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Textual image generation spans diverse fields like advertising, education, product packaging, social media, information visualization, and branding. Despite recent strides in language-guided image synthesis using diffusion models, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Shubham Paliwal , Arushi Jain , Monika Sharma , Vikram Jamwal , Lovekesh Vig

Real-world text image super-resolution aims to restore overall visual quality and text legibility in images suffering from diverse degradations and text distortions. However, the scarcity of text image data in existing datasets results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Haodong He , Xin Zhan , Yancheng Bai , Rui Lan , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu

Recent text-to-image diffusion models are able to generate convincing results of unprecedented quality. However, it is nearly impossible to control the shapes of different regions/objects or their layout in a fine-grained fashion. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Omri Avrahami , Thomas Hayes , Oran Gafni , Sonal Gupta , Yaniv Taigman , Devi Parikh , Dani Lischinski , Ohad Fried , Xi Yin

The character information in natural scene images contains various personal information, such as telephone numbers, home addresses, etc. It is a high risk of leakage the information if they are published. In this paper, we proposed a scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Toshiki Nakamura , Anna Zhu , Keiji Yanai , Seiichi Uchida

A precise, controllable, interpretable and easily trainable text removal approach is necessary for both user-specific and large-scale text removal applications. To achieve this, we propose a one-stage mask-based text inpainting network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Osman Tursun , Simon Denman , Rui Zeng , Sabesan Sivapalan , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Diffusion models excel in image generation but lack detailed semantic control using text prompts. Additional techniques have been developed to address this limitation. However, conditioning diffusion models solely on text-based descriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Frank Fundel

As text-to-image models grow increasingly powerful and complex, their burgeoning size presents a significant obstacle to widespread adoption, especially on resource-constrained devices. This paper presents a pioneering study on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Samarth N Ramesh , Zhixue Zhao

While diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation with their ability to synthesize realistic and diverse scenes, they continue to struggle to generate consistent and legible text within images. This shortcoming is commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tianyu Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Lu Li , Zhenghan Tai , Jijun Chi , Jingrui Tian , Hailin He , Suyuchen Wang

Text-to-image diffusion models produce impressive results but are frustrating tools for artists who desire fine-grained control. For example, a common use case is to create images of a specific instance in novel contexts, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shengqu Cai , Eric Chan , Yunzhi Zhang , Leonidas Guibas , Jiajun Wu , Gordon Wetzstein

Text-guided image editing has recently experienced rapid development. However, simultaneously performing multiple editing actions on a single image, such as background replacement and specific subject attribute changes, while maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Pengzhi Li , QInxuan Huang , Yikang Ding , Zhiheng Li

Recovering textures under shadows has remained a challenging problem due to the difficulty of inferring shadow-free scenes from shadow images. In this paper, we propose the use of diffusion models as they offer a promising approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kangfu Mei , Luis Figueroa , Zhe Lin , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Vishal M. Patel

Scene text removal (STR) is the image transformation task to remove text regions in scene images. The conventional STR methods remove all scene text. This means that the existing methods cannot select text to be removed. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Hayato Mitani , Akisato Kimura , Seiichi Uchida

We present ControlSR, a new method that can tame Diffusion Models for consistent real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). Previous Real-ISR models mostly focus on how to activate more generative priors of text-to-image diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuhao Wan , Peng-Tao Jiang , Qibin Hou , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Li

Erase inpainting, or object removal, aims to precisely remove target objects within masked regions while preserving the overall consistency of the surrounding content. Despite diffusion-based methods have made significant strides in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yi Liu , Hao Zhou , Wenxiang Shang , Ran Lin , Benlei Cui

Image retouching aims to enhance the visual quality of photos. Considering the different aesthetic preferences of users, the target of retouching is subjective. However, current retouching methods mostly adopt deterministic models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei zhang , Zheng Lin , Xin Jin , Dongqing Zou , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li

Image editing has advanced significantly with the introduction of text-conditioned diffusion models. Despite this progress, seamlessly adding objects to images based on textual instructions without requiring user-provided input masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Navve Wasserman , Noam Rotstein , Roy Ganz , Ron Kimmel

Unsupervised visual object tracking is a challenging task that requires following arbitrary targets in videos without training on ground-truth annotations. Despite considerable progress, existing state-of-the-art unsupervised trackers often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhengbo Zhang , Zhigang Tu , Junsong Yuan , De Wen Soh , Bo Du

The scene text removal (STR) task aims to remove text regions and recover the background smoothly in images for private information protection. Most existing STR methods adopt encoder-decoder-based CNNs, with direct copies of the features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Guangtao Lyu , Kun Liu , Anna Zhu , Seiichi Uchida , Brian Kenji Iwana

Boundary detection of irregular and translucent objects is an important problem with applications in medical imaging, environmental monitoring and manufacturing, where many of these applications are plagued with scarce labeled data and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Fei Yu Guan , Ian Keefe , Sophie Wilkinson , Daniel D. B. Perrakis , Steven Waslander

Recent advances in image editing with diffusion models have achieved impressive results, offering fine-grained control over the generation process. However, these methods are computationally intensive because of their iterative nature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Ilia Beletskii , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov