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Text-to-image diffusion models have made significant progress in generating naturalistic images from textual inputs, and demonstrate the capacity to learn and represent complex visual-semantic relationships. While these diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Rushikesh Zawar , Shaurya Dewan , Prakanshul Saxena , Yingshan Chang , Andrew Luo , Yonatan Bisk

Diffusion models have emerged as the mainstream approach for visual generation. However, these models typically suffer from sample inefficiency and high training costs. Consequently, methods for efficient finetuning, inference and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Felix Krause , Timy Phan , Ming Gui , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in various image generation, editing, enhancement and translation tasks. In particular, the pre-trained text-to-image stable diffusion models provide a potential solution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Tao Yang , Rongyuan Wu , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie , Lei Zhang

Autoregressive generative models consistently achieve the best results in density estimation tasks involving high dimensional data, such as images or audio. They pose density estimation as a sequence modeling task, where a recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Xi Chen , Nikhil Mishra , Mostafa Rohaninejad , Pieter Abbeel

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have tremendous potential for energy-efficient neuromorphic chips due to their binary and event-driven architecture. SNNs have been primarily used in classification tasks, but limited exploration on image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Mingxuan Liu , Jie Gan , Rui Wen , Tao Li , Yongli Chen , Hong Chen

Recent advances in diffusion-based text-to-image generation have demonstrated promising results through visual condition control. However, existing ControlNet-like methods struggle with compositional visual conditioning - simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yanjie Pan , Qingdong He , Zhengkai Jiang , Pengcheng Xu , Chaoyi Wang , Jinlong Peng , Haoxuan Wang , Yun Cao , Zhenye Gan , Mingmin Chi , Bo Peng , Yabiao Wang

Latent diffusion models have become the popular choice for scaling up diffusion models for high resolution image synthesis. Compared to pixel-space models that are trained end-to-end, latent models are perceived to be more efficient and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Emiel Hoogeboom , Thomas Mensink , Jonathan Heek , Kay Lamerigts , Ruiqi Gao , Tim Salimans

Pixel synthesis is a promising research paradigm for image generation, which can well exploit pixel-wise prior knowledge for generation. However, existing methods still suffer from excessive memory footprint and computation overhead. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jing He , Yiyi Zhou , Qi Zhang , Jun Peng , Yunhang Shen , Xiaoshuai Sun , Chao Chen , Rongrong Ji

Constructing powerful generative models for natural images is a challenging task. PixelCNN models capture details and local information in images very well but have limited receptive field. Variational autoencoders with a factorial decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Hossein Sadeghi , Evgeny Andriyash , Walter Vinci , Lorenzo Buffoni , Mohammad H. Amin

Text-to-image diffusion models often exhibit degraded performance when generating images beyond their training resolution. Recent training-free methods can mitigate this limitation, but they often require substantial computation or are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Sungho Koh , SeungJu Cha , Hyunwoo Oh , Kwanyoung Lee , Dong-Jin Kim

While AI-generated content has garnered significant attention, achieving photo-realistic video synthesis remains a formidable challenge. Despite the promising advances in diffusion models for video generation quality, the complex model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhengang Li , Yan Kang , Yuchen Liu , Difan Liu , Tobias Hinz , Feng Liu , Yanzhi Wang

This work presents and analyzes three convolutional neural network (CNN) models for efficient pixelwise classification of images. When using convolutional neural networks to classify single pixels in patches of a whole image, a lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Fabian Tschopp

Recently, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can achieve human-level performance in edge detection with the rich and abstract edge representation capacities. However, the high performance of CNN based edge detection is achieved with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhuo Su , Wenzhe Liu , Zitong Yu , Dewen Hu , Qing Liao , Qi Tian , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Data-driven deep learning approaches to image registration can be less accurate than conventional iterative approaches, especially when training data is limited. To address this whilst retaining the fast inference speed of deep learning, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xi Jia , Alexander Thorley , Wei Chen , Huaqi Qiu , Linlin Shen , Iain B Styles , Hyung Jin Chang , Ales Leonardis , Antonio de Marvao , Declan P. O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert , Jinming Duan

We propose an efficient approach to train large diffusion models with masked transformers. While masked transformers have been extensively explored for representation learning, their application to generative learning is less explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Hongkai Zheng , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Anima Anandkumar

In recent years, Diffusion Models have become the new state-of-the-art in deep generative modeling, ending the long-time dominance of Generative Adversarial Networks. Inspired by the Regularization by Denoising principle, we introduce an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Pasquale Cascarano , Lorenzo Stacchio , Andrea Sebastiani , Alessandro Benfenati , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Gustavo Marfia

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image and video generation. In this work, we demonstrate that diffusion models can also \textit{generate high-performing neural network parameters}. Our approach is simple, utilizing an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Kai Wang , Dongwen Tang , Boya Zeng , Yida Yin , Zhaopan Xu , Yukun Zhou , Zelin Zang , Trevor Darrell , Zhuang Liu , Yang You

Traditional feature encoding scheme (e.g., Fisher vector) with local descriptors (e.g., SIFT) and recent convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are two classes of successful methods for image recognition. In this paper, we propose a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Zhe Wang , Limin Wang , Yali Wang , Bowen Zhang , Yu Qiao

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success, yet their training remains inefficient due to a severe optimization bottleneck, which we term Representation Degradation. As noise levels increase, the outputs of the trained model exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhipeng Yao , Dazhou Li , Zitong Zhang , Durude Mahee , Fan Zhu , Wenbin Zhang , Xinwei He , Yeying Jin , Rui Yu

The large amount of online data and vast array of computing resources enable current researchers in both industry and academia to employ the power of deep learning with neural networks. While deep models trained with massive amounts of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Shuai Tang , Virginia R. de Sa