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Classifier guidance -- using the gradients of an image classifier to steer the generations of a diffusion model -- has the potential to dramatically expand the creative control over image generation and editing. However, currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Bram Wallace , Akash Gokul , Stefano Ermon , Nikhil Naik

Diffusion models offer unprecedented image generation power given just a text prompt. While emerging approaches for controlling diffusion models have enabled users to specify the desired spatial layouts of the generated content, they cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yunxiang Zhang , Nan Wu , Connor Z. Lin , Gordon Wetzstein , Qi Sun

Text-conditioned image generation models have recently achieved astonishing results in image quality and text alignment and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. Since they are highly data-driven, relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Patrick Schramowski , Manuel Brack , Björn Deiseroth , Kristian Kersting

Text-to-image generation has witnessed significant progress with the advent of diffusion models. Despite the ability to generate photorealistic images, current text-to-image diffusion models still often struggle to accurately interpret and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Tsung-Han Wu , Long Lian , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Boyi Li , Trevor Darrell

Recent advancements in diffusion models have notably improved the perceptual quality of generated images in text-to-image synthesis tasks. However, diffusion models often struggle to produce images that accurately reflect the intended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yang Zhang , Teoh Tze Tzun , Lim Wei Hern , Tiviatis Sim , Kenji Kawaguchi

Saliency prediction models are constrained by the limited diversity and quantity of labeled data. Standard data augmentation techniques such as rotating and cropping alter scene composition, affecting saliency. We propose a novel data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Bahar Aydemir , Deblina Bhattacharjee , Tong Zhang , Mathieu Salzmann , Sabine Süsstrunk

One major branch of saliency object detection methods is diffusion-based which construct a graph model on a given image and diffuse seed saliency values to the whole graph by a diffusion matrix. While their performance is sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Peng Jiang , Zhiyi Pan , Nuno Vasconcelos , Baoquan Chen , Jingliang Peng

Flow matching and diffusion models have shown impressive results in text-to-image generation, producing photorealistic images through an iterative denoising process. A common strategy to speed up synthesis is to perform early denoising at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jyun-Ze Tang , Chih-Fan Hsu , Jeng-Lin Li , Ming-Ching Chang , Wei-Chao Chen

Proper guidance strategies are essential to achieve high-quality generation results without retraining diffusion and flow-based text-to-image models. Existing guidance either requires specific training or strong inductive biases of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tiancheng Li , Weijian Luo , Zhiyang Chen , Liyuan Ma , Guo-Jun Qi

Based on recent advanced diffusion models, Text-to-image (T2I) generation models have demonstrated their capabilities to generate diverse and high-quality images. However, leveraging their potential for real-world content creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Sandra Zhang Ding , Jiafeng Mao , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Existing text-to-image diffusion models struggle to synthesize realistic images given dense captions, where each text prompt provides a detailed description for a specific image region. To address this, we propose DenseDiffusion, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Jun-Yan Zhu

Previous text-to-image diffusion models typically employ supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to enhance pre-trained base models. However, this approach primarily minimizes the loss of mean squared error (MSE) at the pixel level, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Liang Peng , Boxi Wu , Haoran Cheng , Yibo Zhao , Xiaofei He

This paper introduces the first gradient-based framework for prompt optimization in text-to-image diffusion models. We formulate prompt engineering as a discrete optimization problem over the language space. Two major challenges arise in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ruochen Wang , Ting Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Boqing Gong

Controllable image synthesis with user scribbles has gained huge public interest with the recent advent of text-conditioned latent diffusion models. The user scribbles control the color composition while the text prompt provides control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jaskirat Singh , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

Diffusion models have demonstrated empirical successes in various applications and can be adapted to task-specific needs via guidance. This paper studies a form of gradient guidance for adapting a pre-trained diffusion model towards…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-17 Yingqing Guo , Hui Yuan , Yukang Yang , Minshuo Chen , Mengdi Wang

The advent of open-source AI communities has produced a cornucopia of powerful text-guided diffusion models that are trained on various datasets. While few explorations have been conducted on ensembling such models to combine their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jing Zhao , Heliang Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Long Lan , Wenjing Yang

With the advancements in denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), image inpainting has significantly evolved from merely filling information based on nearby regions to generating content conditioned on various prompts such as text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Lingzhi Pan , Tong Zhang , Bingyuan Chen , Qi Zhou , Wei Ke , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Recent text-to-image diffusion models can generate striking visuals from text prompts, but they often fail to maintain subject consistency across generations and contexts. One major limitation of current fine-tuning approaches is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gordon Chen , Ziqi Huang , Cheston Tan , Ziwei Liu

Diffusion models have demonstrated high-quality performance in conditional text-to-image generation, particularly with structural cues such as edges, layouts, and depth. However, lighting conditions have received limited attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ryugo Morita , Stanislav Frolov , Brian Bernhard Moser , Ko Watanabe , Riku Takahashi , Andreas Dengel

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art image generation. However, the random Gaussian noise used to start the diffusion process influences the final output, causing variations in image quality and prompt adherence. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Harvey Mannering , Zhiwu Huang , Adam Prugel-Bennett
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