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Curating datasets for object segmentation is a difficult task. With the advent of large-scale pre-trained generative models, conditional image generation has been given a significant boost in result quality and ease of use. In this paper,…

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Diffusion Generative Models (DGM) have rapidly surfaced as emerging topics in the field of computer vision, garnering significant interest across a wide array of deep learning applications. Despite their high computational demand, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Denisha Thakkar , Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh , Sonal Varma , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Hassan Rivaz , Mahdi S. Hosseini

Data augmentation is one of the most prevalent tools in deep learning, underpinning many recent advances, including those from classification, generative models, and representation learning. The standard approach to data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Brandon Trabucco , Kyle Doherty , Max Gurinas , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Data augmentation is a popular technique which helps improve generalization capabilities of deep neural networks. It plays a pivotal role in remote-sensing scenarios in which the amount of high-quality ground truth data is limited, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Jakub Nalepa , Michal Myller , Michal Kawulok

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

Based on the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), medical image segmentation can be described as a conditional image generation task, which allows to compute pixel-wise uncertainty maps of the segmentation and allows an implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Xutao Guo , Yanwu Yang , Chenfei Ye , Shang Lu , Yang Xiang , Ting Ma

Data augmentation (DA) can significantly strengthen the electroencephalogram (EEG)-based seizure prediction methods. However, existing DA approaches are just the linear transformations of original data and cannot explore the feature space…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Kai Shu , Le Wu , Yuchang Zhao , Aiping Liu , Ruobing Qian , Xun Chen

We introduce a new technique for generating retinal fundus images that have anatomically accurate vascular structures, using diffusion models. We generate artery/vein masks to create the vascular structure, which we then condition to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Sojung Go , Younghoon Ji , Sang Jun Park , Soochahn Lee

It is promising to design a single model that can suppress various distortions and improve speech quality, i.e., universal speech enhancement (USE). Compared to supervised learning-based predictive methods, diffusion-based generative models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Jie Zhang , Haoyin Yan , Xiaofei Li

Recent years have witnessed a growing academic and industrial interest in deep learning (DL) for medical imaging. To perform well, DL models require very large labeled datasets. However, most medical imaging datasets are small, with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Minh H. Vu , Lorenzo Tronchin , Tufve Nyholm , Tommy Löfstedt

Generative AI has seen remarkable growth over the past few years, with diffusion models being state-of-the-art for image generation. This study investigates the use of diffusion models in generating artificial data generation for electronic…

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Generative models such as GANs and diffusion models have demonstrated impressive image generation capabilities. Despite these successes, these systems are surprisingly poor at creating images with hands. We propose a novel training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Yue Yang , Atith N Gandhi , Greg Turk

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures in ultrasound (US) images, particularly small ones, is challenging due to noise and variability in imaging conditions (e.g., probe position, patient anatomy, tissue characteristics and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Danielle L. Ferreira , Ahana Gangopadhyay , Hsi-Ming Chang , Ravi Soni , Gopal Avinash

Current perceptive models heavily depend on resource-intensive datasets, prompting the need for innovative solutions. Leveraging recent advances in diffusion models, synthetic data, by constructing image inputs from various annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yibo Wang , Ruiyuan Gao , Kai Chen , Kaiqiang Zhou , Yingjie Cai , Lanqing Hong , Zhenguo Li , Lihui Jiang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Qiang Xu , Kai Zhang

Medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate clinical diagnoses, yet it faces challenges such as low contrast between lesions and normal tissues, unclear boundaries, and high variability across patients. Deep learning has improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Houze Liu , Tong Zhou , Yanlin Xiang , Aoran Shen , Jiacheng Hu , Junliang Du

Generating enough and diverse data through augmentation offers an efficient solution to the time-consuming and labour-intensive process of collecting and annotating pixel-wise images. Traditional data augmentation techniques often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jiaojiao Ye , Jiaxing Zhong , Qian Xie , Yuzhou Zhou , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

In this study, we show that diffusion models can be used in industrial scenarios to improve the data augmentation procedure in the context of surface defect detection. In general, defect detection classifiers are trained on ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Luigi Capogrosso , Federico Girella , Francesco Taioli , Michele Dalla Chiara , Muhammad Aqeel , Franco Fummi , Francesco Setti , Marco Cristani

Flight diversions are rare but high-impact events in aviation, making their reliable prediction vital for both safety and operational efficiency. However, their scarcity in historical records impedes the training of machine learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Karim Aly , Alexei Sharpanskykh , Jacco Hoekstra

Urban scene reconstruction from real-world observations has emerged as a powerful tool for self-driving development and testing. While current neural rendering approaches achieve high-fidelity rendering along the recorded trajectories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Henry Che , Jingkang Wang , Yun Chen , Ze Yang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Raquel Urtasun

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in biomedical imaging and radiotherapy is hindered by the limited availability of large imaging data repositories. With recent research and improvements in denoising diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Rowan Bradbury , Katherine A. Vallis , Bartlomiej W. Papiez