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Large annotated datasets are required for training deep learning models, but in medical imaging data sharing is often complicated due to ethics, anonymization and data protection legislation. Generative AI models, such as generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Muhammad Usman Akbar , Måns Larsson , Anders Eklund

We present a novel method for exemplar-based image translation, called matching interleaved diffusion models (MIDMs). Most existing methods for this task were formulated as GAN-based matching-then-generation framework. However, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Junyoung Seo , Gyuseong Lee , Seokju Cho , Jiyoung Lee , Seungryong Kim

Despite all recent progress, it is still challenging to edit and manipulate natural images with modern generative models. When using Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), one major hurdle is in the inversion process mapping a real image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zhihong Pan , Riccardo Gherardi , Xiufeng Xie , Stephen Huang

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 advances in computer vision have shown promising results in image generation. Diffusion probabilistic models in particular have generated realistic images from textual input, as demonstrated by DALL-E 2, Imagen and Stable Diffusion.…

Although EDM aims to unify the design space of diffusion models, its reliance on fixed Gaussian noise prevents it from explaining emerging flow-based methods that diffuse arbitrary noise. Moreover, our study reveals that EDM's forcible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Xingyu Qiu , Mengying Yang , Xinghua Ma , Dong Liang , Fanding Li , Gongning Luo , Wei Wang , Kuanquan Wang , Shuo Li

Prevailing Dataset Distillation (DD) methods leveraging generative models confront two fundamental limitations. First, despite pioneering the use of diffusion models in DD and delivering impressive performance, the vast majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Letian Zhou , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems. However, training diffusion models in the pixel space are both data-intensive and computationally demanding, which restricts their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Bowen Song , Soo Min Kwon , Zecheng Zhang , Xinyu Hu , Qing Qu , Liyue Shen

The remarkable realism of images generated by diffusion models poses critical detection challenges. Current methods utilize reconstruction error as a discriminative feature, exploiting the observation that real images exhibit higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jie Li , Yingying Feng , Chi Xie , Jie Hu , Lei Tan , Jiayi Ji

Latent diffusion models for medical image super-resolution universally inherit variational autoencoders designed for natural photographs. We show that this default choice, not the diffusion architecture, is the dominant constraint on…

In supervised learning for image denoising, usually the paired clean images and noisy images are collected or synthesised to train a denoising model. L2 norm loss or other distance functions are used as the objective function for training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yutong Xie , Minne Yuan , Bin Dong , Quanzheng Li

In this research, we introduce an innovative method for synthesizing medical images using generative adversarial networks (GANs). Our proposed GANs method demonstrates the capability to produce realistic synthetic images even when trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yinqiu Feng , Bo Zhang , Lingxi Xiao , Yutian Yang , Tana Gegen , Zexi Chen

Simple data augmentation techniques, such as rotations and flips, are widely used to enhance the generalization power of computer vision models. However, these techniques often fail to modify high-level semantic attributes of a class. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tobias Lingenberg , Markus Reuter , Gopika Sudhakaran , Dominik Gojny , Stefan Roth , Simone Schaub-Meyer

Inversion by Direct Iteration (InDI) is a new formulation for supervised image restoration that avoids the so-called "regression to the mean" effect and produces more realistic and detailed images than existing regression-based methods. It…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar

Deep generative modeling has emerged as a powerful tool for synthesizing realistic medical images, driving advances in medical image analysis, disease diagnosis, and treatment planning. This chapter explores various deep generative models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Paul Friedrich , Yannik Frisch , Philippe C. Cattin

In this paper, we present the Directly Denoising Diffusion Model (DDDM): a simple and generic approach for generating realistic images with few-step sampling, while multistep sampling is still preserved for better performance. DDDMs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Dan Zhang , Jingjing Wang , Feng Luo

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (diffusion MRI) is a non-invasive microstructure assessment technique. Scalar measures, such as FA (fractional anisotropy) and MD (mean diffusivity), quantifying micro-structural tissue properties can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xuan Gu , Hans Knutsson , Markus Nilsson , Anders Eklund

Medical Image-to-image translation is a key task in computer vision and generative artificial intelligence, and it is highly applicable to medical image analysis. GAN-based methods are the mainstream image translation methods, but they…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Zhuhui Wang , Jianwei Zuo , Xuliang Deng , Jiajia Luo

Deep learning algorithms require extensive data to achieve robust performance. However, data availability is often restricted in the medical domain due to patient privacy concerns. Synthetic data presents a possible solution to these…

Image-to-image translation is a vital component in medical imaging processing, with many uses in a wide range of imaging modalities and clinical scenarios. Previous methods include Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Diffusion Models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Yinchi Zhou , Tianqi Chen , Jun Hou , Huidong Xie , Nicha C. Dvornek , S. Kevin Zhou , David L. Wilson , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu , Bo Zhou