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Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

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Large denoising diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have been trained on billions of image-caption pairs to perform text-conditioned image generation. As a byproduct of this training, these models have acquired general knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alexandros Graikos , Nebojsa Jojic , Dimitris Samaras

The quality of the prompts provided to text-to-image diffusion models determines how faithful the generated content is to the user's intent, often requiring `prompt engineering'. To harness visual concepts from target images without prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Shweta Mahajan , Tanzila Rahman , Kwang Moo Yi , Leonid Sigal

Large scale image super-resolution is a challenging computer vision task, since vast information is missing in a highly degraded image, say for example forscale x16 super-resolution. Diffusion models are used successfully in recent years in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Chun-Chuen Hui , Wan-Chi Siu , Ngai-Fong Law

Diffusion probabilistic models have been successfully used to generate data from noise. However, most diffusion models are computationally expensive and difficult to interpret with a lack of theoretical justification. Random feature models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-11 Esha Saha , Giang Tran

We present Readout Guidance, a method for controlling text-to-image diffusion models with learned signals. Readout Guidance uses readout heads, lightweight networks trained to extract signals from the features of a pre-trained, frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Grace Luo , Trevor Darrell , Oliver Wang , Dan B Goldman , Aleksander Holynski

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing. Many existing approaches rely on text prompts as editing guidance. However, these methods are constrained by the need for manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuanyuan Chang , Yinghua Yao , Tao Qin , Mengmeng Wang , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai

Video moment retrieval and highlight detection have received attention in the current era of video content proliferation, aiming to localize moments and estimate clip relevances based on user-specific queries. Given that the video content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Henghao Zhao , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Rui Yan , Zechao Li

We provide a general framework for learning diffusion bridges that transport prior to target distributions. It includes existing diffusion models for generative modeling, but also underdamped versions with degenerate diffusion matrices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Denis Blessing , Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Gerhard Neumann

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated tremendous success in synthesizing visually stunning images given textual instructions. Despite remarkable progress in creating high-fidelity visuals, text-to-image models can still struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Taewook Kim , Ze Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Jiang Wang , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu , Qiang Qiu

Self-rewarding have emerged recently as a powerful tool in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), allowing language models to generate high-quality relevant responses by providing their own rewards during training. This innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Safouane El Ghazouali , Arnaud Gucciardi , Umberto Michelucci

In recent years, large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have demonstrated their outstanding capabilities in image and video generation tasks. However, existing models tend to produce visual objects commonly found in the training dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Changgu Chen , Libing Yang , Xiaoyan Yang , Lianggangxu Chen , Gaoqi He , CHangbo Wang , Yang Li

Diffusion models have become a leading paradigm in generative AI, with score estimation via denoising score matching as a central component. While recent theory provides strong statistical guarantees, it typically relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yinbin Han , Meisam Razaviyayn , Renyuan Xu

This book presents the core principles that have guided the development of diffusion models, tracing their origins and showing how diverse formulations arise from shared mathematical ideas. Diffusion modeling starts by defining a forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yang Song , Dongjun Kim , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

The field of image synthesis has made tremendous strides forward in the last years. Besides defining the desired output image with text-prompts, an intuitive approach is to additionally use spatial guidance in form of an image, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Denis Zavadski , Johann-Friedrich Feiden , Carsten Rother

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

The rapid adoption of text-to-image diffusion models in society underscores an urgent need to address their biases. Without interventions, these biases could propagate a skewed worldview and restrict opportunities for minority groups. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xudong Shen , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

Due to the demand for personalizing image generation, subject-driven text-to-image generation method, which creates novel renditions of an input subject based on text prompts, has received growing research interest. Existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Shang Chai , Zihang Lin , Min Zhou , Xubin Li , Liansheng Zhuang , Houqiang Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code generation. However, the quality of the generated code is heavily dependent on the structure and composition of the prompts used. Crafting high-quality prompts…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jinyang Li , Sangwon Hyun , M. Ali Babar

Diffusion models learn to restore noisy data, which is corrupted with different levels of noise, by optimizing the weighted sum of the corresponding loss terms, i.e., denoising score matching loss. In this paper, we show that restoring data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jooyoung Choi , Jungbeom Lee , Chaehun Shin , Sungwon Kim , Hyunwoo Kim , Sungroh Yoon