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Recent advancements in diffusion models (DMs) have been propelled by alignment methods that post-train models to better conform to human preferences. However, these approaches typically require computation-intensive training of a base model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zejian Li , Yize Li , Chenye Meng , Zhongni Liu , Yang Ling , Shengyuan Zhang , Guang Yang , Changyuan Yang , Zhiyuan Yang , Lingyun Sun

Recent breakthroughs in understanding the human brain have revealed its impressive ability to efficiently process and interpret human thoughts, opening up possibilities for intervening in brain signals. In this paper, we aim to develop a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yasheng Sun , Bohan Li , Mingchen Zhuge , Deng-Ping Fan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Hideki Koike

This work proposes a novel method based on a pseudo-parabolic diffusion process to be employed for texture recognition. The proposed operator is applied over a range of time scales giving rise to a family of images transformed by nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Jardel Vieira , Eduardo Abreu , Joao B. Florindo

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

This paper presents ThinkDiff, a novel alignment paradigm that empowers text-to-image diffusion models with multimodal in-context understanding and reasoning capabilities by integrating the strengths of vision-language models (VLMs).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhenxing Mi , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Guocheng Qian , Hanrong Ye , Runtao Liu , Sergey Tulyakov , Kfir Aberman , Dan Xu

Background: Building visual encoding models to accurately predict visual responses is a central challenge for current vision-based brain-machine interface techniques. To achieve high prediction accuracy on neural signals, visual encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Chi Zhang , Kai Qiao , Linyuan Wang , Li Tong , Guoen Hu , Ruyuan Zhang , Bin Yan

We study the problem of generating intermediate images from image pairs with large motion while maintaining semantic consistency. Due to the large motion, the intermediate semantic information may be absent in input images. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Liao Shen , Tianqi Liu , Huiqiang Sun , Xinyi Ye , Baopu Li , Jianming Zhang , Zhiguo Cao

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

Procedural planning aims to predict a sequence of actions that transforms an initial visual state into a desired goal, a fundamental ability for intelligent agents operating in complex environments. Existing approaches typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Luigi Seminara , Davide Moltisanti , Antonino Furnari

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) excel at generation, but their global self-attention makes controllable, reference-image-based editing a distinct challenge. Unlike U-Nets, naively injecting local appearance into a DiT can disrupt its holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengrong Gu , Ye Wang , Song Wu , Rui Ma , Qian Wang , Lanjun Wang , Zili Yi

In this work, we propose a framework whereby flow imaging data is leveraged to extract relevant information from flowfield visualizations. To this end, a vision transformer (ViT) model is developed to predict the unsteady pressure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-10 Renato F. Miotto , William R. Wolf

Diffusion models have been central to the development of recent image, video, and even text generation systems. They posses striking geometric properties that can be faithfully portrayed in low-dimensional settings. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Alec Helbling , Duen Horng Chau

In this paper, we argue that iterative computation with diffusion models offers a powerful paradigm for not only generation but also visual perception tasks. We unify tasks such as depth estimation, optical flow, and amodal segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Rahul Ravishankar , Zeeshan Patel , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Jitendra Malik

Depth information provides valuable insights into the 3D structure especially the outline of objects, which can be utilized to improve the semantic segmentation tasks. However, a naive fusion of depth information can disrupt feature and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wei Sun , Yuan Li , Qixiang Ye , Jianbin Jiao , Yanzhao Zhou

Visual grounding (VG) tasks involve explicit cross-modal alignment, as semantically corresponding image regions are to be located for the language phrases provided. Existing approaches complete such visual-text reasoning in a single-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Sijia Chen , Baochun Li

Existing image restoration methods mostly leverage the posterior distribution of natural images. However, they often assume known degradation and also require supervised training, which restricts their adaptation to complex real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ben Fei , Zhaoyang Lyu , Liang Pan , Junzhe Zhang , Weidong Yang , Tianyue Luo , Bo Zhang , Bo Dai

Creating novel images by fusing visual cues from multiple sources is a fundamental yet underexplored problem in image-to-image generation, with broad applications in artistic creation, virtual reality and visual media. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zeren Xiong , Yue Yu , Zedong Zhang , Shuo Chen , Jian Yang , Jun Li

Deep learning algorithms have significantly reduced the computational time and improved the spatial resolution of particle image velocimetry~(PIV). However, the models trained on synthetic datasets might have a degraded performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Qianyu Zhu , Junjie Wang , Jeremiah Hu , Jia Ai , Yong Lee

Visual information has been introduced for enhancing machine translation (MT), and its effectiveness heavily relies on the availability of large amounts of bilingual parallel sentence pairs with manual image annotations. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Andong Chen , Yuchen Song , Kehai Chen , Muyun Yang , Tiejun Zhao , Min Zhang

Visual reasoning is essential for building intelligent agents that understand the world and perform problem-solving beyond perception. Differentiable forward reasoning has been developed to integrate reasoning with gradient-based machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hikaru Shindo , Viktor Pfanschilling , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting