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Relative colour constancy is an essential requirement for many scientific imaging applications. However, most digital cameras differ in their image formations and native sensor output is usually inaccessible, e.g., in smartphone camera…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Yunfeng Zhao , Stuart Ferguson , Huiyu Zhou , Chris Elliott , Karen Rafferty

The rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) models has increased the need for reliable human preference modeling, a demand further amplified by recent progress in reinforcement learning for preference alignment. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yuxiang Guo , Jiang Liu , Ze Wang , Hao Chen , Ximeng Sun , Yang Zhao , Jialian Wu , Xiaodong Yu , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown strong potential for optimizing search agents in complex information retrieval tasks. However, existing approaches predominantly rely on gold supervision, such as ground-truth answers, which is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Sohyun An , Shuibenyang Yuan , Hayeon Lee , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Alexander Min

Image-text matching has been a long-standing problem, which seeks to connect vision and language through semantic understanding. Due to the capability to manage large-scale raw data, unsupervised hashing-based approaches have gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Fan Zhang , Xian-Sheng Hua , Chong Chen , Xiao Luo

Unpaired video-to-video translation aims to translate videos between a source and a target domain without the need of paired training data, making it more feasible for real applications. Unfortunately, the translated videos generally suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Kaihong Wang , Kumar Akash , Teruhisa Misu

Reinforcement Learning from Human/AI Feedback (RLHF/RLAIF) has been extensively utilized for preference alignment of text-to-image models. Existing methods face certain limitations in terms of both data and algorithm. For training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xingyu Lu , Yuhang Hu , YiFan Zhang , Kaiyu Jiang , Changyi Liu , Tianke Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Chun Yuan , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang

Story visualization aims to generate a sequence of images to narrate each sentence in a multi-sentence story, where the images should be realistic and keep global consistency across dynamic scenes and characters. Current works face the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Bowen Li , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Diffusion models for Text-to-Image (T2I) conditional generation have recently achieved tremendous success. Yet, aligning these models with user's intentions still involves a laborious trial-and-error process, and this challenging alignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Chao Wang , Giulio Franzese , Alessandro Finamore , Massimo Gallo , Pietro Michiardi

Recent progress in text-to-image generation has greatly advanced visual fidelity and creativity, but it has also imposed higher demands on prompt complexity-particularly in encoding intricate spatial relationships. In such cases, achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhenyu Tang , Chaoran Feng , Yufan Deng , Jie Wu , Xiaojie Li , Rui Wang , Yunpeng Chen , Daquan Zhou

We introduce Cycle-Sync, a robust and global framework for estimating camera poses (both rotations and locations). Our core innovation is a location solver that adapts message-passing least squares (MPLS) -- originally developed for group…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Shaohan Li , Yunpeng Shi , Gilad Lerman

Continual post-training adapts a single text-to-image diffusion model to learn new tasks without incurring the cost of separate models, but naive post-training causes forgetting of pretrained knowledge and undermines zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Zhehao Huang , Yuhang Liu , Yixin Lou , Zhengbao He , Mingzhen He , Wenxing Zhou , Tao Li , Kehan Li , Zeyi Huang , Xiaolin Huang

Reward-based fine-tuning of video diffusion models is an effective approach to improve the quality of generated videos, as it can fine-tune models without requiring real-world video datasets. However, it can sometimes be limited to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Takehiro Aoshima , Yusuke Shinohara , Byeongseon Park

As AI systems develop in complexity it is becoming increasingly hard to ensure non-discrimination on the basis of protected attributes such as gender, age, and race. Many recent methods have been developed for dealing with this issue as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yair Horesh , Noa Haas , Elhanan Mishraky , Yehezkel S. Resheff , Shir Meir Lador

Scarcity of labeled data has motivated the development of semi-supervised learning methods, which learn from large portions of unlabeled data alongside a few labeled samples. Consistency Regularization between model's predictions under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Aamir Mustafa , Rafal K. Mantiuk

Modern machine learning models typically represent inputs as fixed points in a high-dimensional embedding space. While this approach has been proven powerful for a wide range of downstream tasks, it fundamentally differs from the way humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Frieda Born , Tom Neuhäuser , Lukas Muttenthaler , Brett D. Roads , Bernhard Spitzer , Andrew K. Lampinen , Matt Jones , Klaus-Robert Müller , Michael C. Mozer

Matching images and sentences demands a fine understanding of both modalities. In this paper, we propose a new system to discriminatively embed the image and text to a shared visual-textual space. In this field, most existing works apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zhedong Zheng , Liang Zheng , Michael Garrett , Yi Yang , Mingliang Xu , Yi-Dong Shen

Diffusion and flow-matching models scale because pretraining is supervised regression: a clean sample is noised analytically, and a model regresses against a closed-form target. RL post-training aligns the model with a reward. In image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Andreas Bergmeister , Stefanie Jegelka , Nikolas Nüsken , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Jakiw Pidstrigach

Reinforcement learning agents are fundamentally limited by the quality of the reward functions they learn from, yet reward design is often overlooked under the assumption that a well-defined reward is readily available. However, in…

Leveraging the disparity information from both left and right views is crucial for stereo disparity estimation. Left-right consistency check is an effective way to enhance the disparity estimation by referring to the information from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Zequn Jie , Pengfei Wang , Yonggen Ling , Bo Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Jiashi Feng , Wei Liu

One-step text-to-image generator models offer advantages such as swift inference efficiency, flexible architectures, and state-of-the-art generation performance. In this paper, we study the problem of aligning one-step generator models with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Weijian Luo