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Colour is one of the most perceptually salient yet least controllable attributes in image generation. Although recent diffusion models can modify object colours from user instructions, their results often deviate from the intended hue,…

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We present RefVFX, a new framework that transfers complex temporal effects from a reference video onto a target video or image in a feed-forward manner. While existing methods excel at prompt-based or keyframe-conditioned editing, they…

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Editing particle-system visual effects (VFX) is vital for digital storytelling, but achieving controllable, art-directable results remains challenging due to their multi-dimensional nature. Given a large collection of parameters, users must…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kyzyl Monteiro , Evan Atherton , George Fitzmaurice , Qian Zhou

Diffusion Transformers have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in visual synthesis, yet they often struggle with high-level semantic reasoning and long-horizon planning. This limitation frequently leads to visual hallucinations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lun Huang , You Xie , Hongyi Xu , Tianpei Gu , Chenxu Zhang , Guoxian Song , Zenan Li , Xiaochen Zhao , Linjie Luo , Guillermo Sapiro

Creating novel images by fusing visual cues from multiple sources is a fundamental yet underexplored problem in image-to-image generation, with broad applications in artistic creation, virtual reality and visual media. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zeren Xiong , Yue Yu , Zedong Zhang , Shuo Chen , Jian Yang , Jun Li

Despite rapid advancements in video generation models, generating coherent storytelling videos that span multiple scenes and characters remains challenging. Current methods often rigidly convert pre-generated keyframes into fixed-length…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Haoyuan Shi , Yunxin Li , Xinyu Chen , Longyue Wang , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Brian Chao , Lior Yariv , Howard Xiao , Gordon Wetzstein

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) techniques has enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic content, but it also raises significant security concerns. Current detection methods face two major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Changjiang Jiang , Wenhui Dong , Zhonghao Zhang , Fengchang Yu , Wei Peng , Xinbin Yuan , Yifei Bi , Ming Zhao , Zian Zhou , Chenyang Si , Caifeng Shan

Recent advancements in video generation models have significantly improved their ability to follow text prompts. However, the customization of dynamic visual effects, defined as temporally evolving and appearance-driven visual phenomena…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Rui Zhao , Mike Zheng Shou

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is widely used in front-end development and UI/UX design due to its scalability, editability, and rendering efficiency. However, turning creative ideas into precise vector graphics remains a time-consuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Feiyu Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Yuandong Liu , Da Zhang , Junyu Gao , Hao Sun , Xuelong Li

Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu

Collaborative driving systems leverage vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication for multi-agent collaborative perception to enhance driving safety, yet they remain constrained by scarce annotated real-world V2X driving datasets and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yihang Tao , Yu Guo , Senkang Hu , Yanan Ma , Zihan Fang , Sam Kwong , Yuguang Fang

Many recent methods for unsupervised representation learning train models to be invariant to different "views," or distorted versions of an input. However, designing these views requires considerable trial and error by human experts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Alex Tamkin , Mike Wu , Noah Goodman

Unified multimodal models often struggle with complex synthesis tasks that demand deep reasoning, and typically treat text-to-image generation and image editing as isolated capabilities rather than interconnected reasoning steps. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dianyi Wang , Chaofan Ma , Feng Han , Size Wu , Wei Song , Yibin Wang , Zhixiong Zhang , Tianhang Wang , Siyuan Wang , Zhongyu Wei , Jiaqi Wang

Visual tokenizers are fundamental to image generation. They convert visual data into discrete tokens, enabling transformer-based models to excel at image generation. Despite their success, VQ-based tokenizers like VQGAN face significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Zechen Bai , Jianxiong Gao , Ziteng Gao , Pichao Wang , Zheng Zhang , Tong He , Mike Zheng Shou

Recent advances in image generation have led to the widespread availability of highly realistic synthetic media, increasing the difficulty of reliable deepfake detection. A key challenge is generalization, as detectors trained on a narrow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yichen Jiang , Mohammed Talha Alam , Sohail Ahmed Khan , Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen , Fakhri Karray

Generating emotional talking faces is a practical yet challenging endeavor. To create a lifelike avatar, we draw upon two critical insights from a human perspective: 1) The connection between audio and the non-deterministic facial dynamics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Shuai Tan , Bin Ji , Ye Pan

We introduce GenAgent, unifying visual understanding and generation through an agentic multimodal model. Unlike unified models that face expensive training costs and understanding-generation trade-offs, GenAgent decouples these capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kaixun Jiang , Yuzheng Wang , Junjie Zhou , Pandeng Li , Zhihang Liu , Chen-Wei Xie , Zhaoyu Chen , Yun Zheng , Wenqiang Zhang

Indoor scene synthesis has become increasingly important with the rise of Embodied AI, which requires 3D environments that are not only visually realistic but also physically plausible and functionally diverse. While recent approaches have…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yandan Yang , Baoxiong Jia , Shujie Zhang , Siyuan Huang

We present SceneFactor, a diffusion-based approach for large-scale 3D scene generation that enables controllable generation and effortless editing. SceneFactor enables text-guided 3D scene synthesis through our factored diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Alexey Bokhovkin , Quan Meng , Shubham Tulsiani , Angela Dai