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Achieving high-quality shadow removal with strong generalizability is challenging in scenes with complex global illumination. Due to the limited diversity in shadow removal datasets, current methods are prone to overfitting training data,…

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We present Step-Video-T2V, a state-of-the-art text-to-video pre-trained model with 30B parameters and the ability to generate videos up to 204 frames in length. A deep compression Variational Autoencoder, Video-VAE, is designed for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Guoqing Ma , Haoyang Huang , Kun Yan , Liangyu Chen , Nan Duan , Shengming Yin , Changyi Wan , Ranchen Ming , Xiaoniu Song , Xing Chen , Yu Zhou , Deshan Sun , Deyu Zhou , Jian Zhou , Kaijun Tan , Kang An , Mei Chen , Wei Ji , Qiling Wu , Wen Sun , Xin Han , Yanan Wei , Zheng Ge , Aojie Li , Bin Wang , Bizhu Huang , Bo Wang , Brian Li , Changxing Miao , Chen Xu , Chenfei Wu , Chenguang Yu , Dapeng Shi , Dingyuan Hu , Enle Liu , Gang Yu , Ge Yang , Guanzhe Huang , Gulin Yan , Haiyang Feng , Hao Nie , Haonan Jia , Hanpeng Hu , Hanqi Chen , Haolong Yan , Heng Wang , Hongcheng Guo , Huilin Xiong , Huixin Xiong , Jiahao Gong , Jianchang Wu , Jiaoren Wu , Jie Wu , Jie Yang , Jiashuai Liu , Jiashuo Li , Jingyang Zhang , Junjing Guo , Junzhe Lin , Kaixiang Li , Lei Liu , Lei Xia , Liang Zhao , Liguo Tan , Liwen Huang , Liying Shi , Ming Li , Mingliang Li , Muhua Cheng , Na Wang , Qiaohui Chen , Qinglin He , Qiuyan Liang , Quan Sun , Ran Sun , Rui Wang , Shaoliang Pang , Shiliang Yang , Sitong Liu , Siqi Liu , Shuli Gao , Tiancheng Cao , Tianyu Wang , Weipeng Ming , Wenqing He , Xu Zhao , Xuelin Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Xiaojia Liu , Xuan Yang , Yaqi Dai , Yanbo Yu , Yang Li , Yineng Deng , Yingming Wang , Yilei Wang , Yuanwei Lu , Yu Chen , Yu Luo , Yuchu Luo , Yuhe Yin , Yuheng Feng , Yuxiang Yang , Zecheng Tang , Zekai Zhang , Zidong Yang , Binxing Jiao , Jiansheng Chen , Jing Li , Shuchang Zhou , Xiangyu Zhang , Xinhao Zhang , Yibo Zhu , Heung-Yeung Shum , Daxin Jiang

Diffusion models have transformed the image-to-image (I2I) synthesis and are now permeating into videos. However, the advancement of video-to-video (V2V) synthesis has been hampered by the challenge of maintaining temporal consistency…

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Diffusion Models have become a cornerstone of modern generative AI for their exceptional generation quality and controllability. However, their inherent \textit{multi-step iterations} and \textit{complex backbone networks} lead to…

Diffusion and flow matching models have unlocked unprecedented capabilities for creative content creation, such as interactive image and streaming video generation. The growing demand for higher resolutions, frame rates, and context…

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We present xGen-VideoSyn-1, a text-to-video (T2V) generation model capable of producing realistic scenes from textual descriptions. Building on recent advancements, such as OpenAI's Sora, we explore the latent diffusion model (LDM)…

Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

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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…

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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated remarkable scalability and quality in image and video generation, prompting growing interest in extending them to controllable generation and editing tasks. However, compared to the image…

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Latent inpainting in diffusion models still relies almost universally on linearly interpolating VAE latents under a downsampled mask. We propose a key principle for compositing image latents: Pixel-Equivalent Latent Compositing (PELC). An…

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The video generation field has witnessed rapid improvements with the introduction of recent diffusion models. While these models have successfully enhanced appearance quality, they still face challenges in generating coherent and natural…

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We propose FrePolad: frequency-rectified point latent diffusion, a point cloud generation pipeline integrating a variational autoencoder (VAE) with a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) for the latent distribution. FrePolad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Chenliang Zhou , Fangcheng Zhong , Param Hanji , Zhilin Guo , Kyle Fogarty , Alejandro Sztrajman , Hongyun Gao , Cengiz Oztireli

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) rely heavily on the compressed latent space provided by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for high-quality image generation. Recent studies have attempted to obtain generation-friendly VAEs by directly adopting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 John Page , Xuesong Niu , Kai Wu , Kun Gai

Recent 3D content generation pipelines commonly employ Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to encode shapes into compact latent representations for diffusion-based generation. However, the widely adopted uniform point sampling strategy in Shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Rui Chen , Jianfeng Zhang , Yixun Liang , Guan Luo , Weiyu Li , Jiarui Liu , Xiu Li , Xiaoxiao Long , Jiashi Feng , Ping Tan

Diffusion models are a powerful generative framework, but come with expensive inference. Existing acceleration methods often compromise image quality or fail under complex conditioning when operating in an extremely low-step regime. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jonas Kohler , Albert Pumarola , Edgar Schönfeld , Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Roshan Sumbaly , Peter Vajda , Ali Thabet

Latent diffusion models for image generation have crossed a quality threshold which enabled them to achieve mass adoption. Recently, a series of works have made advancements towards replicating this success in the 3D domain, introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Anchit Gupta , Wenhan Xiong , Yixin Nie , Ian Jones , Barlas Oğuz

Instead of performing text-conditioned denoising in the image domain, latent diffusion models (LDMs) operate in latent space of a variational autoencoder (VAE), enabling more efficient processing at reduced computational costs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jason Becker , Chris Wendler , Peter Baylies , Robert West , Christian Wressnegger

Recent developments in Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have demonstrated remarkable capability to generate high-quality video content. Nonetheless, the potential of VDMs for creating transparent videos remains largely uncharted. In this…

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As a widely adopted technique in data transmission, video compression effectively reduces the size of files, making it possible for real-time cloud computing. However, it comes at the cost of visual quality, posing challenges to the…

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