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Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in image generation, particularly within the domain of style transfer. Prevailing style transfer approaches typically leverage pre-trained diffusion models' robust feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yeqi He , Liang Li , Zhiwen Yang , Xichun Sheng , Zhidong Zhao , Chenggang Yan

Recently Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) has garnered attention and can transfer knowledge from a teacher neural network to a student neural network without requiring any access to training data. Although diffusion models are adept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xiaohua Qi , Renda Li , Long Peng , Qiang Ling , Jun Yu , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Jing Xiao

Recent studies have demonstrated that diffusion models are capable of generating high-quality samples, but their quality heavily depends on sampling guidance techniques, such as classifier guidance (CG) and classifier-free guidance (CFG).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Donghoon Ahn , Hyoungwon Cho , Jaewon Min , Wooseok Jang , Jungwoo Kim , SeonHwa Kim , Hyun Hee Park , Kyong Hwan Jin , Seungryong Kim

Controllable diffusion generation often relies on various heuristics that are seemingly disconnected without a unified understanding. We bridge this gap with Diffusion Controller (DiffCon), a unified control-theoretic view that casts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tong Yang , Moonkyung Ryu , Chih-Wei Hsu , Guy Tennenholtz , Yuejie Chi , Craig Boutilier , Bo Dai

Instruction-based image editing enables intuitive manipulation through natural language commands. However, text instructions alone often lack the precision required for fine-grained control over edit intensity. We introduce NumeriKontrol, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhenyu Xu , Xiaoqi Shen , Haotian Nan , Xinyu Zhang

Instruction-based image editing enables precise modifications via natural language prompts, but existing methods face a precision-efficiency tradeoff: fine-tuning demands massive datasets (>10M) and computational resources, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zechuan Zhang , Ji Xie , Yu Lu , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao

Medical image restoration is essential for improving the usability of noisy, incomplete, and artifact-corrupted clinical scans, yet existing methods often rely on task-specific retraining and offer limited control over the trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xu Liu

Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models empower users to edit images through text guidance. However, existing methods often over-align with target prompts while inadequately preserving source image semantics. Such approaches generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jianda Mao , Kaibo Wang , Yang Xiang , Kani Chen

Pretraining robust vision or multimodal foundation models (e.g., CLIP) relies on large-scale datasets that may be noisy, potentially misaligned, and have long-tail distributions. Previous works have shown promising results in augmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Qingqing Cao , Mahyar Najibi , Sachin Mehta

Controllable text generation (CTG) seeks to craft texts adhering to specific attributes, traditionally employing learning-based techniques such as training, fine-tuning, or prefix-tuning with attribute-specific datasets. These approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Zijian Feng , Hanzhang Zhou , Zixiao Zhu , Kezhi Mao

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable and robust abilities in both image and video generation. To achieve greater control over generated results, researchers introduce additional architectures, such as ControlNet, Adapters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bohao Peng , Jian Wang , Yuechen Zhang , Wenbo Li , Ming-Chang Yang , Jiaya Jia

We propose a training-free and robust solution to offer camera movement control for off-the-shelf video diffusion models. Unlike previous work, our method does not require any supervised finetuning on camera-annotated datasets or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chen Hou , Zhibo Chen

Text-to-image diffusion models often exhibit degraded performance when generating images beyond their training resolution. Recent training-free methods can mitigate this limitation, but they often require substantial computation or are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Sungho Koh , SeungJu Cha , Hyunwoo Oh , Kwanyoung Lee , Dong-Jin Kim

Research in vision-language models has seen rapid developments off-late, enabling natural language-based interfaces for image generation and manipulation. Many existing text guided manipulation techniques are restricted to specific classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Paramanand Chandramouli , Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota

While diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in style transfer tasks, existing methods typically rely on fine-tuning or optimizing pre-trained models during inference, leading to high computational costs and challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bo Huang , Wenlun Xu , Qizhuo Han , Haodong Jing , Ying Li

Face stylization refers to the transformation of a face into a specific portrait style. However, current methods require the use of example-based adaptation approaches to fine-tune pre-trained generative models so that they demand lots of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jin Liu , Huaibo Huang , Chao Jin , Ran He

Recent advancements in text-to-image synthesis have been largely propelled by diffusion-based models, yet achieving precise alignment between text prompts and generated images remains a persistent challenge. We find that this difficulty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiefan Guo , Xinzhu Ma , Haiyu Zhang , Di Huang

Training-free diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generating multi-subject consistent images within open-domain scenarios. The key idea of these methods is to incorporate reference subject information within the attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Huiguo He , Qiuyue Wang , Yuan Zhou , Yuxuan Cai , Hongyang Chao , Jian Yin , Huan Yang