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While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which uses a single pre-training stage to address both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Srinidhi Hegde , Tianyi Zhou , Abhinav Shrivastava

Recent advances in text-to-image generation with diffusion models present transformative capabilities in image quality. However, user controllability of the generated image, and fast adaptation to new tasks still remains an open challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Omer Bar-Tal , Lior Yariv , Yaron Lipman , Tali Dekel

Despite the ability of existing large-scale text-to-image (T2I) models to generate high-quality images from detailed textual descriptions, they often lack the ability to precisely edit the generated or real images. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Chong Mou , Xintao Wang , Jiechong Song , Ying Shan , Jian Zhang

It is well known the adversarial optimization of GAN-based image super-resolution (SR) methods makes the preceding SR model generate unpleasant and undesirable artifacts, leading to large distortion. We attribute the cause of such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Joshua Tian Jin Tee , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Chang D. Yoo , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

We introduce a diffusion-based cross-domain image translator in the absence of paired training data. Unlike GAN-based methods, our approach integrates diffusion models to learn the image translation process, allowing for more coverable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shilong Zou , Yuhang Huang , Renjiao Yi , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

Diffusion Handles is a novel approach to enabling 3D object edits on diffusion images. We accomplish these edits using existing pre-trained diffusion models, and 2D image depth estimation, without any fine-tuning or 3D object retrieval. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Karran Pandey , Paul Guerrero , Matheus Gadelha , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Karan Singh , Niloy Mitra

Evaluating diffusion-based image-editing models is a crucial task in the field of Generative AI. Specifically, it is imperative to assess their capacity to execute diverse editing tasks while preserving the image content and realism. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Stefan Stefanache , Lluís Pastor Pérez , Julen Costa Watanabe , Ernesto Sanchez Tejedor , Thomas Hofmann , Enis Simsar

Image alignment is a fundamental task in computer vision with broad applications. Existing methods predominantly employ optical flow-based image warping. However, this technique is susceptible to common challenges such as occlusions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xinglong Luo , Ao Luo , Zhengning Wang , Yueqi Yang , Chaoyu Feng , Lei Lei , Bing Zeng , Shuaicheng Liu

Creative sketch is a universal way of visual expression, but translating images from an abstract sketch is very challenging. Traditionally, creating a deep learning model for sketch-to-image synthesis needs to overcome the distorted input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Qiang Wang , Di Kong , Fengyin Lin , Yonggang Qi

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable image generation quality surpassing previous generative models. However, a notable limitation of diffusion models, in comparison to GANs, is their difficulty in smoothly interpolating between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Kaiwen Zhang , Yifan Zhou , Xudong Xu , Xingang Pan , Bo Dai

The recent wave of AI-generated content (AIGC) has witnessed substantial success in computer vision, with the diffusion model playing a crucial role in this achievement. Due to their impressive generative capabilities, diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhen Xing , Qijun Feng , Haoran Chen , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Hang Xu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

In this work, we rethink the approach to video super-resolution by introducing a method based on the Diffusion Posterior Sampling framework, combined with an unconditional video diffusion transformer operating in latent space. The video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zhihao Zhan , Wang Pang , Xiang Zhu , Yechao Bai

Despite all recent progress, it is still challenging to edit and manipulate natural images with modern generative models. When using Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), one major hurdle is in the inversion process mapping a real image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zhihong Pan , Riccardo Gherardi , Xiufeng Xie , Stephen Huang

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models capable of producing high-quality images from pure noise using a simple text prompt. While most methods which introduce additional spatial constraints into the generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zakaria Patel , Kirill Serkh

There is a prevalent opinion that diffusion-based models outperform GAN-based counterparts in the Image Super Resolution (ISR) problem. However, in most studies, diffusion-based ISR models employ larger networks and are trained longer than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Denis Kuznedelev , Valerii Startsev , Daniil Shlenskii , Sergey Kastryulin

Changing facial expressions, gestures, or background details may dramatically alter the meaning conveyed by an image. Notably, recent advances in diffusion models greatly improve the quality of image manipulation while also opening the door…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Alex Costanzino , Woody Bayliss , Juil Sock , Marc Gorriz Blanch , Danijela Horak , Ivan Laptev , Philip Torr , Fabio Pizzati

Generative diffusion models have advanced image editing with high-quality results and intuitive interfaces such as prompts and semantic drawing. However, these interfaces lack precise control, and the associated methods typically specialize…

Scene extrapolation -- the idea of generating novel views by flying into a given image -- is a promising, yet challenging task. For each predicted frame, a joint inpainting and 3D refinement problem has to be solved, which is ill posed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Shengqu Cai , Eric Ryan Chan , Songyou Peng , Mohamad Shahbazi , Anton Obukhov , Luc Van Gool , Gordon Wetzstein

Diffusion models have become state-of-the-art generative models for images, audio, and video, yet enabling fine-grained controllable generation, i.e., continuously steering specific concepts without disturbing unrelated content, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Rotem Ezra , Hedi Zisling , Nimrod Berman , Ilan Naiman , Alexey Gorkor , Liran Nochumsohn , Eliya Nachmani , Omri Azencot