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Inverse problems exist in many disciplines of science and engineering. In computer vision, for example, tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super resolution can be effectively modeled as inverse problems. Recently, denoising diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , En-Hui Yang

Deep learning has revolutionized medical image segmentation, yet its full potential remains constrained by the paucity of annotated datasets. While diffusion models have emerged as a promising approach for generating synthetic image-mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Kunpeng Qiu , Zhiqiang Gao , Zhiying Zhou , Mingjie Sun , Yongxin Guo

Remote sensing change detection is crucial for understanding the dynamics of our planet's surface, facilitating the monitoring of environmental changes, evaluating human impact, predicting future trends, and supporting decision-making. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Vishal M. Patel

The introduction of diffusion models in anomaly detection has paved the way for more effective and accurate image reconstruction in pathologies. However, the current limitations in controlling noise granularity hinder diffusion models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Cosmin I. Bercea , Michael Neumayr , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel

Diffusion models have achieved cutting-edge performance in image generation. However, their lengthy denoising process and computationally intensive score estimation network impede their scalability in low-latency and resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qian Zeng , Jie Song , Han Zheng , Hao Jiang , Mingli Song

Diffusion models (DM) can gradually learn to remove noise, which have been widely used in artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) in recent years. The property of DM for eliminating noise leads us to wonder whether DM can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Dazhi He , Liang Qian , Yin Xu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

We explore the connection between Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods and Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIM) for solving ill-posed inverse problems, with a focus on single-pixel imaging. We begin by identifying key distinctions between PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Ping Wang , Zhangyuan Li , Xin Yuan

Our goal is to extend the denoising diffusion implicit model (DDIM) to general diffusion models~(DMs) besides isotropic diffusions. Instead of constructing a non-Markov noising process as in the original DDIM, we examine the mechanism of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Qinsheng Zhang , Molei Tao , Yongxin Chen

Accurate prediction of physical fields is critical in various engineering applications, including thermal management in electronic systems, airfoil shape optimization in aerospace, and flow field control in hypersonic vehicles. This study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-12 Yuan Jia , Chi Zhang , Hao Ma , Qiao Zhang , Kai Liu , Chih-Yung Wen

Generating the motion of orchestral conductors from a given piece of symphony music is a challenging task since it requires a model to learn semantic music features and capture the underlying distribution of real conducting motion. Prior…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Zhuoran Zhao , Jinbin Bai , Delong Chen , Debang Wang , Yubo Pan

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jingwei Li , Wei Pu

Recent advances in imaging and high-performance computing have made it possible to image the entire human brain at the cellular level. This is the basis to study the multi-scale architecture of the brain regarding its subdivision into brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Jan-Oliver Kropp , Christian Schiffer , Katrin Amunts , Timo Dickscheid

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models for solving inverse problems, offering a good approximation of prior distributions of real-world image data. Typically, diffusion models rely on large-scale clean signals to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yifei Wang , Weimin Bai , Weijian Luo , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

This study aims to develop a novel Cycle-guided Denoising Diffusion Probability Model (CG-DDPM) for cross-modality MRI synthesis. The CG-DDPM deploys two DDPMs that condition each other to generate synthetic images from two different MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Shaoyan Pan , Chih-Wei Chang , Junbo Peng , Jiahan Zhang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Tonghe Wang , Justin Roper , Tian Liu , Hui Mao , Xiaofeng Yang

The prediction of information diffusion or cascade has attracted much attention over the last decade. Most cascade prediction works target on predicting cascade-level macroscopic properties such as the final size of a cascade. Existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Cheng Yang , Maosong Sun , Haoran Liu , Shiyi Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Huanbo Luan

We introduce the Fixed Point Diffusion Model (FPDM), a novel approach to image generation that integrates the concept of fixed point solving into the framework of diffusion-based generative modeling. Our approach embeds an implicit fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Xingjian Bai , Luke Melas-Kyriazi

We propose a novel and unified method, measurement-conditioned denoising diffusion probabilistic model (MC-DDPM), for under-sampled medical image reconstruction based on DDPM. Different from previous works, MC-DDPM is defined in measurement…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Yutong Xie , Quanzheng Li

Diffusion models have become fundamental tools for modeling data distributions in machine learning. Despite their success, these models face challenges when generating data with extreme brightness values, as evidenced by limitations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-10 Takuro Kutsuna

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have transformed image generation with their impressive fidelity and diversity. We show that they also excel in estimating optical flow and monocular depth, surprisingly, without task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Saurabh Saxena , Charles Herrmann , Junhwa Hur , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , Deqing Sun , David J. Fleet

Recently, diffusion model have demonstrated impressive image generation performances, and have been extensively studied in various computer vision tasks. Unfortunately, training and evaluating diffusion models consume a lot of time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Dohoon Ryu , Jong Chul Ye