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Tokenizing images into compact visual representations is a key step in learning efficient and high-quality image generative models. We present a simple diffusion tokenizer (DiTo) that learns compact visual representations for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Yinbo Chen , Rohit Girdhar , Xiaolong Wang , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ishan Misra

In recent years, diffusion models have become one of the main methods for generating images. However, detecting images generated by these models remains a challenging task. This paper proposes a novel method for detecting images generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Dmitry Vesnin , Dmitry Levshun , Andrey Chechulin

Text-based diffusion models have exhibited remarkable success in generation and editing, showing great promise for enhancing visual content with their generative prior. However, applying these models to video super-resolution remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shangchen Zhou , Peiqing Yang , Jianyi Wang , Yihang Luo , Chen Change Loy

Spatial frequency analysis and transforms serve a central role in most engineered image and video lossy codecs, but are rarely employed in neural network (NN)-based approaches. We propose a novel NN-based image coding framework that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Hyomin Choi , Fabien Racape , Shahab Hamidi-Rad , Mateen Ulhaq , Simon Feltman

Video diffusion models have made substantial progress in various video generation applications. However, training models for long video generation tasks require significant computational and data resources, posing a challenge to developing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yu Lu , Yuanzhi Liang , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Generating high-quality and person-generic visual dubbing remains a challenge. Recent innovation has seen the advent of a two-stage paradigm, decoupling the rendering and lip synchronization process facilitated by intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Tao Liu , Chenpeng Du , Shuai Fan , Feilong Chen , Kai Yu

While current research predominantly focuses on image-based colorization, the domain of video-based colorization remains relatively unexplored. Most existing video colorization techniques operate on a frame-by-frame basis, often overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Rory Ward , Dan Bigioi , Shubhajit Basak , John G. Breslin , Peter Corcoran

Recent progress in diffusion-based visual generation has largely relied on latent diffusion models with variational autoencoders (VAEs). While effective for high-fidelity synthesis, this VAE+diffusion paradigm suffers from limited training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minglei Shi , Haolin Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Ziyang Yuan , Xiaoshi Wu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Autoregressive video diffusion models (AR-VDMs) show strong promise as scalable alternatives to bidirectional VDMs, enabling real-time and interactive applications. Yet there remains room for improvement in their sample fidelity. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhengyang Yu , Akio Hayakawa , Masato Ishii , Qingtao Yu , Takashi Shibuya , Jing Zhang , Yuki Mitsufuji

Generative models have demonstrated strong performance in conditional settings and can be viewed as a form of data compression, where the condition serves as a compact representation. However, their limited controllability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiao Li , Liangji Zhu , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Image harmonization, which involves adjusting the foreground of a composite image to attain a unified visual consistency with the background, can be conceptualized as an image-to-image translation task. Diffusion models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Pengfei Zhou , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in the field of video generation. However, their iterative denoising nature requires a large number of inference steps to generate a video, which is slow and computationally expensive. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Haiyu Zhang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Xihui Liu , Yunhong Wang , Yu Qiao

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of image tasks, yet achieving fine-grained, disentangled control over global structures versus fine details remains challenging. This paper explores…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chao Huang , Susan Liang , Yunlong Tang , Jing Bi , Li Ma , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu

Inverse problems arise in a multitude of applications, where the goal is to recover a clean signal from noisy and possibly (non)linear observations. The difficulty of a reconstruction problem depends on multiple factors, such as the ground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Video diffusion models have rapidly become the dominant paradigm for high-fidelity generative video synthesis, but their practical deployment remains constrained by severe inference costs. Compared with image generation, video synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Pengfei Wan , James Kwok , Zeke Xie

Diffusion autoencoders (DAEs) are typically formulated as a noise prediction model and trained with a linear-$\beta$ noise schedule that spends much of its sampling steps at high noise levels. Because high noise levels are associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Pramook Khungurn , Sukit Seripanitkarn , Phonphrm Thawatdamrongkit , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Latent diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images but lose the benefits of end-to-end modeling. They discard information during image encoding, require a separately trained decoder, and model an auxiliary distribution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alan Baade , Eric Ryan Chan , Kyle Sargent , Changan Chen , Justin Johnson , Ehsan Adeli , Li Fei-Fei

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in image and video generation; however, they encounter challenges in the correct composition of objects when generating images of varying sizes due to single-scale training data. Adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Lanqing Guo , Yingqing He , Haoxin Chen , Menghan Xia , Xiaodong Cun , Yufei Wang , Siyu Huang , Yong Zhang , Xintao Wang , Qifeng Chen , Ying Shan , Bihan Wen

Latent generative modeling, where a pretrained autoencoder maps pixels into a latent space for the diffusion process, has become the standard strategy for Diffusion Transformers (DiT); however, the autoencoder component has barely evolved.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Boyang Zheng , Nanye Ma , Shengbang Tong , Saining Xie

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality samples, their latent variables typically lack semantic meaning and are not suitable for representation learning. Here, we propose InfoDiffusion, an algorithm that augments diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yingheng Wang , Yair Schiff , Aaron Gokaslan , Weishen Pan , Fei Wang , Christopher De Sa , Volodymyr Kuleshov