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Recovering textures under shadows has remained a challenging problem due to the difficulty of inferring shadow-free scenes from shadow images. In this paper, we propose the use of diffusion models as they offer a promising approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kangfu Mei , Luis Figueroa , Zhe Lin , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Vishal M. Patel

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable results in image generation, and have similarly been used to learn high-performing policies in sequential decision-making tasks. Decision-making diffusion models can be trained on lower-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Felipe Nuti , Tim Franzmeyer , João F. Henriques

Image restoration is a classic low-level problem aimed at recovering high-quality images from low-quality images with various degradations such as blur, noise, rain, haze, etc. However, due to the inherent complexity and non-uniqueness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Text-guided diffusion models have shown superior performance in image/video generation and editing. While few explorations have been performed in 3D scenarios. In this paper, we discuss three fundamental and interesting problems on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Gang Li , Heliang Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Chang Li , Changwen Zheng , Dacheng Tao

Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality, diverse images but suffer from training data memorization, raising critical privacy and safety concerns. Data unlearning has emerged to mitigate this issue by removing the influence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qitan Shi , Cheng Jin , Jiawei Zhang , Yuantao Gu

Addressing real-world optimization problems becomes particularly challenging when analytic objective functions or constraints are unavailable. While numerous studies have addressed the issue of unknown objectives, limited research has…

Image generative models, particularly diffusion-based models, have surged in popularity due to their remarkable ability to synthesize highly realistic images. However, since these models are data-driven, they inherit biases from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lin-Chun Huang , Ching Chieh Tsao , Fang-Yi Su , Jung-Hsien Chiang

Advanced text-to-image diffusion models raise safety concerns regarding identity privacy violation, copyright infringement, and Not Safe For Work content generation. Towards this, unlearning methods have been developed to erase these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Xiaoxuan Han , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Jing Dong

This paper explores the use of score-based diffusion models for Bayesian image reconstruction. Diffusion models are an efficient tool for generative modeling. Diffusion models can also be used for solving image reconstruction problems. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Michael T. McCann , Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye , Marc L. Klasky

Multi-modal image fusion aims to consolidate complementary information from diverse source images into a unified representation. The fused image is expected to preserve fine details and maintain high visual fidelity. While diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xingxin Xu , Bing Cao , DongDong Li , Qinghua Hu , Pengfei Zhu

Limited by the encoder-decoder architecture, learning-based edge detectors usually have difficulty predicting edge maps that satisfy both correctness and crispness. With the recent success of the diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yunfan Ye , Kai Xu , Yuhang Huang , Renjiao Yi , Zhiping Cai

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) refers to algorithms that create synthetic but realistic output. Diffusion models currently offer state of the art performance in generative AI for images. They also form a key component in more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Catherine F. Higham , Desmond J. Higham , Peter Grindrod

We present a concise derivation for several influential score-based diffusion models that relies on only a few textbook results. Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful tools for generating realistic, synthetic signals --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Chicago Y. Park , Michael T. McCann , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

Recent advancements in diffusion models revolutionize image generation but pose risks of misuse, such as replicating artworks or generating deepfakes. Existing image protection methods, though effective, struggle to balance protection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Namhyuk Ahn , KiYoon Yoo , Wonhyuk Ahn , Daesik Kim , Seung-Hun Nam

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that achieve state-of-the-art performance in image synthesis. However, training them demands substantial amounts of data and computational resources. Continual learning would allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Sergi Masip , Pau Rodriguez , Tinne Tuytelaars , Gido M. van de Ven

Image fusion is a fundamental and important task in computer vision, aiming to combine complementary information from different modalities to fuse images. In recent years, diffusion models have made significant developments in the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zirui Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Tianwei Guan , Yuhan Zhou , Xingyuan Li , Minjing Dong , Jinyuan Liu

Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in video generation. However, the computational intensity remains a significant challenge for practical applications. While feature caching has been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xuran Ma , Yexin Liu , Yaofu Liu , Xianfeng Wu , Mingzhe Zheng , Zihao Wang , Ser-Nam Lim , Harry Yang

Diffusion models have emerged as a key pillar of foundation models in visual domains. One of their critical applications is to universally solve different downstream inverse tasks via a single diffusion prior without re-training for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Morteza Mardani , Jiaming Song , Jan Kautz , Arash Vahdat

We empirically study the effect of noise scheduling strategies for denoising diffusion generative models. There are three findings: (1) the noise scheduling is crucial for the performance, and the optimal one depends on the task (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ting Chen