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The diffusion model has recently emerged as a potent approach in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable performances in the field of generative artificial intelligence. Capable of producing high-quality synthetic images, diffusion models…

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A common approach to transfer learning under distribution shift is to fine-tune the last few layers of a pre-trained model, preserving learned features while also adapting to the new task. This paper shows that in such settings, selectively…

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When transferring a Deep Reinforcement Learning model from simulation to the real world, the performance could be unsatisfactory since the simulation cannot imitate the real world well in many circumstances. This results in a long period of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Wenxing Liu , Hanlin Niu , Robert Skilton , Joaquin Carrasco

Objective: Surgical activity recognition is a fundamental step in computer-assisted interventions. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in methods for automatic recognition of fine-grained gestures in robotic surgery focusing on recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Beatrice van Amsterdam , Matthew J. Clarkson , Danail Stoyanov

We propose an efficient diffusion-based text-to-video super-resolution (SR) tuning approach that leverages the readily learned capacity of pixel level image diffusion model to capture spatial information for video generation. To accomplish…

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Learning transferable latent actions from large-scale object manipulation videos can significantly enhance generalization in downstream robotics tasks, as such representations are agnostic to different robot embodiments. Existing approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zuolei Li , Xingyu Gao , Xiaofan Wang , Jianlong Fu

The problem of text-guided image generation is a complex task in Computer Vision, with various applications, including creating visually appealing artwork and realistic product images. One popular solution widely used for this task is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Halil Faruk Karagoz , Gulcin Baykal , Irem Arikan Eksi , Gozde Unal

Video action understanding tasks in real-world scenarios always suffer data limitations. In this paper, we address the data-limited action understanding problem by bridging data scarcity. We propose a novel method that employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Wei Li , Dezhao Luo , Dongbao Yang , Zhenhang Li , Weiping Wang , Yu Zhou

Video-based pretraining offers immense potential for learning strong visual representations on an unprecedented scale. Recently, masked video modeling methods have shown promising scalability, yet fall short in capturing higher-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Mohammadreza Salehi , Michael Dorkenwald , Fida Mohammad Thoker , Efstratios Gavves , Cees G. M. Snoek , Yuki M. Asano

The advancements in generative modeling, particularly the advent of diffusion models, have sparked a fundamental question: how can these models be effectively used for discriminative tasks? In this work, we find that generative models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Mihir Prabhudesai , Tsung-Wei Ke , Alexander C. Li , Deepak Pathak , Katerina Fragkiadaki

With the advent of robot-assisted surgery, the role of data-driven approaches to integrate statistics and machine learning is growing rapidly with prominent interests in objective surgical skill assessment. However, most existing work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Ziheng Wang , Ann Majewicz Fey

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Huan Ling , Tim Dockhorn , Seung Wook Kim , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly impacted the trajectory of generative machine learning research, with many adopting the strategy of fine-tuning pre-trained models using domain-specific text-to-image datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Mischa Dombrowski , Hadrien Reynaud , Johanna P. Müller , Matthew Baugh , Bernhard Kainz

Video generation models have emerged as high-fidelity models of the physical world, capable of synthesizing high-quality videos capturing fine-grained interactions between agents and their environments conditioned on multi-modal user…

Diffusion models have become increasingly popular for generative modeling due to their ability to generate high-quality samples. This has unlocked exciting new possibilities for solving inverse problems, especially in image restoration and…

World models that forecast environmental changes from actions are vital for autonomous driving models with strong generalization. The prevailing driving world model mainly build on video prediction model. Although these models can produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jingcheng Ni , Yuxin Guo , Yichen Liu , Rui Chen , Lewei Lu , Zehuan Wu

In the continual effort to improve product quality and decrease operations costs, computational modeling is increasingly being deployed to determine feasibility of product designs or configurations. Surrogate modeling of these computer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-10 Nathan Wycoff , Mickaël Binois , Robert B. Gramacy

Generating realistic motions for digital humans is a core but challenging part of computer animations and games, as human motions are both diverse in content and rich in styles. While the latest deep learning approaches have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Ziyi Chang , Edmund J. C. Findlay , Haozheng Zhang , Hubert P. H. Shum

Driving world models are used to simulate futures by video generation based on the condition of the current state and actions. However, current models often suffer serious error accumulations when predicting the long-term future, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaodong Wang , Zhirong Wu , Peixi Peng

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…