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Diffusion-based inpainting is a powerful tool for the reconstruction of images from sparse data. Its quality strongly depends on the choice of known data. Optimising their spatial location -- the inpainting mask -- is challenging. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Tobias Alt , Pascal Peter , Joachim Weickert

Diffusion models have emerged as a key pillar of foundation models in visual domains. One of their critical applications is to universally solve different downstream inverse tasks via a single diffusion prior without re-training for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Morteza Mardani , Jiaming Song , Jan Kautz , Arash Vahdat

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has recently been incorporated into diffusion models, e.g., tasks such as text-to-image. However, directly applying existing RL methods to diffusion-based image restoration models is suboptimal, as the objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaogang Xu , Ruihang Chu , Jian Wang , Kun Zhou , Wenjie Shu , Harry Yang , Ser-Nam Lim , Hao Chen , Liang Lin

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides all-weather, high-resolution imaging capabilities, but its unique imaging mechanism often requires expert interpretation, limiting its widespread applicability. Translating SAR images into more easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xinyu Bai , Feng Xu

Diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in generative modeling. Due to their high training costs, many works leverage pre-trained diffusion models' powerful representations for downstream tasks, such as face super-resolution (FSR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiarui Yang , Tao Dai , Yufei Zhu , Naiqi Li , Jinmin Li , Shutao Xia

Diffusion models have been widely utilized for image restoration. However, previous blind image restoration methods still need to assume the type of degradation model while leaving the parameters to be optimized, limiting their real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Siwei Tu , Weidong Yang , Ben Fei

Pedestrian Attribute Recognition (PAR) involves identifying various human attributes from images with applications in intelligent monitoring systems. The scarcity of large-scale annotated datasets hinders the generalization of PAR models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pablo Ayuso-Albizu , Juan C. SanMiguel , Pablo Carballeira

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

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) is a representation for 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. Despite some recent work showing preliminary success in editing a reconstructed NeRF with diffusion prior, they remain struggling to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chieh Hubert Lin , Changil Kim , Jia-Bin Huang , Qinbo Li , Chih-Yao Ma , Johannes Kopf , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Hung-Yu Tseng

Estimating camera poses is a fundamental task for 3D reconstruction and remains challenging given sparsely sampled views (<10). In contrast to existing approaches that pursue top-down prediction of global parametrizations of camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Jason Y. Zhang , Amy Lin , Moneish Kumar , Tzu-Hsuan Yang , Deva Ramanan , Shubham Tulsiani

The rapid advancement in image generation models has predominantly been driven by diffusion models, which have demonstrated unparalleled success in generating high-fidelity, diverse images from textual prompts. Despite their success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yusuf Dalva , Hidir Yesiltepe , Pinar Yanardag

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are a learning-based approach to accelerate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisitions, particularly in scan-specific settings when only data from the under-sampled scan itself are available.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Yamin Arefeen , Brett Levac , Zach Stoebner , Jonathan Tamir

Recent advances in image generation, particularly via diffusion models, have led to impressive improvements in image synthesis quality. Despite this, diffusion models are still challenged by model-induced artifacts and limited stability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Md Fahim Anjum

The field of visual computing is rapidly advancing due to the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI), which unlocks unprecedented capabilities for the generation, editing, and reconstruction of images, videos, and 3D scenes.…

Diffusion models are now the undisputed state-of-the-art for image generation and image restoration. However, they require large amounts of computational power for training and inference. In this paper, we propose lightweight diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Nicolas Cherel , Andrés Almansa , Yann Gousseau , Alasdair Newson

The latest developments in Face Restoration have yielded significant advancements in visual quality through the utilization of diverse diffusion priors. Nevertheless, the uncertainty of face identity introduced by identity-obscure inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yushun Fang , Lu Liu , Xiang Gao , Qiang Hu , Ning Cao , Jianghe Cui , Gang Chen , Xiaoyun Zhang

The latest developments in Artificial Intelligence include diffusion generative models, quite popular tools which can produce original images both unconditionally and, in some cases, conditioned by some inputs provided by the user. Apart…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Stefano Scotta , Alberto Messina

Following the remarkable success of diffusion models on image generation, recent works have also demonstrated their impressive ability to address a number of inverse problems in an unsupervised way, by properly constraining the sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

The remarkable ease of use of diffusion models for image generation has led to a proliferation of synthetic content online. While these models are often employed for legitimate purposes, they are also used to generate fake images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Giulia Bertazzini , Daniele Baracchi , Dasara Shullani , Isao Echizen , Alessandro Piva

Image inpainting refers to the task of generating a complete, natural image based on a partially revealed reference image. Recently, many research interests have been focused on addressing this problem using fixed diffusion models. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Guanhua Zhang , Jiabao Ji , Yang Zhang , Mo Yu , Tommi Jaakkola , Shiyu Chang