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Adapting pretrained image-based diffusion models to generate temporally consistent videos has become an impactful generative modeling research direction. Training-free noise-space manipulation has proven to be an effective technique, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yitong Deng , Winnie Lin , Lingxiao Li , Dmitriy Smirnov , Ryan Burgert , Ning Yu , Vincent Dedun , Mohammad H. Taghavi

Video denoising aims at removing noise from videos to recover clean ones. Some existing works show that optical flow can help the denoising by exploiting the additional spatial-temporal clues from nearby frames. However, the flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jiezhang Cao , Qin Wang , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Blind image restoration remains a significant challenge in low-level vision tasks. Recently, denoising diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis. Guided diffusion models, leveraging the potent generative priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jun Xiao , Zihang Lyu , Hao Xie , Cong Zhang , Yakun Ju , Changjian Shui , Kin-Man Lam

Continually learning in the real world must overcome many challenges, among which noisy labels are a common and inevitable issue. In this work, we present a repla-ybased continual learning framework that simultaneously addresses both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Chris Dongjoo Kim , Jinseo Jeong , Sangwoo Moon , Gunhee Kim

Diffusion models have shown tremendous results in image generation. However, due to the iterative nature of the diffusion process and its reliance on classifier-free guidance, inference times are slow. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yi-Ting Hsiao , Siavash Khodadadeh , Kevin Duarte , Wei-An Lin , Hui Qu , Mingi Kwon , Ratheesh Kalarot

Guided diffusion sampling relies on approximating often intractable likelihood scores, which introduces significant noise into the sampling dynamics. We propose using adaptive moment estimation to stabilize these noisy likelihood scores…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Christian Belardi , Justin Lovelace , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Carla P. Gomes

Diffusion models have shown exceptional scaling properties in the image synthesis domain, and initial attempts have shown similar benefits for applying diffusion to unconditional text synthesis. Denoising diffusion models attempt to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Matthew Baas , Kevin Eloff , Herman Kamper

Modern video generators still struggle with complex physical dynamics, often falling short of physical realism. Existing approaches address this using external verifiers or additional training on augmented data, which is computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sangwon Jang , Taekyung Ki , Jaehyeong Jo , Saining Xie , Jaehong Yoon , Sung Ju Hwang

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is an image reconstruction framework that uses an image denoiser as an imaging prior. Unlike traditional regularized inversion, PnP does not require the prior to be expressible in the form of a regularization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Xiaojian Xu , Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Image generation and editing have seen a great deal of advancements with the rise of large-scale diffusion models that allow user control of different modalities such as text, mask, depth maps, etc. However, controlled editing of videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 AmirHossein Zamani , Amir G. Aghdam , Tiberiu Popa , Eugene Belilovsky

Image noise modeling is a long-standing problem with many applications in computer vision. Early attempts that propose simple models, such as signal-independent additive white Gaussian noise or the heteroscedastic Gaussian noise model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Ali Maleky , Shayan Kousha , Michael S. Brown , Marcus A. Brubaker

Recent frameworks, such as the so-called plug-and-play, allow us to leverage the developments in image denoising to tackle other, and more involved, problems in image processing. As the name suggests, state-of-the-art denoisers are plugged…

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The inherent ill-posed nature of image reconstruction problems, due to limitations in the physical acquisition process, is typically addressed by introducing a regularisation term that incorporates prior knowledge about the underlying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Naïl Khelifa , Ferdia Sherry , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The development of diffusion-based generative models over the past decade has largely proceeded independently of progress in representation learning. These diffusion models typically rely on regression-based objectives and generally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Runqian Wang , Kaiming He

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Many recent works utilize denoising score matching to optimize the conditional input of diffusion models. In this workshop paper, we demonstrate that such optimization breaks the equivalence between denoising score matching and exact score…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Tongda Xu

During the acquisition of an image from its source, noise always becomes an integral part of it. Various algorithms have been used in past to denoise the images. Image denoising still has scope for improvement. Visual information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Santosh Paudel , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Pradip Singh Maharjan , Rameshwar Rijal

One key ingredient of image restoration is to define a realistic prior on clean images to complete the missing information in the observation. State-of-the-art restoration methods rely on a neural network to encode this prior. Typical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Marien Renaud , Eliot Guez , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Video restoration and enhancement are critical not only for improving visual quality, but also as essential pre-processing steps to boost the performance of a wide range of downstream computer vision tasks. This survey presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Alexandra Malyugina , Yini Li , Joanne Lin , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Noise is a major issue while transferring images through all kinds of electronic communication. One of the most common noise in electronic communication is an impulse noise which is caused by unstable voltage. In this paper, the comparison…

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