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Text-guided image editing is an essential task that enables users to modify images through natural language descriptions. Recent advances in diffusion models and rectified flows have significantly improved editing quality, primarily relying…

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Image diffusion models, though originally developed for image generation, implicitly capture rich semantic structures that enable various recognition and localization tasks beyond synthesis. In this work, we investigate their self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Youngseo Kim , Dohyun Kim , Geonhee Han , Paul Hongsuck Seo

Diffusion models, while trained for image generation, have emerged as powerful foundational feature extractors for downstream tasks. We find that off-the-shelf diffusion models, trained exclusively to generate natural RGB images, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nurislam Tursynbek , Hastings Greer , Basar Demir , Marc Niethammer

Preparing training data for deep vision models is a labor-intensive task. To address this, generative models have emerged as an effective solution for generating synthetic data. While current generative models produce image-level category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Quang Nguyen , Truong Vu , Anh Tran , Khoi Nguyen

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality images from textual prompts. However, their ability to store vast amounts of knowledge raises concerns in scenarios where selective forgetting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gen Li , Yang Xiao , Jie Ji , Kaiyuan Deng , Bo Hui , Linke Guo , Xiaolong Ma

Large-scale text-to-image models have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize diverse and high-fidelity images. However, these models are often violated by several limitations. Firstly, they require the user to provide precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Xiaojun Yang , Xiao Wang , Yukai Shi

Recent progress in diffusion-based visual generation has largely relied on latent diffusion models with variational autoencoders (VAEs). While effective for high-fidelity synthesis, this VAE+diffusion paradigm suffers from limited training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minglei Shi , Haolin Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Ziyang Yuan , Xiaoshi Wu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

We present a novel method for constructing Variational Autoencoder (VAE). Instead of using pixel-by-pixel loss, we enforce deep feature consistency between the input and the output of a VAE, which ensures the VAE's output to preserve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xianxu Hou , Linlin Shen , Ke Sun , Guoping Qiu

We propose a novel, zero-shot image generation technique called "Visual Concept Blending" that provides fine-grained control over which features from multiple reference images are transferred to a source image. If only a single reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Hiroya Makino , Takahiro Yamaguchi , Hiroyuki Sakai

We present ConceptEvo, a unified interpretation framework for deep neural networks (DNNs) that reveals the inception and evolution of learned concepts during training. Our work addresses a critical gap in DNN interpretation research, as…

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capability in generating high-quality visual content from textual descriptions. However, since these models are trained on large-scale internet data, they inevitably learn undesirable concepts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Anh Bui , Khanh Doan , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark can survive various image manipulations. However, the rise of powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques poses a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yunyi Ni , Finn Carter , Ze Niu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Image manipulation under the guidance of textual descriptions has recently received a broad range of attention. In this study, we focus on the regional editing of images with the guidance of given text prompts. Different from current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Nisha Huang , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Tong-Yee Lee , Changsheng Xu

We introduce DiffSketch, a method for generating a variety of stylized sketches from images. Our approach focuses on selecting representative features from the rich semantics of deep features within a pretrained diffusion model. This novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Kwan Yun , Youngseo Kim , Kwanggyoon Seo , Chang Wook Seo , Junyong Noh

Memorization in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models poses significant security and intellectual property risks, enabling adversarial attribute extraction and the unauthorized reproduction of sensitive or proprietary features. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Divya Kothandaraman , Jaclyn Pytlarz

Video object removal aims to eliminate target objects from videos while plausibly completing missing regions and preserving spatio-temporal consistency. Although diffusion models have recently advanced this task, it remains challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dingming Liu , Wenjing Wang , Chen Li , Jing Lyu

Diffusion models have shown remarkable success in visual synthesis, but have also raised concerns about potential abuse for malicious purposes. In this paper, we seek to build a detector for telling apart real images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Zhendong Wang , Jianmin Bao , Wengang Zhou , Weilun Wang , Hezhen Hu , Hong Chen , Houqiang Li

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models can generate high-fidelity images with powerful compositional ability. However, these models are typically trained on an enormous amount of Internet data, often containing copyrighted material,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Nupur Kumari , Bingliang Zhang , Sheng-Yu Wang , Eli Shechtman , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu

In the context of natural language processing, representation learning has emerged as a newly active research subject because of its excellent performance in many applications. Learning representations of words is a pioneering study in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Kuan-Yu Chen , Shih-Hung Liu , Berlin Chen , Hsin-Min Wang

Text-to-image diffusion models sometimes depict blended concepts in the generated images. One promising use case of this effect would be the nonword-to-image generation task which attempts to generate images intuitively imaginable from a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Chihaya Matsuhira , Marc A. Kastner , Takahiro Komamizu , Takatsugu Hirayama , Ichiro Ide