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Recovering clean and accurate geometry from images is essential for robotics and augmented reality. However, existing geometry foundation models still suffer severely from flying pixels and the loss of fine details. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Gangwei Xu , Haotong Lin , Hongcheng Luo , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Sida Peng , Hangjun Ye , Xin Yang

Generative steganography is the process of hiding secret messages in generated images instead of cover images. Existing studies on generative steganography use GAN or Flow models to obtain high hiding message capacity and anti-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Daegyu Kim , Chaehun Shin , Jooyoung Choi , Dahuin Jung , Sungroh Yoon

The demand for stereo images increases as manufacturers launch more XR devices. To meet this demand, we introduce StereoDiffusion, a method that, unlike traditional inpainting pipelines, is trainning free, remarkably straightforward to use,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Lezhong Wang , Jeppe Revall Frisvad , Mark Bo Jensen , Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli

Recent video inpainting methods have achieved encouraging improvements by leveraging optical flow to guide pixel propagation from reference frames either in the image space or feature space. However, they would produce severe artifacts in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chaohao Xie , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Modern diffusion/flow-based models for image generation typically exhibit two core characteristics: (i) using multi-step sampling, and (ii) operating in a latent space. Recent advances have made encouraging progress on each aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yiyang Lu , Susie Lu , Qiao Sun , Hanhong Zhao , Zhicheng Jiang , Xianbang Wang , Tianhong Li , Zhengyang Geng , Kaiming He

Cameras capture scene-referred linear raw images, which are processed by onboard image signal processors (ISPs) into display-referred 8-bit sRGB outputs. Although raw data is more faithful for low-level vision tasks, collecting large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Dongyoung Kim , Junyong Lee , Abhijith Punnappurath , Mahmoud Afifi , Sangmin Han , Alex Levinshtein , Michael S. Brown

This report presents PixelBytes, an approach for unified multimodal representation learning. Drawing inspiration from sequence models like Image Transformers, PixelCNN, and Mamba-Bytes, we explore integrating text, audio, action-state, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Fabien Furfaro

Latent diffusion models have become the popular choice for scaling up diffusion models for high resolution image synthesis. Compared to pixel-space models that are trained end-to-end, latent models are perceived to be more efficient and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Emiel Hoogeboom , Thomas Mensink , Jonathan Heek , Kay Lamerigts , Ruiqi Gao , Tim Salimans

The recent use of diffusion prior, enhanced by pre-trained text-image models, has markedly elevated the performance of image super-resolution (SR). To alleviate the huge computational cost required by pixel-based diffusion SR, latent-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Feng Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Jun Zhang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang

Recent advancements in Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) have focused heavily on Diffusion Probabilistic Models, which achieve high perceptual quality but suffer from significant computational latency (often exceeding 2-4 seconds per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yash Thesia , Meera Suthar

We explore architectures for general pixel-level prediction problems, from low-level edge detection to mid-level surface normal estimation to high-level semantic segmentation. Convolutional predictors, such as the fully-convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Aayush Bansal , Xinlei Chen , Bryan Russell , Abhinav Gupta , Deva Ramanan

With the continuous advancement of image generation technology, advanced models such as GPT-Image-1 and Qwen-Image have achieved remarkable text-to-image consistency and world knowledge However, these models still fall short in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Junyan Ye , Leiqi Zhu , Yuncheng Guo , Dongzhi Jiang , Zilong Huang , Yifan Zhang , Zhiyuan Yan , Haohuan Fu , Conghui He , Weijia Li

PixelCNN achieves state-of-the-art results in density estimation for natural images. Although training is fast, inference is costly, requiring one network evaluation per pixel; O(N) for N pixels. This can be sped up by caching activations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Scott Reed , Aäron van den Oord , Nal Kalchbrenner , Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo , Ziyu Wang , Dan Belov , Nando de Freitas

Despite their generative power, diffusion models struggle to maintain style consistency across images conditioned on the same style prompt, hindering their practical deployment in creative workflows. While several training-free methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiexuan Zhang , Yiheng Du , Qian Wang , Weiqi Li , Yu Gu , Jian Zhang

Ambiguity in medical image segmentation calls for models that capture full conditional distributions rather than a single point estimate. We present Prior-Guided Residual Diffusion (PGRD), a diffusion-based framework that learns voxel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Fuyou Mao , Beining Wu , Yanfeng Jiang , Han Xue , Yan Tang , Hao Zhang

With the success of image generation, generative diffusion models are increasingly adopted for discriminative tasks, as pixel generation provides a unified perception interface. However, directly repurposing the generative denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ziqi Pang , Xin Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang

Latent diffusion models excel at producing high-quality images from text. Yet, concerns appear about the lack of diversity in the generated imagery. To tackle this, we introduce Diverse Diffusion, a method for boosting image diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mariia Zameshina , Olivier Teytaud , Laurent Najman

Language models are defined over a finite set of inputs, which creates a vocabulary bottleneck when we attempt to scale the number of supported languages. Tackling this bottleneck results in a trade-off between what can be represented in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Phillip Rust , Jonas F. Lotz , Emanuele Bugliarello , Elizabeth Salesky , Miryam de Lhoneux , Desmond Elliott

There is a growing interest in the use of latent diffusion models (LDMs) for image restoration (IR) tasks due to their ability to model effectively the distribution of natural images. While significant progress has been made, there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Di You , Daniel Siromani , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Diffusion models have revolutionized image generation and editing, producing state-of-the-art results in conditioned and unconditioned image synthesis. While current techniques enable user control over the degree of change in an image edit,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Eran Levin , Ohad Fried