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Single image super-resolution (SISR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from the given low-resolution (LR) ones, which is an ill-posed problem because one LR image corresponds to multiple HR images. Recently, learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Haoying Li , Yifan Yang , Meng Chang , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu , Qi Li , Yueting Chen

Self-supervised learning has garnered increasing attention in time series analysis for benefiting various downstream tasks and reducing reliance on labeled data. Despite its effectiveness, existing methods often struggle to comprehensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Daoyu Wang , Mingyue Cheng , Zhiding Liu , Qi Liu

Monocular depth estimation can benefit from autoregressive (AR) generation, but direct AR modeling is hindered by the modality gap between RGB and depth, inefficient pixel-wise generation, and instability in continuous depth prediction. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jinchang Zhang , Xinrou Kang , Guoyu Lu

The implementation of diffusion-based pansharpening task is predominantly constrained by its slow inference speed, which results from numerous sampling steps. Despite the existing techniques aiming to accelerate sampling, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Shiqi Cao , Liangjian Deng , Shangqi Deng

Recent advances in interactive text-to-image retrieval (I-TIR) use diffusion models to bridge the modality gap between the textual information need and the images to be searched, resulting in increased effectiveness. However, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhuocheng Zhang , Xingwu Zhang , Kangheng Liang , Guanxuan Li , Richard Mccreadie , Zijun Long

This work challenges the residual prediction paradigm in visual autoregressive modeling and presents FlexVAR, a new Flexible Visual AutoRegressive image generation paradigm. FlexVAR facilitates autoregressive learning with ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Siyu Jiao , Gengwei Zhang , Yinlong Qian , Jiancheng Huang , Yao Zhao , Humphrey Shi , Lin Ma , Yunchao Wei , Zequn Jie

With the rapid development of imaging sensor technology in the field of remote sensing, multi-modal remote sensing data fusion has emerged as a crucial research direction for land cover classification tasks. While diffusion models have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 DaiXun Li , Weiying Xie , ZiXuan Wang , YiBing Lu , Yunsong Li , Leyuan Fang

Diffusion models currently achieve state-of-the-art performance for both conditional and unconditional image generation. However, so far, image diffusion models do not support tasks required for 3D understanding, such as view-consistent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Zexiang Xu , Matthew Fisher , Paul Henderson , Hakan Bilen , Niloy J. Mitra , Paul Guerrero

In this paper, we explore a new generative approach for learning visual representations. Our method, DARL, employs a decoder-only Transformer to predict image patches autoregressively. We find that training with Mean Squared Error (MSE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yazhe Li , Jorg Bornschein , Ting Chen

Diffusion models, as a type of generative model, have achieved impressive results in generating images and videos conditioned on textual conditions. However, the generation process of diffusion models involves denoising dozens of steps to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hui Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Zhen Xing , Jie Shao , Yu-Gang Jiang

Objective:This study introduces a residual error-shifting mechanism that drastically reduces sampling steps while preserving critical anatomical details, thus accelerating MRI reconstruction. Approach:We propose a novel diffusion-based SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Zach Eidex , Qiang Li , Erik H. Middlebrooks , David S. Yu , Xiaofeng Yang

Autoregressive (AR) models have garnered significant attention in image generation for their ability to effectively capture both local and global structures within visual data. However, prevalent AR models predominantly rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yuxin Mao , Zhen Qin , Jinxing Zhou , Hui Deng , Xuyang Shen , Bin Fan , Jing Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

Recent advancements in image generation have made significant progress, yet existing models present limitations in perceiving and generating an arbitrary number of interrelated images within a broad context. This limitation becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Ying Shen , Yizhe Zhang , Shuangfei Zhai , Lifu Huang , Joshua M. Susskind , Jiatao Gu

Denoising diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable success in image generation, capturing rich information about natural image statistics. This makes them highly promising for image reconstruction, where the goal is to recover a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Shady Abu-Hussein , Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zijie Li , Henry Li , Yichun Shi , Amir Barati Farimani , Yuval Kluger , Linjie Yang , Peng Wang

Visual Auto-Regressive modeling (VAR) has shown promise in bridging the speed and quality gap between autoregressive image models and diffusion models. VAR reformulates autoregressive modeling by decomposing an image into successive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Hermann Kumbong , Xian Liu , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Xihui Liu , Ziwei Liu , Daniel Y. Fu , Christopher Ré , David W. Romero

Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Huan Yang , Kai Zhang , Junnan Li

Existing autoregressive (AR) image generative models use a token-by-token generation schema. That is, they predict a per-token probability distribution and sample the next token from that distribution. The main challenge is how to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qinyu Zhao , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

Diffusion models (DM) have achieved remarkable promise in image super-resolution (SR). However, most of them are tailored to solving non-blind inverse problems with fixed known degradation settings, limiting their adaptability to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Feng Li , Yixuan Wu , Zichao Liang , Runmin Cong , Huihui Bai , Yao Zhao , Meng Wang

Recent diffusion model advancements have enabled high-fidelity images to be generated using text prompts. However, a domain gap exists between generated images and real-world images, which poses a challenge in generating high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yuechen Zhang , Jinbo Xing , Eric Lo , Jiaya Jia