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In this paper, we introduce Latent Bridge Matching (LBM), a new, versatile and scalable method that relies on Bridge Matching in a latent space to achieve fast image-to-image translation. We show that the method can reach state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Clément Chadebec , Onur Tasar , Sanjeev Sreetharan , Benjamin Aubin

Faithful manipulation of shape, material, and illumination in 2D Internet images would greatly benefit from a reliable factorization of appearance into material (i.e., diffuse and specular) and illumination (i.e., environment maps). On the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Tobias Ritschel , Niloy J. Mitra

Empowered by deep learning, recent methods for material capture can estimate a spatially-varying reflectance from a single photograph. Such lightweight capture is in stark contrast with the tens or hundreds of pictures required by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Valentin Deschaintre , Miika Aittala , Fredo Durand , George Drettakis , Adrien Bousseau

In the field of computer vision, visible light images often exhibit low contrast in low-light conditions, presenting a significant challenge. While infrared imagery provides a potential solution, its utilization entails high costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yijia Chen , Pinghua Chen , Xiangxin Zhou , Yingtie Lei , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li

Accurate material retrieval is critical for creating realistic 3D assets. Existing methods rely on datasets that capture shape-invariant and lighting-varied representations of materials, which are scarce and face challenges due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jianhui Wang , Zhifei Yang , Yangfan He , Huixiong Zhang , Yuxuan Chen , Jingwei Huang

Material reconstruction from a photograph is a key component of 3D content creation democratization. We propose to formulate this ill-posed problem as a controlled synthesis one, leveraging the recent progress in generative deep networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Giuseppe Vecchio , Rosalie Martin , Arthur Roullier , Adrien Kaiser , Romain Rouffet , Valentin Deschaintre , Tamy Boubekeur

Pre-trained large text-to-image models synthesize impressive images with an appropriate use of text prompts. However, ambiguities inherent in natural language and out-of-distribution effects make it hard to synthesize image styles, that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kihyuk Sohn , Nataniel Ruiz , Kimin Lee , Daniel Castro Chin , Irina Blok , Huiwen Chang , Jarred Barber , Lu Jiang , Glenn Entis , Yuanzhen Li , Yuan Hao , Irfan Essa , Michael Rubinstein , Dilip Krishnan

Photorealism is a complex concept that cannot easily be formulated mathematically. Deep Photo Style Transfer is an attempt to transfer the style of a reference image to a content image while preserving its photorealism. This is achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Sebastian Penhouët , Paul Sanzenbacher

Image matting aims to obtain an alpha matte that separates foreground objects from the background accurately. Recently, trimap-free matting has been well studied because it requires only the original image without any extra input. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Leo Shan Wenzhang Zhou Grace Zhao

The correct insertion of virtual objects in images of real-world scenes requires a deep understanding of the scene's lighting, geometry and materials, as well as the image formation process. While recent large-scale diffusion models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ruofan Liang , Zan Gojcic , Merlin Nimier-David , David Acuna , Nandita Vijaykumar , Sanja Fidler , Zian Wang

Selection is the first step in many image editing processes, enabling faster and simpler modifications of all pixels sharing a common modality. In this work, we present a method for material selection in images, robust to lighting and…

Recently, diffusion-based material transfer methods rely on image fine-tuning or complex architectures with auxiliary networks but face challenges such as text dependency, additional computational costs, and feature misalignment. To address…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Nisha Huang , Yizhou Lin , Jie Guo , Xiu Li , Tong-Yee Lee , Zitong Yu

Recently, the progress of learning-by-synthesis has proposed a training model for synthetic images, which can effectively reduce the cost of human and material resources. However, due to the different distribution of synthetic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Tongtong Zhao , Yuxiao Yan , Ibrahim Shehi Shehu , Xianping Fu , Huibing Wang

Current unsupervised image-to-image translation techniques struggle to focus their attention on individual objects without altering the background or the way multiple objects interact within a scene. Motivated by the important role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Youssef A. Mejjati , Christian Richardt , James Tompkin , Darren Cosker , Kwang In Kim

We propose a method for converting a single RGB-D input image into a 3D photo - a multi-layer representation for novel view synthesis that contains hallucinated color and depth structures in regions occluded in the original view. We use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Meng-Li Shih , Shih-Yang Su , Johannes Kopf , Jia-Bin Huang

Image-to-image translation aims to learn a mapping between different groups of visually distinguishable images. While recent methods have shown impressive ability to change even intricate appearance of images, they still rely on domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Hanbit Lee , Jinseok Seol , Sang-goo Lee

Visual-prompt-guided edit transfer aims to learn image transformations directly from example pairs, offering more precise and controllable editing than purely text-driven approaches. However, existing diffusion transformer-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Lan Chen , Qi Mao , Yiren Song , Yuchao Gu , Siwei Ma

We introduce FabricDiffusion, a method for transferring fabric textures from a single clothing image to 3D garments of arbitrary shapes. Existing approaches typically synthesize textures on the garment surface through 2D-to-3D texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Cheng Zhang , Yuanhao Wang , Francisco Vicente Carrasco , Chenglei Wu , Jinlong Yang , Thabo Beeler , Fernando De la Torre

Image matting aims to predict alpha values of elaborate uncertainty areas of natural images, like hairs, smoke, and spider web. However, existing methods perform poorly when faced with highly transparent foreground objects due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Huanqia Cai , Fanglei Xue , Lele Xu , Lili Guo

Recent advances in diffusion models enable many powerful instruments for image editing. One of these instruments is text-driven image manipulations: editing semantic attributes of an image according to the provided text description. %…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Nikita Starodubcev , Dmitry Baranchuk , Valentin Khrulkov , Artem Babenko