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Fetal ultrasound standard plane classification is essential for reliable prenatal diagnosis but faces inherent challenges, including low tissue contrast, boundary ambiguity, and operator-dependent image quality variations. To overcome these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yang Chen , Sanglin Zhao , Baoyu Chen , Mans Gustaf

Surgical scene segmentation is essential for enhancing surgical precision, yet it is frequently compromised by the scarcity and imbalance of available data. To address these challenges, semantic image synthesis methods based on generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yihang Zhou , Rebecca Towning , Zaid Awad , Stamatia Giannarou

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Jie Liang , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

Conditional generative models, particularly diffusion-based methods, have recently been applied to graph prediction by modeling the target as a conditional distribution given the input graph, yielding competitive results compared to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shaozhen Ma , Wei Huang , Hanchen Wang , Dong Wen , Wenjie Zhang

In recent years, knowledge distillation methods based on contrastive learning have achieved promising results on image classification and object detection tasks. However, in this line of research, we note that less attention is paid to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jiawei Fan , Chao Li , Xiaolong Liu , Meina Song , Anbang Yao

Image generative models, particularly diffusion-based models, have surged in popularity due to their remarkable ability to synthesize highly realistic images. However, since these models are data-driven, they inherit biases from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lin-Chun Huang , Ching Chieh Tsao , Fang-Yi Su , Jung-Hsien Chiang

The generation of realistic medical images from text descriptions has significant potential to address data scarcity challenges in healthcare AI while preserving patient privacy. This paper presents a comprehensive study of text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mikhail Chaichuk , Sushant Gautam , Steven Hicks , Elena Tutubalina

This paper introduces a discrete diffusion model (DDM) framework for text-aligned speech tokenization and reconstruction. By replacing the auto-regressive speech decoder with a discrete diffusion counterpart, our model achieves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Pin-Jui Ku , He Huang , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Subham Sekhar Sahoo , Zhehuai Chen , Ante Jukić

In this paper, we present an effective data augmentation framework leveraging the Large Language Model (LLM) and Diffusion Model (DM) to tackle the challenges inherent in data-scarce scenarios. Recently, DMs have opened up the possibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Kyuheon Jung , Yongdeuk Seo , Seongwoo Cho , Jaeyoung Kim , Hyun-seok Min , Sungchul Choi

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in clinical decision making, treatment planning, and disease tracking. However, it still faces two major challenges. On the one hand, there is often a ``soft boundary'' between foreground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Mengqi Lei , Haochen Wu , Xinhua Lv , Xin Wang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is instrumental in clinical diagnosis, offering diverse contrasts that provide comprehensive diagnostic information. However, acquiring multiple MRI contrasts is often constrained by high costs, long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sanuwani Dayarathna , Kh Tohidul Islam , Bohan Zhuang , Guang Yang , Jianfei Cai , Meng Law , Zhaolin Chen

Semantic Change Detection (SCD) from remote sensing imagery requires models balancing extensive spatial context, computational efficiency, and sensitivity to class-imbalanced land-cover transitions. While Convolutional Neural Networks excel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Buddhi Wijenayake , Athulya Ratnayake , Praveen Sumanasekara , Roshan Godaliyadda , Parakrama Ekanayake , Vijitha Herath , Nichula Wasalathilaka

Diffusion models are generative models with impressive text-to-image synthesis capabilities and have spurred a new wave of creative methods for classical machine learning tasks. However, the best way to harness the perceptual knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Neehar Kondapaneni , Markus Marks , Manuel Knott , Rogerio Guimaraes , Pietro Perona

The output of text-to-image synthesis systems should be coherent, clear, photo-realistic scenes with high semantic fidelity to their conditioned text descriptions. Our Cross-Modal Contrastive Generative Adversarial Network (XMC-GAN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Han Zhang , Jing Yu Koh , Jason Baldridge , Honglak Lee , Yinfei Yang

Diffusion models are proficient at generating high-quality images. They are however effective only when operating at the resolution used during training. Inference at a scaled resolution leads to repetitive patterns and structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Haosen Yang , Adrian Bulat , Isma Hadji , Hai X. Pham , Xiatian Zhu , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

Cross-domain few-shot object detection (CD-FSOD) aims to adapt pretrained detectors from a source domain to target domains with limited annotations, suffering from severe domain shifts and data scarcity problems. In this work, we find a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yongwei Jiang , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment planning. However, deep learning models often struggle to generalize across datasets due to domain shifts arising from variations in imaging protocols,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Phuoc-Nguyen Bui , Van-Nguyen Pham , Duc-Tai Le , Junghyun Bum , Hyunseung Choo

In this paper, we propose a multi-stage and high-resolution model for image synthesis that uses fine-grained attributes and masks as input. With a fine-grained attribute, the proposed model can detailedly constrain the features of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Pengyang Li , Donghui Wang

Image synthesis approaches, e.g., generative adversarial networks, have been popular as a form of data augmentation in medical image analysis tasks. It is primarily beneficial to overcome the shortage of publicly accessible data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Shiyi Du , Xiaosong Wang , Yongyi Lu , Yuyin Zhou , Shaoting Zhang , Alan Yuille , Kang Li , Zongwei Zhou

Image rescaling aims to learn the optimal low-resolution (LR) image that can be accurately reconstructed to its original high-resolution (HR) counterpart, providing an efficient image processing and storage method for ultra-high definition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ce Wang , Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun , Zhenzhong Chen