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Diffusion models have advanced generative AI significantly in terms of editing and creating naturalistic images. However, efficiently improving generated image quality is still of paramount interest. In this context, we propose a generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Aniket Roy , Maiterya Suin , Anshul Shah , Ketul Shah , Jiang Liu , Rama Chellappa

Existing dehazing methods deal with real-world haze images with difficulty, especially scenes with thick haze. One of the main reasons is the lack of real-world paired data and robust priors. To avoid the costly collection of paired hazy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Bing Liu , Le Wang , Mingming Liu , Hao Liu , Rui Yao , Yong Zhou , Peng Liu , Tongqiang Xia

Diffusion-based image generators can now produce high-quality and diverse samples, but their success has yet to fully translate to 3D generation: existing diffusion methods can either generate low-resolution but 3D consistent outputs, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Animesh Karnewar , Niloy J. Mitra , Andrea Vedaldi , David Novotny

Diffusion-based methodologies have shown significant potential in blind face restoration (BFR), leveraging their robust generative capabilities. However, they are often criticized for two significant problems: 1) slow training and inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ziying Zhang , Xiang Gao , Zhixin Wang , Qiang hu , Xiaoyun Zhang

The emergence of text-to-image generation models has led to the recognition that image enhancement, performed as post-processing, would significantly improve the visual quality of the generated images. Exploring diffusion models to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yang Luo , Yiheng Zhang , Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Zhineng Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Tao Mei

Retinal fundus images have been applied for the diagnosis and screening of eye diseases, such as Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) or Diabetic Macular Edema (DME). However, both low-quality fundus images and style inconsistency potentially increase…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Qingshan Hou , Peng Cao , Jiaqi Wang , Xiaoli Liu , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar R. Zaiane

Fundus photography is indispensable for clinical detection and management of eye diseases. Limited image contrast and field of view (FOV) are common limitations of conventional fundus cameras, making it difficult to detect subtle…

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

Fundus photography (FP) remains the primary imaging modality in screening various retinal diseases including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. FP allows the clinician to examine the ocular fundus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Shanmukh Reddy Manne , Jose-Alain Sahel , Jay Chhablani , Kiran Kumar Vupparaboinab , Soumya Jana

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides crucial insights into the microstructure of the human brain, but it can be time-consuming to acquire compared to more readily available T1-weighted (T1w) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shaorong Zhang , Tamoghna Chattopadhyay , Sophia I. Thomopoulos , Jose-Luis Ambite , Paul M. Thompson , Greg Ver Steeg

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable performance of diffusion models in various vision tasks. However, for image restoration that aims to recover clear images with sharper details from given degraded observations, diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Liyan Wang , Qinyu Yang , Cong Wang , Wei Wang , Jinshan Pan , Zhixun Su

Fundus photography is a routine examination in clinics to diagnose and monitor ocular diseases. However, for cataract patients, the fundus image always suffers quality degradation caused by the clouding lens. The degradation prevents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Heng Li , Haofeng Liu , Huazhu Fu , Hai Shu , Yitian Zhao , Xiaoling Luo , Yan Hu , Jiang Liu

Diffusion models demonstrate remarkable capabilities in capturing complex data distributions and have achieved compelling results in many generative tasks. While they have recently been extended to dense prediction tasks such as depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haorui Ji , Taojun Lin , Hongdong Li

Existing unsupervised low-light image enhancement methods lack enough effectiveness and generalization in practical applications. We suppose this is because of the absence of explicit supervision and the inherent gap between real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shuzhou Yang , Xuanyu Zhang , Yinhuai Wang , Jiwen Yu , Yuhan Wang , Jian Zhang

Despite significant advances in modeling image priors via diffusion models, 3D-aware image editing remains challenging, in part because the object is only specified via a single image. To tackle this challenge, we propose 3D-Fixup, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yen-Chi Cheng , Krishna Kumar Singh , Jae Shin Yoon , Alex Schwing , Liangyan Gui , Matheus Gadelha , Paul Guerrero , Nanxuan Zhao

3D scene reconstruction under unposed sparse viewpoints is a highly challenging yet practically important problem, especially in outdoor scenes due to complex lighting and scale variation. With extremely limited input views, directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Beizhen Zhao , Sicheng Yu , Guanzhi Ding , Yu Hu , Hao Wang

For medical diagnosis based on retinal images, a clear understanding of 3D structure is often required but due to the 2D nature of images captured, we cannot infer that information. However, by utilizing 3D reconstruction methods, we can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Peyman Tahghighi , Reza A. Zoroofi , Sare Safi , Alireza Ramezani

Image Restoration (IR) methods based on a pre-trained diffusion model have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, they have two fundamental limitations: 1) they often assume that the degradation operator is completely known and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hamadi Chihaoui , Abdelhak Lemkhenter , Paolo Favaro

We introduce a new technique for generating retinal fundus images that have anatomically accurate vascular structures, using diffusion models. We generate artery/vein masks to create the vascular structure, which we then condition to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Sojung Go , Younghoon Ji , Sang Jun Park , Soochahn Lee

Color plays an important role in human visual perception, reflecting the spectrum of objects. However, the existing infrared and visible image fusion methods rarely explore how to handle multi-spectral/channel data directly and achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jun Yue , Leyuan Fang , Shaobo Xia , Yue Deng , Jiayi Ma