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Generative models for image generation are now commonly used for a wide variety of applications, ranging from guided image generation for entertainment to solving inverse problems. Nonetheless, training a generator is a non-trivial feat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Eldad Haber , Shadab Ahamed , Md. Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui , Niloufar Zakariaei , Moshe Eliasof

We propose a novel approach to synthesizing images that are effective for training object detectors. Starting from a small set of real images, our algorithm estimates the rendering parameters required to synthesize similar images given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

Generative models cover various application areas, including image, video and music synthesis, natural language processing, and molecular design, among many others. As digital generative models become larger, scalable inference in a fast…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Shiqi Chen , Yuhang Li , Hanlong Chen , Aydogan Ozcan

Recently, significant progress has been made in the study of methods for 3D reconstruction from multiple images using implicit neural representations, exemplified by the neural radiance field (NeRF) method. Such methods, which are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Wooseok Kim , Taiki Fukiage , Takeshi Oishi

Diffusion models have shown great promise in synthesizing visually appealing images. However, it remains challenging to condition the synthesis at a fine-grained level, for instance, synthesizing image pixels following some generic color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ka Chun Shum , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

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

Semantic layouts based Image synthesizing, which has benefited from the success of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), has drawn much attention in these days. How to enhance the synthesis image equality while keeping the stochasticity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Ziqiang Zheng , Chao Wang , Zhibin Yu , Haiyong Zheng , Bing Zheng

Reconstructing objects from posed images is a crucial and complex task in computer graphics and computer vision. While NeRF-based neural reconstruction methods have exhibited impressive reconstruction ability, they tend to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shuichang Lai , Letian Huang , Jie Guo , Kai Cheng , Bowen Pan , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiangjing Lyu , Chengfei Lv , Yanwen Guo

Generating visible-like face images from thermal images is essential to perform manual and automatic cross-spectrum face recognition. We successfully propose a solution based on cascaded refinement network that, unlike previous works,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Naser Damer , Fadi Boutros , Khawla Mallat , Florian Kirchbuchner , Jean-Luc Dugelay , Arjan Kuijper

We introduce Multi-Object Generative Perception (MultiGP), a generative inverse rendering method for stochastic sampling of all radiometric constituents -- reflectance, texture, and illumination -- underlying object appearance from a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Nobuo Yoshii , Xinran Nicole Han , Ryo Kawahara , Todd Zickler , Ko Nishino

In this work, we propose an inverse rendering model that estimates 3D shape, spatially-varying reflectance, homogeneous subsurface scattering parameters, and an environment illumination jointly from only a pair of captured images of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenhao Li , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

Creative processes such as painting often involve creating different components of an image one by one. Can we build a computational model to perform this task? Prior works often fail by making global changes to the image, inserting objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Alper Canberk , Maksym Bondarenko , Ege Ozguroglu , Ruoshi Liu , Carl Vondrick

Text-to-image generative models have enabled high-resolution image synthesis across different domains, but require users to specify the content they wish to generate. In this paper, we consider the inverse problem -- given a collection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Nan Liu , Yilun Du , Shuang Li , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba

The color sensation evoked by an object depends on both the spectral power distribution of the illumination and the reflectance properties of the object being illuminated. The color sensation can be characterized by three color-space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Scott Allen Burns

Generative models can produce impressively realistic images. This paper demonstrates that generated images have geometric features different from those of real images. We build a set of collections of generated images, prequalified to fool…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Ayush Sarkar , Hanlin Mai , Amitabh Mahapatra , Svetlana Lazebnik , D. A. Forsyth , Anand Bhattad

Eliminating reflections caused by incident light interacting with reflective medium remains an ill-posed problem in the image restoration area. The primary challenge arises from the overlapping of reflection and transmission components in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pengbo Guo , Chengxu Liu , Guoshuai Zhao , Xingsong Hou , Jialie Shen , Xueming Qian

Existing multi-view 3D object reconstruction methods heavily rely on sufficient overlap between input views, where occlusions and sparse coverage in practice frequently yield severe reconstruction incompleteness. Recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiahao Chang , Chongjie Ye , Yushuang Wu , Yuantao Chen , Yidan Zhang , Zhongjin Luo , Chenghong Li , Yihao Zhi , Xiaoguang Han

Imaging of scenes using light or other wave phenomena is subject to the diffraction limit. The spatial profile of a wave propagating between a scene and the imaging system is distorted by diffraction resulting in a loss of resolution that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Ji Hyun Nam , Andreas Velten

This paper addresses the problem of reconstructing the surface shape of transparent objects. The difficulty of this problem originates from the viewpoint dependent appearance of a transparent object, which quickly makes reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Miaomiao Liu

The convergence of generative artificial intelligence and advanced computer vision technologies introduces a groundbreaking approach to transforming textual descriptions into three-dimensional representations. This research proposes a fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Venkat Kumar R , Deepak Saravanan