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Streetscapes are an essential component of urban space. Their assessment is presently either limited to morphometric properties of their mass skeleton or requires labor-intensive qualitative evaluations of visually perceived qualities. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Joan Perez , Giovanni Fusco

The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) in recent years has catalyzed transformative advances in wireless communications and networks. Among the members of the GenAI family, Diffusion Models (DMs) have risen to prominence as a powerful option,…

This survey reviews the progress of diffusion models in generating images from text, ~\textit{i.e.} text-to-image diffusion models. As a self-contained work, this survey starts with a brief introduction of how diffusion models work for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Chenshuang Zhang , Chaoning Zhang , Mengchun Zhang , In So Kweon , Junmo Kim

3D scene generation seeks to synthesize spatially structured, semantically meaningful, and photorealistic environments for applications such as immersive media, robotics, autonomous driving, and embodied AI. Early methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Beichen Wen , Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu

While diffusion models have significantly advanced the quality of image generation their capability to accurately and coherently render text within these images remains a substantial challenge. Conventional diffusion-based methods for scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qilong Zhangli , Jindong Jiang , Di Liu , Licheng Yu , Xiaoliang Dai , Ankit Ramchandani , Guan Pang , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Praveen Krishnan

Recently, diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in text-guided and image-conditioned image generation. However, existing diffusion models cannot simultaneously generate an image and a panoptic segmentation of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yinghan Long , Kaushik Roy

Image data augmentation constitutes a critical methodology in modern computer vision tasks, since it can facilitate towards enhancing the diversity and quality of training datasets; thereby, improving the performance and robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Panagiotis Alimisis , Ioannis Mademlis , Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis , Panagiotis Sarigiannidis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which addresses both families of tasks simultaneously. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Yosuke Yamaguchi , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Tianyi Zhou , Jun Ohya , Abhinav Shrivastava

This paper presents GenDet, a novel framework that redefines object detection as an image generation task. In contrast to traditional approaches, GenDet adopts a pioneering approach by leveraging generative modeling: it conditions on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chen Min , Chengyang Li , Fanjie Kong , Qi Zhu , Dawei Zhao , Liang Xiao

High-resolution image generation with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has immense potential but, due to the enormous capital investment required for training, it is increasingly centralised to a few large corporations, and hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Ruoyi Du , Dongliang Chang , Timothy Hospedales , Yi-Zhe Song , Zhanyu Ma

Urban development has been a defining force in human history, shaping cities for centuries. However, past studies mostly analyze such development as predictive tasks, failing to reflect its generative nature. Therefore, this study designs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kailai Sun , Yuebing Liang , Mingyi He , Yunhan Zheng , Alok Prakash , Shenhao Wang , Jinhua Zhao , Alex "Sandy'' Pentland

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has unified language generation tasks and revolutionized human-machine interaction. However, in the realm of image generation, a unified model capable of handling various tasks within a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Shitao Xiao , Yueze Wang , Junjie Zhou , Huaying Yuan , Xingrun Xing , Ruiran Yan , Chaofan Li , Shuting Wang , Tiejun Huang , Zheng Liu

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have shown impressive results in generating visually compelling images following user prompts. Building on this, various methods further fine-tune the pre-trained T2I model for specific tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tsu-Jui Fu , Yusu Qian , Chen Chen , Wenze Hu , Zhe Gan , Yinfei Yang

The advancements in the state of the art of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) brought by diffusion models can be highly beneficial in novel contexts involving Earth observation data. After introducing this new family of generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Fulvio Sanguigni , Mikolaj Czerkawski , Lorenzo Papa , Irene Amerini , Bertrand Le Saux

Existing multi-view 3D object reconstruction methods heavily rely on sufficient overlap between input views, where occlusions and sparse coverage in practice frequently yield severe reconstruction incompleteness. Recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiahao Chang , Chongjie Ye , Yushuang Wu , Yuantao Chen , Yidan Zhang , Zhongjin Luo , Chenghong Li , Yihao Zhi , Xiaoguang Han

While generative modeling has become prevalent across numerous research fields, its integration into the realm of image retrieval remains largely unexplored and underjustified. In this paper, we present a novel methodology, reframing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yidan Zhang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Yujing Wang , Qi Chen , Xing Xie , Hao Sun , Weiwei Deng , Qi Zhang , Fan Yang , Mao Yang , Qingmin Liao , Jingdong Wang , Baining Guo

The rapid advancement of generative AI has revolutionized image creation, enabling high-quality synthesis from text prompts while raising critical challenges for media authenticity. We present Ai-GenBench, a novel benchmark designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Lorenzo Pellegrini , Davide Cozzolino , Serafino Pandolfini , Davide Maltoni , Matteo Ferrara , Luisa Verdoliva , Marco Prati , Marco Ramilli

AI image generators based on diffusion models have recently garnered attention for their capability to create images from simple text prompts. However, for practical use in civil engineering they need to be able to create specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Joern Ploennigs , Markus Berger

Text-to-image generation (TTI) refers to the usage of models that could process text input and generate high fidelity images based on text descriptions. Text-to-image generation using neural networks could be traced back to the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Fengxiang Bie , Yibo Yang , Zhongzhu Zhou , Adam Ghanem , Minjia Zhang , Zhewei Yao , Xiaoxia Wu , Connor Holmes , Pareesa Golnari , David A. Clifton , Yuxiong He , Dacheng Tao , Shuaiwen Leon Song

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang