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Facial attribute editing and style manipulation are crucial for applications like virtual avatars and photo editing. However, achieving precise control over facial attributes without altering unrelated features is challenging due to the…

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Blind Face Restoration (BFR) aims to construct a high-quality (HQ) face image from its corresponding low-quality (LQ) input. Recently, many BFR methods have been proposed and they have achieved remarkable success. However, these methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Puyang Zhang , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Changsheng Li , Guoren Wang

Image-to-Image translation models can help mitigate various challenges inherent to medical image acquisition. Latent diffusion models (LDMs) leverage efficient learning in compressed latent space and constitute the core of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Junhyeok Lee , Hyunwoong Kim , Hyungjin Chung , Heeseong Eom , Joon Jang , Chul-Ho Sohn , Kyu Sung Choi

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) produce high-quality, photo-realistic images, however, the latency incurred by multiple costly inference iterations can restrict their applicability. We introduce LatentCRF, a continuous Conditional Random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Sadeep Jayasumana , Andreas Veit , Ayan Chakrabarti , Daniel Glasner , Michael S Ryoo , Srikumar Ramalingam , Sanjiv Kumar

Deep learning analyses have offered sensitivity leaps in detection of cognitive states from functional MRI (fMRI) measurements across the brain. Yet, as deep models perform hierarchical nonlinear transformations on their input, interpreting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Hasan Atakan Bedel , Tolga Çukur

Optical flow models trained on high-quality data often degrade severely when confronted with real-world corruptions such as blur, noise, and compression artifacts. To overcome this limitation, we formulate Degradation-Aware Optical Flow, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jaewon Min , Jaeeun Lee , Yeji Choi , Paul Hyunbin Cho , Jin Hyeon Kim , Tae-Young Lee , Jongsik Ahn , Hwayeong Lee , Seonghyun Park , Seungryong Kim

Pre-trained diffusion models have been successfully used as priors in a variety of linear inverse problems, where the goal is to reconstruct a signal from noisy linear measurements. However, existing approaches require knowledge of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Naoki Murata , Koichi Saito , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

Face recognition systems experience severe performance degradation when processing low-quality forensic evidence imagery. This paper presents an evaluation of latent diffusion-based enhancement for improving face recognition under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hassan Ugail , Hamad Mansour Alawar , AbdulNasser Abbas Zehi , Ahmed Mohammad Alkendi , Ismail Lujain Jaleel

Understanding and modeling lighting effects are fundamental tasks in computer vision and graphics. Classic physically-based rendering (PBR) accurately simulates the light transport, but relies on precise scene representations--explicit 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ruofan Liang , Zan Gojcic , Huan Ling , Jacob Munkberg , Jon Hasselgren , Zhi-Hao Lin , Jun Gao , Alexander Keller , Nandita Vijaykumar , Sanja Fidler , Zian Wang

Diffusion model-based approaches recently achieved re-markable success in MRI reconstruction, but integration into clinical routine remains challenging due to its time-consuming convergence. This phenomenon is partic-ularly notable when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Yu Guan , Qinrong Cai , Wei Li , Qiuyun Fan , Dong Liang , Qiegen Liu

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) power state-of-the-art high-resolution generative image models. LDMs learn the data distribution in the latent space of an autoencoder (AE) and produce images by mapping the generated latents into RGB image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Tariq Berrada , Pietro Astolfi , Melissa Hall , Marton Havasi , Yohann Benchetrit , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Karteek Alahari , Michal Drozdzal , Jakob Verbeek

The presence of cloud layers severely compromises the quality and effectiveness of optical remote sensing (RS) images. However, existing deep-learning (DL)-based Cloud Removal (CR) techniques encounter difficulties in accurately…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Jialu Sui , Yiyang Ma , Wenhan Yang , Xiaokang Zhang , Man-On Pun , Jiaying Liu

Most existing Image Restoration (IR) models are task-specific, which can not be generalized to different degradation operators. In this work, we propose the Denoising Diffusion Null-Space Model (DDNM), a novel zero-shot framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yinhuai Wang , Jiwen Yu , Jian Zhang

Pre-trained Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have recently shown strong perceptual priors for low-level vision tasks, making them a promising direction for multi-exposure High Dynamic Range (HDR) reconstruction. However, directly applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tao Hu , Weiyu Zhou , Yanjie Tu , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Qingsen Yan , Yanning Zhang

Diffusion Models (DMs) have disrupted the image Super-Resolution (SR) field and further closed the gap between image quality and human perceptual preferences. They are easy to train and can produce very high-quality samples that exceed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Brian B. Moser , Arundhati S. Shanbhag , Federico Raue , Stanislav Frolov , Sebastian Palacio , Andreas Dengel

Ultrasound image reconstruction can be approximately cast as a linear inverse problem that has traditionally been solved with penalized optimization using the $l_1$ or $l_2$ norm, or wavelet-based terms. However, such regularization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

Deep learning has significantly advanced PET image re-construction, achieving remarkable improvements in image quality through direct training on sinogram or image data. Traditional methods often utilize masks for inpainting tasks, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Bin Huang , Binzhong He , Yanhan Chen , Zhili Liu , Xinyue Wang , Binxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

Image restoration is essential for enhancing degraded images across computer vision tasks. However, most existing methods address only a single type of degradation (e.g., blur, noise, or haze) at a time, limiting their real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Debabrata Mandal , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Guansen Tong , Praneeth Chakravarthula

Although face recognition (FR) has achieved great success in recent years, it is still challenging to accurately recognize faces in low-quality images due to the obscured facial details. Nevertheless, it is often feasible to make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Niloufar Alipour Talemi , Hossein Kashiani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Existing fusion methods are tailored for high-quality images but struggle with degraded images captured under harsh circumstances, thus limiting the practical potential of image fusion. This work presents a \textbf{D}egradation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Linfeng Tang , Chunyu Li , Guoqing Wang , Yixuan Yuan , Jiayi Ma