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Recent work showed that large diffusion models can be reused as highly precise monocular depth estimators by casting depth estimation as an image-conditional image generation task. While the proposed model achieved state-of-the-art results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Gonzalo Martin Garcia , Karim Knaebel , Christian Schmidt , Daan de Geus , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Generative models based on normalizing flows are very successful in modeling complex data distributions using simpler ones. However, straightforward linear interpolations show unexpected side effects, as interpolation paths lie outside the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-09 Samuel G. Fadel , Sebastian Mair , Ricardo da S. Torres , Ulf Brefeld

Latent diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images but lose the benefits of end-to-end modeling. They discard information during image encoding, require a separately trained decoder, and model an auxiliary distribution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alan Baade , Eric Ryan Chan , Kyle Sargent , Changan Chen , Justin Johnson , Ehsan Adeli , Li Fei-Fei

Incorporating diffusion models in the image compression domain has the potential to produce realistic and detailed reconstructions, especially at extremely low bitrates. Previous methods focus on using diffusion models as expressive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Lucas Relic , Roberto Azevedo , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

This study presents a novel approach to enhance the cost-to-quality ratio of image generation with diffusion models. We hypothesize that differences between distilled (e.g. FLUX.1-schnell) and baseline (e.g. FLUX.1-dev) models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Jakub Wasala , Bartlomiej Wrzalski , Kornelia Noculak , Yuliia Tarasenko , Oliwer Krupa , Jan Kocon , Grzegorz Chodak

Recently, video frame interpolation using a combination of frame- and event-based cameras has surpassed traditional image-based methods both in terms of performance and memory efficiency. However, current methods still suffer from (i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Stepan Tulyakov , Alfredo Bochicchio , Daniel Gehrig , Stamatios Georgoulis , Yuanyou Li , Davide Scaramuzza

Lately, there has been a surge in interest surrounding generative modeling of time series data. Most existing approaches are designed either to process short sequences or to handle long-range sequences. This dichotomy can be attributed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ilan Naiman , Nimrod Berman , Itai Pemper , Idan Arbiv , Gal Fadlon , Omri Azencot

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality samples, their latent variables typically lack semantic meaning and are not suitable for representation learning. Here, we propose InfoDiffusion, an algorithm that augments diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yingheng Wang , Yair Schiff , Aaron Gokaslan , Weishen Pan , Fei Wang , Christopher De Sa , Volodymyr Kuleshov

We present a simple, yet effective diffusion-based method for fine-grained, parametric control over light sources in an image. Existing relighting methods either rely on multiple input views to perform inverse rendering at inference time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Nadav Magar , Amir Hertz , Eric Tabellion , Yael Pritch , Alex Rav-Acha , Ariel Shamir , Yedid Hoshen

Arbitrary resolution image generation provides a consistent visual experience across devices, having extensive applications for producers and consumers. Current diffusion models increase computational demand quadratically with resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Tao Han , Wanghan Xu , Junchao Gong , Xiaoyu Yue , Song Guo , Luping Zhou , Lei Bai

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generative modelling, particularly in enhancing image quality to conform to human preferences. Recently, these models have also been applied to low-level computer vision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

We propose a light-weight video frame interpolation algorithm. Our key innovation is an instance-level supervision that allows information to be learned from the high-resolution version of similar objects. Our experiment shows that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Liangzhe Yuan , Yibo Chen , Hantian Liu , Tao Kong , Jianbo Shi

Multi-domain image-to-image (I2I) translations can transform a source image according to the style of a target domain. One important, desired characteristic of these transformations, is their graduality, which corresponds to a smooth change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yahui Liu , Enver Sangineto , Yajing Chen , Linchao Bao , Haoxian Zhang , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri , Marco De Nadai

Image-to-Image (I2I) multi-domain translation models are usually evaluated also using the quality of their semantic interpolation results. However, state-of-the-art models frequently show abrupt changes in the image appearance during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Yahui Liu , Enver Sangineto , Yajing Chen , Linchao Bao , Haoxian Zhang , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri , Wei Wang , Marco De Nadai

Currently, applying diffusion models in pixel space of high resolution images is difficult. Instead, existing approaches focus on diffusion in lower dimensional spaces (latent diffusion), or have multiple super-resolution levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Emiel Hoogeboom , Jonathan Heek , Tim Salimans

Diffusion-based generative models are extremely effective in generating high-quality images, with generated samples often surpassing the quality of those produced by other models under several metrics. One distinguishing feature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ashwini Pokle , Zhengyang Geng , Zico Kolter

This paper presents innovative enhancements to diffusion models by integrating a novel multi-resolution network and time-dependent layer normalization. Diffusion models have gained prominence for their effectiveness in high-fidelity image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Qihao Liu , Zhanpeng Zeng , Ju He , Qihang Yu , Xiaohui Shen , Liang-Chieh Chen

Interpolation based image zooming methods provide a high execution speed and low computational complexity. However, the quality of the zoomed images is unsatisfactory in many cases. The main challenge of super- resolution methods is to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-05 Soroush Saryazdi , Saman Saryazdi , Hossein Nezamabadi-pour

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable potential in generating high-quality images. However, their tendency to replicate training data raises serious privacy concerns, particularly when the training datasets contain sensitive or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jingqi Xu , Chenghao Li , Yuke Zhang , Peter A. Beerel