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Text-to-video generation has trailed behind text-to-image generation in terms of quality and diversity, primarily due to the inherent complexities of spatio-temporal modeling and the limited availability of video-text datasets. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Xiefan Guo , Jinlin Liu , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo , Di Huang

Pixel-level fine-grained image editing remains an open challenge. Previous works fail to achieve an ideal trade-off between control granularity and inference speed. They either fail to achieve pixel-level fine-grained control, or their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Pengxiang Cai , Zhiwei Liu , Guibo Zhu , Yunfang Niu , Jinqiao Wang

Natural images are continuous, yet most generative models synthesize them on discrete grids, limiting resolution-flexible generation. Continuous neural fields enable resolution-free rendering, but prior methods introduce continuity only at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yanhao Ge , Shanyan Guan , Weihao Wang , Ying Tai , Mingyu You

Diffusion Probabilistic Methods are employed for state-of-the-art image generation. In this work, we present a method for extending such models for performing image segmentation. The method learns end-to-end, without relying on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Tomer Amit , Tal Shaharbany , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

In this letter, we explored generative image steganography based on autoregressive models. We proposed Pixel-Stega, which implements pixel-level information hiding with autoregressive models and arithmetic coding algorithm. Firstly, one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Siyu Zhang , Zhongliang Yang , Haoqin Tu , Jinshuai Yang , Yongfeng Huang

Learning to translate images from a source to a target domain with applications such as converting simple line drawing to oil painting has attracted significant attention. The quality of translated images is directly related to two crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Mohammadreza Naderi , Nader Karimi , Ali Emami , Shahram Shirani , Shadrokh Samavi

We present a simple but effective pixel-level self-supervised distillation framework friendly to dense prediction tasks. Our method, called Pixel-Wise Contrastive Distillation (PCD), distills knowledge by attracting the corresponding pixels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Junqiang Huang , Zichao Guo

Diffusion models have shown unprecedented success in the task of text-to-image generation. While these models are capable of generating high-quality and realistic images, the complexity of sequential denoising has raised societal concerns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qinchan Li , Kenneth Chen , Changyue Su , Qi Sun

Denoising diffusion models are widely used for high-quality image and video generation. Their performance depends on noise schedules, which define the distribution of noise levels applied during training and the sequence of noise levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Carlos Esteves , Ameesh Makadia

An essential factor to achieve high performance in face recognition systems is the quality of its samples. Since these systems are involved in daily life there is a strong need of making face recognition processes understandable for humans.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Philipp Terhörst , Marco Huber , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Kiran Raja , Arjan Kuijper

In order to solve the problems of long training time, large consumption of computing resources and huge parameter amount of GAN network in image generation, this paper proposes an improved GAN network model, which is named Faster Projected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Chuang Wang , Zhengping Li , Yuwen Hao , Lijun Wang , Xiaoxue Li

Diffusion models have shown great promise in synthesizing visually appealing images. However, it remains challenging to condition the synthesis at a fine-grained level, for instance, synthesizing image pixels following some generic color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ka Chun Shum , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Large-scale text-guided image diffusion models have shown astonishing results in text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, applying these models to synthesize textures for 3D geometries remains challenging due to the domain gap between 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Jiawei Lu , Yingpeng Zhang , Zengjun Zhao , He Wang , Kun Zhou , Tianjia Shao

We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models. We achieve this on unconditional image synthesis by finding a better architecture through a series of ablations. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Prafulla Dhariwal , Alex Nichol

While learned image compression (LIC) focuses on efficient data transmission, generative image compression (GIC) extends this framework by integrating generative modeling to produce photo-realistic reconstructed images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Minghao Han , Weiyi You , Jinhua Zhang , Leheng Zhang , Ce Zhu , Shuhang Gu

We propose a method to distill a complex multistep diffusion model into a single-step conditional GAN student model, dramatically accelerating inference, while preserving image quality. Our approach interprets diffusion distillation as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Minguk Kang , Richard Zhang , Connelly Barnes , Sylvain Paris , Suha Kwak , Jaesik Park , Eli Shechtman , Jun-Yan Zhu , Taesung Park

We present Pix2Gif, a motion-guided diffusion model for image-to-GIF (video) generation. We tackle this problem differently by formulating the task as an image translation problem steered by text and motion magnitude prompts, as shown in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Hitesh Kandala , Jianfeng Gao , Jianwei Yang

Generative image editing using diffusion models has become a prevalent application in today's AI cloud services. In production environments, image editing typically involves a mask that specifies the regions of an image template to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiaoxiao Jiang , Suyi Li , Lingyun Yang , Tianyu Feng , Zhipeng Di , Weiyi Lu , Guoxuan Zhu , Xiu Lin , Kan Liu , Yinghao Yu , Tao Lan , Guodong Yang , Lin Qu , Liping Zhang , Wei Wang

Acquiring and annotating surgical data is often resource-intensive, ethical constraining, and requiring significant expert involvement. While generative AI models like text-to-image can alleviate data scarcity, incorporating spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Aditya Bhat , Rupak Bose , Chinedu Innocent Nwoye , Nicolas Padoy

In this paper, we describe the "PixelGAN autoencoder", a generative autoencoder in which the generative path is a convolutional autoregressive neural network on pixels (PixelCNN) that is conditioned on a latent code, and the recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Alireza Makhzani , Brendan Frey