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This work aims to improve the applicability of diffusion models in realistic image restoration. Specifically, we enhance the diffusion model in several aspects such as network architecture, noise level, denoising steps, training image size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Existing face relighting methods often struggle with two problems: maintaining the local facial details of the subject and accurately removing and synthesizing shadows in the relit image, especially hard shadows. We propose a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Andrew Hou , Ze Zhang , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Yiying Tong , Xiaoming Liu

Human facial images encode a rich spectrum of information, encompassing both stable identity-related traits and mutable attributes such as pose, expression, and emotion. While recent advances in image generation have enabled high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kazuaki Mishima , Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic , Kenji Suzuki

Facial attribute classification relies on large-scale annotated datasets in which many traits, such as age and expression, are inherently ambiguous and continuous but are discretized into categorical labels. Annotation inconsistencies arise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Basudha Pal , Rama Chellappa

Face video restoration (FVR) is a challenging but important problem where one seeks to recover a perceptually realistic face videos from a low-quality input. While diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have been shown to achieve remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zihao Zou , Jiaming Liu , Shirin Shoushtari , Yubo Wang , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Novel-view synthesis through diffusion models has demonstrated remarkable potential for generating diverse and high-quality images. Yet, the independent process of image generation in these prevailing methods leads to challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Xianghui Yang , Yan Zuo , Sameera Ramasinghe , Loris Bazzani , Gil Avraham , Anton van den Hengel

Current face reenactment and swapping methods mainly rely on GAN frameworks, but recent focus has shifted to pre-trained diffusion models for their superior generation capabilities. However, training these models is resource-intensive, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yue Han , Junwei Zhu , Keke He , Xu Chen , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Xiangtai Li , Jiangning Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yong Liu

Applications of diffusion models for visual tasks have been quite noteworthy. This paper targets making classification models more robust to occlusions for the task of object recognition by proposing a pipeline that utilizes a frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Rupayan Mallick , Sibo Dong , Nataniel Ruiz , Sarah Adel Bargal

Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting have advanced novel view synthesis, yet still rely on dense inputs and often degrade at extrapolated views. Recent approaches leverage generative models, such as diffusion models, to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hongyu Zhou , Zisen Shao , Sheng Miao , Pan Wang , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu , Yiyi Liao

This paper introduces Comprehensive Relighting, the first all-in-one approach that can both control and harmonize the lighting from an image or video of humans with arbitrary body parts from any scene. Building such a generalizable model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Junying Wang , Jingyuan Liu , Xin Sun , Krishna Kumar Singh , Zhixin Shu , He Zhang , Jimei Yang , Nanxuan Zhao , Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Simon S. Chen , Ulrich Neumann , Jae Shin Yoon

Speech-driven 3D facial animation synthesis has been a challenging task both in industry and research. Recent methods mostly focus on deterministic deep learning methods meaning that given a speech input, the output is always the same.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Stefan Stan , Kazi Injamamul Haque , Zerrin Yumak

Image fusion aims to blend complementary information from multiple sensing modalities, yet existing approaches remain limited in robustness, adaptability, and controllability. Most current fusion networks are tailored to specific tasks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiayang Li , Chengjie Jiang , Junjun Jiang , Pengwei Liang , Jiayi Ma , Liqiang Nie

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao

Makeup transfer aims to apply the makeup style from a reference face to a target face and has been increasingly adopted in practical applications. Existing GAN-based approaches typically rely on carefully designed loss functions to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jian Zhu , Shanyuan Liu , Liuzhuozheng Li , Yue Gong , He Wang , Bo Cheng , Yuhang Ma , Liebucha Wu , Xiaoyu Wu , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin , Yang Xu

Image-to-image translation aims to learn a mapping between a source and a target domain, enabling tasks such as style transfer, appearance transformation, and domain adaptation. In this work, we explore a diffusion-based framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Qiang Zhu , Kuan Lu , Menghao Huo , Yuxiao Li

Generating high-quality 360-degree views of human heads from single-view images is essential for enabling accessible immersive telepresence applications and scalable personalized content creation. While cutting-edge methods for full head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yuming Gu , Phong Tran , Yujian Zheng , Hongyi Xu , Heyuan Li , Adilbek Karmanov , Hao Li

We introduce a framework that enables both multi-view character consistency and 3D camera control in video diffusion models through a novel customization data pipeline. We train the character consistency component with recorded volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yuancheng Xu , Wenqi Xian , Li Ma , Julien Philip , Ahmet Levent Taşel , Yiwei Zhao , Ryan Burgert , Mingming He , Oliver Hermann , Oliver Pilarski , Rahul Garg , Paul Debevec , Ning Yu

Image alignment is a fundamental task in computer vision with broad applications. Existing methods predominantly employ optical flow-based image warping. However, this technique is susceptible to common challenges such as occlusions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xinglong Luo , Ao Luo , Zhengning Wang , Yueqi Yang , Chaoyu Feng , Lei Lei , Bing Zeng , Shuaicheng Liu

Diffusion models recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for recommender systems, offering state-of-the-art performance by modeling the generative process of user-item interactions. However, training such models from scratch is both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yu Hou , Hua Li , Ha Young Kim , Won-Yong Shin

Drivers' visual attention provides critical cues for anticipating latent hazards and directly shapes decision-making and control maneuvers, where its absence can compromise traffic safety. To emulate drivers' perception patterns and advance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Weimin Liu , Qingkun Li , Jiyuan Qiu , Wenjun Wang , Joshua H. Meng