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Diffusion models have emerged as a leading technique for generating images due to their ability to create high-resolution and realistic images. Despite their strong performance, diffusion models still struggle in managing image collections…

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Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have achieved impressive performance on various image generation tasks, including image super-resolution. By learning to reverse the process of gradually diffusing the data distribution into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Kai Zhao , Alex Ling Yu Hung , Kaifeng Pang , Haoxin Zheng , Kyunghyun Sung

Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zijie Li , Henry Li , Yichun Shi , Amir Barati Farimani , Yuval Kluger , Linjie Yang , Peng Wang

Diffusion models have achieved significant success in both natural image and medical image domains, encompassing a wide range of applications. Previous investigations in medical images have often been constrained to specific anatomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yongrui Yu , Yannian Gu , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaofan Zhang

Recent advances in generative modeling, namely Diffusion models, have revolutionized generative modeling, enabling high-quality image generation tailored to user needs. This paper proposes a framework for the generative design of structural…

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models, and have dramatically promoted image generation with unprecedented quality and diversity. Existing diffusion models mainly try to reconstruct input image from a corrupted one with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ling Yang , Jingwei Liu , Shenda Hong , Zhilong Zhang , Zhilin Huang , Zheming Cai , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

Diffusion Transformer (DiT) has emerged as the new trend of generative diffusion models on image generation. In view of extremely slow convergence in typical DiT, recent breakthroughs have been driven by mask strategy that significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Rui Zhu , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Ting Yao , Zhenglong Sun , Tao Mei , Chang Wen Chen

Layout generation is a foundation task of graphic design, which requires the integration of visual aesthetics and harmonious expression of content delivery. However, existing methods still face challenges in generating precise and visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yu Li , Yifan Chen , Gongye Liu , Fei Yin , Qingyan Bai , Jie Wu , Hongfa Wang , Ruihang Chu , Yujiu Yang

In this study, we explore Transformer-based diffusion models for image and video generation. Despite the dominance of Transformer architectures in various fields due to their flexibility and scalability, the visual generative domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shoufa Chen , Mengmeng Xu , Jiawei Ren , Yuren Cong , Sen He , Yanping Xie , Animesh Sinha , Ping Luo , Tao Xiang , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua

While learned image compression (LIC) focuses on efficient data transmission, generative image compression (GIC) extends this framework by integrating generative modeling to produce photo-realistic reconstructed images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Minghao Han , Weiyi You , Jinhua Zhang , Leheng Zhang , Ce Zhu , Shuhang Gu

The harnessing of machine learning, especially deep generative models, has opened up promising avenues in the field of synthetic DNA sequence generation. Whilst Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gained traction for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zehui Li , Yuhao Ni , Tim August B. Huygelen , Akashaditya Das , Guoxuan Xia , Guy-Bart Stan , Yiren Zhao

Deep generative diffusion models are a promising avenue for 3D de novo molecular design in materials science and drug discovery. However, their utility is still limited by suboptimal performance on large molecular structures and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Tuan Le , Julian Cremer , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert , Kristof Schütt

Feature Transformation (FT) crafts new features from original ones via mathematical operations to enhance dataset expressiveness for downstream models. However, existing FT methods exhibit critical limitations: discrete search struggles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Nanxu Gong , Zijun Li , Sixun Dong , Haoyue Bai , Wangyang Ying , Xinyuan Wang , Yanjie Fu

The advancements in generative modeling, particularly the advent of diffusion models, have sparked a fundamental question: how can these models be effectively used for discriminative tasks? In this work, we find that generative models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Mihir Prabhudesai , Tsung-Wei Ke , Alexander C. Li , Deepak Pathak , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Generative image codecs aim to optimize perceptual quality, producing realistic and detailed reconstructions. However, they often overlook a key property of human vision: our tendency to focus on particular aspects of a visual scene (e.g.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Lucas Relic , Roberto Azevedo , Yang Zhang , Stephan Mandt , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

Diffusion probabilistic models have recently achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality images. However, balancing high perceptual quality and low distortion remains challenging in application of diffusion models in image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Juan Song , Jiaxiang He , Lijie Yang , Mingtao Feng , Keyan Wang

We propose a new class of generative diffusion models, called functional diffusion. In contrast to previous work, functional diffusion works on samples that are represented by functions with a continuous domain. Functional diffusion can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Biao Zhang , Peter Wonka

While generative models have seen significant adoption across a wide range of data modalities, including 3D data, a consensus on which model is best suited for which task has yet to be reached. Further, conditional information such as text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthias Humt , Ulrich Hillenbrand , Rudolph Triebel

Computational imaging is crucial in many disciplines from autonomous driving to life sciences. However, traditional model-driven and iterative methods consume large computational power and lack scalability for imaging. Deep learning (DL) is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Weiru Fan , Xiaobin Tang , Yiyi Liao , Da-Wei Wang

Medical image segmentation is crucial for many healthcare tasks, including disease diagnosis and treatment planning. One key area is the segmentation of skin lesions, which is vital for diagnosing skin cancer and monitoring patients. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Gaby Maroun , Fadi Dornaika , Abdenour Hadid