim , Yuqian Zhou , Qing Liu , Daniil Pakhomov , Kai Zhang , Zhe Lin , Ping Luo