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Many self-supervised denoising approaches have been proposed in recent years. However, these methods tend to overly smooth images, resulting in the loss of fine structures that are essential for medical applications. In this paper, we…

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A key challenge in understanding the sensory transformations of the visual system is to obtain a highly predictive model of responses from visual cortical neurons. Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide a promising candidate for such a model.…

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Despite significant strides in visual quality assessment, the neural mechanisms underlying visual quality perception remain insufficiently explored. This study employed fMRI to examine brain activity during image quality assessment and…

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Multi-site structural MRI is increasingly used in neuroimaging studies to diversify subject cohorts. However, combining MR images acquired from various sites/centers may introduce site-related non-biological variations. Retrospective image…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on visual tasks develop feature representations that resemble those in the human visual system. Although DNN-based encoding models can accurately predict brain responses to visual stimuli, they offer…

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Inverting visual representations within deep neural networks (DNNs) presents a challenging and important problem in the field of security and privacy for deep learning. The main goal is to invert the features of an unidentified target image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sai Qian Zhang , Ziyun Li , Chuan Guo , Saeed Mahloujifar , Deeksha Dangwal , Edward Suh , Barbara De Salvo , Chiao Liu

We propose Context Diffusion, a diffusion-based framework that enables image generation models to learn from visual examples presented in context. Recent work tackles such in-context learning for image generation, where a query image is…

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Image-to-Image translation models can help mitigate various challenges inherent to medical image acquisition. Latent diffusion models (LDMs) leverage efficient learning in compressed latent space and constitute the core of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Junhyeok Lee , Hyunwoong Kim , Hyungjin Chung , Heeseong Eom , Joon Jang , Chul-Ho Sohn , Kyu Sung Choi

Diffusion models have shown an impressive ability to model complex data distributions, with several key advantages over GANs, such as stable training, better coverage of the training distribution's modes, and the ability to solve inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yinbo Chen , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Xiaolong Wang , Michael Gharbi

Image tokenization plays a central role in modern generative modeling by mapping visual inputs into compact representations that serve as an intermediate signal between pixels and generative models. Diffusion-based decoders have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chuhan Wang , Hao Chen

Recent advancements in image restoration increasingly employ conditional latent diffusion models (CLDMs). While these models have demonstrated notable performance improvements in recent years, this work questions their suitability for IR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yunchen Yuan , Junyuan Xiao , Xinjie Li

Decoding non-invasive brain recordings is pivotal for advancing our understanding of human cognition but faces challenges due to individual differences and complex neural signal representations. Traditional methods often require customized…

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Reconstructing images seen by people from their fMRI brain recordings provides a non-invasive window into the human brain. Despite recent progress enabled by diffusion models, current methods often lack faithfulness to the actual seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Roman Beliy , Amit Zalcher , Jonathan Kogman , Navve Wasserman , Michal Irani

Large-scale text-to-image generative models have shown remarkable ability to synthesize diverse and high-quality images. However, it is still challenging to directly apply these models for editing real images for two reasons. First, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Syed Muhmmad Israr , Feng Zhao

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

In this paper, we propose a method for denoising diffusion-weighted images (DWI) of the brain using a convolutional neural network trained on realistic, synthetic MR data. We compare our results to averaging of repeated scans, a widespread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Jakub Jurek , Andrzej Materka , Kamil Ludwisiak , Agata Majos , Kamil Gorczewski , Kamil Cepuch , Agata Zawadzka

Diffusion models have fundamentally transformed the field of generative models, making the assessment of similarity between customized model outputs and reference inputs critically important. However, traditional perceptual similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yiren Song , Xiaokang Liu , Mike Zheng Shou

Incorporating diffusion models in the image compression domain has the potential to produce realistic and detailed reconstructions, especially at extremely low bitrates. Previous methods focus on using diffusion models as expressive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Lucas Relic , Roberto Azevedo , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

Text-driven person image generation is an emerging and challenging task in cross-modality image generation. Controllable person image generation promotes a wide range of applications such as digital human interaction and virtual try-on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Kaiduo Zhang , Muyi Sun , Jianxin Sun , Binghao Zhao , Kunbo Zhang , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

Blind image separation (BIS) refers to the inverse problem of simultaneously estimating and restoring multiple independent source images from a single observation image under conditions of unknown mixing mode and without prior knowledge of…

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