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We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wanchang Yu , Qing Zhang , Rongjia Zheng , Wei-Shi Zheng

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained neural network numerous times to obtain the final output,…

Diffusion models have established new state of the art in a multitude of computer vision tasks, including image restoration. Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers generate reconstructions of exceptional visual quality from heavily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

We infer and generate three-dimensional (3D) scene information from a single input image and without supervision. This problem is under-explored, with most prior work relying on supervision from, e.g., 3D ground-truth, multiple images of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Sai Rajeswar , Fahim Mannan , Florian Golemo , Jérôme Parent-Lévesque , David Vazquez , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Aaron Courville

We exploit a key result from visual psychophysics---that individuals perceive shape qualitatively---to develop the use of a geometrical/topological "invariant'' (the Morse--Smale complex) relating image structure with surface structure.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Benjamin S. Kunsberg , Steven W. Zucker

Diffusion models have found valuable applications in anomaly detection by capturing the nominal data distribution and identifying anomalies via reconstruction. Despite their merits, they struggle to localize anomalies of varying scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Justin Tebbe , Jawad Tayyub

Recently, diffusion models have achieved great success in image synthesis. However, when it comes to the layout-to-image generation where an image often has a complex scene of multiple objects, how to make strong control over both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Guangcong Zheng , Xianpan Zhou , Xuewei Li , Zhongang Qi , Ying Shan , Xi Li

Generative modeling of 3D human bodies have been studied extensively in computer vision. The core is to design a compact latent representation that is both expressive and semantically interpretable, yet existing approaches struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Haorui Ji , Rong Wang , Taojun Lin , Hongdong Li

Given a single image of a 3D object, this paper proposes a novel method (named ConsistNet) that is able to generate multiple images of the same object, as if seen they are captured from different viewpoints, while the 3D (multi-view)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jiayu Yang , Ziang Cheng , Yunfei Duan , Pan Ji , Hongdong Li

Diffusion-driven patterns appear on curved surfaces in many settings, initiated by unstable modes of an underlying Laplacian operator. On a flat surface or perfect sphere, the patterns are degenerate, reflecting translational/rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Leyna Shackleton

Stable Diffusion is a popular Transformer-based model for image generation from text; it applies an image information creator to the input text and the visual knowledge is added in a step-by-step fashion to create an image that corresponds…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Zhen Gao , Lini Yuan , Pedro Reviriego , Shanshan Liu , Fabrizio Lombardi

Recent advances in 3D deep learning have shown that it is possible to train highly effective deep models for 3D shape generation, directly from 2D images. This is particularly interesting since the availability of 3D models is still limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Shichen Liu , Shunsuke Saito , Weikai Chen , Hao Li

The task of 3D shape captioning occupies a significant place within the domain of computer graphics and has garnered considerable interest in recent years. Traditional approaches to this challenge frequently depend on the utilization of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenyu Shu , Jiawei Wen , Shiyang Li , Shiqing Xin , Ligang Liu

We present a unified framework tackling two problems: class-specific 3D reconstruction from a single image, and generation of new 3D shape samples. These tasks have received considerable attention recently; however, existing approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Paul Henderson , Vittorio Ferrari

Generating realistic shadows for inserted objects requires reasoning about scene geometry and illumination. However, most existing methods operate purely in image space, leaving the physical relationship between objects, lighting, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shilin Hu , Jingyi Xu , Akshat Dave , Dimitris Samaras , Hieu Le

The lack of spatial dimensional information remains a challenge in normal estimation from a single image. Recent diffusion-based methods have demonstrated significant potential in 2D-to-3D implicit mapping, they rely on data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yanxing Liang , Yinghui Wang , Jinlong Yang , Wei Li

3D human pose estimation from 2D images is a challenging problem due to depth ambiguity and occlusion. Because of these challenges the task is underdetermined, where there exists multiple -- possibly infinite -- poses that are plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Francis Snelgar , Ming Xu , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng , Akshay Asthana

Current Structure-from-Motion (SfM) methods typically follow a two-stage pipeline, combining learned or geometric pairwise reasoning with a subsequent global optimization step. In contrast, we propose a data-driven multi-view reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Qitao Zhao , Amy Lin , Jeff Tan , Jason Y. Zhang , Deva Ramanan , Shubham Tulsiani

In this paper, we tackle a new task of 3D object synthesis, where a 3D model is composited with another object category to create a novel 3D model. However, most existing text/image/3D-to-3D methods struggle to effectively integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zeren Xiong , Zikun Chen , Zedong Zhang , Xiang Li , Ying Tai , Jian Yang , Jun Li

Multi-spectral image stitching leverages the complementarity between infrared and visible images to generate a robust and reliable wide field-of-view (FOV) scene. The primary challenge of this task is to explore the relations between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zhiying Jiang , Zengxi Zhang , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu