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Diffusion models, despite their impressive demos, often produce hallucinatory samples with structural inconsistencies that lie outside of the support of the true data distribution. Such hallucinations can be attributed to excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Kostas Triaridis , Alexandros Graikos , Aggelina Chatziagapi , Grigorios G. Chrysos , Dimitris Samaras

Diffusion models conditioned on identity embeddings enable the generation of synthetic face images that consistently preserve identity across multiple samples. Recent work has shown that introducing an additional negative condition through…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Eduarda Caldeira , Tahar Chettaoui , Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros

We introduce the concept of deceptive diffusion -- training a generative AI model to produce adversarial images. Whereas a traditional adversarial attack algorithm aims to perturb an existing image to induce a misclassificaton, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Lucas Beerens , Catherine F. Higham , Desmond J. Higham

Reducing the requirement for densely annotated masks in medical image segmentation is important due to cost constraints. In this paper, we consider the problem of inferring pixel-level predictions of brain lesions by only using image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pedro Sanchez , Antanas Kascenas , Xiao Liu , Alison Q. O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

We introduce several techniques for sampling and visualizing the latent spaces of generative models. Replacing linear interpolation with spherical linear interpolation prevents diverging from a model's prior distribution and produces…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Tom White

The ability to ask questions is a powerful tool to gather information in order to learn about the world and resolve ambiguities. In this paper, we explore a novel problem of generating discriminative questions to help disambiguate visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Yining Li , Chen Huang , Xiaoou Tang , Chen-Change Loy

We propose a method for generating spurious features by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models. Although the previous work detects spurious features in a large-scale dataset like ImageNet and introduces Spurious ImageNet, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Huy H. Nguyen , Hitoshi Kiya , Isao Echizen

We introduce a framework for learning robust visual representations that generalize to new viewpoints, backgrounds, and scene contexts. Discriminative models often learn naturally occurring spurious correlations, which cause them to fail on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Chengzhi Mao , Augustine Cha , Amogh Gupta , Hao Wang , Junfeng Yang , Carl Vondrick

In forensic investigations of machine learning models, techniques that determine a model's data domain play an essential role, with prior work relying on large-scale corpora like ImageNet to approximate the target model's domain. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Jiyi Zhang , Han Fang , Ee-Chien Chang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generation tasks. Nevertheless, explaining the diffusion process remains challenging due to it being a sequence of denoising noisy images that are difficult for experts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ji-Hoon Park , Yeong-Joon Ju , Seong-Whan Lee

Acquiring high-quality data for training discriminative models is a crucial yet challenging aspect of building effective predictive systems. In this paper, we present Diffusion Inversion, a simple yet effective method that leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yongchao Zhou , Hshmat Sahak , Jimmy Ba

Understanding visual scenes is fundamental to human intelligence. While discriminative models have significantly advanced computer vision, they often struggle with compositional understanding. In contrast, recent generative text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yujin Jeong , Arnas Uselis , Seong Joon Oh , Anna Rohrbach

Detecting objects seamlessly blended into their surroundings represents a complex task for both human cognitive capabilities and advanced artificial intelligence algorithms. Currently, the majority of methodologies for detecting camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jianwei Zhao , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Qiang Zhai , Ao Luo , Zicheng Jiao , Hong Cheng

Taming diffusion models for generative segmentation has attracted increasing attention. While existing approaches primarily focus on architectural tweaks or training heuristics, there remains a limited understanding of the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Chaoyang Wang , Yaobo Liang , Boci Peng , Fan Duan , Jingdong Wang , Yunhai Tong

This paper investigates a general framework to discover categories of unlabeled scene images according to their appearances (i.e., textures and structures). We jointly solve the two coupled tasks in an unsupervised manner: (i) classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Liang Lin , Ruimao Zhang , Xiaohua Duan

Distinguishing subtle differences in attributes is valuable, yet learning to make visual comparisons remains non-trivial. Not only is the number of possible comparisons quadratic in the number of training images, but also access to images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Aron Yu , Kristen Grauman

Recent years have seen a growing interest in methods for predicting an unknown variable of interest, such as a subject's diagnosis, from medical images depicting its anatomical-functional effects. Methods based on discriminative modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Chiara Mauri , Stefano Cerri , Oula Puonti , Mark Mühlau , Koen Van Leemput

Instance segmentation is data-hungry, and as model capacity increases, data scale becomes crucial for improving the accuracy. Most instance segmentation datasets today require costly manual annotation, limiting their data scale. Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Chengxiang Fan , Muzhi Zhu , Hao Chen , Yang Liu , Weijia Wu , Huaqi Zhang , Chunhua Shen

Diffusion probabilistic models have achieved enormous success in the field of image generation and manipulation. In this paper, we explore a novel paradigm of using the diffusion model and classifier guidance in the latent semantic space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Changhao Shi , Haomiao Ni , Kai Li , Shaobo Han , Mingfu Liang , Martin Renqiang Min

This study investigates human-computer interface generation based on diffusion models to overcome the limitations of traditional template-based design and fixed rule-driven methods. It first analyzes the key challenges of interface…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Rui Liu , Liuqingqing Yang , Runsheng Zhang , Shixiao Wang