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Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPM) have shown remarkable efficacy in the synthesis of high-quality images. However, their inference process characteristically requires numerous, potentially hundreds, of iterative steps, which could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingxiao Li , Tingyu Qu , Ruicong Yao , Wei Sun , Marie-Francine Moens

Despite diffusion models' superior capabilities in modeling complex distributions, there are still non-trivial distributional discrepancies between generated and ground-truth images, which has resulted in several notable problems in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yujian Liu , Yang Zhang , Tommi Jaakkola , Shiyu Chang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-fidelity content but suffer from slow, iterative sampling, resulting in high latency that limits their use in interactive applications. We introduce DRiffusion, a parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Runsheng Bai , Chengyu Zhang , Yangdong Deng

The emergence of text-to-image generation models has led to the recognition that image enhancement, performed as post-processing, would significantly improve the visual quality of the generated images. Exploring diffusion models to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yang Luo , Yiheng Zhang , Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Zhineng Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Tao Mei

Image-generative artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered significant attention in recent years. In particular, the diffusion model, a core component of generative AI, produces high-quality images with rich diversity. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Sho Ozaki , Shizuo Kaji , Toshikazu Imae , Kanabu Nawa , Hideomi Yamashita , Keiichi Nakagawa

Seismic imaging from sparsely acquired data faces challenges such as low image quality, discontinuities, and migration swing artifacts. Existing convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods struggle with complex feature distributions…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Xingchen Shi , Shijun Cheng , Weijian Mao , Wei Ouyang

Underwater images are degraded by the selective attenuation of light that distorts colours and reduces contrast. The degradation extent depends on the water type, the distance between an object and the camera, and the depth under the water…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Chau Yi Li , Riccardo Mazzon , Andrea Cavallaro

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) has attracted much attention owing to its importance for underwater operation and marine engineering. Motivated by the recent advance in generative models, we propose a novel UIE method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xingyang Nie , Su Pan , Xiaoyu Zhai , Shifei Tao , Fengzhong Qu , Biao Wang , Huilin Ge , Guojie Xiao

Diffusion model-based approaches recently achieved re-markable success in MRI reconstruction, but integration into clinical routine remains challenging due to its time-consuming convergence. This phenomenon is partic-ularly notable when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Yu Guan , Qinrong Cai , Wei Li , Qiuyun Fan , Dong Liang , Qiegen Liu

Background: Photoacoustic Microscopy (PAM) integrates optical and acoustic imaging, offering enhanced penetration depth for detecting optical-absorbing components in tissues. Nonetheless, challenges arise in scanning large areas with high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Irem Loc , Mehmet Burcin Unlu

Diffusion is commonly used as a ranking or re-ranking method in retrieval tasks to achieve higher retrieval performance, and has attracted lots of attention in recent years. A downside to diffusion is that it performs slowly in comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Fan Yang , Ryota Hinami , Yusuke Matsui , Steven Ly , Shin'ichi Satoh

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced in image deblurring and exhibited promising performance, particularly in terms of details reconstruction. However, the diffusion model requires a large number of inference iterations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Ding Liu , Bin Xia , Jinjin Gu , Linghe Kong , Xin Yuan

We present SinDiffusion, leveraging denoising diffusion models to capture internal distribution of patches from a single natural image. SinDiffusion significantly improves the quality and diversity of generated samples compared with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Weilun Wang , Jianmin Bao , Wengang Zhou , Dongdong Chen , Dong Chen , Lu Yuan , Houqiang Li

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art synthesis quality on both visual and audio tasks, and recent works further adapt them to textual data by diffusing on the embedding space. In this paper, we conduct systematic studies of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhujin Gao , Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Yongxin Zhu , Fang Zhang , Jiang Bian , Linli Xu

Diffusion models have shown exceptional scaling properties in the image synthesis domain, and initial attempts have shown similar benefits for applying diffusion to unconditional text synthesis. Denoising diffusion models attempt to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Matthew Baas , Kevin Eloff , Herman Kamper

Diffusion and flow-based generative models have shown strong potential for image restoration. However, image denoising under unknown and varying noise conditions remains challenging, because the learned vector fields may become inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jigang Duan , Genwei Ma , Xu Jiang , Wenfeng Xu , Ping Yang , Xing Zhao

Image restoration, which aims to recover high-quality images from their corrupted counterparts, often faces the challenge of being an ill-posed problem that allows multiple solutions for a single input. However, most deep learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Wenyi Lian , Wenjing Lian , Ziwei Luo

Recent advances in deep learning, particularly neural networks, have significantly impacted a wide range of fields, including the automatic enhancement of underwater images. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jose M. Montero , Jose-Luis Lisani

This article presents a sliding window model for defocus deblurring, named Swintormer, which achieves the best performance to date with remarkably low memory usage. This method utilizes a diffusion model to generate latent prior features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Kang Chen , Yuanjie Liu

Recently, diffusion model-based inverse problem solvers (DIS) have emerged as state-of-the-art approaches for addressing inverse problems, including image super-resolution, deblurring, inpainting, etc. However, their application to video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Taesung Kwon , Jong Chul Ye