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While originally designed for image generation, diffusion models have recently shown to provide excellent pretrained feature representations for semantic segmentation. Intrigued by this result, we set out to explore how well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Rui Gong , Martin Danelljan , Han Sun , Julio Delgado Mangas , Luc Van Gool

There has been tremendous progress in large-scale text-to-image synthesis driven by diffusion models enabling versatile downstream applications such as 3D object synthesis from texts, image editing, and customized generation. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ting-Hsuan Liao , Songwei Ge , Yiran Xu , Yao-Chih Lee , Badour AlBahar , Jia-Bin Huang

Fine-tuning from pre-trained ImageNet models has become the de-facto standard for various computer vision tasks. Current practices for fine-tuning typically involve selecting an ad-hoc choice of hyperparameters and keeping them fixed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hao Li , Pratik Chaudhari , Hao Yang , Michael Lam , Avinash Ravichandran , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

Diffusion models have shown remarkable progress in various generative tasks such as image and video generation. This paper studies the problem of leveraging pretrained diffusion models for performing discriminative tasks. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yinqi Li , Hong Chang , Ruibing Hou , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

As a fundamental problem in transfer learning, model selection aims to rank off-the-shelf pre-trained models and select the most suitable one for the new target task. Existing model selection techniques are often constrained in their scope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jiameng Bai , Sai Wu , Jie Song , Junbo Zhao , Gang Chen

We compare sequential fine-tuning with a model for multi-task learning in the context where we are interested in boosting performance on two tasks, one of which depends on the other. We test these models on the FigLang2022 shared task which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Irina Bigoulaeva , Rachneet Sachdeva , Harish Tayyar Madabushi , Aline Villavicencio , Iryna Gurevych

Text-to-image (T2I) models offer great potential for creating virtually limitless synthetic data, a valuable resource compared to fixed and finite real datasets. Previous works evaluate the utility of synthetic data from T2I models on three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zhang Xiaofeng , Aaron Courville , Michal Drozdzal , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Text-to-image diffusion models (T2I) use a latent representation of a text prompt to guide the image generation process. However, the process by which the encoder produces the text representation is unknown. We propose the Diffusion Lens, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Michael Toker , Hadas Orgad , Mor Ventura , Dana Arad , Yonatan Belinkov

Diffusion models, which leverage stochastic processes to capture complex data distributions effectively, have shown their performance as generative models, achieving notable success in image-related tasks through iterative denoising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Toshihide Ubukata , Jialong Li , Kenji Tei

In recent years, motion generative models have undergone significant advancement, yet pose challenges in aligning with downstream objectives. Recent studies have shown that using differentiable rewards to directly align the preference of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xiaofeng Tan , Wanjiang Weng , Haodong Lei , Hongsong Wang

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have recently received much research attention since they outperform alternative approaches, such as GANs, and currently provide state-of-the-art generative performance. The superior performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dmitry Baranchuk , Ivan Rubachev , Andrey Voynov , Valentin Khrulkov , Artem Babenko

Zero-shot object counting aims to count instances of arbitrary object categories specified by text descriptions. Existing methods typically rely on vision-language models like CLIP, but often exhibit limited sensitivity to text prompts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yifei Qian , Zhongliang Guo , Bowen Deng , Chun Tong Lei , Shuai Zhao , Chun Pong Lau , Xiaopeng Hong , Michael P. Pound

Current perceptive models heavily depend on resource-intensive datasets, prompting the need for innovative solutions. Leveraging recent advances in diffusion models, synthetic data, by constructing image inputs from various annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yibo Wang , Ruiyuan Gao , Kai Chen , Kaiqiang Zhou , Yingjie Cai , Lanqing Hong , Zhenguo Li , Lihui Jiang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Qiang Xu , Kai Zhang

The text to medical image (T2MedI) with latent diffusion model has great potential to alleviate the scarcity of medical imaging data and explore the underlying appearance distribution of lesions in a specific patient status description.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Xu Han , Fangfang Fan , Jingzhao Rong , Zhen Li , Georges El Fakhri , Qingyu Chen , Xiaofeng Liu

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have been a revolutionary milestone in the evolution of generative AI and multimodal technology, allowing wonderful image generation with natural-language text prompt. However, the issue of lacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xiang Gao , Jiaying Liu

Accurate medical image segmentation is crucial for precise anatomical delineation. Deep learning models like U-Net have shown great success but depend heavily on large datasets and struggle with domain shifts, complex structures, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hantao Zhang , Yuhe Liu , Jiancheng Yang , Weidong Guo , Xinyuan Wang , Pascal Fua

Generative modelling paradigms based on denoising diffusion processes have emerged as a leading candidate for conditional sampling in inverse problems. In many real-world applications, we often have access to large, expensively trained…

Despite the recent advances in personalized text-to-image (P-T2I) generative models, it remains challenging to perform finetuning-free multi-subject-driven T2I in a resource-efficient manner. Predominantly, contemporary approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Maitreya Patel , Sangmin Jung , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Personalized text-to-image generation models enable users to create images that depict their individual possessions in diverse scenes, finding applications in various domains. To achieve the personalization capability, existing methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yu Zeng , Vishal M. Patel , Haochen Wang , Xun Huang , Ting-Chun Wang , Ming-Yu Liu , Yogesh Balaji

Hyperspectral image (HSI) analysis plays a critical role in remote sensing, agriculture, and environmental monitoring. However, traditional methods often struggle to handle the high dimensionality, spectral redundancy, and noise inherent in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Xing Hu , Xiangcheng Liu , Qianqian Duan , Lian Zhang , Huiliang Shang , Linghua Jiang , Haima Yang , Dawei Zhang