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We demonstrate how conditional generation from diffusion models can be used to tackle a variety of realistic tasks in the production of music in 44.1kHz stereo audio with sampling-time guidance. The scenarios we consider include…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mark Levy , Bruno Di Giorgi , Floris Weers , Angelos Katharopoulos , Tom Nickson

Despite the remarkable progress of 3D generation, achieving controllability, i.e., ensuring consistency between generated 3D content and input conditions like edge and depth, remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hongbin Xu , Chaohui Yu , Feng Xiao , Jiazheng Xing , Hai Ci , Weitao Chen , Fan Wang , Ming Li

In recent years, neural network-driven image compression (NIC) has gained significant attention. Some works adopt deep generative models such as GANs and diffusion models to enhance perceptual quality (realism). A critical obstacle of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Shoma Iwai , Tomo Miyazaki , Shinichiro Omachi

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models capable of producing high-quality images from pure noise using a simple text prompt. While most methods which introduce additional spatial constraints into the generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zakaria Patel , Kirill Serkh

The acquisition of annotated datasets with paired images and segmentation masks is a critical challenge in domains such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and computer vision. Manual annotation demands significant resources, faces ethical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Rupak Bose , Chinedu Innocent Nwoye , Aditya Bhat , Nicolas Padoy

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse imaging problems. However, their practical deployment is hindered by the substantial computational cost of slow, multi-step sampling. Although Consistency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Amirreza Tanevardi , Pooria Abbas Rad Moghadam , Seyed Mohammad Eshtehardian , Sajjad Amini , Babak Khalaj

Recent advances in autoregressive (AR) models have demonstrated their potential to rival diffusion models in image synthesis. However, for complex spatially-conditioned generation, current AR approaches rely on fine-tuning the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jiaqi Liu , Tao Huang , Chang Xu

Diffusion models have achieved great progress in image animation due to powerful generative capabilities. However, maintaining spatio-temporal consistency with detailed information from the input static image over time (e.g., style,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xin Ma , Yaohui Wang , Gengyun Jia , Xinyuan Chen , Yuan-Fang Li , Cunjian Chen , Yu Qiao

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

Text-to-image synthesis models require the ability to generate diverse images while maintaining stability. To overcome this challenge, a number of methods have been proposed, including the collection of prompt-image datasets and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Keunwoo Park , Jihye Chae , Joong Ho Ahn , Jihoon Kweon

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple input images acquired through various sources to synthesize a new fused image. Existing methods usually employ distinct constraint designs tailored to specific scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Bing Cao , Xingxin Xu , Pengfei Zhu , Qilong Wang , Qinghua Hu

Image extrapolation aims at expanding the narrow field of view of a given image patch. Existing models mainly deal with natural scene images of homogeneous regions and have no control of the content generation process. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yijun Li , Lu Jiang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recent advances in conditional generative image models have enabled impressive results. On the one hand, text-based conditional models have achieved remarkable generation quality, by leveraging large-scale datasets of image-text pairs. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Arantxa Casanova , Marlène Careil , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Christopher J. Pal , Jakob Verbeek , Michal Drozdzal

This technical report introduces PIXART-{\delta}, a text-to-image synthesis framework that integrates the Latent Consistency Model (LCM) and ControlNet into the advanced PIXART-{\alpha} model. PIXART-{\alpha} is recognized for its ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Junsong Chen , Yue Wu , Simian Luo , Enze Xie , Sayak Paul , Ping Luo , Hang Zhao , Zhenguo Li

Diffusion models achieve superior generation quality but suffer from slow generation speed due to the iterative nature of denoising. In contrast, consistency models, a new generative family, achieve competitive performance with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Fu-Yun Wang , Zhengyang Geng , Hongsheng Li

Photo retouching aims at enhancing the aesthetic visual quality of images that suffer from photographic defects such as over/under exposure, poor contrast, inharmonious saturation. Practically, photo retouching can be accomplished by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Jingwen He , Yihao Liu , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

This work introduces MotionLCM, extending controllable motion generation to a real-time level. Existing methods for spatial-temporal control in text-conditioned motion generation suffer from significant runtime inefficiency. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wenxun Dai , Ling-Hao Chen , Jingbo Wang , Jinpeng Liu , Bo Dai , Yansong Tang

We present LooseControl to allow generalized depth conditioning for diffusion-based image generation. ControlNet, the SOTA for depth-conditioned image generation, produces remarkable results but relies on having access to detailed depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Shariq Farooq Bhat , Niloy J. Mitra , Peter Wonka

Reward-based fine-tuning of video diffusion models is an effective approach to improve the quality of generated videos, as it can fine-tune models without requiring real-world video datasets. However, it can sometimes be limited to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Takehiro Aoshima , Yusuke Shinohara , Byeongseon Park