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Blind face restoration (BFR) is important while challenging. Prior works prefer to exploit GAN-based frameworks to tackle this task due to the balance of quality and efficiency. However, these methods suffer from poor stability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xinmin Qiu , Congying Han , Zicheng Zhang , Bonan Li , Tiande Guo , Xuecheng Nie

Visual anagrams are images that change appearance upon transformation, like flipping or rotation. With the advent of diffusion models, generating such optical illusions can be achieved by averaging noise across multiple views during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zhiyuan Xu , Yinhe Chen , Huan-ang Gao , Weiyan Zhao , Guiyu Zhang , Hao Zhao

We seek to give users precise control over diffusion-based image generation by modeling complex scenes as sequences of layers, which define the desired spatial arrangement and visual attributes of objects in the scene. Collage Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Vishnu Sarukkai , Linden Li , Arden Ma , Christopher Ré , Kayvon Fatahalian

In cinema, large camera lenses create beautiful shallow depth of field (DOF), but make focusing difficult and expensive. Accurate cinema focus usually relies on a script and a person to control focus in realtime. Casual videographers often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Xuaner Zhang , Kevin Matzen , Vivien Nguyen , Dillon Yao , You Zhang , Ren Ng

Recent advances in diffusion models have spurred research into their application for Reconstruction-based unsupervised anomaly detection. However, these methods may struggle with maintaining structural integrity and recovering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Farzad Beizaee , Gregory A. Lodygensky , Christian Desrosiers , Jose Dolz

Recent progress in diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of human image animation. While existing methods can generate temporally consistent results for short or regular motions, significant challenges remain, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shen Zheng , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Xingpei Ma , Junjie Cao , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang , Xiao-Ping Zhang

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

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image synthesis. However, addressing artifacts and unrealistic regions remains a critical challenge. We propose self-refining diffusion, a novel framework that enhances image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Seoyeon Lee , Gwangyeol Yu , Chaewon Kim , Jonghyuk Park

In recent times, diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance in image restoration tasks. Their core mechanism relies on the restricted presumption of degradation prior to the additive noise operation. However, the blur model, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sasidhar Parvathireddy , Vamsidhar Saraswathula , Rama Krishna Gorthi

We consider the problem of realistic bokeh rendering from a single all-in-focus image. Bokeh rendering mimics aesthetic shallow depth-of-field (DoF) in professional photography, but these visual effects generated by existing methods suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Xianrui Luo , Juewen Peng , Ke Xian , Zijin Wu , Zhiguo Cao

Recent advancements in diffusion models revolutionize image generation but pose risks of misuse, such as replicating artworks or generating deepfakes. Existing image protection methods, though effective, struggle to balance protection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Namhyuk Ahn , KiYoon Yoo , Wonhyuk Ahn , Daesik Kim , Seung-Hun Nam

Diffusion model (DM) has achieved SOTA performance by modeling the image synthesis process into a sequential application of a denoising network. However, different from image synthesis, image restoration (IR) has a strong constraint to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Bin Xia , Yulun Zhang , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Luc Van Gool

Capturing screens is now routine in our everyday lives. But the photographs of emissive displays are often influenced by the flicker-banding (FB), which is alternating bright%u2013dark stripes that arise from temporal aliasing between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Libo Zhu , Zihan Zhou , Xiaoyang Liu , Weihang Zhang , Keyu Shi , Yifan Fu , Yulun Zhang

Fine-grained clustering is a practical yet challenging task, whose essence lies in capturing the subtle differences between instances of different classes. Such subtle differences can be easily disrupted by data augmentation or be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Ruohong Yang , Peng Hu , Xi Peng , Xiting Liu , Yunfan Li

Inverting visual representations within deep neural networks (DNNs) presents a challenging and important problem in the field of security and privacy for deep learning. The main goal is to invert the features of an unidentified target image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sai Qian Zhang , Ziyun Li , Chuan Guo , Saeed Mahloujifar , Deeksha Dangwal , Edward Suh , Barbara De Salvo , Chiao Liu

Event cameras excel at high-speed, low-power, and high-dynamic-range scene perception. However, as they fundamentally record only relative intensity changes rather than absolute intensity, the resulting data streams suffer from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Gang Xu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in photorealism, image editing, and solving inverse problems, aided by classifier-free guidance and image inversion techniques. However, rectified flow models (RFMs) remain underexplored for these tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Maitreya Patel , Song Wen , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Yezhou Yang

We present PoseDiff, a conditional diffusion model that unifies robot state estimation and control within a single framework. At its core, PoseDiff maps raw visual observations into structured robot states-such as 3D keypoints or joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Haozhuo Zhang , Michele Caprio , Jing Shao , Qiang Zhang , Jian Tang , Shanghang Zhang , Wei Pan

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Darshan Thaker , Abhishek Goyal , René Vidal

Diffusion models have achieved significant success in both natural image and medical image domains, encompassing a wide range of applications. Previous investigations in medical images have often been constrained to specific anatomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yongrui Yu , Yannian Gu , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaofan Zhang