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Text-to-image diffusion models produce impressive results but are frustrating tools for artists who desire fine-grained control. For example, a common use case is to create images of a specific instance in novel contexts, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shengqu Cai , Eric Chan , Yunzhi Zhang , Leonidas Guibas , Jiajun Wu , Gordon Wetzstein

Diffusion models have achieved impressive success in generating photorealistic images, but challenges remain in ensuring precise semantic alignment with input prompts. Optimizing the initial noisy latent offers a more efficient alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Boming Miao , Chunxiao Li , Xiaoxiao Wang , Andi Zhang , Rui Sun , Zizhe Wang , Yao Zhu

In this paper, we introduce DiffusionMat, a novel image matting framework that employs a diffusion model for the transition from coarse to refined alpha mattes. Diverging from conventional methods that utilize trimaps merely as loose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yangyang Xu , Shengfeng He , Wenqi Shao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

Recently, diffusion models have shown remarkable results in image synthesis by gradually removing noise and amplifying signals. Although the simple generative process surprisingly works well, is this the best way to generate image data? For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sangyun Lee , Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyeon Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive abilities in generating photo-realistic and creative images. To offer more controllability for the generation process, existing studies, termed as early-constraint methods in this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Chang Liu , Rui Li , Kaidong Zhang , Xin Luo , Dong Liu

Diffusion models have recently achieved significant success in various image manipulation tasks, including image super-resolution and perceptual quality enhancement. Pretrained text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion, have exhibited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sanchar Palit , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee

Diffusion models have enabled high-quality, conditional image editing capabilities. We propose to expand their arsenal, and demonstrate that off-the-shelf diffusion models can be used for a wide range of cross-domain compositing tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Roy Hachnochi , Mingrui Zhao , Nadav Orzech , Rinon Gal , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Daniel Cohen-Or , Amit Haim Bermano

When embedding objects (foreground) into images (background), considering the influence of photography conditions like illumination, it is usually necessary to perform image harmonization to make the foreground object coordinate with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Haolin Wang , Ming Liu , Zifei Yan , Chao Zhou , Longan Xiao , Wangmeng Zuo

Scaling by training on large datasets has been shown to enhance the quality and fidelity of image generation and manipulation with diffusion models; however, such large datasets are not always accessible in medical imaging due to cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Ioannis Charisiadis , Marta Hasny , Martin Hartenberger , Björn Ommer , Nassir Navab , Ehsan Adeli

Image-to-image translation is a technique that focuses on transferring images from one domain to another while maintaining the essential content representations. In recent years, image-to-image translation has gained significant attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Xixian Wu , Dian Chao , Yang Yang

Latent diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance on a variety of generative tasks, such as image synthesis and image editing. However, the robustness of latent diffusion models is not well studied. Previous works only focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jianping Zhang , Zhuoer Xu , Shiwen Cui , Changhua Meng , Weibin Wu , Michael R. Lyu

Diffusion models are trained by learning a sequence of models that reverse each step of noise corruption. Typically, the model parameters are fully shared across multiple timesteps to enhance training efficiency. However, since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Qianli Ma , Xuefei Ning , Dongrui Liu , Li Niu , Linfeng Zhang

Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability to model data distributions. To solve image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiang Li , Soo Min Kwon , Shijun Liang , Ismail R. Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Qing Qu

This paper presents a novel method for exerting fine-grained lighting control during text-driven diffusion-based image generation. While existing diffusion models already have the ability to generate images under any lighting condition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Chong Zeng , Yue Dong , Pieter Peers , Youkang Kong , Hongzhi Wu , Xin Tong

While current research predominantly focuses on image-based colorization, the domain of video-based colorization remains relatively unexplored. Most existing video colorization techniques operate on a frame-by-frame basis, often overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Rory Ward , Dan Bigioi , Shubhajit Basak , John G. Breslin , Peter Corcoran

Image inversion is a fundamental task in generative models, aiming to map images back to their latent representations to enable downstream applications such as editing, restoration, and style transfer. This paper provides a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yinan Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Yali Bi , Xiaobin Hu , Teng Hu , Zhucun Xue , Ran Yi , Yong Liu , Ying Tai

Food image composition requires the use of existing dish images and background images to synthesize a natural new image, while diffusion models have made significant advancements in image generation, enabling the construction of end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Chaohua Shi , Xuan Wang , Si Shi , Xule Wang , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Image compositing plays a vital role in photo editing. After inserting a foreground object into another background image, the composite image may look unnatural and inharmonious. When the foreground is photorealistic and the background is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Xudong Wang , Li Niu , Junyan Cao , Yan Hong , Liqing Zhang

In this paper, we point out that suboptimal noise-data mapping leads to slow training of diffusion models. During diffusion training, current methods diffuse each image across the entire noise space, resulting in a mixture of all images at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yiheng Li , Heyang Jiang , Akio Kodaira , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer , Chenfeng Xu

Image dehazing using learning-based methods has achieved state-of-the-art performance in recent years. However, most existing methods train a dehazing model on synthetic hazy images, which are less able to generalize well to real hazy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Yuanjie Shao , Lerenhan Li , Wenqi Ren , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang