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Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image synthesis. However, addressing artifacts and unrealistic regions remains a critical challenge. We propose self-refining diffusion, a novel framework that enhances image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Seoyeon Lee , Gwangyeol Yu , Chaewon Kim , Jonghyuk Park

Object detection is fundamental to various real-world applications, such as security monitoring and surveillance video analysis. Despite their advancements, state-of-the-art object detectors are still vulnerable to adversarial patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jin Ma , Mohammed Aldeen , Christopher Salas , Feng Luo , Mashrur Chowdhury , Mert Pesé , Long Cheng

JPEG, as a widely used image compression standard, often introduces severe visual artifacts when achieving high compression ratios. Although existing deep learning-based restoration methods have made considerable progress, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Tingyu Yang , Jue Gong , Jinpei Guo , Wenbo Li , Yong Guo , Yulun Zhang

While diffusion-based image restoration (IR) methods have achieved remarkable success, they are still limited by the low inference speed attributed to the necessity of executing hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Learning from a large corpus of data, pre-trained models have achieved impressive progress nowadays. As popular generative pre-training, diffusion models capture both low-level visual knowledge and high-level semantic relations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Despite diffusion models' superior capabilities in modeling complex distributions, there are still non-trivial distributional discrepancies between generated and ground-truth images, which has resulted in several notable problems in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yujian Liu , Yang Zhang , Tommi Jaakkola , Shiyu Chang

Diffusion models in image Super-Resolution (SR) treat all image regions uniformly, which risks compromising the overall image quality by potentially introducing artifacts during denoising of less-complex regions. To address this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Brian B. Moser , Stanislav Frolov , Federico Raue , Sebastian Palacio , Andreas Dengel

Artifact-free super-resolution (SR) aims to translate low-resolution images into their high-resolution counterparts with a strict integrity of the original content, eliminating any distortions or synthetic details. While traditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Qingping Zheng , Ling Zheng , Yuanfan Guo , Ying Li , Songcen Xu , Jiankang Deng , Hang Xu

Fairness is an important topic for medical image analysis, driven by the challenge of unbalanced training data among diverse target groups and the societal demand for equitable medical quality. In response to this issue, our research adopts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Wenyi Li , Haoran Xu , Guiyu Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Mingju Gao , Mengyu Wang , Hao Zhao

In this paper, we delve into a new task known as small object editing (SOE), which focuses on text-based image inpainting within a constrained, small-sized area. Despite the remarkable success have been achieved by current image inpainting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yiming Wu , Qihe Pan , Zhen Zhao , Zicheng Wang , Sifan Long , Ronghua Liang

Generative image editing has recently witnessed extremely fast-paced growth. Some works use high-level conditioning such as text, while others use low-level conditioning. Nevertheless, most of them lack fine-grained control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Vidit Goel , Elia Peruzzo , Yifan Jiang , Dejia Xu , Xingqian Xu , Nicu Sebe , Trevor Darrell , Zhangyang Wang , Humphrey Shi

Recent video inpainting algorithms integrate flow-based pixel propagation with transformer-based generation to leverage optical flow for restoring textures and objects using information from neighboring frames, while completing masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaowen Li , Haolan Xue , Peiran Ren , Liefeng Bo

Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various forms of degradation. Recently, the diffusion model has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xin Li , Yulin Ren , Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Xingrui Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Xinchao Wang , Zhibo Chen

Recent object detectors have achieved impressive accuracy in identifying objects seen during training. However, real-world deployment often introduces novel and unexpected objects, referred to as out-of-distribution (OOD) objects, posing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Quang-Huy Nguyen , Jin Peng Zhou , Zhenzhen Liu , Khanh-Huyen Bui , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Wei-Lun Chao , Dung D. Le

Image inpainting aims to fill in the missing pixels with visually coherent and semantically plausible content. Despite the great progress brought from deep generative models, this task still suffers from i. the difficulties in large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Siyuan Yang , Lu Zhang , Liqian Ma , Yu Liu , JingJing Fu , You He

Diffusion models have achieved impressive performance on multi-focus image fusion (MFIF). However, a key challenge in applying diffusion models to the ill-posed MFIF problem is that defocus blur can make common symmetric geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bo Li , Tingting Bao , Lingling Zhang , Weiping Fu , Yaxian Wang , Jun Liu

In this paper, we introduce Era3D, a novel multiview diffusion method that generates high-resolution multiview images from a single-view image. Despite significant advancements in multiview generation, existing methods still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Peng Li , Yuan Liu , Xiaoxiao Long , Feihu Zhang , Cheng Lin , Mengfei Li , Xingqun Qi , Shanghang Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Ping Tan , Wenping Wang , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Diffusion policies are a powerful paradigm for robotic control, but fine-tuning them with human preferences is fundamentally challenged by the multi-step structure of the denoising process. To overcome this, we introduce a Unified Markov…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amitesh Vatsa , Zhixian Xie , Wanxin Jin

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark can survive various image manipulations. However, the rise of powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques poses a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yunyi Ni , Finn Carter , Ze Niu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

DragDiffusion is a diffusion-based method for interactive point-based image editing that enables users to manipulate images by directly dragging selected points. The method claims that accurate spatial control can be achieved by optimizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ali Subhan , Ashir Raza