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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…

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Score distillation sampling~(SDS) has been widely adopted to overcome the absence of unseen views in reconstructing 3D objects from a \textbf{single} image. It leverages pre-trained 2D diffusion models as teacher to guide the reconstruction…

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Though the background is an important signal for image classification, over reliance on it can lead to incorrect predictions when spurious correlations between foreground and background are broken at test time. Training on a dataset where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Priyatham Kattakinda , Alexander Levine , Soheil Feizi

We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models. We achieve this on unconditional image synthesis by finding a better architecture through a series of ablations. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Prafulla Dhariwal , Alex Nichol

The limited understanding capacity of the visual encoder in Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a key bottleneck for downstream performance. This capacity includes both Discriminative Ability (D-Ability), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Boyu Han , Qianqian Xu , Shilong Bao , Zhiyong Yang , Ruochen Cui , Xilin Zhao , Qingming Huang

Due to the ease of training, ability to scale, and high sample quality, diffusion models (DMs) have become the preferred option for generative modeling, with numerous pre-trained models available for a wide variety of datasets. Containing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Weijian Luo , Tianyang Hu , Shifeng Zhang , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Zhihua Zhang

Most dataset distillation methods struggle to accommodate large-scale datasets due to their substantial computational and memory requirements. Recent research has begun to explore scalable disentanglement methods. However, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Zhiheng Ma , Anjia Cao , Funing Yang , Yihong Gong , Xing Wei

Guidance serves as a key concept in diffusion models, yet its effectiveness is often limited by the need for extra data annotation or classifier pretraining. That is why guidance was harnessed from self-supervised learning backbones, like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Vincent Tao Hu , Yunlu Chen , Mathilde Caron , Yuki M. Asano , Cees G. M. Snoek , Bjorn Ommer

Long-tailed class imbalance remains a fundamental obstacle in semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote-sensing imagery, where dominant classes shape learned representations and rare classes are systematically under-segmented. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Buddhi Wijenayake , Nichula Wasalathilake , Roshan Godaliyadda , Vijitha Herath , Parakrama Ekanayake , Vishal M. Patel

Many approaches have been proposed to use diffusion models to augment training datasets for downstream tasks, such as classification. However, diffusion models are themselves trained on large datasets, often with noisy annotations, and it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Max F. Burg , Florian Wenzel , Dominik Zietlow , Max Horn , Osama Makansi , Francesco Locatello , Chris Russell

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have emerged as strong visual representation learners by training an image encoder to maximize similarity between features of different views of the same image. To perform this view-invariance task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Varun Belagali , Srikar Yellapragada , Alexandros Graikos , Saarthak Kapse , Zilinghan Li , Tarak Nath Nandi , Ravi K Madduri , Prateek Prasanna , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras

Synthetic image data generation represents a promising avenue for training deep learning models, particularly in the realm of transfer learning, where obtaining real images within a specific domain can be prohibitively expensive due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yuhang Li , Xin Dong , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Yuxin Wen , Michael Spranger , Lingjuan Lyu

Large-scale, big-variant, high-quality data are crucial for developing robust and successful deep-learning models for medical applications since they potentially enable better generalization performance and avoid overfitting. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zheyuan Zhang , Lanhong Yao , Bin Wang , Debesh Jha , Gorkem Durak , Elif Keles , Alpay Medetalibeyoglu , Ulas Bagci

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) has been demonstrated to be an effective approach for wireless image transmission. Nevertheless, most existing work adopts an autoencoder framework to optimize conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Mingyu Yang , Bowen Liu , Boyang Wang , Hun-Seok Kim

Though diffusion models have been successfully applied to various image restoration (IR) tasks, their performance is sensitive to the choice of training datasets. Typically, diffusion models trained in specific datasets fail to recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Controlling illumination in images is essential for photography and visual content creation. While closed-source models have demonstrated impressive illumination control, open-source alternatives either require heavy control inputs like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nishit Anand , Manan Suri , Christopher Metzler , Dinesh Manocha , Ramani Duraiswami

Recent advances in synthetic imaging open up opportunities for obtaining additional data in the field of surgical imaging. This data can provide reliable supplements supporting surgical applications and decision-making through computer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Simeon Allmendinger , Patrick Hemmer , Moritz Queisner , Igor Sauer , Leopold Müller , Johannes Jakubik , Michael Vössing , Niklas Kühl

Recently, a number of image-mixing-based augmentation techniques have been introduced to improve the generalization of deep neural networks. In these techniques, two or more randomly selected natural images are mixed together to generate an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Khawar Islam , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood , Karthik Nandakumar

Diffusion models have demonstrated superior performance across various generative tasks including images, videos, and audio. However, they encounter difficulties in directly generating high-resolution samples. Previously proposed solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Juno Hwang , Yong-Hyun Park , Junghyo Jo

Sub-visible particle analysis using flow imaging microscopy combined with deep learning has proven effective in identifying particle types, enabling the distinction of harmless components such as silicone oil from protein particles.…

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