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Counterfactual explanations have been successfully applied to create human interpretable explanations for various black-box models. They are handy for tasks in the image domain, where the quality of the explanations benefits from recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Trung Duc Ha , Sidney Bender

Generation of photo-realistic images, semantic editing and representation learning are a few of many potential applications of high resolution generative models. Recent progress in GANs have established them as an excellent choice for such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Partha Ghosh , Dominik Zietlow , Michael J. Black , Larry S. Davis , Xiaochen Hu

We tackle the challenge of learning a distribution over complex, realistic, indoor scenes. In this paper, we introduce Generative Scene Networks (GSN), which learns to decompose scenes into a collection of many local radiance fields that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Terrance DeVries , Miguel Angel Bautista , Nitish Srivastava , Graham W. Taylor , Joshua M. Susskind

The increasing use of generative ML foundation models for image restoration tasks such as super-resolution calls for robust and interpretable uncertainty quantification methods. We address this need by presenting a novel approach based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Eduardo Adame , Daniel Csillag , Guilherme Tegoni Goedert

Diffusion-based generative models are a design framework that allows generating new images from processes analogous to those found in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. These models model the reversal of a physical diffusion process in which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jordi de la Torre

Different visual patterns appear with different frequencies in the world: e.g., beach balls appear on sand more often than they do on a road. These statistics are reflected in vision datasets, and as a result trained models more easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xinran Liang , Esin Tureci , Prachi Sinha , Ye Zhu , Vikram V. Ramaswamy , Olga Russakovsky

Image of a scene captured through a piece of transparent and reflective material, such as glass, is often spoiled by a superimposed layer of reflection image. While separating the reflection from a familiar object in an image is mentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Zhixiang Chi , Xiaolin Wu , Xiao Shu , Jinjin Gu

We address the problem of 3D inconsistency of image inpainting based on diffusion models. We propose a generative model using image pairs that belong to the same scene. To achieve the 3D-consistent and semantically coherent inpainting, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Leonid Antsfeld , Boris Chidlovskii

In this paper, we present a new compositing approach to obtain stylized reflections and refractions with a simple control. Our approach does not require any mask or separate 3D rendering. Moreover, only one additional image is sufficient to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Ergun Akleman , Youyou Wang , Ozgur Gonen

Despite an impressive performance from the latest GAN for generating hyper-realistic images, GAN discriminators have difficulty evaluating the quality of an individual generated sample. This is because the task of evaluating the quality of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Xiru Zhu , Fengdi Che , Tianzi Yang , Tzuyang Yu , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

Despite the recent success of GANs in synthesizing images conditioned on inputs such as a user sketch, text, or semantic labels, manipulating the high-level attributes of an existing natural photograph with GANs is challenging for two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 David Bau , Hendrik Strobelt , William Peebles , Jonas Wulff , Bolei Zhou , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba

Flow-based generative super-resolution (SR) models learn to produce a diverse set of feasible SR solutions, called the SR space. Diversity of SR solutions increases with the temperature ($\tau$) of latent variables, which introduces random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Cansu Korkmaz , A. Murat Tekalp , Zafer Dogan , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Since the generative neural networks have made a breakthrough in the image generation problem, lots of researches on their applications have been studied such as image restoration, style transfer and image completion. However, there has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jeesoo Kim , Jangho Kim , Jaeyoung Yoo , Daesik Kim , Nojun Kwak

Text-to-image models are powerful tools for image creation. However, the generation process is akin to a dice roll and makes it difficult to achieve a single image that captures everything a user wants. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sean J. Liu , Nupur Kumari , Ariel Shamir , Jun-Yan Zhu

In this work, we propose a novel method for the detailed reconstruction of transparent objects by exploiting polarimetric cues. Most of the existing methods usually lack sufficient constraints and suffer from the over-smooth problem. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Mingqi Shao , Chongkun Xia , Dongxu Duan , Xueqian Wang

3D-aware generative models have demonstrated their superb performance to generate 3D neural radiance fields (NeRF) from a collection of monocular 2D images even for topology-varying object categories. However, these methods still lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Ziyu Wang , Yu Deng , Jiaolong Yang , Jingyi Yu , Xin Tong

Recent text-to-image generative models can generate high-fidelity images from text prompts. However, these models struggle to consistently generate the same objects in different contexts with the same appearance. Consistent object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Alec Helbling , Evan Montoya , Duen Horng Chau

How do diffusion generative models convert pure noise into meaningful images? In a variety of pretrained diffusion models (including conditional latent space models like Stable Diffusion), we observe that the reverse diffusion process that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Binxu Wang , John J. Vastola

Current generative frameworks use end-to-end learning and generate images by sampling from uniform noise distribution. However, these approaches ignore the most basic principle of image formation: images are product of: (a) Structure: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Xiaolong Wang , Abhinav Gupta

The remarkable progress in neural-network-driven visual data generation, especially with neural rendering techniques like Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian splatting, offers a powerful alternative to GANs and diffusion models. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chengdong Dong , Vijayakumar Bhagavatula , Zhenyu Zhou , Ajay Kumar