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Diffusion models have attained remarkable success in the domains of image generation and editing. It is widely recognized that employing larger inversion and denoising steps in diffusion model leads to improved image reconstruction quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Chen Hou , Guoqiang Wei , Zhibo Chen

Although current image generation methods have reached impressive quality levels, they are still unable to produce plausible yet diverse images of handwritten words. On the contrary, when writing by hand, a great variability is observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Lei Kang , Pau Riba , Yaxing Wang , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas

Significant advancements made in reconstructing hands from images have delivered accurate single-frame estimates, yet they often lack physics consistency and provide no notion of how confidently the motion satisfies physics. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Elkhan Ismayilzada , Yufei Zhang , Zijun Cui

Recent facial texture generation methods prefer to use deep networks to synthesize image content and then fill in the UV map, thus generating a compelling full texture from a single image. Nevertheless, the synthesized texture UV map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Chengyang Li , Baoping Cheng , Yao Cheng , Haocheng Zhang , Renshuai Liu , Yinglin Zheng , Jing Liao , Xuan Cheng

Reference-guided image generation has progressed rapidly, yet current diffusion models still struggle to preserve fine-grained visual details when refining a generated image using a reference. This limitation arises because VAE-based latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yaoli Liu , Ziheng Ouyang , Shengtao Lou , Yiren Song

Although recent speech processing technologies have achieved significant improvements in objective metrics, there still remains a gap in human perceptual quality. This paper proposes Diffiner, a novel solution that utilizes the powerful…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Masato Hirano , Ryosuke Sawata , Naoki Murata , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

The generation of images of realistic looking, readable handwritten text is a challenging task which is referred to as handwritten text generation (HTG). Given a string and examples from a writer, the goal is to synthesize an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Kai Brandenbusch

Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) conditioned on text and style is a challenging task due to the variability of inter-user characteristics and the unlimited combinations of characters that form new words unseen during training. Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Konstantina Nikolaidou , George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Marcus Liwicki

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

Image diffusion models are trained on independently sampled static images. While this is the bedrock task protocol in generative modeling, capturing the temporal world through the lens of static snapshots is information-deficient by design.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Juhun Lee , Simon S. Woo

Hand pose estimation from a single image has many applications. However, approaches to full 3D body pose estimation are typically trained on day-to-day activities or actions. As such, detailed hand-to-hand interactions are poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Maksym Ivashechkin , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

Recent text-to-image generative models have exhibited remarkable abilities in generating high-fidelity and photo-realistic images. However, despite the visually impressive results, these models often struggle to preserve plausible human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zhenzhen Weng , Laura Bravo-Sánchez , Serena Yeung-Levy

The class-conditional image generation based on diffusion models is renowned for generating high-quality and diverse images. However, most prior efforts focus on generating images for general categories, e.g., 1000 classes in ImageNet-1k. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ziying Pan , Kun Wang , Gang Li , Feihong He , Yongxuan Lai

Text-conditional image editing based on large diffusion generative model has attracted the attention of both the industry and the research community. Most existing methods are non-reference editing, with the user only able to provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Songyan Chen , Jiancheng Huang

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing, but guiding these models to produce specific outputs remains a challenge. Conventional approaches rely on conditioning mechanisms, such as text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nithesh Chandher Karthikeyan , Jonas Unger , Gabriel Eilertsen

Diffusion probabilistic models learn to remove noise added during training, generating novel data (e.g., images) from Gaussian noise through sequential denoising. However, conditioning the generative process on corrupted or masked images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sakshi Agarwal , Gabriel Hope , Jimin Heo , Erik B. Sudderth

Diffusion models currently achieve state-of-the-art performance for both conditional and unconditional image generation. However, so far, image diffusion models do not support tasks required for 3D understanding, such as view-consistent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Zexiang Xu , Matthew Fisher , Paul Henderson , Hakan Bilen , Niloy J. Mitra , Paul Guerrero

Large-scale text-to-image models have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize diverse and high-fidelity images. However, these models are often violated by several limitations. Firstly, they require the user to provide precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Xiaojun Yang , Xiao Wang , Yukai Shi

Conditional image generation has paved the way for several breakthroughs in image editing, generating stock photos and 3-D object generation. This continues to be a significant area of interest with the rise of new state-of-the-art methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Vedant Singh , Surgan Jandial , Ayush Chopra , Siddharth Ramesh , Balaji Krishnamurthy , Vineeth N. Balasubramanian

High-fidelity hand gesture generation represents a significant challenge in human-centric generation tasks. Existing methods typically employ a single-view mesh-rendered image prior to enhancing gesture generation quality. However, the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Qifan Fu , Xu Chen , Muhammad Asad , Shanxin Yuan , Changjae Oh , Gregory Slabaugh