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Phase retrieval aims to recover a signal from intensity-only measurements, a fundamental problem in many fields such as imaging, holography, optical computing, crystallography, and microscopy. Although there are several well-known phase…

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Image restoration tasks like deblurring, denoising, and dehazing usually need distinct models for each degradation type, restricting their generalization in real-world scenarios with mixed or unknown degradations. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wenyang Luo , Haina Qin , Zewen Chen , Libin Wang , Dandan Zheng , Yuming Li , Yufan Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

In controllable generation tasks, flexibly manipulating the generated images to attain a desired appearance or structure based on a single input image cue remains a critical and longstanding challenge. Achieving this requires the effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xi Wang , Yichen Peng , Heng Fang , Yilin Wang , Haoran Xie , Xi Yang , Chuntao Li

Spatially varying image deblurring remains a fundamentally ill-posed problem, especially when degradations arise from complex mixtures of motion and other forms of blur under significant noise. State-of-the-art learning-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hakki Motorcu , Mujdat Cetin

Denoising diffusion models are a powerful type of generative models used to capture complex distributions of real-world signals. However, their applicability is limited to scenarios where training samples are readily available, which is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ayush Tewari , Tianwei Yin , George Cazenavette , Semon Rezchikov , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Frédo Durand , William T. Freeman , Vincent Sitzmann

Denoising diffusion models achieved impressive results on several image generation tasks often outperforming GAN based models. Recently, the generative capabilities of diffusion models have been employed for perceptual image compression,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Jonas Brenig , Radu Timofte

Generative retrieval seeks to replace traditional search index data structures with a single large-scale neural network, offering the potential for improved efficiency and seamless integration with generative large language models. As an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shiguang Wu , Zhaochun Ren , Xin Xin , Jiyuan Yang , Mengqi Zhang , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Pengjie Ren

Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…

Image diffusion models, trained on massive image collections, have emerged as the most versatile image generator model in terms of quality and diversity. They support inverting real images and conditional (e.g., text) generation, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Duygu Ceylan , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Niloy J. Mitra

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) remains challenging due to the inherent difficulty of recovering fine-grained details and preserving perceptual quality from low-resolution inputs. Existing methods often rely on limited image priors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kangfu Mei , Hossein Talebi , Mojtaba Ardakani , Vishal M. Patel , Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the \textit{ill-posed} and \textit{non-linear} blind image deconvolution (blind deblurring) using deep generative networks as priors. We employ two separate generative models --- one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Muhammad Asim , Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

We present a simple but effective training-free approach for text-driven image-to-image translation based on a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model. Our goal is to generate an image that aligns with the target task while preserving the…

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Speech separation, the task of isolating multiple speech sources from a mixed audio signal, remains challenging in noisy environments. In this paper, we propose a generative correction method to enhance the output of a discriminative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Helin Wang , Jesus Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Jiarui Hai , Thomas Thebaud , Najim Dehak

Recent literature has effectively leveraged diffusion models trained on continuous variables as priors for solving inverse problems. Notably, discrete diffusion models with discrete latent codes have shown strong performance, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Naoki Murata , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Bac Nguyen , Stefano Ermon , Yuki Mitsufuji

Diffusion models have achieved impressive results in generating high-quality images. Yet, they often struggle to faithfully align the generated images with the input prompts. This limitation is associated with synchronous denoising, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zijing Hu , Yunze Tong , Fengda Zhang , Junkun Yuan , Jun Xiao , Kun Kuang

Image denoising is an important problem in low-level vision and serves as a critical module for many image recovery tasks. Anisotropic diffusion is a wide family of image denoising approaches with promising performance. However, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xinran Qin , Yuhui Quan , Ruotao Xu , Hui Ji

In this paper, we address the problem of generative dataset distillation that utilizes generative models to synthesize images. The generator may produce any number of images under a preserved evaluation time. In this work, we leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Junqiao Fan , Yunjiao Zhou , Min Chang Jordan Ren , Jianfei Yang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging modality, but unfortunately suffers from long scan times which, aside from increasing operational costs, can lead to image artifacts due to patient motion. Motion during the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Brett Levac , Sidharth Kumar , Ajil Jalal , Jonathan I. Tamir

Trained generative models have shown remarkable performance as priors for inverse problems in imaging -- for example, Generative Adversarial Network priors permit recovery of test images from 5-10x fewer measurements than sparsity priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Muhammad Asim , Mara Daniels , Oscar Leong , Ali Ahmed , Paul Hand