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We present Prompt Diffusion, a framework for enabling in-context learning in diffusion-based generative models. Given a pair of task-specific example images, such as depth from/to image and scribble from/to image, and a text guidance, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhendong Wang , Yifan Jiang , Yadong Lu , Yelong Shen , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Mingyuan Zhou

Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in text-to-image generation (T2I) and editing (TI2I), whether instantiated as assembled unified frameworks which couple powerful vision-language model (VLM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuxin Song , Wenkai Dong , Shizun Wang , Qi Zhang , Song Xue , Tao Yuan , Hu Yang , Haocheng Feng , Hang Zhou , Xinyan Xiao , Jingdong Wang

Cross-modality image segmentation aims to segment the target modalities using a method designed in the source modality. Deep generative models can translate the target modality images into the source modality, thus enabling cross-modality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Zihao Wang , Yingyu Yang , Yuzhou Chen , Tingting Yuan , Maxime Sermesant , Herve Delingette , Ona Wu

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Language-guided image generation has achieved great success nowadays by using diffusion models. However, texts can be less detailed to describe highly-specific subjects such as a particular dog or a certain car, which makes pure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yiyang Ma , Huan Yang , Wenjing Wang , Jianlong Fu , Jiaying Liu

Visual prompt, a pair of before-and-after edited images, can convey indescribable imagery transformations and prosper in image editing. However, current visual prompt methods rely on a pretrained text-guided image-to-image generative model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Pengcheng Xu , Qingnan Fan , Fei Kou , Shuai Qin , Hong Gu , Ruoyu Zhao , Charles Ling , Boyu Wang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generation tasks. Nevertheless, explaining the diffusion process remains challenging due to it being a sequence of denoising noisy images that are difficult for experts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ji-Hoon Park , Yeong-Joon Ju , Seong-Whan Lee

This paper introduces a novel unified representation of diffusion models for image generation and segmentation. Specifically, we use a colormap to represent entity-level masks, addressing the challenge of varying entity numbers while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Lu Qi , Lehan Yang , Weidong Guo , Yu Xu , Bo Du , Varun Jampani , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Video moment retrieval (VMR) aims to locate the most likely video moment(s) corresponding to a text query in untrimmed videos. Training of existing methods is limited by the lack of diverse and generalisable VMR datasets, hindering their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Dezhao Luo , Shaogang Gong , Jiabo Huang , Hailin Jin , Yang Liu

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that map noise to data using stochastic processes. However, for many applications such as image editing, the model input comes from a distribution that is not random noise. As such, diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Linqi Zhou , Aaron Lou , Samar Khanna , Stefano Ermon

Diffusion Models are popular generative modeling methods in various vision tasks, attracting significant attention. They can be considered a unique instance of self-supervised learning methods due to their independence from label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-19 Michael Fuest , Pingchuan Ma , Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Vincent Tao Hu , Bjorn Ommer

Joint machine learning models that allow synthesizing and classifying data often offer uneven performance between those tasks or are unstable to train. In this work, we depart from a set of empirical observations that indicate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Kamil Deja , Tomasz Trzcinski , Jakub M. Tomczak

We present UniModel, a unified generative model that jointly supports visual understanding and visual generation within a single pixel-to-pixel diffusion framework. Our goal is to achieve unification along three axes: the model, the tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chi Zhang , Jiepeng Wang , Youming Wang , Yuanzhi Liang , Xiaoyan Yang , Zuoxin Li , Haibin Huang , Xuelong Li

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning. They decompose generative modeling into two computational primitives: deterministic neural-network evaluation and stochastic sampling. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nihal Sanjay Singh , Mazdak Mohseni-Rajaee , Shaila Niazi , Kerem Y. Camsari

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative models in medical imaging. However, it remains a major challenge to combine these data-driven models with domain knowledge to guide brain imaging problems. In neuroimaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ana Lawry Aguila , Dina Zemlyanker , You Cheng , Sudeshna Das , Daniel C. Alexander , Oula Puonti , Annabel Sorby-Adams , W. Taylor Kimberly , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Recently, text-to-image denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have demonstrated impressive image generation capabilities and have also been successfully applied to image inpainting. However, in practice, users often require more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Shiyuan Yang , Xiaodong Chen , Jing Liao

We propose a unified framework aimed at enhancing the diffusion priors for 3D generation tasks. Despite the critical importance of these tasks, existing methodologies often struggle to generate high-caliber results. We begin by examining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xiaofeng Yang , Yiwen Chen , Cheng Chen , Chi Zhang , Yi Xu , Xulei Yang , Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin

Achieving machine autonomy and human control often represent divergent objectives in the design of interactive AI systems. Visual generative foundation models such as Stable Diffusion show promise in navigating these goals, especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Can Qin , Shu Zhang , Ning Yu , Yihao Feng , Xinyi Yang , Yingbo Zhou , Huan Wang , Juan Carlos Niebles , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese , Stefano Ermon , Yun Fu , Ran Xu

Modern diffusion models, particularly those utilizing a Transformer-based UNet for denoising, rely heavily on self-attention operations to manage complex spatial relationships, thus achieving impressive generation performance. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Songhua Liu , Weihao Yu , Zhenxiong Tan , Xinchao Wang

The rapid progress of large multimodal models has inspired efforts toward unified frameworks that couple understanding and generation. While such paradigms have shown remarkable success in 2D, extending them to 3D remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yongwei Chen , Tianyi Wei , Yushi Lan , Zhaoyang Lyu , Shangchen Zhou , Xudong Xu , Xingang Pan