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Image inpainting aims to fill in the missing pixels with visually coherent and semantically plausible content. Despite the great progress brought from deep generative models, this task still suffers from i. the difficulties in large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Siyuan Yang , Lu Zhang , Liqian Ma , Yu Liu , JingJing Fu , You He

Recent advancements in image synthesis are fueled by the advent of large-scale diffusion models. Yet, integrating realistic object visualizations seamlessly into new or existing backgrounds without extensive training remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Phillip Mueller , Jannik Wiese , Ioan Craciun , Lars Mikelsons

We provide a theoretical justification for sample recovery using diffusion based image inpainting in a linear model setting. While most inpainting algorithms require retraining with each new mask, we prove that diffusion based inpainting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-03 Litu Rout , Advait Parulekar , Constantine Caramanis , Sanjay Shakkottai

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

Generating diverse VLSI layout patterns is essential for various downstream tasks in design for manufacturing, as design rules continually evolve during the development of new technology nodes. However, existing training-based methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Guanglei Zhou , Bhargav Korrapati , Gaurav Rajavendra Reddy , Chen-Chia Chang , Jingyu Pan , Jiang Hu , Yiran Chen , Dipto G. Thakurta

Inpainting, for filling missing image regions, is a crucial task in various applications, such as medical imaging and remote sensing. Trending data-driven approaches efficiency, for image inpainting, often requires extensive data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Saad Noufel , Nadir Maaroufi , Mehdi Najib , Mohamed Bakhouya

Image composition in image editing involves merging a foreground image with a background image to create a composite. Inconsistent lighting conditions between the foreground and background often result in unrealistic composites. Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jiajie Li , Jian Wang , Chen Wang , Jinjun Xiong

While local methods for image denoising and inpainting may use similar concepts, their connections have hardly been investigated so far. The goal of this work is to establish links between the two by focusing on the most foundational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Daniel Gaa , Vassillen Chizhov , Pascal Peter , Joachim Weickert , Robin Dirk Adam

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

Diffusion models have emerged as highly effective techniques for inpainting, however, they remain constrained by slow sampling rates. While recent advances have enhanced generation quality, they have also increased sampling time, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Tsiry Mayet , Pourya Shamsolmoali , Simon Bernard , Eric Granger , Romain Hérault , Clement Chatelain

In the task of reference-based image inpainting, an additional reference image is provided to restore a damaged target image to its original state. The advancement of diffusion models, particularly Stable Diffusion, allows for simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Kuan-Hung Liu , Cheng-Kun Yang , Min-Hung Chen , Yu-Lun Liu , Yen-Yu Lin

Homogeneous diffusion inpainting can reconstruct missing image areas with high quality from a sparse subset of known pixels, provided that their location as well as their gray or color values are well optimized. This property is exploited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Niklas Kämper , Vassillen Chizhov , Joachim Weickert

Neural reconstruction approaches are rapidly emerging as the preferred representation for 3D scenes, but their limited editability is still posing a challenge. In this work, we propose an approach for 3D scene inpainting -- the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Ashkan Mirzaei , Riccardo De Lutio , Seung Wook Kim , David Acuna , Jonathan Kelly , Sanja Fidler , Igor Gilitschenski , Zan Gojcic

With the advancements in denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), image inpainting has significantly evolved from merely filling information based on nearby regions to generating content conditioned on various prompts such as text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Lingzhi Pan , Tong Zhang , Bingyuan Chen , Qi Zhou , Wei Ke , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Recent progress in text-guided image inpainting, based on the unprecedented success of text-to-image diffusion models, has led to exceptionally realistic and visually plausible results. However, there is still significant potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hayk Manukyan , Andranik Sargsyan , Barsegh Atanyan , Zhangyang Wang , Shant Navasardyan , Humphrey Shi

Existing image inpainting methods have achieved remarkable accomplishments in generating visually appealing results, often accompanied by a trend toward creating more intricate structural textures. However, while these models excel at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Dunyun Chen , Xin Liao , Xiaoshuai Wu , Shiwei Chen

We present FreeMorph, the first tuning-free method for image morphing that accommodates inputs with different semantics or layouts. Unlike existing methods that rely on finetuning pre-trained diffusion models and are limited by time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yukang Cao , Chenyang Si , Jinghao Wang , Ziwei Liu

Despite advances in diffusion-based image editing, manipulating multi-object scenes remains challenging. Existing approaches often achieve semantic changes at the expense of structural consistency, failing to preserve exact object counts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Fei Shen , Yutong Gao , Jian Yu , Xiaoyu Du , Jinhui Tang

Generating a coherent sequence of images that tells a visual story, using text-to-image diffusion models, often faces the critical challenge of maintaining subject consistency across all story scenes. Existing approaches, which typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Gopalji Gaur , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Thomas Brox

Video inpainting is the task of filling a region in a video in a visually convincing manner. It is very challenging due to the high dimensionality of the data and the temporal consistency required for obtaining convincing results. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nicolas Cherel , Andrés Almansa , Yann Gousseau , Alasdair Newson