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Existing methods for restoring degraded human-centric images often struggle with insufficient fidelity, particularly in human body restoration (HBR). Recent diffusion-based restoration methods commonly adapt pre-trained text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jue Gong , Zihan Zhou , Jingkai Wang , Shu Li , Libo Liu , Jianliang Lan , Yulun Zhang

While recent research has progressively overcome the low-resolution constraint of one-shot face video re-enactment with the help of StyleGAN's high-fidelity portrait generation, these approaches rely on at least one of the following:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Trevine Oorloff , Yaser Yacoob

Face video restoration (FVR) is a challenging but important problem where one seeks to recover a perceptually realistic face videos from a low-quality input. While diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have been shown to achieve remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zihao Zou , Jiaming Liu , Shirin Shoushtari , Yubo Wang , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Diffusion-based methods, leveraging pre-trained large models like Stable Diffusion via ControlNet, have achieved remarkable performance in several low-level vision tasks. However, Pre-Trained Diffusion-Based (PTDB) methods often sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaogang Xu , Jian Wang , Yunfan Lu , Ruihang Chu , Ruixing Wang , Jiafei Wu , Bei Yu , Liang Lin

Diffusion models have recently shown strong progress in generative tasks, offering a more stable alternative to GAN-based approaches for makeup transfer. Existing methods often suffer from limited datasets, poor disentanglement between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qihe Pan , Yiming Wu , Xing Zhao , Liang Xie , Guodao Sun , Ronghua Liang

Face recognition systems are increasingly vulnerable to morphing attacks, where a composite image is crafted to match multiple identities, enabling unauthorized access and identity fraud. Existing detection methods identify morphed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Nitish Shukla , Arun Ross

While burst LR images are useful for improving the SR image quality compared with a single LR image, prior SR networks accepting the burst LR images are trained in a deterministic manner, which is known to produce a blurry SR image. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kyotaro Tokoro , Kazutoshi Akita , Norimichi Ukita

Facial attribute editing and style manipulation are crucial for applications like virtual avatars and photo editing. However, achieving precise control over facial attributes without altering unrelated features is challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Wenmin Huang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaochun Cao , Jiwu Huang

Face recognition performance based on deep learning heavily relies on large-scale training data, which is often difficult to acquire in practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a GAN-based data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongwen Li , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li

Image diffusion has recently shown remarkable performance in image synthesis and implicitly as an image prior. Such a prior has been used with conditioning to solve the inpainting problem, but only supporting binary user-based conditioning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Majed El Helou

Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced generative deep learning for image processing. Measurement conditioned models have also been applied to inverse problems such as CT reconstruction. However, the conventional approach,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Matthew Tivnan , Dufan Wu , Quanzheng Li

Creating accurate and geologically realistic reservoir facies based on limited measurements is crucial for field development and reservoir management, especially in the oil and gas sector. Traditional two-point geostatistics, while…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Daesoo Lee , Oscar Ovanger , Jo Eidsvik , Erlend Aune , Jacob Skauvold , Ragnar Hauge

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xinjie Li , Yang Zhao , Dong Wang , Yuan Chen , Li Cao , Xiaoping Liu

Modern cameras' performance in low-light conditions remains suboptimal due to fundamental limitations in photon shot noise and sensor read noise. Generative image restoration methods have shown promising results compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xijun Wang , Prateek Chennuri , Dilshan Godaliyadda , Yu Yuan , Bole Ma , Xingguang Zhang , Hamid R. Sheikh , Stanley Chan

Image deblurring is an ill-posed problem with multiple plausible solutions for a given input image. However, most existing methods produce a deterministic estimate of the clean image and are trained to minimize pixel-level distortion. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jay Whang , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Chitwan Saharia , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Peyman Milanfar

Exploiting pre-trained diffusion models for restoration has recently become a favored alternative to the traditional task-specific training approach. Previous works have achieved noteworthy success by limiting the solution space using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Peiqing Yang , Shangchen Zhou , Qingyi Tao , Chen Change Loy

Face inpainting techniques recover missing or occluded facial regions in a visually realistic manner, but preserving the identity in the final output remains a fundamental challenge. Identity consistency is crucial for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 João Santos , Carlos Santiago , Manuel Marques

Autoregressive (AR) models remain the standard for natural language generation but still suffer from high latency due to strictly sequential decoding. Recent diffusion-inspired approaches, such as LlaDA and Dream, mitigate this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qinglin Zhu , Yizhen Yao , Runcong Zhao , Yanzheng Xiang , Amrutha Saseendran , Chen Jin , Philip Teare , Bin Liang , Yulan He , Lin Gui

We present a novel high-resolution face swapping method using the inherent prior knowledge of a pre-trained GAN model. Although previous research can leverage generative priors to produce high-resolution results, their quality can suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yangyang Xu , Bailin Deng , Junle Wang , Yanqing Jing , Jia Pan , Shengfeng He