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Autonomous systems rely on sensors to estimate the environment around them. However, cameras, LiDARs, and RADARs have their own limitations. In nighttime or degraded environments such as fog, mist, or dust, thermal cameras can provide…

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Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a superior generative model that can produce high quality and realistic images. However, for medical image translation, the existing diffusion models are deficient in accurately retaining…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Yunxiang Li , Hua-Chieh Shao , Xiao Liang , Liyuan Chen , Ruiqi Li , Steve Jiang , Jing Wang , You Zhang

In this work, we address two limitations of existing conditional diffusion models: their slow inference speed due to the iterative denoising process and their reliance on paired data for model fine-tuning. To tackle these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Gaurav Parmar , Taesung Park , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Jun-Yan Zhu

Fine-Grained Image Retrieval~(FGIR) faces challenges in learning discriminative visual representations to retrieve images with similar fine-grained features. Current leading FGIR solutions typically follow two regimes: enforce pairwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xin Jiang , Meiqi Cao , Hao Tang , Fei Shen , Zechao Li

Diffusion models have shown significant progress in image translation tasks recently. However, due to their stochastic nature, there's often a trade-off between style transformation and content preservation. Current strategies aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Gihyun Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

This paper addresses the problem of translating night-time thermal infrared images, which are the most adopted image modalities to analyze night-time scenes, to daytime color images (NTIT2DC), which provide better perceptions of objects. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Luigi Sigillo , Eleonora Grassucci , Danilo Comminiello

Pre-trained diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in synthesizing images across a wide range of scenarios with customizable prompts, indicating their effective capacity to capture universal features. Motivated by this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yuxiang Ji , Boyong He , Chenyuan Qu , Zhuoyue Tan , Chuan Qin , Liaoni Wu

Comparing images captured by disparate sensors is a common challenge in remote sensing. This requires image translation -- converting imagery from one sensor domain to another while preserving the original content. Denoising Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 João Gabriel Vinholi , Marco Chini , Anis Amziane , Renato Machado , Danilo Silva , Patrick Matgen

Image-to-image translation (I2I), and particularly its subfield of appearance transfer, which seeks to alter the visual appearance between images while maintaining structural coherence, presents formidable challenges. Despite significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuteng Ye , Guanwen Li , Hang Zhou , Cai Jiale , Junqing Yu , Yawei Luo , Zikai Song , Qilong Xing , Youjia Zhang , Wei Yang

We present a simple but effective training-free approach for text-driven image-to-image translation based on a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model. Our goal is to generate an image that aligns with the target task while preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hyunsoo Lee , Minsoo Kang , Bohyung Han

Few-shot learning deals with problems such as image classification using very few training examples. Recent vision foundation models show excellent few-shot transfer abilities, but are large and slow at inference. Using knowledge…

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Color plays an important role in human visual perception, reflecting the spectrum of objects. However, the existing infrared and visible image fusion methods rarely explore how to handle multi-spectral/channel data directly and achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jun Yue , Leyuan Fang , Shaobo Xia , Yue Deng , Jiayi Ma

Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zijie Li , Henry Li , Yichun Shi , Amir Barati Farimani , Yuval Kluger , Linjie Yang , Peng Wang

Image fusion aims to blend complementary information from multiple sensing modalities, yet existing approaches remain limited in robustness, adaptability, and controllability. Most current fusion networks are tailored to specific tasks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiayang Li , Chengjie Jiang , Junjun Jiang , Pengwei Liang , Jiayi Ma , Liqiang Nie

Diffusion models are able to generate photorealistic images in arbitrary scenes. However, when applying diffusion models to image translation, there exists a trade-off between maintaining spatial structure and high-quality content. Besides,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shiqi Sun , Shancheng Fang , Qian He , Wei Liu

Denosing diffusion model, as a generative model, has received a lot of attention in the field of image generation recently, thanks to its powerful generation capability. However, diffusion models have not yet received sufficient research in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 ZiHan Cao , ShiQi Cao , Xiao Wu , JunMing Hou , Ran Ran , Liang-Jian Deng

Large text-to-image diffusion models have exhibited impressive proficiency in generating high-quality images. However, when applying these models to video domain, ensuring temporal consistency across video frames remains a formidable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Shuai Yang , Yifan Zhou , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

We present a deep learning-based method for propagating spatially-varying visual material attributes (e.g. texture maps or image stylizations) to larger samples of the same or similar materials. For training, we leverage images of the…

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Applying diffusion models to image-to-image translation (I2I) has recently received increasing attention due to its practical applications. Previous attempts inject information from the source image into each denoising step for an iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Mengfei Xia , Yu Zhou , Ran Yi , Yong-Jin Liu , Wenping Wang