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Text-conditioned image-to-video generation (TI2V) aims to synthesize a realistic video starting from a given image (e.g., a woman's photo) and a text description (e.g., "a woman is drinking water."). Existing TI2V frameworks often require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Haomiao Ni , Bernhard Egger , Suhas Lohit , Anoop Cherian , Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Sharon X. Huang , Tim K. Marks

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable progress in image generation quality, especially when guidance is used to control the generative process. However, guidance requires a large amount of image-annotation pairs for training and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Vincent Tao Hu , David W Zhang , Yuki M. Asano , Gertjan J. Burghouts , Cees G. M. Snoek

In this paper, we present VideoGen, a text-to-video generation approach, which can generate a high-definition video with high frame fidelity and strong temporal consistency using reference-guided latent diffusion. We leverage an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Xin Li , Wenqing Chu , Ye Wu , Weihang Yuan , Fanglong Liu , Qi Zhang , Fu Li , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of generated videos. However, their capability to produce explicit or harmful content introduces new challenges related to misuse and potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiaoyu Ye , Songjie Cheng , Yongtao Wang , Yajiao Xiong , Yishen Li

Diffusion models deliver high quality in image synthesis but remain expensive during training and inference. Recent works have leveraged the inherent redundancy in visual content to make training more affordable by training only on a subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Felix Krause , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Johannes Schusterbauer , Olga Grebenkova , Ming Gui , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

We introduce GUIDE, a novel continual learning approach that directs diffusion models to rehearse samples at risk of being forgotten. Existing generative strategies combat catastrophic forgetting by randomly sampling rehearsal examples from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Bartosz Cywiński , Kamil Deja , Tomasz Trzciński , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Łukasz Kuciński

We introduce InstructVid2Vid, an end-to-end diffusion-based methodology for video editing guided by human language instructions. Our approach empowers video manipulation guided by natural language directives, eliminating the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Bosheng Qin , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Tat-Seng Chua , Yueting Zhuang

Guidance in conditional diffusion generation is of great importance for sample quality and controllability. However, existing guidance schemes are to be desired. On one hand, mainstream methods such as classifier guidance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jiajun Ma , Tianyang Hu , Wenjia Wang , Jiacheng Sun

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) generation with diffusion models have garnered significant attention. However, they typically perform well in scenes with a single object and motion, struggling in compositional scenarios with multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yuanhang Li , Qi Mao , Lan Chen , Zhen Fang , Lei Tian , Xinyan Xiao , Libiao Jin , Hua Wu

Transfer learning of diffusion models to smaller target domains is challenging, as naively fine-tuning the model often results in poor generalization. Test-time guidance methods help mitigate this by offering controllable improvements in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yara Bahram , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Eric Granger

Diffusion models (DMs) have become the new trend of generative models and have demonstrated a powerful ability of conditional synthesis. Among those, text-to-image diffusion models pre-trained on large-scale image-text pairs are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Wenliang Zhao , Yongming Rao , Zuyan Liu , Benlin Liu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Image diffusion models have been adapted for real-world video super-resolution to tackle over-smoothing issues in GAN-based methods. However, these models struggle to maintain temporal consistency, as they are trained on static images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Rui Xie , Yinhong Liu , Penghao Zhou , Chen Zhao , Jun Zhou , Kai Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang , Jian Yang , Zhenheng Yang , Ying Tai

Guidance serves as a key concept in diffusion models, yet its effectiveness is often limited by the need for extra data annotation or classifier pretraining. That is why guidance was harnessed from self-supervised learning backbones, like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Vincent Tao Hu , Yunlu Chen , Mathilde Caron , Yuki M. Asano , Cees G. M. Snoek , Bjorn Ommer

The advancements in generative modeling, particularly the advent of diffusion models, have sparked a fundamental question: how can these models be effectively used for discriminative tasks? In this work, we find that generative models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Mihir Prabhudesai , Tsung-Wei Ke , Alexander C. Li , Deepak Pathak , Katerina Fragkiadaki

The use of denoising diffusion models is becoming increasingly popular in the field of image editing. However, current approaches often rely on either image-guided methods, which provide a visual reference but lack control over semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Zhanbo Feng , Zenan Ling , Xinyu Lu , Ci Gong , Feng Zhou , Wugedele Bao , Jie Li , Fan Yang , Robert C. Qiu

Diffusion models exhibit excellent sample quality, but existing guidance methods often require additional model training or are limited to specific tasks. We revisit guidance in diffusion models from the perspective of variational inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kushagra Pandey , Farrin Marouf Sofian , Felix Draxler , Theofanis Karaletsos , Stephan Mandt

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models generate high-quality images but often fail to capture the spatial relations specified in text prompts. This limitation can be traced to two factors: lack of fine-grained spatial supervision in training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Sarah Rastegar , Violeta Chatalbasheva , Sieger Falkena , Anuj Singh , Yanbo Wang , Tejas Gokhale , Hamid Palangi , Hadi Jamali-Rad

Recent advances in generative video models have enabled the creation of high-quality videos based on natural language prompts. However, these models frequently lack fine-grained temporal control, meaning they do not allow users to specify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shira Schiber , Ofir Lindenbaum , Idan Schwartz

In this paper, we address the challenge of procedure planning in instructional videos, aiming to generate coherent and task-aligned action sequences from start and end visual observations. Previous work has mainly relied on text-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yufan Zhou , Zhaobo Qi , Lingshuai Lin , Junqi Jing , Tingting Chai , Beichen Zhang , Shuhui Wang , Weigang Zhang

Recent works have shown the potential of diffusion models in computer vision and natural language processing. Apart from the classical supervised learning fields, diffusion models have also shown strong competitiveness in reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jifeng Hu , Yanchao Sun , Sili Huang , SiYuan Guo , Hechang Chen , Li Shen , Lichao Sun , Yi Chang , Dacheng Tao