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This work focuses on enhancing the generalization performance of deep reinforcement learning-based robot navigation in unseen environments. We present a novel data augmentation approach called scenario augmentation, which enables robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shanze Wang , Mingao Tan , Zhibo Yang , Xianghui Wang , Xiaoyu Shen , Hailong Huang , Wei Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the use of diffusion models which are pre-trained on large-scale image-caption pairs for open-vocabulary 3D semantic understanding. We propose a novel method, namely Diff2Scene, which leverages frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Xiaoyu Zhu , Hao Zhou , Pengfei Xing , Long Zhao , Hao Xu , Junwei Liang , Alexander Hauptmann , Ting Liu , Andrew Gallagher

In recent years, semantic segmentation has become a pivotal tool in processing and interpreting satellite imagery. Yet, a prevalent limitation of supervised learning techniques remains the need for extensive manual annotations by experts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Aysim Toker , Marvin Eisenberger , Daniel Cremers , Laura Leal-Taixé

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models capable of producing high-quality images from pure noise using a simple text prompt. While most methods which introduce additional spatial constraints into the generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zakaria Patel , Kirill Serkh

Deep learning has been achieving decent performance in computer vision requiring a large volume of images, however, collecting images is expensive and difficult in many scenarios. To alleviate this issue, many image augmentation algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mingle Xu , Sook Yoon , Alvaro Fuentes , Dong Sun Park

Urban forests play a key role in enhancing environmental quality and supporting biodiversity in cities. Mapping and monitoring these green spaces are crucial for urban planning and conservation, yet accurately detecting trees is challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Alessandro dos Santos Ferreira , Ana Paula Marques Ramos , José Marcato Junior , Wesley Nunes Gonçalves

Diffusion models are able to generate photorealistic images in arbitrary scenes. However, when applying diffusion models to image translation, there exists a trade-off between maintaining spatial structure and high-quality content. Besides,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shiqi Sun , Shancheng Fang , Qian He , Wei Liu

Pre-trained diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in synthesizing images across a wide range of scenarios with customizable prompts, indicating their effective capacity to capture universal features. Motivated by this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yuxiang Ji , Boyong He , Chenyuan Qu , Zhuoyue Tan , Chuan Qin , Liaoni Wu

Image compression technology eliminates redundant information to enable efficient transmission and storage of images, serving both machine vision and human visual perception. For years, image coding focused on human perception has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Takahiro Shindo , Yui Tatsumi , Taiju Watanabe , Hiroshi Watanabe

Diffusion models have shown an impressive ability to model complex data distributions, with several key advantages over GANs, such as stable training, better coverage of the training distribution's modes, and the ability to solve inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yinbo Chen , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Xiaolong Wang , Michael Gharbi

Acting in human environments is a crucial capability for general-purpose robots, necessitating a robust understanding of natural language and its application to physical tasks. This paper seeks to harness the capabilities of diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jonas Bode , Raphael Memmesheimer , Sven Behnke

Natural disaster assessment relies on accurate and rapid access to information, with social media emerging as a valuable real-time source. However, existing datasets suffer from class imbalance and limited samples, making effective model…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Adrian-Dinu Urse , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop

Diffusion models are generative models with impressive text-to-image synthesis capabilities and have spurred a new wave of creative methods for classical machine learning tasks. However, the best way to harness the perceptual knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Neehar Kondapaneni , Markus Marks , Manuel Knott , Rogerio Guimaraes , Pietro Perona

Data augmentation plays a crucial role in deep learning, enhancing the generalization and robustness of learning-based models. Standard approaches involve simple transformations like rotations and flips for generating extra data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Shichao Dong , Ze Yang , Guosheng Lin

The success of agricultural artificial intelligence depends heavily on large, diverse, and high-quality plant image datasets, yet collecting such data in real field conditions is costly, labor intensive, and seasonally constrained. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Da Tan , Michael Beck , Christopher P. Bidinosti , Robert H. Gulden , Christopher J. Henry

Diffusion-based data augmentation (DiffDA) has emerged as a promising approach to improving classification performance under data scarcity. However, existing works vary significantly in task configurations, model choices, and experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zekun Li , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Dong Xu

While originally designed for image generation, diffusion models have recently shown to provide excellent pretrained feature representations for semantic segmentation. Intrigued by this result, we set out to explore how well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Rui Gong , Martin Danelljan , Han Sun , Julio Delgado Mangas , Luc Van Gool

We present a method for expanding a dataset by incorporating knowledge from the wide distribution of pre-trained latent diffusion models. Data augmentations typically incorporate inductive biases about the image formation process into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Orest Kupyn , Christian Rupprecht

Vision-based perception and reasoning is essential for scene understanding in any autonomous system. RGB and depth images are commonly used to capture both the semantic and geometric features of the environment. Developing methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Minh Bui , Kostas Alexis

Safe and effective motion planning is crucial for autonomous robots. Diffusion models excel at capturing complex agent interactions, a fundamental aspect of decision-making in dynamic environments. Recent studies have successfully applied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Giwon Lee , Daehee Park , Jaewoo Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon