English
Related papers

Related papers: Prior-Guided Residual Diffusion: Calibrated and Ef…

200 papers

Generative diffusion models have received increasing attention in medical imaging, particularly in limited-angle computed tomography (LACT). Standard diffusion models achieve high-quality image reconstruction but require a large number of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Yi Liu , Yiyang Wen , Zekun Zhou , Junqi Ma , Linghang Wang , Yucheng Yao , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

Self-correction is an effective technique for maintaining parallel sampling in discrete diffusion models with minimal performance degradation. Prior work has explored self-correction at inference time or during post-training; however, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Linxuan Wang , Ziyi Wang , Yikun Bai , Wei Deng , Guang Lin , Qifan Song

Over the past few years, several approaches utilizing score-based diffusion have been proposed to sample from probability distributions, that is without having access to exact samples and relying solely on evaluations of unnormalized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 Maxence Noble , Louis Grenioux , Marylou Gabrié , Alain Oliviero Durmus

Diffusion models face significant challenges when employed for large-scale medical image reconstruction in real practice such as 3D Computed Tomography (CT). Due to the demanding memory, time, and data requirements, it is difficult to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bowen Song , Jason Hu , Zhaoxu Luo , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Liyue Shen

Recently, perceptual image compression has achieved significant advancements, delivering high visual quality at low bitrates for natural images. However, for screen content, existing methods often produce noticeable artifacts when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Tongda Xu , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Yan Wang , Ya-Qin Zhang , Yan Lu

Exploiting pre-trained diffusion models for restoration has recently become a favored alternative to the traditional task-specific training approach. Previous works have achieved noteworthy success by limiting the solution space using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Peiqing Yang , Shangchen Zhou , Qingyi Tao , Chen Change Loy

Positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction is a critical challenge in molecular imaging, often hampered by noise amplification, structural blurring, and detail loss due to sparse sampling and the ill-posed nature of inverse problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mengxiao Geng , Zijie Chen , Ran Hong , Bingxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional methods typically produce a single segmentation mask, failing to capture inherent uncertainty. Recent generative models enable the creation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Huynh Trinh Ngoc , Toan Nguyen Hai , Ba Luong Son , Long Tran Quoc

Diffusion models have been used extensively for high quality image and video generation tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel conditional diffusion model with spatial attention and latent embedding (cDAL) for medical image segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Behzad Hejrati , Soumyanil Banerjee , Carri Glide-Hurst , Ming Dong

We present an novel framework for efficiently and effectively extending the powerful continuous diffusion processes to discrete modeling. Previous approaches have suffered from the discrepancy between discrete data and continuous modeling.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuxuan Gu , Xiaocheng Feng , Lei Huang , Yingsheng Wu , Zekun Zhou , Weihong Zhong , Kun Zhu , Bing Qin

Recent advancements in diffusion-based generative priors have enabled visually plausible image compression at extremely low bit rates. However, existing approaches suffer from slow sampling processes and suboptimal bit allocation due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yichong Xia , Yimin Zhou , Jinpeng Wang , Bin Chen

This work proposes a novel channel estimator based on diffusion models (DMs), one of the currently top-rated generative models. Contrary to related works utilizing generative priors, a lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Benedikt Fesl , Michael Baur , Florian Strasser , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

By formulating data samples' formation as a Markov denoising process, diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performances in a collection of tasks. Recently, many variants of diffusion models have been proposed to enable controlled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Hengtong Zhang , Tingyang Xu

Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have shown incredible performance on text-to-image generation. Since text-to-image generation often requires models to generate visual concepts with fine-grained details and attributes specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xuehai He , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Varun Jampani , Arjun Akula , Pradyumna Narayana , Sugato Basu , William Yang Wang , Xin Eric Wang

Multi-modal foundation models are typically trained on millions of pairs of natural images and text captions, frequently obtained through web-crawling approaches. Although such models depict excellent generative capabilities, they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Pierre Chambon , Christian Bluethgen , Curtis P. Langlotz , Akshay Chaudhari

We present the first text-based image editing approach for object parts based on pre-trained diffusion models. Diffusion-based image editing approaches capitalized on the deep understanding of diffusion models of image semantics to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Aleksandar Cvejic , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Peter Wonka

Robust fine-tuning aims to adapt large foundation models to downstream tasks while preserving their robustness to distribution shifts. Existing methods primarily focus on constraining and projecting current model towards the pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Chengyue Huang , Junjiao Tian , Brisa Maneechotesuwan , Shivang Chopra , Zsolt Kira

Early detection through imaging and accurate diagnosis is crucial in mitigating the high mortality rate associated with breast cancer. However, locating tumors from low-resolution and high-noise medical images is extremely challenging.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Feiyan Feng , Tianyu Liu , Hong Wang , Jun Zhao , Wei Li , Yanshen Sun

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm in video synthesis tasks including prediction, generation, and interpolation. Due to the limitation of the computational budget, existing methods usually implement conditional diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Siyuan Yang , Lu Zhang , Yu Liu , Zhizhuo Jiang , You He

Compositional diffusion planning generates long-horizon trajectories by stitching together overlapping short-horizon segments through score composition. However, when local plan distributions are multimodal, existing compositional methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Kyowoon Lee , Yunhao Luo , Anh Tong , Jaesik Choi