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Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is an advanced imaging technique characterizing tissue microstructure and white matter structural connectivity of the human brain. The demand for high-quality dMRI data is growing, driven by the need for better…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xi Zhu , Wei Zhang , Yijie Li , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Diffusion-based super-resolution (SR) models have recently garnered significant attention due to their potent restoration capabilities. But conventional diffusion models perform noise sampling from a single distribution, constraining their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Chengcheng Wang , Zhiwei Hao , Yehui Tang , Jianyuan Guo , Yujie Yang , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

This paper introduces a deep learning enabled generative sensing framework which integrates low-end sensors with computational intelligence to attain a high recognition accuracy on par with that attained with high-end sensors. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Lina Karam , Tejas Borkar , Yu Cao , Junseok Chae

Weakly supervised medical image segmentation (MIS) using generative models is crucial for clinical diagnosis. However, the accuracy of the segmentation results is often limited by insufficient supervision and the complex nature of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zhihao Shuai , Yinan Chen , Shunqiang Mao , Yihan Zho , Xiaohong Zhang

The reconstruction of X-rays CT images from sparse or limited-angle geometries is a highly challenging task. The lack of data typically results in artifacts in the reconstructed image and may even lead to object distortions. For this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Davide Evangelista , Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini

As one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision, semantic segmentation plays an important role in real world applications. Although numerous deep learning models have made notable progress on several mainstream datasets with the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Bin Zhang , Shengjie Zhao , Rongqing Zhang

Recent advances in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have revolutionized graph-structured data modeling, yet traditional GNNs struggle with complex heterogeneous structures prevalent in real-world scenarios. Despite progress in handling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Zongwei Li , Lianghao Xia , Hua Hua , Shijie Zhang , Shuangyang Wang , Chao Huang

Curating datasets for object segmentation is a difficult task. With the advent of large-scale pre-trained generative models, conditional image generation has been given a significant boost in result quality and ease of use. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Mischa Dombrowski , Hadrien Reynaud , Matthew Baugh , Bernhard Kainz

Diffusion models, while trained for image generation, have emerged as powerful foundational feature extractors for downstream tasks. We find that off-the-shelf diffusion models, trained exclusively to generate natural RGB images, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nurislam Tursynbek , Hastings Greer , Basar Demir , Marc Niethammer

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for generative modelling of images. In this paper, we present a novel semantic segmentation method based on diffusion models. By modifying the training and sampling scheme, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Julia Wolleb , Robin Sandkühler , Florentin Bieder , Philippe Valmaggia , Philippe C. Cattin

Medical image segmentation is crucial for accurate clinical diagnoses, yet it faces challenges such as low contrast between lesions and normal tissues, unclear boundaries, and high variability across patients. Deep learning has improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Houze Liu , Tong Zhou , Yanlin Xiang , Aoran Shen , Jiacheng Hu , Junliang Du

By optimizing the rate-distortion-realism trade-off, generative image compression approaches produce detailed, realistic images instead of the only sharp-looking reconstructions produced by rate-distortion-optimized models. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Lingyu Zhu , Xiangrui Zeng , Bolin Chen , Peilin Chen , Yung-Hui Li , Shiqi Wang

Diffusion models have become a leading paradigm in generative AI, with score estimation via denoising score matching as a central component. While recent theory provides strong statistical guarantees, it typically relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yinbin Han , Meisam Razaviyayn , Renyuan Xu

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are vital for reliable urban positioning. However, multipath and non-line-of-sight reception often introduce large measurement errors that degrade accuracy. Learning-based methods for predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiaqi Zhu , Shouyi Lu , Ziyao Li , Guirong Zhuo , Lu Xiong

Generic event boundary detection (GEBD) aims to identify natural boundaries in a video, segmenting it into distinct and meaningful chunks. Despite the inherent subjectivity of event boundaries, previous methods have focused on deterministic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jaejun Hwang , Dayoung Gong , Manjin Kim , Minsu Cho

Remote sensing image change description represents an innovative multimodal task within the realm of remote sensing processing.This task not only facilitates the detection of alterations in surface conditions, but also provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dongwei Sun , Jing Yao , Wu Xue , Changsheng Zhou , Pedram Ghamisi , Xiangyong Cao

Diffusion-based Deep Generative Models (DDGMs) offer state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling. Their main strength comes from their unique setup in which a model (the backward diffusion process) is trained to reverse the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Kamil Deja , Anna Kuzina , Tomasz Trzciński , Jakub M. Tomczak

Remote sensing images captured by different platforms exhibit significant disparities in spatial resolution. Large scale factor super-resolution (SR) algorithms are vital for maximizing the utilization of low-resolution (LR) satellite data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ce Wang , Wanjie Sun

The proposed method, Discriminator Guidance, aims to improve sample generation of pre-trained diffusion models. The approach introduces a discriminator that gives explicit supervision to a denoising sample path whether it is realistic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongjun Kim , Yeongmin Kim , Se Jung Kwon , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon

Automated semantic segmentation of cell nuclei in microscopic images is crucial for disease diagnosis and tissue microenvironment analysis. Nonetheless, this task presents challenges due to the complexity and heterogeneity of cells. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Zhuchen Shao , Sourya Sengupta , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio