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Segmentation masks of pathological areas are useful in many medical applications, such as brain tumour and stroke management. Moreover, healthy counterfactuals of diseased images can be used to enhance radiologists' training files and to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Alessandro Fontanella , Grant Mair , Joanna Wardlaw , Emanuele Trucco , Amos Storkey

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, including cardiac MR, is prone to domain shift due to variations in imaging devices and acquisition protocols. This challenge limits the deployment of trained AI models in real-world scenarios, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xin Ci Wong , Duygu Sarikaya , Kieran Zucker , Marc De Kamps , Nishant Ravikumar

The scarcity of large-scale palmprint databases poses a significant bottleneck to advancements in contactless palmprint recognition. To address this, researchers have turned to synthetic data generation. While Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Steven A. Grosz , Anil K. Jain

Deep learning in cardiac MRI (CMR) is fundamentally constrained by both data scarcity and privacy regulations. This study systematically benchmarks three generative architectures: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM), Latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Madhura Edirisooriya , Dasuni Kawya , Ishan Kumarasinghe , Isuri Devindi , Mary M. Maleckar , Roshan Ragel , Isuru Nawinne , Vajira Thambawita

Diffusion models have recently exhibited remarkable abilities to synthesize striking image samples since the introduction of denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs). Their key idea is to disrupt images into noise through a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zijian Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Jun Yu , Qi Tian

Diffusion models (DMs) are a type of generative model that has a huge impact on image synthesis and beyond. They achieve state-of-the-art generation results in various generative tasks. A great diversity of conditioning inputs, such as text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Weiguo Lu , Xuan Wu , Deng Ding , Jinqiao Duan , Jirong Zhuang , Gangnan Yuan

The increased demand for 3D data in AR/VR, robotics and gaming applications, gave rise to powerful generative pipelines capable of synthesizing high-quality 3D objects. Most of these models rely on the Score Distillation Sampling (SDS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ziyu Wan , Despoina Paschalidou , Ian Huang , Hongyu Liu , Bokui Shen , Xiaoyu Xiang , Jing Liao , Leonidas Guibas

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging technology provides the unique advantage of being able to collect data regardless of weather conditions and time. However, SAR images exhibit complex backscatter patterns and speckle noise, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Seon-Hoon Kim , Dae-Won Chung

Diffusion models are at the vanguard of generative AI research with renowned solutions such as ImageGen by Google Brain and DALL.E 3 by OpenAI. Nevertheless, the potential merits of diffusion models for communication engineering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

As a new emerging and promising type of generative models, diffusion models have proven to outperform Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in multiple tasks, including image synthesis. In this work, we explore semantic image synthesis for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yan Zhuang , Benjamin Hou , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Pritam Mukherjee , Boah Kim , Ronald M. Summers

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have demonstrated substantial promise in image generation tasks but heavily rely on the availability of large amounts of training data. Previous works, like GANs, have tackled the limited data problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xiyu Wang , Baijiong Lin , Daochang Liu , Chang Xu

Conditional image synthesis based on user-specified requirements is a key component in creating complex visual content. In recent years, diffusion-based generative modeling has become a highly effective way for conditional image synthesis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zheyuan Zhan , Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Zhenghe Zhao , Jiawei Chen , Chun Chen , Siwei Lyu , Can Wang

The purpose of this study is to present and compare three denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) that generate 3D $T_1$-weighted MRI human brain images. Three DDPMs were trained using 80,675 image volumes from 42,406 subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Samuel W. Remedios , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince , Blake E. Dewey

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in photo-realistic image synthesis, but their adaptation to LiDAR scene generation poses a substantial hurdle. This is primarily because DMs operating in the point space struggle to preserve the curve-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Haoxi Ran , Vitor Guizilini , Yue Wang

Detecting fake images is becoming a major goal of computer vision. This need is becoming more and more pressing with the continuous improvement of synthesis methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), and even more with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Riccardo Corvi , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Koki Nagano , Luisa Verdoliva

The Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) has emerged as a highly effective generative model in the field of computer vision. Its intermediate latent vectors offer rich semantic information, making it an attractive option for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Haipeng Zhou , Lei Zhu , Yuyin Zhou

Continuous Conditional Generative Modeling (CCGM) estimates high-dimensional data distributions, such as images, conditioned on scalar continuous variables (aka regression labels). While Continuous Conditional Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xin Ding , Yongwei Wang , Kao Zhang , Z. Jane Wang

Phase unwrapping is a fundamental problem in InSAR data processing, supporting geophysical applications such as deformation monitoring and hazard assessment. Its reliability is limited by noise and decorrelation in radar acquisitions, which…

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have achieved significant success in generative tasks. However, their training and sampling processes suffer from the issue of distribution mismatch. During the denoising process, the input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zekun Wang , Mingyang Yi , Shuchen Xue , Zhenguo Li , Ming Liu , Bing Qin , Zhi-Ming Ma

Semantic image synthesis, i.e., generating images from user-provided semantic label maps, is an important conditional image generation task as it allows to control both the content as well as the spatial layout of generated images. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tariq Berrada , Jakob Verbeek , Camille Couprie , Karteek Alahari