English
Related papers

Related papers: VeCoR -- Velocity Contrastive Regularization for F…

200 papers

Visual synthesis has recently seen significant leaps in performance, largely due to breakthroughs in generative models. Diffusion models have been a key enabler, as they excel in image diversity. However, this comes at the cost of slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Johannes Schusterbauer , Ming Gui , Pingchuan Ma , Nick Stracke , Stefan A. Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Flow-based text-to-image models follow deterministic trajectories, making it costly to explore diverse modes under limited sampling budgets. Existing approaches to improving diversity often rely on retraining or degrade image fidelity. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jingxuan Wu , Zhenglin Wan , Xingrui Yu , Yuzhe Yang , Bo An , Ivor Tsang , Yang You

We propose DeFloMat (Detection with Flow Matching), a novel generative object detection framework that addresses the critical latency bottleneck of diffusion-based detectors, such as DiffusionDet, by integrating Conditional Flow Matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hansang Lee , Chaelin Lee , Nieun Seo , Joon Seok Lim , Helen Hong

Flow maps enable high-quality image generation in a single forward pass. However, unlike iterative diffusion models, their lack of an explicit sampling trajectory impedes incorporating external constraints for conditional generation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Abbas Mammadov , So Takao , Bohan Chen , Ricardo Baptista , Morteza Mardani , Yee Whye Teh , Julius Berner

Developing efficient and accurate visuomotor policies poses a central challenge in robotic imitation learning. While recent rectified flow approaches have advanced visuomotor policy learning, they suffer from a key limitation: After…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rong Xue , Jiageng Mao , Mingtong Zhang , Yue Wang

Recently, Flow Matching models have pushed the boundaries of high-fidelity data generation across a wide range of domains. It typically employs a single large network to learn the entire generative trajectory from noise to data. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Dogyun Park , Taehoon Lee , Minseok Joo , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Flow Matching (FM) policies have emerged as an efficient backbone for robotic control, offering fast and expressive action generation that underpins recent large-scale embodied AI systems. However, FM policies trained via imitation learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaotian Qiu , Lukai Chen , Jinhao Li , Qi Sun , Cheng Zhuo , Guohao Dai

We introduce AdvantageFlow, a forward-process reinforcement learning algorithm for rectified flow models. Unlike Flow-GRPO, which optimizes the reverse process, we optimize an advantage-weighted forward-process prediction loss. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Branislav Kveton , Anup Rao , Subhojyoti Mukherjee , Krishna Kumar Singh , Viet Dac Lai

Though rectified flow models have achieved remarkable performance in image, video, and 3D generation, their practical deployments are challenged by slow inference speeds. Prior acceleration methods reuse cached features from previous steps,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Junwen Tan , Jinglin Liang , Hongyuan Chen , Shuangping Huang

Flow image super-resolution (FISR) aims at recovering high-resolution turbulent velocity fields from low-resolution flow images. Existing FISR methods mainly process the flow images in natural image patterns, while the critical and distinct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Qinglong Cao , Zhengqin Xu , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang , Yuntian Chen

We tackle the problem of estimating flow between two images with large lighting variations. Recent learning-based flow estimation frameworks have shown remarkable performance on image pairs with small displacement and constant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhaoyang Huang , Xiaokun Pan , Runsen Xu , Yan Xu , Ka chun Cheung , Guofeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li

Flow matching has emerged as a promising generative approach that addresses the lengthy sampling times associated with state-of-the-art diffusion models and enables a more flexible trajectory design, while maintaining high-quality image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Arnela Hadzic , Franz Thaler , Lea Bogensperger , Simon Johannes Joham , Martin Urschler

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have broad potential in privacy-sensitive domains such as healthcare and finance, yet strict data-sharing constraints render centralized training infeasible. Federated Learning mitigates this issue by enabling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shule Lu , Yujing Wang , Hainan Zhang , Xiaoshan Yang , Hongwei Zheng , Yongxin Tong , Changsheng Xu , Zhiming Zheng

Flow Matching has emerged as a powerful framework for learning continuous transformations between distributions, enabling high-fidelity generative modeling. This work introduces Symmetrical Flow Matching (SymmFlow), a new formulation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Francisco Caetano , Christiaan Viviers , Peter H. N. De With , Fons van der Sommen

Image harmonization task aims at harmonizing different composite foreground regions according to specific background image. Previous methods would rather focus on improving the reconstruction ability of the generator by some internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jingtang Liang , Chi-Man Pun

Reconstructing and tracking dynamic 3D scenes remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Existing approaches often decouple geometry from motion: multi-view reconstruction methods assume static scenes, while dynamic tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shenhan Qian , Ganlin Zhang , Shangzhe Wu , Daniel Cremers

Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-trained generative models to maximize a given reward function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Scene flow estimation aims to recover per-point motion from two adjacent LiDAR scans. However, in real-world applications such as autonomous driving, points rarely move independently of others, especially for nearby points belonging to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yancong Lin , Shiming Wang , Liangliang Nan , Julian Kooij , Holger Caesar

Contrastive learning, which aims at minimizing the distance between positive pairs while maximizing that of negative ones, has been widely and successfully applied in unsupervised feature learning, where the design of positive and negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Rui Zhu , Bingchen Zhao , Jingen Liu , Zhenglong Sun , Chang Wen Chen

In light of the success of contrastive learning in the image domain, current self-supervised video representation learning methods usually employ contrastive loss to facilitate video representation learning. When naively pulling two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Shuangrui Ding , Maomao Li , Tianyu Yang , Rui Qian , Haohang Xu , Qingyi Chen , Jue Wang , Hongkai Xiong