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Diffusion models are known for generating high-quality images, causing serious security concerns. To combat this, most efforts rely on deep neural networks (e.g., CNNs and Transformers), while largely overlooking the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mengxin Fu , Yuezun Li

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden messages into images such that they survive various manipulations while remaining imperceptible. However, powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing models now enable realistic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenkai Fu , Finn Carter , Yue Wang , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Generative models are becoming popular for the synthesis of medical images. Recently, neural diffusion models have demonstrated the potential to generate photo-realistic images of objects. However, their potential to generate medical images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Hazrat Ali , Shafaq Murad , Zubair Shah

Synthetic image generation has opened up new opportunities but has also created threats in regard to privacy, authenticity, and security. Detecting fake images is of paramount importance to prevent illegal activities, and previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Md Awsafur Rahman , Bishmoy Paul , Najibul Haque Sarker , Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

Text-to-image diffusion models have revolutionized image synthesis and editing, but precise control over stylistic attributes remains a challenge, often causing unintended content modifications. We propose an approach for fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Max Reimann , Benito Buchheim , Jürgen Döllner

Many self-supervised denoising approaches have been proposed in recent years. However, these methods tend to overly smooth images, resulting in the loss of fine structures that are essential for medical applications. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Basar Demir , Yikang Liu , Xiao Chen , Eric Z. Chen , Lin Zhao , Boris Mailhe , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

Diffusion models achieve great success in generating diverse and high-fidelity images, yet their widespread application, especially in real-time scenarios, is hampered by their inherently slow generation speed. The slow generation stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Shengkun Tang , Yaqing Wang , Caiwen Ding , Yi Liang , Yao Li , Dongkuan Xu

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have achieved impressive performance on various image generation tasks, including image super-resolution. By learning to reverse the process of gradually diffusing the data distribution into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Kai Zhao , Alex Ling Yu Hung , Kaifeng Pang , Haoxin Zheng , Kyunghyun Sung

With recent text-to-image models, anyone can generate deceptively realistic images with arbitrary contents, fueling the growing threat of visual disinformation. A key enabler for generating high-resolution images with low computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jonas Ricker , Denis Lukovnikov , Asja Fischer

Diffusion models (DMs) have been successfully applied to real image editing. These models typically invert images into latent noise vectors used to reconstruct the original images (known as inversion), and then edit them during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Jimin Dai , Yingzhen Zhang , Shuo Chen , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

The advent of accessible Generative AI tools enables anyone to create and spread synthetic images on social media, often with the intention to mislead, thus posing a significant threat to online information integrity. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Efthymia Amarantidou , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis

Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs) have become a popular tool for generating high-quality samples from complex data distributions. These models are able to capture sophisticated patterns and structures in the data, and can generate samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Emanuele Aiello , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Recent generative models produce near-photorealistic images, challenging the trustworthiness of photographs. Synthetic image detection (SID) has thus become an important area of research. Prior work has highlighted how synthetic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Marco Willi , Melanie Mathys , Michael Graber

The steady improvement of Diffusion Models for visual synthesis has given rise to many new and interesting use cases of synthetic images but also has raised concerns about their potential abuse, which poses significant societal threats. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Dario Cioni , Christos Tzelepis , Lorenzo Seidenari , Ioannis Patras

Diffusion models, widely used in image generation, rely on iterative refinement to generate images from noise. Understanding this data evolution is important for model development and interpretability, yet challenging due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Vidya Prasad , Hans van Gorp , Christina Humer , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Anna Vilanova , Nicola Pezzotti

Low-field to high-field MRI synthesis has emerged as a cost-effective strategy to enhance image quality under hardware and acquisition constraints, particularly in scenarios where access to high-field scanners is limited or impractical.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zhenxuan Zhang , Peiyuan Jing , Ruicheng Yuan , Liwei Hu , Anbang Wang , Fanwen Wang , Yinzhe Wu , Kh Tohidul Islam , Zhaolin Chen , Zi Wang , Peter Lally , Guang Yang

In this paper, a signal detection method based on the denoise diffusion model (DM) is proposed, which outperforms the maximum likelihood (ML) estimation method that has long been regarded as the optimal signal detection technique.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Xiucheng Wang , Peilin Zheng , Nan Cheng

Known for their impressive performance in generative modeling, diffusion models are attractive candidates for density-based anomaly detection. This paper investigates different variations of diffusion modeling for unsupervised and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Victor Livernoche , Vineet Jain , Yashar Hezaveh , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Despite the notable accomplishments of deep object detection models, a major challenge that persists is the requirement for extensive amounts of training data. The process of procuring such real-world data is a laborious undertaking, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Roy Voetman , Maya Aghaei , Klaas Dijkstra

Diffusion models have been shown to be capable of generating high-quality images, suggesting that they could contain meaningful internal representations. Unfortunately, the feature maps that encode a diffusion model's internal information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Grace Luo , Lisa Dunlap , Dong Huk Park , Aleksander Holynski , Trevor Darrell