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Dense and versatile image representations underpin the success of virtually all computer vision applications. However, state-of-the-art networks, such as transformers, produce low-resolution feature grids, which are suboptimal for dense…

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We present FlowIt, a novel architecture for optical flow estimation designed to robustly handle large pixel displacements. At its core, FlowIt leverages a hierarchical transformer architecture that captures extensive global context,…

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Controlling the behavior of text-to-image generative models is critical for safe and practical deployment. Existing safety approaches typically rely on model fine-tuning or curated datasets, which can degrade generation quality or limit…

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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is an advanced neuroimaging method that enables in-depth analysis of brain activity by measuring dynamic changes in the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signals. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hwa Hui Tew , Junn Yong Loo , Yee-Fan Tan , Xinyu Tang , Hernando Ombao , Fuad Noman , Raphael C. -W. Phan , Chee-Ming Ting

The use of machine learning in fluid dynamics is becoming more common to expedite the computation when solving forward and inverse problems of partial differential equations. Yet, a notable challenge with existing convolutional neural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-10 Siming Shan , Pengkai Wang , Song Chen , Jiaxu Liu , Chao Xu , Shengze Cai

Model-based iterative reconstruction plays a key role in solving inverse problems. However, the associated minimization problems are generally large-scale, nonsmooth, and sometimes even nonconvex, which present challenges in designing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Tao Hong , Zhaoyi Xu , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Diffusion- and flow-based models have advanced Real-world Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR), but their multi-step sampling makes inference slow and hard to deploy. One-step distillation alleviates the cost, yet often degrades restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ruiqing Wang , Kai Zhang , Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Shilin Lu , Jian Yang

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 create data from noise by inverting the forward paths of data towards noise and have emerged as a powerful generative modeling technique for high-dimensional, perceptual data such as images and videos. Rectified flow is a…

Controlling generative models is computationally expensive. This is because optimal alignment with a reward function--whether via inference-time steering or fine-tuning--requires estimating the value function. This task demands access to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-22 Peter Potaptchik , Adhi Saravanan , Abbas Mammadov , Alvaro Prat , Michael S. Albergo , Yee Whye Teh

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in photorealism, image editing, and solving inverse problems, aided by classifier-free guidance and image inversion techniques. However, rectified flow models (RFMs) remain underexplored for these tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Maitreya Patel , Song Wen , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Yezhou Yang

Diffusion models have significantly advanced the fields of image, audio, and video generation, but they depend on an iterative sampling process that causes slow generation. To overcome this limitation, we propose consistency models, a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yang Song , Prafulla Dhariwal , Mark Chen , Ilya Sutskever

Consistency models imitate the multi-step sampling of score-based diffusion in a single forward pass of a neural network. They can be learned in two ways: consistency distillation and consistency training. The former relies on the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Thibaut Issenhuth , Sangchul Lee , Ludovic Dos Santos , Jean-Yves Franceschi , Chansoo Kim , Alain Rakotomamonjy

Diffusion distillation has dramatically accelerated class-conditional image synthesis, but its applicability to open-ended text-to-image (T2I) generation is still unclear. We present the first systematic study that adapts and compares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yifan Pu , Yizeng Han , Zhiwei Tang , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Bohan Zhuang , Gao Huang

Feature matching across video streams remains a cornerstone challenge in computer vision. Increasingly, robust multimodal matching has garnered interest in robotics, surveillance, remote sensing, and medical imaging. While traditional rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Jie Wang , Chen Ye Gan , Caoqi Wei , Jiangtao Wen , Yuxing Han

We reconstruct the velocity field of incompressible flows given a finite set of measurements. For the spatial approximation, we introduce the Sparse Fourier divergence-free (SFdf) approximation based on a discrete $L^2$ projection. Within…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-13 Luis Espath , Dmitry Kabanov , Jonas Kiessling , Raúl Tempone

Diffusion-based models have significant achievements in time series generation but suffer from inefficient computation: solving high-dimensional ODEs/SDEs via iterative numerical solvers demands hundreds to thousands of drift function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yang Hu , Xiao Wang , Zezhen Ding , Lirong Wu , Huatian Zhang , Stan Z. Li , Sheng Wang , Jiheng Zhang , Ziyun Li , Tianlong Chen

Generative models based on dynamical equations such as flows and diffusions offer exceptional sample quality, but require computationally expensive numerical integration during inference. The advent of consistency models has enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nicholas M. Boffi , Michael S. Albergo , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

In the text-to-image generation field, recent remarkable progress in Stable Diffusion makes it possible to generate rich kinds of novel photorealistic images. However, current models still face misalignment issues (e.g., problematic spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Leigang Qu , Shengqiong Wu , Hao Fei , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Deep generative models are powerful priors for imaging inverse problems, but training-free solvers for latent flow models face a practical finite-step trade-off. Optimization-heavy methods quickly improve measurement consistency, but in…

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