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The ability to generate virtual environments is crucial for applications ranging from gaming to physical AI domains such as robotics, autonomous driving, and industrial AI. Current learning-based 3D reconstruction methods rely on the…

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Realistic and interactive scene simulation is a key prerequisite for autonomous vehicle (AV) development. In this work, we present SceneDiffuser, a scene-level diffusion prior designed for traffic simulation. It offers a unified framework…

Diffusion-based inpainting can reconstruct missing image areas with high quality from sparse data, provided that their location and their values are well optimised. This is particularly useful for applications such as image compression,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Pascal Peter , Karl Schrader , Tobias Alt , Joachim Weickert

Recent video inpainting algorithms integrate flow-based pixel propagation with transformer-based generation to leverage optical flow for restoring textures and objects using information from neighboring frames, while completing masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaowen Li , Haolan Xue , Peiran Ren , Liefeng Bo

Recently, a number of image-mixing-based augmentation techniques have been introduced to improve the generalization of deep neural networks. In these techniques, two or more randomly selected natural images are mixed together to generate an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Khawar Islam , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood , Karthik Nandakumar

Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting have advanced novel view synthesis, yet still rely on dense inputs and often degrade at extrapolated views. Recent approaches leverage generative models, such as diffusion models, to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hongyu Zhou , Zisen Shao , Sheng Miao , Pan Wang , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu , Yiyi Liao

Denosing diffusion model, as a generative model, has received a lot of attention in the field of image generation recently, thanks to its powerful generation capability. However, diffusion models have not yet received sufficient research in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 ZiHan Cao , ShiQi Cao , Xiao Wu , JunMing Hou , Ran Ran , Liang-Jian Deng

Online reconstructing and rendering of large-scale indoor scenes is a long-standing challenge. SLAM-based methods can reconstruct 3D scene geometry progressively in real time but can not render photorealistic results. While NeRF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yiming Gao , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan

Recent research has demonstrated that the combination of pretrained diffusion models with neural radiance fields (NeRFs) has emerged as a promising approach for text-to-3D generation. Simply coupling NeRF with diffusion models will result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Lu Yu , Wei Xiang , Kang Han

Validating autonomous driving (AD) systems requires diverse and safety-critical testing, making photorealistic virtual environments essential. Traditional simulation platforms, while controllable, are resource-intensive to scale and often…

Gaussian Splatting has become a popular technique for various 3D Computer Vision tasks, including novel view synthesis, scene reconstruction, and dynamic scene rendering. However, the challenge of natural-looking object insertion, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Vsevolod Skorokhodov , Nikita Durasov , Pascal Fua

Recent progress in 3D scene understanding enables scalable learning of representations across large datasets of diverse scenes. As a consequence, generalization to unseen scenes and objects, rendering novel views from just a single or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Allan Jabri , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Emiel Hoogeboom , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Thomas Kipf

Diffusion models have made substantial progress in facilitating image generation and editing. As the technology matures, we see its potential in the context of driving simulations to enhance the simulated experience. In this paper, we…

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Video-driven neural face reenactment aims to synthesize realistic facial images that successfully preserve the identity and appearance of a source face, while transferring the target head pose and facial expressions. Existing GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

As robots increasingly coexist with humans, they must navigate complex, dynamic environments rich in visual information and implicit social dynamics, like when to yield or move through crowds. Addressing these challenges requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Georgina Nuthall , Richard Bowden , Oscar Mendez

With the rapid adoption of diffusion models, synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising approach for addressing the growing demand for large-scale image datasets. However, images generated purely by diffusion models often exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Thejas Venkatesh , Suguna Varshini Velury

Recent neural rendering and reconstruction techniques, such as NeRFs or Gaussian Splatting, have shown remarkable novel view synthesis capabilities but require hundreds of images of the scene from diverse viewpoints to render high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Felix Tristram , Stefano Gasperini , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Generating high-quality and person-generic visual dubbing remains a challenge. Recent innovation has seen the advent of a two-stage paradigm, decoupling the rendering and lip synchronization process facilitated by intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Tao Liu , Chenpeng Du , Shuai Fan , Feilong Chen , Kai Yu

Diffusion models have become central to various image editing tasks, yet they often fail to fully adhere to physical laws, particularly with effects like shadows, reflections, and occlusions. In this work, we address the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Ankit Dhiman , Manan Shah , R Venkatesh Babu