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Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced in image deblurring and exhibited promising performance, particularly in terms of details reconstruction. However, the diffusion model requires a large number of inference iterations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Ding Liu , Bin Xia , Jinjin Gu , Linghe Kong , Xin Yuan

Recently, diffusion models have achieved great success in image synthesis. However, when it comes to the layout-to-image generation where an image often has a complex scene of multiple objects, how to make strong control over both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Guangcong Zheng , Xianpan Zhou , Xuewei Li , Zhongang Qi , Ying Shan , Xi Li

We present Location Field Descriptors, a novel approach for single image 3D model retrieval in the wild. In contrast to previous methods that directly map 3D models and RGB images to an embedding space, we establish a common low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Alexander Grabner , Peter M. Roth , Vincent Lepetit

Improving the quality of hyperspectral images (HSIs), such as through super-resolution, is a crucial research area. However, generative modeling for HSIs presents several challenges. Due to their high spectral dimensionality, HSIs are too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sirui Wang , Jiang He , Natàlia Blasco Andreo , Xiao Xiang Zhu

This paper introduces StructDiff, a generative framework based on a single-scale diffusion model for single-image generation. Single-image generation aims to synthesize diverse samples with similar visual content to the source image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yinxi He , Kang Liao , Chunyu Lin , Tianyi Wei , Yao Zhao

Diffusion models have made significant contributions to computer vision, sparking a growing interest in the community recently regarding the application of them to graph generation. Existing discrete graph diffusion models exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Xingcheng Fu , Yisen Gao , Yuecen Wei , Qingyun Sun , Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Xianxian Li

This paper presents a novel method designed to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of both image retrieval and pixel retrieval. Traditional diffusion methods struggle to propagate spatial information effectively in conventional graphs due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Guoyuan An , Yuchi Huo , Sung-Eui Yoon

Generating images from graph-structured inputs, such as scene graphs, is uniquely challenging due to the difficulty of aligning nodes and connections in graphs with objects and their relations in images. Most existing methods address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ling Yang , Zhilin Huang , Yang Song , Shenda Hong , Guohao Li , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui , Bernard Ghanem , Ming-Hsuan Yang

LiDAR-based place recognition serves as a crucial enabler for long-term autonomy in robotics and autonomous driving systems. Yet, prevailing methodologies relying on handcrafted feature extraction face dual challenges: (1) Inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaohui Jiang , Haijiang Zhu , Chade Li , Fulin Tang , Ning An

A major challenge in reconstructing buildings from LiDAR point clouds lies in accurately capturing building surfaces under varying point densities and noise interference. To flexibly gather high-quality 3D profiles of the building in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jialu Sui , Rui Liu , Hongsheng Zhang

Geographic data is fundamentally local. Disease outbreaks cluster in population centers, ecological patterns emerge along coastlines, and economic activity concentrates within country borders. Machine learning models that encode geographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Arjun Rao , Ruth Crasto , Tessa Ooms , David Rolnick , Konstantin Klemmer , Marc Rußwurm

We present a novel geometric perspective on the latent space of diffusion models. We first show that the standard pullback approach, utilizing the deterministic probability flow ODE decoder, is fundamentally flawed. It provably forces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Rafał Karczewski , Markus Heinonen , Alison Pouplin , Søren Hauberg , Vikas Garg

The overarching goals in image-based localization are scale, robustness and speed. In recent years, approaches based on local features and sparse 3D point-cloud models have both dominated the benchmarks and seen successful realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Simon Lynen , Bernhard Zeisl , Dror Aiger , Michael Bosse , Joel Hesch , Marc Pollefeys , Roland Siegwart , Torsten Sattler

Learning representations of geographical space is vital for any machine learning model that integrates geolocated data, spanning application domains such as remote sensing, ecology, or epidemiology. Recent work embeds coordinates using sine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Marc Rußwurm , Konstantin Klemmer , Esther Rolf , Robin Zbinden , Devis Tuia

Indoor localization systems commonly rely on fingerprinting, which requires extensive survey efforts to obtain location-tagged signal data, limiting their real-world deployability. Recent approaches that attempt to reduce this overhead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Abdelrahman Abdelmotlb , Abdallah Taman , Sherif Mostafa , Moustafa Youssef

Object-centric learning aims to represent visual data with a set of object entities (a.k.a. slots), providing structured representations that enable systematic generalization. Leveraging advanced architectures like Transformers, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Ziyi Wu , Jingyu Hu , Wuyue Lu , Igor Gilitschenski , Animesh Garg

Probabilistic super-resolution of high-dimensional spatial fields using diffusion models is often computationally prohibitive due to the cost of operating directly in pixel space. We propose PODiff, a structured conditional generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Onkar Jadhav , Tim French , Matthew Rayson , Nicole L. Jones

With the widespread use of NeRF-based implicit 3D representation, the need for camera localization in the same representation becomes manifestly apparent. Doing so not only simplifies the localization process -- by avoiding an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Rashik Shrestha , Bishad Koju , Abhigyan Bhusal , Danda Pani Paudel , François Rameau

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation but their practical application is often hindered by the slow sampling speed. Prior efforts of improving efficiency primarily focus on compressing models or reducing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiuyi Xu , Qing Jin , Meida Chen , Andrew Feng , Yang Sui , Yangming Shi

Accurately determining the geographic location where a single image was taken, visual geolocation, remains a formidable challenge due to the planet's vastness and the deceptive similarity among distant locations. We introduce GeoLocSFT, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Qiang Yi , Lianlei Shan