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Text-driven video generation has advanced significantly due to developments in diffusion models. Beyond the training and sampling phases, recent studies have investigated noise priors of diffusion models, as improved noise priors yield…

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Because of the ambiguous and subjective property of the facial expression recognition (FER) task, the label noise is widely existing in the FER dataset. For this problem, in the training phase, current FER methods often directly predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Xiang Zhang , Yan Lu , Huan Yan , Jingyang Huang , Yusheng Ji , Yu Gu

Generative diffusion models (DM) have been extensively utilized in image super-resolution (ISR). Most of the existing methods adopt the denoising loss from DDPMs for model optimization. We posit that introducing reward feedback learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xiaopeng Sun , Qinwei Lin , Yu Gao , Yujie Zhong , Chengjian Feng , Dengjie Li , Zheng Zhao , Jie Hu , Lin Ma

Iterative denoising-based generation, also known as denoising diffusion models, has recently been shown to be comparable in quality to other classes of generative models, and even surpass them. Including, in particular, Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Yaniv Benny , Lior Wolf

Despite significant progress in text-to-image diffusion models, achieving precise spatial control over generated outputs remains challenging. ControlNet addresses this by introducing an auxiliary conditioning module, while ControlNet++…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Nina Konovalova , Maxim Nikolaev , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

Diffusion inversion is a task of recovering the noise of an image in a diffusion model, which is vital for controllable diffusion image editing. At present, diffusion inversion still remains a challenging task due to the lack of viable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Ziyue Zhang , Luxi Lin , Xiaolin Hu , Chao Chang , HuaiXi Wang , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

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Image retrieval aims to identify visually similar images within a database using a given query image. Traditional methods typically employ both global and local features extracted from images for matching, and may also apply re-ranking…

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Denoising diffusion models show remarkable performances in generative tasks, and their potential applications in perception tasks are gaining interest. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework named DiffRef3D which adopts the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Se-Ho Kim , Inyong Koo , Inyoung Lee , Byeongjun Park , Changick Kim

Recent advancements in text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion, show significant demographic biases. Existing de-biasing techniques rely heavily on additional training, which imposes high computational costs and risks of compromising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Eunji Kim , Siwon Kim , Minjun Park , Rahim Entezari , Sungroh Yoon

Label noise refers to incorrect labels in a dataset caused by human errors or collection defects, which is common in real-world applications and can significantly reduce the accuracy of models. This report explores how to estimate noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haixu Liu , Zerui Tao , Naihui Zhang , Sixing Liu

The difficulty of obtaining paired data remains a major bottleneck for learning image restoration and enhancement models for real-world applications. Current strategies aim to synthesize realistic training data by modeling noise and…

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In the realm of text-to-3D generation, utilizing 2D diffusion models through score distillation sampling (SDS) frequently leads to issues such as blurred appearances and multi-faced geometry, primarily due to the intrinsically noisy nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Pengsheng Guo , Hans Hao , Adam Caccavale , Zhongzheng Ren , Edward Zhang , Qi Shan , Aditya Sankar , Alexander G. Schwing , Alex Colburn , Fangchang Ma

Pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have shown strong potential for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), owing to their noise-started generation process that enables realistic texture synthesis and captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Zhu , Kai Zhang , Yu Zheng , Lei Luo , Yong Guo , Jian Yang

We propose self-diffusion, a novel framework for solving inverse problems without relying on pretrained generative models. Traditional diffusion-based approaches require training a model on a clean dataset to learn to reverse the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guanxiong Luo , Shoujin Huang , Yanlong Yang

Diffusion models have emerged as a promising approach for text generation, with recent works falling into two main categories: discrete and continuous diffusion models. Discrete diffusion models apply token corruption independently using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Bocheng Li , Zhujin Gao , Linli Xu

Denoising Diffusion models have exhibited remarkable capabilities in image generation. However, generating high-quality samples requires a large number of iterations. Knowledge distillation for diffusion models is an effective method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Shengzhe Zhou , Zejian Lee , Shengyuan Zhang , Lefan Hou , Changyuan Yang , Guang Yang , Zhiyuan Yang , Lingyun Sun

It is widely believed that noise conditioning is indispensable for denoising diffusion models to work successfully. This work challenges this belief. Motivated by research on blind image denoising, we investigate a variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Qiao Sun , Zhicheng Jiang , Hanhong Zhao , Kaiming He

Retinex-based low-light image enhancement benefits from separating reflectance and illumination, yet recent generative approaches often rely on iterative sampling and are difficult to deploy under strict latency budgets. Consistency models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jian Xu , Wei Chen , Shigui Li , Delu Zeng , John Paisley , Qibin Zhao