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Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computational photography, where achieving high perception with low distortion is highly demanding. Current methods either struggle with perceptual quality or suffer from significant distortion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tong Li , Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong , Hua Huang

Popularized by their strong image generation performance, diffusion and related methods for generative modeling have found widespread success in visual media applications. In particular, diffusion methods have enabled new approaches to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt

We consider the problem of trustworthy image restoration, taking the form of a constrained optimization over the prior density. To this end, we develop generative models for the task of image super-resolution that respect the degradation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Andreas Floros , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pier Luigi Dragotti

While diffusion models have shown great success in image generation, their noise-inverting generative process does not explicitly consider the structure of images, such as their inherent multi-scale nature. Inspired by diffusion models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Severi Rissanen , Markus Heinonen , Arno Solin

Recent generative models show impressive results in photo-realistic image generation. However, artifacts often inevitably appear in the generated results, leading to downgraded user experience and reduced performance in downstream tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yueqin Yin , Lianghua Huang , Yu Liu , Kaiqi Huang

Existing multi-view 3D object reconstruction methods heavily rely on sufficient overlap between input views, where occlusions and sparse coverage in practice frequently yield severe reconstruction incompleteness. Recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiahao Chang , Chongjie Ye , Yushuang Wu , Yuantao Chen , Yidan Zhang , Zhongjin Luo , Chenghong Li , Yihao Zhi , Xiaoguang Han

We introduce a novel, training-free method for sampling differentiable representations (diffreps) using pretrained diffusion models. Rather than merely mode-seeking, our method achieves sampling by "pulling back" the dynamics of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yash Savani , Marc Finzi , J. Zico Kolter

Urban scene reconstruction from real-world observations has emerged as a powerful tool for self-driving development and testing. While current neural rendering approaches achieve high-fidelity rendering along the recorded trajectories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Henry Che , Jingkang Wang , Yun Chen , Ze Yang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Raquel Urtasun

Ptychography is a well-established coherent diffraction imaging technique that enables non-invasive imaging of samples at a nanometer scale. It has been extensively used in various areas such as the defense industry or materials science.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Semih Barutcu , Doğa Gürsoy , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

This paper considers the problem of utilizing a large-scale text-to-image diffusion model to tackle the challenging Inexact Segmentation (IS) task. Unlike traditional approaches that rely heavily on discriminative-model-based paradigms or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tianjiao Zhang , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

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

Personalized image synthesis has emerged as a pivotal application in text-to-image generation, enabling the creation of images featuring specific subjects in diverse contexts. While diffusion models have dominated this domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kaiyue Sun , Xian Liu , Yao Teng , Xihui Liu

Denoising diffusion models produce high-fidelity image samples by capturing the image distribution in a progressive manner while initializing with a simple distribution and compounding the distribution complexity. Although these models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ayantika Das , Moitreya Chaudhuri , Koushik Bhat , Keerthi Ram , Mihail Bota , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Ultrasound image reconstruction can be approximately cast as a linear inverse problem that has traditionally been solved with penalized optimization using the $l_1$ or $l_2$ norm, or wavelet-based terms. However, such regularization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

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

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

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

Recent developments in face restoration have achieved remarkable results in producing high-quality and lifelike outputs. The stunning results however often fail to be faithful with respect to the identity of the person as the models lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Tuomas Varanka , Tapani Toivonen , Soumya Tripathy , Guoying Zhao , Erman Acar

Diffusion models have been shown to implicitly generate visual content autoregressively in the frequency domain, where low-frequency components are generated earlier in the denoising process while high-frequency details emerge only in later…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Howard Xiao , Brian Chao , Lior Yariv , Gordon Wetzstein

Data augmentation is crucial in training deep models, preventing them from overfitting to limited data. Recent advances in generative AI, e.g., diffusion models, have enabled more sophisticated augmentation techniques that produce data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Anuj Singh , K L Navaneet , Hamed Pirsiavash , Hadi Jamali-Rad