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Diffusion is commonly used as a ranking or re-ranking method in retrieval tasks to achieve higher retrieval performance, and has attracted lots of attention in recent years. A downside to diffusion is that it performs slowly in comparison…

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Recent advances in generative models have shown promise in generating behavior plans for long-horizon, sparse reward tasks. While these approaches have achieved promising results, they often lack a principled framework for hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nandiraju Gireesh , Yuanliang Ju , Chaoyi Xu , Weiheng Liu , Yuxuan Wan , He Wang

Image interpolation based on diffusion models is promising in creating fresh and interesting images. Advanced interpolation methods mainly focus on spherical linear interpolation, where images are encoded into the noise space and then…

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Video Frame Interpolation synthesizes non-existent images between adjacent frames, with the aim of providing a smooth and consistent visual experience. Two approaches for solving this challenging task are optical flow based and kernel-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Xi Li , Meng Cao , Yingying Tang , Scott Johnston , Zhendong Hong , Huimin Ma , Jiulong Shan

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable image generation quality surpassing previous generative models. However, a notable limitation of diffusion models, in comparison to GANs, is their difficulty in smoothly interpolating between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Kaiwen Zhang , Yifan Zhou , Xudong Xu , Xingang Pan , Bo Dai

Video Frame Interpolation (VFI) aims to synthesize intermediate frames between existing frames to enhance visual smoothness and quality. Beyond the conventional methods based on the reconstruction loss, recent works have employed generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jaihyun Lew , Jooyoung Choi , Chaehun Shin , Dahuin Jung , Sungroh Yoon

To date, top-performing optical flow estimation methods only take pairs of consecutive frames into account. While elegant and appealing, the idea of using more than two frames has not yet produced state-of-the-art results. We present a…

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The development of video diffusion models unveils a significant challenge: the substantial computational demands. To mitigate this challenge, we note that the reverse process of diffusion exhibits an inherent entropy-reducing nature. Given…

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Diffusion models are widely used in image generation, with most relying on noise-based corruption and denoising. A distinct branch instead uses blur as the main corruption, preserving better color budgets and multi-scale detail by providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jun Ma , Hanquan Zhang , Yanjun Qin , Haoyuan Guan , Ke Zhang

Image fusion is a fundamental and important task in computer vision, aiming to combine complementary information from different modalities to fuse images. In recent years, diffusion models have made significant developments in the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zirui Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Tianwei Guan , Yuhan Zhou , Xingyuan Li , Minjing Dong , Jinyuan Liu

Prevailing video frame interpolation algorithms, that generate the intermediate frames from consecutive inputs, typically rely on complex model architectures with heavy parameters or large delay, hindering them from diverse real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Lingtong Kong , Boyuan Jiang , Donghao Luo , Wenqing Chu , Xiaoming Huang , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Jie Yang

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art generative performance but suffer from high computational costs during inference due to the repeated evaluation of a heavy neural network. In this work, we propose Dual-Rate Diffusion, a method to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Grigory Bartosh , David Ruhe , Emiel Hoogeboom , Jonathan Heek , Thomas Mensink , Tim Salimans

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

Recent progress in large-scale text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-video (I2V) diffusion models has greatly enhanced video generation, especially in terms of keyframe interpolation. However, current image-to-video diffusion models, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Serin Yang , Taesung Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in image and video synthesis. However, scaling them to high-resolution inputs is challenging and requires restructuring the diffusion pipeline into multiple independent components,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ivan Skorokhodov , Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Sergey Tulyakov

Diffusion models have recently achieved great success in the synthesis of high-quality images and videos. However, the existing denoising techniques in diffusion models are commonly based on step-by-step noise predictions, which suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hancheng Ye , Jiakang Yuan , Renqiu Xia , Xiangchao Yan , Tao Chen , Junchi Yan , Botian Shi , Bo Zhang

Diffusion models have become a mainstream approach for high-resolution image synthesis. However, directly generating higher-resolution images from pretrained diffusion models will encounter unreasonable object duplication and exponentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shen Zhang , Zhaowei Chen , Zhenyu Zhao , Yuhao Chen , Yao Tang , Jiajun Liang

Video Frame Interpolation (VFI) is a crucial technique in various applications such as slow-motion generation, frame rate conversion, video frame restoration etc. This paper introduces an efficient video frame interpolation framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tong Shen , Dong Li , Ziheng Gao , Lu Tian , Emad Barsoum

Video frame interpolation has been actively studied with the development of convolutional neural networks. However, due to the intrinsic limitations of kernel weight sharing in convolution, the interpolated frame generated by it may lose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Pan Gao , Haoyue Tian , Jie Qin