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Despite their fundamental role, it remains unclear what properties could make tokenizers more effective for generative modeling. We observe that modern generative models share a conceptually similar training objective -- reconstructing…

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Despite recent advancements in text-to-image models, achieving semantically accurate images in text-to-image diffusion models is a persistent challenge. While existing initial latent optimization methods have demonstrated impressive…

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The synergy between generative and discriminative models receives growing attention. While discriminative Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) excels in high-level semantics, it struggles with perceiving fine-grained visual…

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Coarse-guided visual generation, which synthesizes fine visual samples from degraded or low-fidelity coarse references, is essential for various real-world applications. While training-based approaches are effective, they are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yanghao Wang , Ziqi Jiang , Zhen Wang , Long Chen

Visual tokenizers play a crucial role in diffusion models. The dimensionality of latent space governs both reconstruction fidelity and the semantic expressiveness of the latent feature. However, a fundamental trade-off is inherent between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Qingyu Shi , Size Wu , Jinbin Bai , Kaidong Yu , Yujing Wang , Yunhai Tong , Xiangtai Li , Xuelong Li

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in the field of image generation due to their outstanding capabilities. However, these models require substantial computing resources because of the multi-step denoising process during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Haowei Zhu , Dehua Tang , Ji Liu , Mingjie Lu , Jintu Zheng , Jinzhang Peng , Dong Li , Yu Wang , Fan Jiang , Lu Tian , Spandan Tiwari , Ashish Sirasao , Jun-Hai Yong , Bin Wang , Emad Barsoum

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

We study the use of deep features extracted from a pretrained Vision Transformer (ViT) as dense visual descriptors. We observe and empirically demonstrate that such features, when extractedfrom a self-supervised ViT model (DINO-ViT),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Shir Amir , Yossi Gandelsman , Shai Bagon , Tali Dekel

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable advancements in text-to-image generation. However, existing models still have many difficulties when faced with multiple-object compositional generation. In this paper, we propose RealCompo, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinchen Zhang , Ling Yang , Yaqi Cai , Zhaochen Yu , Kai-Ni Wang , Jiake Xie , Ye Tian , Minkai Xu , Yong Tang , Yujiu Yang , Bin Cui

Image demosaicing and denoising play a critical role in the raw imaging pipeline. These processes have often been treated as independent, without considering their interactions. Indeed, most classic denoising methods handle noisy RGB…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Yu Guo , Qiyu Jin , Jean-Michel Morel , Gabriele Facciolo

Modern Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically operate in low-level Variational Autoencoder (VAE) latent spaces that are primarily optimized for pixel-level reconstruction. To unify vision generation and understanding, a burgeoning trend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shilong Zhang , He Zhang , Zhifei Zhang , Chongjian Ge , Shuchen Xue , Shaoteng Liu , Mengwei Ren , Soo Ye Kim , Yuqian Zhou , Qing Liu , Daniil Pakhomov , Kai Zhang , Zhe Lin , Ping Luo

In the evolving domain of text-to-image generation, diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools in content creation. Despite their remarkable capability, existing models still face challenges in achieving controlled generation with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jaeseok Jeong , Junho Kim , Yunjey Choi , Gayoung Lee , Youngjung Uh

Denoising-based diffusion transformers, despite their strong generation performance, suffer from inefficient training convergence. Existing methods addressing this issue, such as REPA (relying on external representation encoders) or SRA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mengmeng Wang , Dengyang Jiang , Liuzhuozheng Li , Yucheng Lin , Guojiang Shen , Xiangjie Kong , Yong Liu , Guang Dai , Jingdong Wang

Image forgery localization aims to precisely identify tampered regions within images, but it commonly depends on costly pixel-level annotations. To alleviate this annotation burden, weakly supervised image forgery localization (WSIFL) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ziqi Sheng , Junyan Wu , Wei Lu , Jiantao Zhou

Many real-world applications involve data from multiple modalities and thus exhibit the view heterogeneity. For example, user modeling on social media might leverage both the topology of the underlying social network and the content of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Lecheng Zheng , Yu Cheng , Hongxia Yang , Nan Cao , Jingrui He

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Early detection through imaging and accurate diagnosis is crucial in mitigating the high mortality rate associated with breast cancer. However, locating tumors from low-resolution and high-noise medical images is extremely challenging.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Feiyan Feng , Tianyu Liu , Hong Wang , Jun Zhao , Wei Li , Yanshen Sun

Predicting drug-target affinity is fundamental to virtual screening and lead optimization. However, existing deep models often suffer from representation collapse in stringent cold-start regimes, where the scarcity of labels and domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 Yining Qian , Pengjie Wang , Yixiao Li , An-Yang Lu , Cheng Tan , Shuang Li , Lijun Liu

Recent advancements in text-to-image generative models have demonstrated a remarkable ability to capture a deep semantic understanding of images. In this work, we leverage this semantic knowledge to transfer the visual appearance between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yuval Alaluf , Daniel Garibi , Or Patashnik , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Daniel Cohen-Or

Latent image representations arising from vision-language models have proved immensely useful for a variety of downstream tasks. However, their utility is limited by their entanglement with respect to different visual attributes. For…

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