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While image generation with diffusion models has achieved a great success, generating images of higher resolution than the training size remains a challenging task due to the high computational cost. Current methods typically perform the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Zhengqiang Zhang , Ruihuang Li , Lei Zhang

Learning image classification and image generation using the same set of network parameters is a challenging problem. Recent advanced approaches perform well in one task often exhibit poor performance in the other. This work introduces an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Qiushan Guo , Chuofan Ma , Yi Jiang , Zehuan Yuan , Yizhou Yu , Ping Luo

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved performance in super-resolution (SR) tasks. However, previous research often overlooks the fundamental differences between SR and general image generation. General image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Hanlin Wu , Jiangwei Mo , Xiaohui Sun , Jie Ma

We present an approach to modeling an image-space prior on scene motion. Our prior is learned from a collection of motion trajectories extracted from real video sequences depicting natural, oscillatory dynamics such as trees, flowers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Zhengqi Li , Richard Tucker , Noah Snavely , Aleksander Holynski

Recent advancements in subject-driven image generation have led to zero-shot generation, yet precise selection and focus on crucial subject representations remain challenging. Addressing this, we introduce the SSR-Encoder, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yuxuan Zhang , Yiren Song , Jiaming Liu , Rui Wang , Jinpeng Yu , Hao Tang , Huaxia Li , Xu Tang , Yao Hu , Han Pan , Zhongliang Jing

Image composition and generation are processes where the artists need control over various parts of the generated images. However, the current state-of-the-art generation models, like Stable Diffusion, cannot handle fine-grained part-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Harsh Rangwani , Aishwarya Agarwal , Kuldeep Kulkarni , R. Venkatesh Babu , Srikrishna Karanam

Most of the calculations in standard sphere decoders are redundant, in the sense that they either calculate quantities that are never used or calculate some quantities more than once. A new method, which is applicable to lattices as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-07 Arash Ghasemmehdi , Erik Agrell

Recent face generation methods have tried to synthesize faces based on the given contour condition, like a low-resolution image or sketch. However, the problem of identity ambiguity remains unsolved, which usually occurs when the contour is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Qingyan Bai , Weihao Xia , Fei Yin , Yujiu Yang

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

3D generation has witnessed significant advancements, yet efficiently producing high-quality 3D assets from a single image remains challenging. In this paper, we present a triplane autoencoder, which encodes 3D models into a compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Bowen Zhang , Tianyu Yang , Yu Li , Lei Zhang , Xi Zhao

Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) from monocular RGB images is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the inherent ambiguity of inferring occluded 3D geometry from a single view. While feed-forward methods have made progress, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zichen Xi , Hao-Xiang Chen , Nan Xue , Hongyu Yan , Qi-Yuan Feng , Levent Burak Kara , Joaquim Jorge , Qun-Ce Xu

Text-driven image generation using diffusion models has recently gained significant attention. To enable more flexible image manipulation and editing, recent research has expanded from single image generation to transparent layer generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Junjia Huang , Pengxiang Yan , Jinhang Cai , Jiyang Liu , Zhao Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Guanbin Li

Recent advances in autoregressive (AR) models with continuous tokens for image generation show promising results by eliminating the need for discrete tokenization. However, these models face efficiency challenges due to their sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Zhihang Yuan , Yuzhang Shang , Hanling Zhang , Tongcheng Fang , Rui Xie , Bingxin Xu , Yan Yan , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

This paper introduces a new encoder-decoder architecture that is trained to reconstruct images by disentangling the salient information of the image and the values of attributes directly in the latent space. As a result, after training, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Guillaume Lample , Neil Zeghidour , Nicolas Usunier , Antoine Bordes , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Spatial frequency analysis and transforms serve a central role in most engineered image and video lossy codecs, but are rarely employed in neural network (NN)-based approaches. We propose a novel NN-based image coding framework that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Hyomin Choi , Fabien Racape , Shahab Hamidi-Rad , Mateen Ulhaq , Simon Feltman

In this paper, we treat the image generation task using an autoencoder, a representative latent model. Unlike many studies regularizing the latent variable's distribution by assuming a manually specified prior, we approach the image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Jaeyoung Yoo , Hojun Lee , Nojun Kwak

This paper proposes the novel task of video generation conditioned on a SINGLE semantic label map, which provides a good balance between flexibility and quality in the generation process. Different from typical end-to-end approaches, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Junting Pan , Chengyu Wang , Xu Jia , Jing Shao , Lu Sheng , Junjie Yan , Xiaogang Wang

We infer and generate three-dimensional (3D) scene information from a single input image and without supervision. This problem is under-explored, with most prior work relying on supervision from, e.g., 3D ground-truth, multiple images of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Sai Rajeswar , Fahim Mannan , Florian Golemo , Jérôme Parent-Lévesque , David Vazquez , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Aaron Courville

Recent advancements in learning latent codes derived from high-dimensional shapes have demonstrated impressive outcomes in 3D generative modeling. Traditionally, these approaches employ a trained autoencoder to acquire a continuous implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiajie Fan , Amal Trigui , Andrea Bonfanti , Felix Dietrich , Thomas Bäck , Hao Wang

Learned progressive image compression is gaining momentum as it allows improved image reconstruction as more bits are decoded at the receiver. We propose a progressive image compression method in which an image is first represented as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Alberto Presta , Enzo Tartaglione , Attilio Fiandrotti , Marco Grangetto , Pamela Cosman