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While Diffusion Large Language Models (DLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in multi-modal generation, performing precise, training-free image editing remains an open challenge. Unlike continuous diffusion models, the discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zifeng Zhu , Jiaming Han , Jiaxiang Zhao , Minnan Luo , Xiangyu Yue

This study presents Latent Diffusion Autoencoder (LDAE), a novel encoder-decoder diffusion-based framework for efficient and meaningful unsupervised learning in medical imaging, focusing on Alzheimer disease (AD) using brain MR from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Gabriele Lozupone , Alessandro Bria , Francesco Fontanella , Frederick J. A. Meijer , Claudio De Stefano , Henkjan Huisman

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

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generative modelling, particularly in enhancing image quality to conform to human preferences. Recently, these models have also been applied to low-level computer vision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

This work aims to improve the applicability of diffusion models in realistic image restoration. Specifically, we enhance the diffusion model in several aspects such as network architecture, noise level, denoising steps, training image size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Low-light image enhancement remains a challenging problem due to severe noise, color distortion, contrast degradation, and loss of structural details under insufficient illumination. Existing methods typically apply uniform enhancement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Bibhabasu Debnath , Sahana Ray , Sanjay Ghosh

Low-light image enhancement is a classical computer vision problem aiming to recover normal-exposure images from low-light images. However, convolutional neural networks commonly used in this field are good at sampling low-frequency local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yunliang Zhuang , Zhuoran Zheng , Chen Lyu

Face recognition systems experience severe performance degradation when processing low-quality forensic evidence imagery. This paper presents an evaluation of latent diffusion-based enhancement for improving face recognition under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hassan Ugail , Hamad Mansour Alawar , AbdulNasser Abbas Zehi , Ahmed Mohammad Alkendi , Ismail Lujain Jaleel

Modern cameras' performance in low-light conditions remains suboptimal due to fundamental limitations in photon shot noise and sensor read noise. Generative image restoration methods have shown promising results compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xijun Wang , Prateek Chennuri , Dilshan Godaliyadda , Yu Yuan , Bole Ma , Xingguang Zhang , Hamid R. Sheikh , Stanley Chan

Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion (SD), offer the ability to generate high-resolution images with diverse features, but they come at a significant computational and memory cost. In classifier-free guided diffusion models, prolonged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Pareesa Ameneh Golnari

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

The rapid advancement of diffusion-based image generators has made it increasingly difficult to distinguish generated from real images. This erodes trust in digital media, making it critical to develop generated image detectors that remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ana Vasilcoiu , Ivona Najdenkoska , Zeno Geradts , Marcel Worring

Rain in the dark poses a significant challenge to deploying real-world applications such as autonomous driving, surveillance systems, and night photography. Existing low-light enhancement or deraining methods struggle to brighten low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Xin Lin , Jingtong Yue , Sixian Ding , Chao Ren , Lu Qi , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Reducing scan times, radiation dose, and enhancing image quality for lower-performance scanners, are critical in low-dose PET imaging. Deep learning techniques have been investigated for PET image denoising. However, existing models have…

Standard Latent Diffusion Models rely on a complex, three-part architecture consisting of a separate encoder, decoder, and diffusion network, which are trained in multiple stages. This modular design is computationally inefficient, leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

In spite of great success in many image recognition tasks achieved by recent deep models, directly applying them to recognize low-resolution images may suffer from low accuracy due to the missing of informative details during resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shiming Ge , Kangkai Zhang , Haolin Liu , Yingying Hua , Shengwei Zhao , Xin Jin , Hao Wen

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is essential for numerous computer vision tasks, including object detection, tracking, segmentation, and scene understanding. Despite substantial research on improving low-quality images captured in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Md Tanvir Islam , Inzamamul Alam , Simon S. Woo , Saeed Anwar , IK Hyun Lee , Khan Muhammad

Since acquiring large amounts of realistic blurry-sharp image pairs is difficult and expensive, learning blind image deblurring from unpaired data is a more practical and promising solution. Unfortunately, dominant approaches rely heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Chengxu Liu , Lu Qi , Jinshan Pan , Xueming Qian , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Low-light image enhancement aims to restore the visibility of images captured by visual sensors in dim environments by addressing their inherent signal degradations, such as luminance attenuation and structural corruption. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yicui Shi , Yuhan Chen , Xiangfei Huang , Zhenguo Wang , Wenxuan Yu , Ying Fang

Diffusion models are a class of flexible generative models trained with an approximation to the log-likelihood objective. However, most use cases of diffusion models are not concerned with likelihoods, but instead with downstream objectives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Kevin Black , Michael Janner , Yilun Du , Ilya Kostrikov , Sergey Levine