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Detecting critical transitions in complex, noisy time-series data is a fundamental challenge across science and engineering. Such transitions may be anticipated by the emergence of a low-dimensional order parameter, whose signature is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wenqi Fang , Ye Li

The learning of Transformation-Equivariant Representations (TERs), which is introduced by Hinton et al. \cite{hinton2011transforming}, has been considered as a principle to reveal visual structures under various transformations. It contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Guo-Jun Qi , Liheng Zhang , Chang Wen Chen , Qi Tian

Over the past few years, vision transformers (ViTs) have consistently demonstrated remarkable performance across various visual recognition tasks. However, attempts to enhance their robustness have yielded limited success, mainly focusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Nick Nikzad , Yi Liao , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou

Flow map models such as Consistency Models (CM) and Mean Flow (MF) enable few-step generation by learning the long jump of the ODE solution of diffusion models, yet training remains unstable, sensitive to hyperparameters, and costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zheyuan Hu , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

Pre-trained diffusion models are commonly used to generate clean data (e.g., images) from random noises, effectively forming pairs of noises and corresponding clean images. Distillation on these pre-trained models can be viewed as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zhangkai Wu , Xuhui Fan , Hongyu Wu , Longbing Cao

Multimodal dataset distillation aims to synthesize a small set of image-text pairs that enables efficient training of large-scale vision-language models. While dataset distillation has shown promise in unimodal tasks, extending it to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yongmin Lee , Hye Won Chung

Diffusion models have exhibited promising progress in video generation. However, they often struggle to retain consistent details within local regions across frames. One underlying cause is that traditional diffusion models approximate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yupu Yao , Shangqi Deng , Zihan Cao , Harry Zhang , Liang-Jian Deng

We introduce a stop-code tolerant (SCT) approach to training recurrent convolutional neural networks for lossy image compression. Our methods introduce a multi-pass training method to combine the training goals of high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Michele Covell , Nick Johnston , David Minnen , Sung Jin Hwang , Joel Shor , Saurabh Singh , Damien Vincent , George Toderici

Large image diffusion models enable novel view synthesis with high quality and excellent zero-shot capability. However, such models based on image-to-image translation have no guarantee of view consistency, limiting the performance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Haohan Weng , Tianyu Yang , Jianan Wang , Yu Li , Tong Zhang , C. L. Philip Chen , Lei Zhang

Although powerful for image generation, consistent and controllable video is a longstanding problem for diffusion models. Video models require extensive training and computational resources, leading to high costs and large environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Muhammad Haaris Khan , Hadrien Reynaud , Bernhard Kainz

Vision Transformer (ViT) is becoming more popular in image processing. Specifically, we investigate the effectiveness of test-time adaptation (TTA) on ViT, a technique that has emerged to correct its prediction during test-time by itself.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Takeshi Kojima , Yutaka Matsuo , Yusuke Iwasawa

Consistency Models (CM) (Song et al., 2023) accelerate score-based diffusion model sampling at the cost of sample quality but lack a natural way to trade-off quality for speed. To address this limitation, we propose Consistency Trajectory…

This research explored the hybridization of CNN and ViT within a training dataset of limited size, and introduced a distinct class imbalance. The training was made from scratch with a mere focus on theoretically and experimentally exploring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Prashant Singh Basnet , Roshan Chitrakar

Consistency models have recently been introduced to accelerate sampling from diffusion models by directly predicting the solution (i.e., data) of the probability flow ODE (PF ODE) from initial noise. However, the training of consistency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Sangyun Lee , Yilun Xu , Tomas Geffner , Giulia Fanti , Karsten Kreis , Arash Vahdat , Weili Nie

In recent years, Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has been investigated mainly transforming the speech signal into spectrograms that are then classified using Convolutional Neural Networks pretrained on generic images and fine tuned with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-07 A. Arezzo , S. Berretti

Though significant progress has been made for speaker-dependent Video-to-Speech (VTS) synthesis, little attention is devoted to multi-speaker VTS that can map silent video to speech, while allowing flexible control of speaker identity, all…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Disong Wang , Shan Yang , Dan Su , Xunying Liu , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

Deep neural networks may be susceptible to learning spurious correlations that hold on average but not in atypical test samples. As with the recent emergence of vision transformer (ViT) models, it remains underexplored how spurious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Soumya Suvra Ghosal , Yifei Ming , Yixuan Li

Vision transformers (ViTs) have found only limited practical use in processing images, in spite of their state-of-the-art accuracy on certain benchmarks. The reason for their limited use include their need for larger training datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Pranav Jeevan , Amit sethi

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a prominent architecture for various computer vision tasks. In ViT, we divide the input image into patch tokens and process them through a stack of self attention blocks. However, unlike Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Harsh Rangwani , Pradipto Mondal , Mayank Mishra , Ashish Ramayee Asokan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) provides high-resolution cross-sectional images useful for diagnosing various diseases, but their distinct characteristics from natural images raise questions about whether large-scale pre-training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Zihao Han , Philippe De Wilde