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Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computational photography, where achieving high perception with low distortion is highly demanding. Current methods either struggle with perceptual quality or suffer from significant distortion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tong Li , Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong , Hua Huang

Classifier-free guidance has become a staple for conditional generation with denoising diffusion models. However, a comprehensive understanding of classifier-free guidance is still missing. In this work, we carry out an empirical study to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaoming Zhao , Alexander G. Schwing

Guidance techniques are simple yet effective for improving conditional generation in diffusion models. Albeit their empirical success, the practical implementation of guidance diverges significantly from its theoretical motivation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhengqi Gao , Kaiwen Zha , Tianyuan Zhang , Zihui Xue , Duane S. Boning

Recent advances in diffusion models attempt to handle conditional generative tasks by utilizing a differentiable loss function for guidance without the need for additional training. While these methods achieved certain success, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Lingxiao Yang , Shutong Ding , Yifan Cai , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang , Ye Shi

Guidance is a widely used technique for diffusion models to enhance sample quality. Technically, guidance is realised by using an auxiliary model that generalises more broadly than the primary model. Using a 2D toy example, we first show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Nikolas Adaloglou , Tim Kaiser , Damir Iagudin , Markus Kollmann

Graph generation is a critical yet challenging task, as empirical analyses require a deep understanding of complex, non-Euclidean structures. Diffusion models have recently made significant advances in graph generation, but these models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yiming Huang , Tolga Birdal

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on fine spatio-temporal scales for high-fidelity solutions is critical for numerous scientific breakthroughs. Yet, this process can be prohibitively expensive, owing to the inherent complexities…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Yulong Lu , Wuzhe Xu

Diffusion models have attracted significant attention due to the remarkable ability to create content and generate data for tasks like image classification. However, the usage of diffusion models to generate the high-quality object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Kai Chen , Enze Xie , Zhe Chen , Yibo Wang , Lanqing Hong , Zhenguo Li , Dit-Yan Yeung

Deploying large, complex policies in the real world requires the ability to steer them to fit the needs of a situation. Most common steering approaches, like goal-conditioning, require training the robot policy with a distribution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Maximilian Du , Shuran Song

In challenging low light and adverse weather conditions,thermal vision algorithms,especially object detection,have exhibited remarkable potential,contrasting with the frequent struggles encountered by visible vision algorithms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Guoqing Zhu , Honghu Pan , Qiang Wang , Chao Tian , Chao Yang , Zhenyu He

Effectively designing molecular geometries is essential to advancing pharmaceutical innovations, a domain, which has experienced great attention through the success of generative models and, in particular, diffusion models. However, current…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-07 Sirine Ayadi , Leon Hetzel , Johanna Sommer , Fabian Theis , Stephan Günnemann

The diffusion model presents a powerful ability to capture the entire (conditional) data distribution. However, due to the lack of sufficient training and data to learn to cover low-probability areas, the model will be penalized for failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xingyu Zhou , Qifan Li , Xiaobin Hu , Hai Chen , Shuhang Gu

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Denoising diffusion models hold great promise for generating diverse and realistic human motions. However, existing motion diffusion models largely disregard the laws of physics in the diffusion process and often generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ye Yuan , Jiaming Song , Umar Iqbal , Arash Vahdat , Jan Kautz

We present GSD, a diffusion model approach based on Gaussian Splatting (GS) representation for 3D object reconstruction from a single view. Prior works suffer from inconsistent 3D geometry or mediocre rendering quality due to improper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yuxuan Mu , Xinxin Zuo , Chuan Guo , Yilin Wang , Juwei Lu , Xiaofeng Wu , Songcen Xu , Peng Dai , Youliang Yan , Li Cheng

The problem of text-guided image generation is a complex task in Computer Vision, with various applications, including creating visually appealing artwork and realistic product images. One popular solution widely used for this task is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Halil Faruk Karagoz , Gulcin Baykal , Irem Arikan Eksi , Gozde Unal

Conventional class-guided diffusion models generally succeed in generating images with correct semantic content, but often struggle with texture details. This limitation stems from the usage of class priors, which only provide coarse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyu Yue , Zidong Wang , Zeyu Lu , Shuyang Sun , Meng Wei , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Luping Zhou

Guided diffusion is a technique for conditioning the output of a diffusion model at sampling time without retraining the network for each specific task. One drawback of diffusion models, however, is their slow sampling process. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Suttisak Wizadwongsa , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Precise geometric control in image generation is essential for engineering \& product design and creative industries to control 3D object features accurately in image space. Traditional 3D editing approaches are time-consuming and demand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Phillip Mueller , Talip Uenlue , Sebastian Schmidt , Marcel Kollovieh , Jiajie Fan , Stephan Guennemann , Lars Mikelsons

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are vital for reliable urban positioning. However, multipath and non-line-of-sight reception often introduce large measurement errors that degrade accuracy. Learning-based methods for predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiaqi Zhu , Shouyi Lu , Ziyao Li , Guirong Zhuo , Lu Xiong