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We present a novel approach for metric dense depth estimation based on the fusion of a single-view image and a sparse, noisy Radar point cloud. The direct fusion of heterogeneous Radar and image data, or their encodings, tends to yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Han Li , Yukai Ma , Yaqing Gu , Kewei Hu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

This paper proposes a unified diffusion framework (dubbed UniDiffuser) to fit all distributions relevant to a set of multi-modal data in one model. Our key insight is -- learning diffusion models for marginal, conditional, and joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Fan Bao , Shen Nie , Kaiwen Xue , Chongxuan Li , Shi Pu , Yaole Wang , Gang Yue , Yue Cao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs) have become a popular tool for generating high-quality samples from complex data distributions. These models are able to capture sophisticated patterns and structures in the data, and can generate samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Emanuele Aiello , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Depth estimation plays a pivotal role in advancing human-robot interactions, especially in indoor environments where accurate 3D scene reconstruction is essential for tasks like navigation and object handling. Monocular depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

Monocular depth estimation aims to recover the depth information of 3D scenes from 2D images. Recent work has made significant progress, but its reliance on large-scale datasets and complex decoders has limited its efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zeyu Ren , Zeyu Zhang , Wukai Li , Qingxiang Liu , Hao Tang

Diffusion models, which iteratively denoise data samples to synthesize high-quality outputs, have achieved empirical success across domains. However, optimizing these models for downstream tasks often involves nested bilevel structures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Quan Xiao , Hui Yuan , A F M Saif , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Kompella , Mengdi Wang , Tianyi Chen

Monocular depth estimation is challenging due to its inherent ambiguity and ill-posed nature, yet it is quite important to many applications. While recent works achieve limited accuracy by designing increasingly complicated networks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zizhang Wu , Zhuozheng Li , Zhi-Gang Fan , Yunzhe Wu , Xiaoquan Wang , Rui Tang , Jian Pu

Diffusion Models represent a significant advancement in generative modeling, employing a dual-phase process that first degrades domain-specific information via Gaussian noise and restores it through a trainable model. This framework enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Benedikt Hartl , Yanbo Zhang , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

Monocular depth estimation is critical for applications such as autonomous driving and scene reconstruction. While existing methods perform well under normal scenarios, their performance declines in adverse weather, due to challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kui Jiang , Jing Cao , Zhaocheng Yu , Junjun Jiang , Jingchun Zhou

Recovering material information from images has been extensively studied in computer graphics and vision. Recent works in material estimation leverage diffusion model showing promising results. However, these diffusion-based methods adopt a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiuchao Wu , Pengfei Zhu , Jiangjing Lyu , Xinguo Liu , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo , Weiwei Xu , Chengfei Lyu

Recent advancements in image motion deblurring, driven by CNNs and transformers, have made significant progress. Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models, which are rich in real-world modeling, have shown great promise for high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Xiaoyang Liu , Zhengyan Zhou , Zihang Xu , Jiezhang Cao , Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang

One-step generators distilled from Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) compress multiple sampling steps into a single forward pass, enabling efficient text and image synthesis. However, they suffer two key limitations: they inherit modeling bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuanzhi Zhu , Xi Wang , Stéphane Lathuilière , Vicky Kalogeiton

While diffusion distillation has enabled one-step generation through methods like Variational Score Distillation, adapting distilled models to emerging new controls -- such as novel structural constraints or latest user preferences --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Yifan Song , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Jing Tang

Deep generative models have garnered significant attention in low-level vision tasks due to their generative capabilities. Among them, diffusion model-based solutions, characterized by a forward diffusion process and a reverse denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chunming He , Yuqi Shen , Chengyu Fang , Fengyang Xiao , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

Diffusion and flow models achieve high generative quality but remain computationally expensive due to slow multi-step sampling. Distillation methods accelerate them by training fast student generators, yet most existing objectives lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yuanzhi Zhu , Eleftherios Tsonis , Lucas Degeorge , Vicky Kalogeiton

The slow inference process of image diffusion models significantly degrades interactive user experiences. To address this, we introduce Diffusion Preview, a novel paradigm employing rapid, low-step sampling to generate preliminary outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fu-Yun Wang , Hao Zhou , Liangzhe Yuan , Sanghyun Woo , Boqing Gong , Bohyung Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Han Zhang , Yukun Zhu , Ting Liu , Long Zhao

Most existing multimodality methods use separate backbones for autoregression-based discrete text generation and diffusion-based continuous visual generation, or the same backbone by discretizing the visual data to use autoregression for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Chuyang Zhao , Yuxing Song , Wenhao Wang , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Yifan Sun , Xinyan Xiao , Jingdong Wang

Monocular depth estimation has been extensively explored based on deep learning, yet its accuracy and generalization ability still lag far behind the stereo-based methods. To tackle this, a few recent studies have proposed to supervise the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Kyeongseob Song , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Denoising Probabilistic Models (DPMs) represent an emerging domain of generative models that excel in generating diverse and high-quality images. However, most current training methods for DPMs often neglect the correlation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Viet Nguyen , Giang Vu , Tung Nguyen Thanh , Khoat Than , Toan Tran

Data imputation and data generation have important applications for many domains, like healthcare and finance, where incomplete or missing data can hinder accurate analysis and decision-making. Diffusion models have emerged as powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mario Villaizán-Vallelado , Matteo Salvatori , Carlos Segura , Ioannis Arapakis