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Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zijie Li , Henry Li , Yichun Shi , Amir Barati Farimani , Yuval Kluger , Linjie Yang , Peng Wang

The body movements accompanying speech aid speakers in expressing their ideas. Co-speech motion generation is one of the important approaches for synthesizing realistic avatars. Due to the intricate correspondence between speech and motion,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Sen Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Xin Tan , Zhifeng Xie , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Existing multi-modal image fusion methods fail to address the compound degradations presented in source images, resulting in fusion images plagued by noise, color bias, improper exposure, \textit{etc}. Additionally, these methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hao Zhang , Lei Cao , Jiayi Ma

In medical imaging, the diffusion models have shown great potential for synthetic image generation tasks. However, these approaches often lack the interpretable connections between the generated and real images and can create anatomically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Jian-Qing Zheng , Yuanhan Mo , Yang Sun , Jiahua Li , Fuping Wu , Ziyang Wang , Tonia Vincent , Bartłomiej W. Papież

Urban profiling aims to predict urban profiles in unknown regions and plays a critical role in economic and social censuses. Existing approaches typically follow a two-stage paradigm: first, learning representations of urban areas; second,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ruixing Zhang , Bo Wang , Tongyu Zhu , Leilei Sun , Weifeng Lv

Hands are central to interacting with our surroundings and conveying gestures, making their inclusion essential for full-body motion synthesis. Despite this, existing human motion synthesis methods fall short: some ignore hand motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Enes Duran , Nikos Athanasiou , Muhammed Kocabas , Michael J. Black , Omid Taheri

The recent popularity of text-to-image diffusion models (DM) can largely be attributed to the intuitive interface they provide to users. The intended generation can be expressed in natural language, with the model producing faithful…

Achieving machine autonomy and human control often represent divergent objectives in the design of interactive AI systems. Visual generative foundation models such as Stable Diffusion show promise in navigating these goals, especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Can Qin , Shu Zhang , Ning Yu , Yihao Feng , Xinyi Yang , Yingbo Zhou , Huan Wang , Juan Carlos Niebles , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese , Stefano Ermon , Yun Fu , Ran Xu

Urban development has been a defining force in human history, shaping cities for centuries. However, past studies mostly analyze such development as predictive tasks, failing to reflect its generative nature. Therefore, this study designs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kailai Sun , Yuebing Liang , Mingyi He , Yunhan Zheng , Alok Prakash , Shenhao Wang , Jinhua Zhao , Alex "Sandy'' Pentland

We present FreeMorph, the first tuning-free method for image morphing that accommodates inputs with different semantics or layouts. Unlike existing methods that rely on finetuning pre-trained diffusion models and are limited by time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yukang Cao , Chenyang Si , Jinghao Wang , Ziwei Liu

In controllable generation tasks, flexibly manipulating the generated images to attain a desired appearance or structure based on a single input image cue remains a critical and longstanding challenge. Achieving this requires the effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xi Wang , Yichen Peng , Heng Fang , Yilin Wang , Haoran Xie , Xi Yang , Chuntao Li

Controllable generation is considered a potentially vital approach to address the challenge of annotating 3D data, and the precision of such controllable generation becomes particularly imperative in the context of data production for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jinhua Zhang , Hualian Sheng , Sijia Cai , Bing Deng , Qiao Liang , Wen Li , Ying Fu , Jieping Ye , Shuhang Gu

Diffusion models arise as a powerful generative tool recently. Despite the great progress, existing diffusion models mainly focus on uni-modal control, i.e., the diffusion process is driven by only one modality of condition. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Ziqi Huang , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yuming Jiang , Ziwei Liu

Text-to-image generation has made remarkable progress with the emergence of diffusion models. However, it is still a difficult task to generate images for street views based on text, mainly because the road topology of street scenes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Jinming Su , Songen Gu , Yiting Duan , Xingyue Chen , Junfeng Luo

Generative AI is revolutionizing engineering design practices by enabling rapid prototyping and manipulation of designs. One example of design manipulation involves taking two reference design images and using them as prompts to generate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yan-Ying Chen , Nikos Arechiga , Chenyang Yuan , Matthew Hong , Matt Klenk , Charlene Wu

This paper introduces innovative solutions to enhance spatial controllability in diffusion models reliant on text queries. We first introduce vision guidance as a foundational spatial cue within the perturbed distribution. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zipeng Qi , Guoxi Huang , Chenyang Liu , Fei Ye

Data condensation techniques aim to synthesize a compact dataset from a larger one to enable efficient model training, yet while successful in unimodal settings, they often fail in multimodal scenarios where preserving intricate inter-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yue Min , Shaobo Wang , Jiaze Li , Tianle Niu , Junxin Fan , Yongliang Miao , Lijin Yang , Linfeng Zhang

Generating consistent human images with controllable pose and appearance is essential for applications in virtual try on, image editing, and digital human creation. Current methods often suffer from occlusions, garment style drift, and pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ziyu Shang , Haoran Liu , Rongchao Zhang , Zhiqian Wei , Tongtong Feng

Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Recent unified image generation models have achieved remarkable success by employing MLLMs for semantic understanding and diffusion backbones for image generation. However, these models remain fundamentally limited in spatially-aware tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Haiyi Qiu , Kaihang Pan , Jiacheng Li , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang