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Face parsing is a fundamental task in computer vision, enabling applications such as identity verification, facial editing, and controllable image synthesis. However, existing face parsing models often lack fairness and robustness, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Sophia J. Abraham , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Walter J. Scheirer

Self-supervised representation learning has gained increasing attention for strong generalization ability without relying on paired datasets. However, it has not been explored sufficiently for facial representation. Self-supervised facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ruian He , Zhen Xing , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

3D human generation is an important problem with a wide range of applications in computer vision and graphics. Despite recent progress in generative AI such as diffusion models or rendering methods like Neural Radiance Fields or Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Maksym Ivashechkin , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

While Diffusion Models (DM) exhibit remarkable performance across various image generative tasks, they nonetheless reflect the inherent bias presented in the training set. As DMs are now widely used in real-world applications, these biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yilei Jiang , Weihong Li , Yiyuan Zhang , Minghong Cai , Xiangyu Yue

Diffusion-based generative models have reformed generative AI, and also enabled new capabilities in the science domain, e.g., fast generation of 3D structures of molecules. In such tasks, there is often a symmetry in the system, identifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yixian Xu , Yusong Wang , Shengjie Luo , Kaiyuan Gao , Tianyu He , Di He , Chang Liu

In this paper, we address the problem of face aging: generating past or future facial images by incorporating age-related changes to the given face. Previous aging methods rely solely on human facial image datasets and are thus constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Xiangyi Chen , Stéphane Lathuilière

Recent diffusion models have achieved promising performances in audio-denoising tasks. The unique property of the reverse process could recover clean signals. However, the distribution of real-world noises does not comply with a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Pu Wang , Junhui Li , Jialu Li , Liangdong Guo , Youshan Zhang

3D object generation from a single image involves estimating the full 3D geometry and texture of unseen views from an unposed RGB image captured in the wild. Accurately reconstructing an object's complete 3D structure and texture has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hritam Basak , Hadi Tabatabaee , Shreekant Gayaka , Ming-Feng Li , Xin Yang , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Min Sun , Zhaozheng Yin

Diffusion models (DMs) are generative models that learn to synthesize images from Gaussian noise. DMs can be trained to do a variety of tasks such as image generation and image super-resolution. Researchers have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yung Jer Wong , Teck Khim Ng

Most existing graph diffusion models have significant bias problems. We observe that the forward diffusion's maximum perturbation distribution in most models deviates from the standard Gaussian distribution, while reverse sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Meng Yu , Kun Zhan

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Generative diffusion processes are an emerging and effective tool for image and speech generation. In the existing methods, the underlying noise distribution of the diffusion process is Gaussian noise. However, fitting distributions with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Eliya Nachmani , Robin San Roman , Lior Wolf

Diffusion generative models transform noise into data by inverting a process that progressively adds noise to data samples. Inspired by concepts from the renormalization group in physics, which analyzes systems across different scales, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mathis Gerdes , Max Welling , Miranda C. N. Cheng

Forecasting on sparse multivariate time series (MTS) aims to model the predictors of future values of time series given their incomplete past, which is important for many emerging applications. However, most existing methods process MTS's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Yinjun Wu , Jingchao Ni , Wei Cheng , Bo Zong , Dongjin Song , Zhengzhang Chen , Yanchi Liu , Xuchao Zhang , Haifeng Chen , Susan Davidson

Facial attribute editing aims to modify target attributes while preserving attribute-irrelevant content and overall image fidelity. Existing GAN-based methods provide favorable controllability, but often suffer from weak alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Wenmin Huang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaochun Cao , Jiwu Huang

Recent advances in generative modeling have enabled the generation of high-quality synthetic data that is applicable in a variety of domains, including face recognition. Here, state-of-the-art generative models typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Darian Tomašević , Fadi Boutros , Chenhao Lin , Naser Damer , Vitomir Štruc , Peter Peer

Diffusion models are at the vanguard of generative AI research with renowned solutions such as ImageGen by Google Brain and DALL.E 3 by OpenAI. Nevertheless, the potential merits of diffusion models for communication engineering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

Diffusion models that can generate high-quality data from randomly sampled Gaussian noises have become the mainstream generative method in both academia and industry. Are randomly sampled Gaussian noises equally good for diffusion models?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zipeng Qi , Lichen Bai , Haoyi Xiong , Zeke Xie

Using the latent diffusion model has proven effective in developing novel 3D generation techniques. To harness the latent diffusion model, a key challenge is designing a high-fidelity and efficient representation that links the latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Haitao Yang , Yuan Dong , Hanwen Jiang , Dejia Xu , Georgios Pavlakos , Qixing Huang

To mitigate the effects of undesired biases in models, several approaches propose to pre-process the input dataset to reduce the risks of discrimination by preventing the inference of sensitive attributes. Unfortunately, most of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Sébastien Gambs , Rosin Claude Ngueveu