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Controllable face generation poses critical challenges in generative modeling due to the intricate balance required between semantic controllability and photorealism. While existing approaches struggle with disentangling semantic controls…

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Diffusion models have emerged as the mainstream approach for visual generation. However, these models typically suffer from sample inefficiency and high training costs. Consequently, methods for efficient finetuning, inference and…

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To enhance the controllability of text-to-image diffusion models, current ControlNet-like models have explored various control signals to dictate image attributes. However, existing methods either handle conditions inefficiently or use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qingdong He , Jinlong Peng , Pengcheng Xu , Boyuan Jiang , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Yong Liu , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Xiangtai Li , Jiangning Zhang

Recent advancements in layout pattern generation have been dominated by deep generative models. However, relying solely on neural networks for legality guarantees raises concerns in many practical applications. In this paper, we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zixiao Wang , Wenqian Zhao , Yunheng Shen , Yang Bai , Guojin Chen , Farzan Farnia , Bei Yu

In this paper, we introduce DC (Decouple)-ControlNet, a highly flexible and precisely controllable framework for multi-condition image generation. The core idea behind DC-ControlNet is to decouple control conditions, transforming global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Hongji Yang , Wencheng Han , Yucheng Zhou , Jianbing Shen

Recently, large-scale diffusion models, e.g., Stable diffusion and DallE2, have shown remarkable results on image synthesis. On the other hand, large-scale cross-modal pre-trained models (e.g., CLIP, ALIGN, and FILIP) are competent for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Runhui Huang , Jianhua Han , Guansong Lu , Xiaodan Liang , Yihan Zeng , Wei Zhang , Hang Xu

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative method, capable of producing stunning photo-realistic images from natural language descriptions. However, these models lack explicit control over the 3D structure in the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Wufei Ma , Qihao Liu , Jiahao Wang , Angtian Wang , Xiaoding Yuan , Yi Zhang , Zihao Xiao , Guofeng Zhang , Beijia Lu , Ruxiao Duan , Yongrui Qi , Adam Kortylewski , Yaoyao Liu , Alan Yuille

Despite the significant progress in controllable music generation and editing, challenges remain in the quality and length of generated music due to the use of Mel-spectrogram representations and UNet-based model structures. To address…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Siyuan Hou , Shansong Liu , Ruibin Yuan , Wei Xue , Ying Shan , Mangsuo Zhao , Chao Zhang

We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

We introduce a novel approach for concept blending in pretrained text-to-image diffusion models, aiming to generate images at the intersection of multiple text prompts. At each time step during diffusion denoising, our algorithm forecasts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Divya Kothandaraman , Ming Lin , Dinesh Manocha

Generative diffusion models, famous for their performance in image generation, are popular in various cross-domain applications. However, their use in the communication community has been mostly limited to auxiliary tasks like data modeling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Bin Guo , Xuelin Cao , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

Image tokenization has enabled major advances in autoregressive image generation by providing compressed, discrete representations that are more efficient to process than raw pixels. While traditional approaches use 2D grid tokenization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Roman Bachmann , Jesse Allardice , David Mizrahi , Enrico Fini , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Elmira Amirloo , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Amir Zamir , Afshin Dehghan

Edge detection is typically viewed as a pixel-level classification problem mainly addressed by discriminative methods. Recently, generative edge detection methods, especially diffusion model based solutions, are initialized in the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Caixia Zhou , Yaping Huang , Mochu Xiang , Jiahui Ren , Haibin Ling , Jing Zhang

We propose a new flexible deep convolutional neural network (convnet) to perform fast visual style transfer. In contrast to existing convnets that address the same task, our architecture derives directly from the structure of the gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Gilles Puy , Patrick Pérez

Text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating images from natural language descriptions, yet fail to interpret numerical colors such as hex codes (#FF5733) and RGB values (rgb(255,87,51)). This limitation stems from subword…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Muhammad Atif Butt , Diego Hernandez , Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Kai Wang , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Joost Van De Weijer

Recent advances in denoising diffusion models have enabled rapid generation of optimized structures for topology optimization. However, these models often rely on surrogate predictors to enforce physical constraints, which may fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Euihyun Kim , Keun Park , Yeoneung Kim

Depth-of-field control is essential in photography, but achieving perfect focus often requires multiple attempts or specialized equipment. Single-image refocusing is still difficult. It involves recovering sharp content and creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chun-Wei Tuan Mu , Cheng-De Fan , Jia-Bin Huang , Yu-Lun Liu

We introduce JointNet, a novel neural network architecture for modeling the joint distribution of images and an additional dense modality (e.g., depth maps). JointNet is extended from a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model, where a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jingyang Zhang , Shiwei Li , Yuanxun Lu , Tian Fang , David McKinnon , Yanghai Tsin , Long Quan , Yao Yao

We introduce a method by which a generative model learning the joint distribution between actions and future states can be used to automatically infer a control scheme for any desired reward function, which may be altered on the fly without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Nicholas Guttenberg , Yen Yu , Ryota Kanai

Recent diffusion-based generators can produce high-quality images from textual prompts. However, they often disregard textual instructions that specify the spatial layout of the composition. We propose a simple approach that achieves robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Minghao Chen , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi