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Generating desired images conditioned on given text descriptions has received lots of attention. Recently, diffusion models and autoregressive models have demonstrated their outstanding expressivity and gradually replaced GAN as the favored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Xiaozhou You , Jian Zhang

Diffusion-based image compression has recently shown outstanding perceptual fidelity, yet its practicality is hindered by prohibitive sampling overhead and high memory usage. Most existing diffusion codecs employ U-Net architectures, where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Junqi Shi , Ming Lu , Xingchen Li , Anle Ke , Ruiqi Zhang , Zhan Ma

Training Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) on high-fidelity images usually requires large-scale GPU-clusters and a vast number of training images. In this paper, we study the few-shot image synthesis task for GAN with minimum computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Bingchen Liu , Yizhe Zhu , Kunpeng Song , Ahmed Elgammal

We present Wan-Image, a unified visual generation system explicitly engineered to paradigm-shift image generation models from casual synthesizers into professional-grade productivity tools. While contemporary diffusion models excel at…

Diffusion models have shown strong capabilities in generating high-quality images from text prompts. However, these models often require large-scale training data and significant computational resources to train, or suffer from heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Tong Shen , Jingai Yu , Dong Zhou , Dong Li , Emad Barsoum

In this paper, we present Diffusion-4K, a novel framework for direct ultra-high-resolution image synthesis using text-to-image diffusion models. The core advancements include: (1) Aesthetic-4K Benchmark: addressing the absence of a publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jinjin Zhang , Qiuyu Huang , Junjie Liu , Xiefan Guo , Di Huang

Diffusion models struggle to scale beyond their training resolutions, as direct high-resolution sampling is slow and costly, while post-hoc image super-resolution (ISR) introduces artifacts and additional latency by operating after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Aleksandr Razin , Danil Kazantsev , Ilya Makarov

The recent use of diffusion prior, enhanced by pre-trained text-image models, has markedly elevated the performance of image super-resolution (SR). To alleviate the huge computational cost required by pixel-based diffusion SR, latent-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Feng Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Jun Zhang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang

We present a new perspective of achieving image synthesis by viewing this task as a visual token generation problem. Different from existing paradigms that directly synthesize a full image from a single input (e.g., a latent code), the new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Yanhong Zeng , Huan Yang , Hongyang Chao , Jianbo Wang , Jianlong Fu

Text-to-image synthesis has recently seen significant progress thanks to large pretrained language models, large-scale training data, and the introduction of scalable model families such as diffusion and autoregressive models. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Axel Sauer , Tero Karras , Samuli Laine , Andreas Geiger , Timo Aila

We propose a new approach for high resolution semantic image synthesis. It consists of one base image generator and multiple class-specific generators. The base generator generates high quality images based on a segmentation map. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yuheng Li , Yijun Li , Jingwan Lu , Eli Shechtman , Yong Jae Lee , Krishna Kumar Singh

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

The intensive computational burden of Stable Diffusion (SD) for text-to-image generation poses a significant hurdle for its practical application. To tackle this challenge, recent research focuses on methods to reduce sampling steps, such…

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Huan Ling , Tim Dockhorn , Seung Wook Kim , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Modern ultra-high-resolution image synthesis relies heavily on the robust generative capacity of large-scale pre-trained Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs). While recent representation alignment methods have proven effective by distilling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jinjin Zhang , Xiefan Guo , Di Huang

This paper presents an energy-efficient stable diffusion processor for text-to-image generation. While stable diffusion attained attention for high-quality image synthesis results, its inherent characteristics hinder its deployment on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jiwon Choi , Wooyoung Jo , Seongyon Hong , Beomseok Kwon , Wonhoon Park , Hoi-Jun Yoo

Generative models have become a powerful tool for synthesizing training data in computer vision tasks. Current approaches solely focus on aligning generated images with the target dataset distribution. As a result, they capture only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Zerun Wang , Jiafeng Mao , Xueting Wang , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Text-to-image synthesis refers to generating visual-realistic and semantically consistent images from given textual descriptions. Previous approaches generate an initial low-resolution image and then refine it to be high-resolution. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Haoran Sun , Yang Wang , Haipeng Liu , Biao Qian

Synthesizing high-quality realistic images from text descriptions is a challenging task. Existing text-to-image Generative Adversarial Networks generally employ a stacked architecture as the backbone yet still remain three flaws. First, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ming Tao , Hao Tang , Fei Wu , Xiao-Yuan Jing , Bing-Kun Bao , Changsheng Xu

Diffusion models have emerged as frontrunners in text-to-image generation, but their fixed image resolution during training often leads to challenges in high-resolution image generation, such as semantic deviations and object replication.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Haoning Wu , Shaocheng Shen , Qiang Hu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang