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Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) has recently attracted significant attention by leveraging the expressive power of large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models (DMs). A central practical challenge is resolving the trade-off…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Maxence Noble , Gonzalo Iñaki Quintana , Benjamin Aubin , Clément Chadebec

Robotic manipulation requires understanding both the 3D spatial structure of the environment and its temporal evolution, yet most existing policies overlook one or both. They typically rely on 2D visual observations and backbones pretrained…

Image-based virtual try-on is an increasingly important task for online shopping. It aims to synthesize images of a specific person wearing a specified garment. Diffusion model-based approaches have recently become popular, as they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xu Yang , Changxing Ding , Zhibin Hong , Junhao Huang , Jin Tao , Xiangmin Xu

Transformers, the de-facto standard for language modeling, have been recently applied for vision tasks. This paper introduces sparse queries for vision transformers to exploit the intrinsic spatial redundancy of natural images and save…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Lin Song , Songyang Zhang , Songtao Liu , Zeming Li , Xuming He , Hongbin Sun , Jian Sun , Nanning Zheng

Text-to-image diffusion models like Stable Diffusion generate high-quality images from text, but lack a way to inject visual guidance (e.g. sketches, styles) at inference without retraining. Existing methods either require computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Agata Żywot , Iason Skylitsis , Thijmen Nijdam , Zoe Tzifa-Kratira , Derck Prinzhorn , Konrad Szewczyk , Aritra Bhowmik

Conditional diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in image manipulation tasks. The general pipeline involves adding noise to the image and then denoising it. However, this method faces a trade-off problem: adding too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Luozhou Wang , Shuai Yang , Shu Liu , Ying-cong Chen

In this paper, we present DesignDiffusion, a simple yet effective framework for the novel task of synthesizing design images from textual descriptions. A primary challenge lies in generating accurate and style-consistent textual and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhendong Wang , Jianmin Bao , Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Large-scale text-to-image models pre-trained on massive text-image pairs show excellent performance in image synthesis recently. However, image can provide more intuitive visual concepts than plain text. People may ask: how can we integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Bin Cheng , Zuhao Liu , Yunbo Peng , Yue Lin

Existing multi-modal image fusion methods fail to address the compound degradations presented in source images, resulting in fusion images plagued by noise, color bias, improper exposure, \textit{etc}. Additionally, these methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hao Zhang , Lei Cao , Jiayi Ma

Unsupervised image-to-image translation methods aim to map images from one domain into plausible examples from another domain while preserving structures shared across two domains. In the many-to-many setting, an additional guidance example…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ben Usman , Dina Bashkirova , Kate Saenko

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image generation but remain computationally costly due to iterative denoising. Latent-space models like Stable Diffusion reduce overhead yet lose fine detail, while retrieval-augmented methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Unsupervised visual object tracking is a challenging task that requires following arbitrary targets in videos without training on ground-truth annotations. Despite considerable progress, existing state-of-the-art unsupervised trackers often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhengbo Zhang , Zhigang Tu , Junsong Yuan , De Wen Soh , Bo Du

An increasing number of nonspecialist robotic users demand easy-to-use machines. In the context of visual servoing, the removal of explicit image processing is becoming a trend, allowing an easy application of this technique. This work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Antonio Paolillo , Mirko Nava , Dario Piga , Alessandro Giusti

In this paper, we present the texture reformer, a fast and universal neural-based framework for interactive texture transfer with user-specified guidance. The challenges lie in three aspects: 1) the diversity of tasks, 2) the simplicity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Zhizhong Wang , Lei Zhao , Haibo Chen , Ailin Li , Zhiwen Zuo , Wei Xing , Dongming Lu

We propose a novel unpaired image-to-image translation method that uses denoising diffusion probabilistic models without requiring adversarial training. Our method, UNpaired Image Translation with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Hiroshi Sasaki , Chris G. Willcocks , Toby P. Breckon

In the field of computer vision, visible light images often exhibit low contrast in low-light conditions, presenting a significant challenge. While infrared imagery provides a potential solution, its utilization entails high costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yijia Chen , Pinghua Chen , Xiangxin Zhou , Yingtie Lei , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li

Modeling and producing lifelike clothed human images has attracted researchers' attention from different areas for decades, with the complexity from highly articulated and structured content. Rendering algorithms decompose and simulate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Rui Hu , Qian He , Gaofeng He , Jiedong Zhuang , Huang Chen , Huafeng Liu , Huamin Wang

Diffusion Models (DMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in content generation without requiring adversarial training. These models are trained using a two-step process. First, a forward - diffusion - process gradually adds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar

Generating high-quality 3D objects from textual descriptions remains a challenging problem due to computational cost, the scarcity of 3D data, and complex 3D representations. We introduce Geometry Image Diffusion (GIMDiffusion), a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Slava Elizarov , Ciara Rowles , Simon Donné

In the context of imitation learning, visuomotor-based diffusion policy learning is one of the main directions in robotic manipulation. Most of these approaches rely on point clouds as observation inputs and construct scene representations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zehao Ni , Yonghao He , Lingfeng Qian , Jilei Mao , Fa Fu , Wei Sui , Hu Su , Junran Peng , Zhipeng Wang , Bin He