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This paper introduces two key contributions aimed at improving the speed and quality of images generated through inverse diffusion processes. The first contribution involves reparameterizing the diffusion process in terms of the angle on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhenkai Zhang , Krista A. Ehinger , Tom Drummond

Stochastic sampling techniques are ubiquitous in real-time rendering, where performance constraints force the use of low sample counts, leading to noisy intermediate results. To remove this noise, the post-processing step of temporal and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 William Donnelly , Alan Wolfe , Judith Bütepage , Jon Valdés

Along with recent diffusion models, randomized smoothing has become one of a few tangible approaches that offers adversarial robustness to models at scale, e.g., those of large pre-trained models. Specifically, one can perform randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin

We investigate the construction of gradient-guided conditional diffusion models for reconstructing private images, focusing on the adversarial interplay between differential privacy noise and the denoising capabilities of diffusion models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Tao Huang , Jiayang Meng , Hong Chen , Guolong Zheng , Xu Yang , Xun Yi , Hua Wang

With the great success of diffusion models in image generation, diffusion-based image compression is attracting increasing interests. However, due to the random noise introduced in the diffusion learning, they usually produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Zhenyu Du , Yanbo Gao , Shuai Li , Yiyang Li , Hui Yuan , Mao Ye

Recent work uses reinforcement learning (RL) to fine-tune text-to-image diffusion models, improving text-image alignment and sample quality. However, existing approaches introduce unnecessary complexity: they cache the full sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yanting Miao , William Loh , Pacal Poupart , Suraj Kothawade

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Synthesizing realistic images involves computing high-dimensional light-transport integrals. In practice, these integrals are numerically estimated via Monte Carlo integration. The error of this estimation manifests itself as conspicuous…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Vassillen Chizhov , Iliyan Georgiev , Karol Myszkowski , Gurprit Singh

Diffusion models excel in generating high-quality images. However, current diffusion models struggle to produce reliable images without guidance methods, such as classifier-free guidance (CFG). Are guidance methods truly necessary?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Donghoon Ahn , Jiwon Kang , Sanghyun Lee , Jaewon Min , Minjae Kim , Wooseok Jang , Hyoungwon Cho , Sayak Paul , SeonHwa Kim , Eunju Cha , Kyong Hwan Jin , Seungryong Kim

Image restoration is a classic low-level problem aimed at recovering high-quality images from low-quality images with various degradations such as blur, noise, rain, haze, etc. However, due to the inherent complexity and non-uniqueness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

The classic Monte Carlo path tracing can achieve high quality rendering at the cost of heavy computation. Recent works make use of deep neural networks to accelerate this process, by improving either low-resolution or fewer-sample rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xinyue Wei , Haozhi Huang , Yujin Shi , Hongliang Yuan , Li Shen , Jue Wang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a critical tool in modern medical diagnostics, yet its prolonged acquisition time remains a critical limitation, especially in time-sensitive clinical scenarios. While undersampling strategies can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Mohammed Alsubaie , Wenxi Liu , Linxia Gu , Ovidiu C. Andronesi , Sirani M. Perera , Xianqi Li

Image reconstruction from noisy sensor measurements is challenging and many methods have been proposed for it. Yet, most approaches focus on learning robust natural image priors while modeling the scene's noise statistics. In extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Erez Yosef , Raja Giryes

Advances in microscopy imaging enable researchers to visualize structures at the nanoscale level thereby unraveling intricate details of biological organization. However, challenges such as image noise, photobleaching of fluorophores, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Pamela Osuna-Vargas , Maren H. Wehrheim , Lucas Zinz , Johanna Rahm , Ashwin Balakrishnan , Alexandra Kaminer , Mike Heilemann , Matthias Kaschube

Independently estimating pixel values in Monte Carlo rendering results in a perceptually sub-optimal white-noise distribution of error in image space. Recent works have shown that perceptual fidelity can be improved significantly by…

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) typically struggle to reconstruct and render highly specular objects, whose appearance varies quickly with changes in viewpoint. Recent works have improved NeRF's ability to render detailed specular appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dor Verbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Benjamin Attal , Richard Szeliski , Jonathan T. Barron

Inverse rendering methods have achieved remarkable performance in reconstructing high-fidelity 3D objects with disentangled geometries, materials, and environmental light. However, they still face huge challenges in reflective surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Tengjie Zhu , Zhuo Chen , Jingnan Gao , Yichao Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Existing deep learning methods for the reconstruction and denoising of point clouds rely on small datasets of 3D shapes. We circumvent the problem by leveraging deep learning methods trained on billions of images. We propose a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Pietro Bonazzi , Marie-Julie Rakatosaona , Marco Cannici , Federico Tombari , Davide Scaramuzza

Image-based motion prediction is one of the essential techniques for robot manipulation. Among the various prediction models, we focus on diffusion models because they have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various applications. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Takeru Oba , Norimichi Ukita