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Data augmentation is one of the most prevalent tools in deep learning, underpinning many recent advances, including those from classification, generative models, and representation learning. The standard approach to data augmentation…

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Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

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AI fairness seeks to improve the transparency and explainability of AI systems by ensuring that their outcomes genuinely reflect the best interests of users. Data augmentation, which involves generating synthetic data from existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Christina Hastings Blow , Lijun Qian , Camille Gibson , Pamela Obiomon , Xishuang Dong

Synthetically augmenting training datasets with diffusion models has become an effective strategy for improving the generalization of image classifiers. However, existing approaches typically increase dataset size by 10-30x and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dang Nguyen , Jiping Li , Jinghao Zheng , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

When task-specific labels are not available, it becomes difficult to select an embedding model for a specific target corpus. Existing labelless measures based on kernel estimators or Gaussian mixes fail in high-dimensional space, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jingzhou Jiang , Yixuan Tang , Yi Yang , Kar Yan Tam

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved significant success in generating imaginative images given textual descriptions. However, they are likely to fall short when it comes to real-life scenarios with intricate details. The low-quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhenyi Liao , Qingsong Xie , Chen Chen , Hannan Lu , Zhijie Deng

Data augmentation is one of the most common tools in deep learning, underpinning many recent advances including tasks such as classification, detection, and semantic segmentation. The standard approach to data augmentation involves simple…

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The challenge in fine-grained visual categorization lies in how to explore the subtle differences between different subclasses and achieve accurate discrimination. Previous research has relied on large-scale annotated data and pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Tianxu Wu , Shuo Ye , Shuhuang Chen , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for tackling ill-posed problems, with recent advancements extending their use to point cloud upsampling. Despite their potential, existing diffusion models struggle with inefficiencies as they map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Lei Li

Despite diffusion models' superior capabilities in modeling complex distributions, there are still non-trivial distributional discrepancies between generated and ground-truth images, which has resulted in several notable problems in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yujian Liu , Yang Zhang , Tommi Jaakkola , Shiyu Chang

The fast evolution of generative models has heightened the demand for reliable detection of AI-generated images. To tackle this challenge, we introduce FUSE, a hybrid system that combines spectral features extracted through Fast Fourier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Md. Zahid Hossain , Most. Sharmin Sultana Samu , Md. Kamrozzaman Bhuiyan , Farhad Uz Zaman , Md. Rakibul Islam

Data augmentation for domain-specific image classification tasks often struggles to simultaneously address diversity, faithfulness, and label clarity of generated data, leading to suboptimal performance in downstream tasks. While existing…

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It is well known the adversarial optimization of GAN-based image super-resolution (SR) methods makes the preceding SR model generate unpleasant and undesirable artifacts, leading to large distortion. We attribute the cause of such…

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Image enhancement holds extensive applications in real-world scenarios due to complex environments and limitations of imaging devices. Conventional methods are often constrained by their tailored models, resulting in diminished robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yixuan Zhu , Wenliang Zhao , Ao Li , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Reinforcement learning fine-tuning has become the dominant approach for aligning diffusion models with human preferences. However, assessing images is intrinsically a multi-dimensional task, and multiple evaluation criteria need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Canyu Zhao , Hao Chen , Yunze Tong , Yu Qiao , Jiacheng Li , Chunhua Shen

The implementation of fractional differential calculations can give new possibilities for image processing tools, in particular for those that are devoted to astronomical images analysis. As discussed in arxiv:0910.2381, the fractional…

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Modern agricultural operations increasingly rely on integrated monitoring systems that combine multiple data sources for farm optimization. Aerial drone-based animal health monitoring serves as a key component but faces limited data…

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Face recognition systems experience severe performance degradation when processing low-quality forensic evidence imagery. This paper presents an evaluation of latent diffusion-based enhancement for improving face recognition under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hassan Ugail , Hamad Mansour Alawar , AbdulNasser Abbas Zehi , Ahmed Mohammad Alkendi , Ismail Lujain Jaleel

The computational burden of the iterative sampling process remains a major challenge in diffusion-based Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE). Current acceleration methods, whether training-based or training-free, often lead to significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Guanzhou Lan , Qianli Ma , Yuqi Yang , Zhigang Wang , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li , Bin Zhao

Diffusion models excel at modeling complex data distributions, including those of images, proteins, and small molecules. However, in many cases, our goal is to model parts of the distribution that maximize certain properties: for example,…