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A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

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Structuring latent representations in a hierarchical manner enables models to learn patterns at multiple levels of abstraction. However, most prevalent image understanding models focus on visual similarity, and learning visual hierarchies…

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Low-level 3D representations, such as point clouds, meshes, NeRFs and 3D Gaussians, are commonly used for modeling 3D objects and scenes. However, cognitive studies indicate that human perception operates at higher levels and interprets 3D…

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Humans easily recognize object parts and their hierarchical structure by watching how they move; they can then predict how each part moves in the future. In this paper, we propose a novel formulation that simultaneously learns a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Zhenjia Xu , Zhijian Liu , Chen Sun , Kevin Murphy , William T. Freeman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for molecular generation, particularly in the context of 3D molecular structures. Inspired by non-equilibrium statistical physics, these models can generate 3D molecular structures with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Amira Alakhdar , Barnabas Poczos , Newell Washburn

Recent progress in generative models has made it easier for a wide audience to edit and create image content, raising concerns about the proliferation of deepfakes, especially in healthcare. Despite the availability of numerous techniques…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Fred Grabovski , Lior Yasur , Guy Amit , Yisroel Mirsky

Diffusion models have achieved impressive success in high-fidelity image generation but suffer from slow sampling due to their inherently iterative denoising process. While recent one-step methods accelerate inference by learning direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hanru Bai , Weiyang Ding , Difan Zou

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is an advanced imaging technique characterizing tissue microstructure and white matter structural connectivity of the human brain. The demand for high-quality dMRI data is growing, driven by the need for better…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xi Zhu , Wei Zhang , Yijie Li , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

This paper introduces Diffuse-TreeVAE, a deep generative model that integrates hierarchical clustering into the framework of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs). The proposed approach generates new images by sampling from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jorge da Silva Goncalves , Laura Manduchi , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Julia E. Vogt

Diffusion-based image generators can now produce high-quality and diverse samples, but their success has yet to fully translate to 3D generation: existing diffusion methods can either generate low-resolution but 3D consistent outputs, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Animesh Karnewar , Niloy J. Mitra , Andrea Vedaldi , David Novotny

The goal of self-supervised visual representation learning is to learn strong, transferable image representations, with the majority of research focusing on object or scene level. On the other hand, representation learning at part level has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

The lack of spatial dimensional information remains a challenge in normal estimation from a single image. Recent diffusion-based methods have demonstrated significant potential in 2D-to-3D implicit mapping, they rely on data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yanxing Liang , Yinghui Wang , Jinlong Yang , Wei Li

Medical image segmentation has been significantly advanced with the rapid development of deep learning (DL) techniques. Existing DL-based segmentation models are typically discriminative; i.e., they aim to learn a mapping from the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Tao Chen , Chenhui Wang , Zhihao Chen , Yiming Lei , Hongming Shan

3D content generation remains a fundamental yet challenging task due to the inherent structural complexity of 3D data. While recent octree-based diffusion models offer a promising balance between efficiency and quality through hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xinjie Gao , Bi'an Du , Wei Hu

Deep generative modeling has emerged as a powerful tool for synthesizing realistic medical images, driving advances in medical image analysis, disease diagnosis, and treatment planning. This chapter explores various deep generative models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Paul Friedrich , Yannik Frisch , Philippe C. Cattin

Generative modeling frameworks have emerged as an effective approach to capture high-dimensional image distributions from large datasets without requiring domain-specific knowledge, a capability essential for longitudinal disease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ayantika Das , Arunima Sarkar , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have demonstrated significant potential in 3D medical image segmentation tasks. However, their high computational cost and inability to fully capture global 3D contextual information limit their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Kangbo Ma

Discrete diffusion models generate sequences by iteratively denoising samples corrupted by categorical noise, offering an appealing alternative to autoregressive decoding for structured and symbolic generation. However, standard training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Huu Binh Ta , Michael Cardei , Alvaro Velasquez , Ferdinando Fioretto

Generative models, such as GANs and diffusion models, have been used to augment training sets and boost performances in different tasks. We focus on generative models for cell detection instead, i.e., locating and classifying cells in given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Chen Li , Xiaoling Hu , Shahira Abousamra , Meilong Xu , Chao Chen

We propose a novel study of generating unseen arbitrary viewpoints for infrared imagery in the non-linear feature subspace . Current methods use synthetic images and often result in blurry and distorted outputs. Our approach on the contrary…

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