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Image composition involves seamlessly integrating given objects into a specific visual context. Current training-free methods rely on composing attention weights from several samplers to guide the generator. However, since these weights are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yibin Wang , Weizhong Zhang , Jianwei Zheng , Cheng Jin

Diffusion models have achieved impressive success in generating photorealistic images, but challenges remain in ensuring precise semantic alignment with input prompts. Optimizing the initial noisy latent offers a more efficient alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Boming Miao , Chunxiao Li , Xiaoxiao Wang , Andi Zhang , Rui Sun , Zizhe Wang , Yao Zhu

We propose FD3, a fundus image enhancement method based on direct diffusion bridges, which can cope with a wide range of complex degradations, including haze, blur, noise, and shadow. We first propose a synthetic forward model through a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Sehui Kim , Hyungjin Chung , Se Hie Park , Eui-Sang Chung , Kayoung Yi , Jong Chul Ye

Despite impressive recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models, obtaining high-quality images often requires prompt engineering by humans who have developed expertise in using them. In this work, we present NeuroPrompts, an adaptive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shachar Rosenman , Vasudev Lal , Phillip Howard

In this work, we focus on the alignment problem of diffusion models with a continuous reward function, which represents specific objectives for downstream tasks, such as increasing darkness or improving the aesthetics of images. The central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Zhiwei Tang , Jiangweizhi Peng , Jiasheng Tang , Mingyi Hong , Fan Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang

We present the first text-based image editing approach for object parts based on pre-trained diffusion models. Diffusion-based image editing approaches capitalized on the deep understanding of diffusion models of image semantics to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Aleksandar Cvejic , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Peter Wonka

We propose a method to learn explicit, class-conditioned spatial priors for object placement in natural scenes by distilling the implicit placement knowledge encoded in text-conditioned diffusion models. Prior work relies either on manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Marco Schouten , Ioannis Siglidis , Serge Belongie , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have shown incredible performance on text-to-image generation. Since text-to-image generation often requires models to generate visual concepts with fine-grained details and attributes specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xuehai He , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Varun Jampani , Arjun Akula , Pradyumna Narayana , Sugato Basu , William Yang Wang , Xin Eric Wang

3D content creation via text-driven stylization has played a fundamental challenge to multimedia and graphics community. Recent advances of cross-modal foundation models (e.g., CLIP) have made this problem feasible. Those approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Haibo Yang , Yang Chen , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Zhineng Chen , Tao Mei

The depth-of-field (DoF) effect, which introduces aesthetically pleasing blur, enhances photographic quality but is fixed and difficult to modify once the image has been created. This becomes problematic when the applied blur is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yiyang Wang , Xi Chen , Xiaogang Xu , Yu Liu , Hengshuang Zhao

Painterly image harmonization aims to insert photographic objects into paintings and obtain artistically coherent composite images. Previous methods for this task mainly rely on inference optimization or generative adversarial network, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Lingxiao Lu , Jiangtong Li , Junyan Cao , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have enabled increasingly realistic synthesis of vehicle damage, raising concerns about their reliability in automated insurance workflows. The ability to generate crash-like imagery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Teerapong Panboonyuen

Pseudo-healthy image inpainting is an essential preprocessing step for analyzing pathological brain MRI scans. Most current inpainting methods favor slice-wise 2D models for their high in-plane fidelity, but their independence across slices…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Dou Hoon Kwark , Shirui Luo , Xiyue Zhu , Yudu Li , Zhi-Pei Liang , Volodymyr Kindratenko

This tutorial provides an in-depth guide on inference-time guidance and alignment methods for optimizing downstream reward functions in diffusion models. While diffusion models are renowned for their generative modeling capabilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masatoshi Uehara , Yulai Zhao , Chenyu Wang , Xiner Li , Aviv Regev , Sergey Levine , Tommaso Biancalani

Recently large-scale language-image models (e.g., text-guided diffusion models) have considerably improved the image generation capabilities to generate photorealistic images in various domains. Based on this success, current image editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wenkai Dong , Song Xue , Xiaoyue Duan , Shumin Han

Recent successes in image synthesis are powered by large-scale diffusion models. However, most methods are currently limited to either text- or image-conditioned generation for synthesizing an entire image, texture transfer or inserting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yufei Ye , Xueting Li , Abhinav Gupta , Shalini De Mello , Stan Birchfield , Jiaming Song , Shubham Tulsiani , Sifei Liu

Human video synthesis aims to create lifelike characters in various environments, with wide applications in VR, storytelling, and content creation. While 2D diffusion-based methods have made significant progress, they struggle to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Liyuan Cui , Xiaogang Xu , Wenqi Dong , Zesong Yang , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

Object-level manipulation, relocating or reorienting objects in images or videos while preserving scene realism, is central to film post-production, AR, and creative editing. Yet existing methods struggle to jointly achieve three core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Penghui Ruan , Bojia Zi , Xianbiao Qi , Youze Huang , Rong Xiao , Pichao Wang , Jiannong Cao , Yuhui Shi

Image composition targets at synthesizing a realistic composite image from a pair of foreground and background images. Recently, generative composition methods are built on large pretrained diffusion models to generate composite images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Bo Zhang , Yuxuan Duan , Jun Lan , Yan Hong , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Li Niu

The advent of handheld fundus imaging devices has made ophthalmologic diagnosis and disease screening more accessible, efficient, and cost-effective. However, images captured from these setups often suffer from artifacts such as flash…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mathumetha Palani , Kavya Puthumana , Ayantika Das , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi