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We introduce Diff-Tracker, a novel approach for the challenging unsupervised visual tracking task leveraging the pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model. Our main idea is to leverage the rich knowledge encapsulated within the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhengbo Zhang , Li Xu , Duo Peng , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

The pre-trained text-image discriminative models, such as CLIP, has been explored for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation with unsatisfactory results due to the loss of crucial localization information and awareness of object shapes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jinglong Wang , Xiawei Li , Jing Zhang , Qingyuan Xu , Qin Zhou , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Dong Xu

We present an auxiliary task to Mask R-CNN, an instance segmentation network, which leads to faster training of the mask head. Our addition to Mask R-CNN is a new prediction head, the Edge Agreement Head, which is inspired by the way human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Roland S. Zimmermann , Julien N. Siems

Latest diffusion models have shown promising results in category-level 6D object pose estimation by modeling the conditional pose distribution with depth image input. The existing methods, however, suffer from slow convergence during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Seunghyun Lee , Tae-Kyun Kim

Score-based diffusion models learn to reverse a stochastic differential equation that maps data to noise. However, for complex tasks, numerical error can compound and result in highly unnatural samples. Previous work mitigates this drift…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-12 Aaron Lou , Stefano Ermon

Object detectors often suffer a decrease in performance due to the large domain gap between the training data (source domain) and real-world data (target domain). Diffusion-based generative models have shown remarkable abilities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Boyong He , Yuxiang Ji , Zhuoyue Tan , Liaoni Wu

In spite of recent progress, image diffusion models still produce artifacts. A common solution is to leverage the feedback provided by quality assessment systems or human annotators to optimize the model, where images are generally rated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yiyang Wang , Xi Chen , Xiaogang Xu , Sihui Ji , Yu Liu , Yujun Shen , Hengshuang Zhao

In this paper, we propose a conceptually novel, efficient, and fully convolutional framework for real-time instance segmentation. Previously, most instance segmentation methods heavily rely on object detection and perform mask prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Tianheng Cheng , Xinggang Wang , Shaoyu Chen , Wenqiang Zhang , Qian Zhang , Chang Huang , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Wenyu Liu

This paper presents a novel approach for learning instance segmentation with image-level class labels as supervision. Our approach generates pseudo instance segmentation labels of training images, which are used to train a fully supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jiwoon Ahn , Sunghyun Cho , Suha Kwak

The rapid advancement of diffusion-based image generators has made it increasingly difficult to distinguish generated from real images. This erodes trust in digital media, making it critical to develop generated image detectors that remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ana Vasilcoiu , Ivona Najdenkoska , Zeno Geradts , Marcel Worring

Camouflaged object detection is a challenging task that aims to identify objects that are highly similar to their background. Due to the powerful noise-to-image denoising capability of denoising diffusion models, in this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zhennan Chen , Rongrong Gao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Fan Lin

To prevent unauthorized use of text in images, Scene Text Removal (STR) has become a crucial task. It focuses on automatically removing text and replacing it with a natural, text-less background while preserving significant details such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sanhita Pathak , Vinay Kaushik , Brejesh Lall

Panoptic segmentation assigns semantic and instance ID labels to every pixel of an image. As permutations of instance IDs are also valid solutions, the task requires learning of high-dimensional one-to-many mapping. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Ting Chen , Lala Li , Saurabh Saxena , Geoffrey Hinton , David J. Fleet

Efficient single instance segmentation is essential for unlocking features in the mobile imaging applications, such as capture or editing. Existing on-the-fly mobile imaging applications scope the segmentation task to portraits or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mingyuan Wu , Zichuan Liu , Haozhen Zheng , Hongpeng Guo , Bo Chen , Xin Lu , Klara Nahrstedt

Panoptic Segmentation aims to provide an understanding of background (stuff) and instances of objects (things) at a pixel level. It combines the separate tasks of semantic segmentation (pixel level classification) and instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Sumanth Chennupati , Venkatraman Narayanan , Ganesh Sistu , Senthil Yogamani , Samir A Rawashdeh

Diffusion models have emerged as the mainstream approach for visual generation. However, these models typically suffer from sample inefficiency and high training costs. Consequently, methods for efficient finetuning, inference and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Felix Krause , Timy Phan , Ming Gui , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable progress in image generation quality, especially when guidance is used to control the generative process. However, guidance requires a large amount of image-annotation pairs for training and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Vincent Tao Hu , David W Zhang , Yuki M. Asano , Gertjan J. Burghouts , Cees G. M. Snoek

Recently, diffusion models have emerged as promising newcomers in the field of generative models, shining brightly in image generation. However, when employed for object removal tasks, they still encounter issues such as generating random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenhao Sun , Benlei Cui , Xue-Mei Dong , Jingqun Tang

Producing quality segmentation masks for images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recent research has explored large-scale supervised training to enable zero-shot segmentation on virtually any image style and unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Junjiao Tian , Lavisha Aggarwal , Andrea Colaco , Zsolt Kira , Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Diffusion models are powerful tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions by progressively transforming pure noise into structured data through a denoising process. When equipped with a guidance mechanism, these models can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu