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This paper addresses the performance bottlenecks of existing text-driven image generation methods in terms of semantic alignment accuracy and structural consistency. A high-fidelity image generation method is proposed by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Danyi Gao

Training a text-to-image generator in the general domain (e.g., Dall.e, CogView) requires huge amounts of paired text-image data, which is too expensive to collect. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised scheme named as CLIP-GEN for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zihao Wang , Wei Liu , Qian He , Xinglong Wu , Zili Yi

Image translation is a burgeoning field in computer vision where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image. However, most recent methods require multiple generators for modeling different domain mappings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Xiaoming Yu , Xing Cai , Zhenqiang Ying , Thomas Li , Ge Li

Single image defogging is a classical and challenging problem in computer vision. Existing methods towards this problem mainly include handcrafted priors based methods that rely on the use of the atmospheric degradation model and learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wei Liu , Xianxu Hou , Jiang Duan , Guoping Qiu

Purpose: The objective of this work is to introduce an advanced framework designed to enhance ultrasound images, especially those captured by portable hand-held devices, which often produce lower quality images due to hardware constraints.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Shreeram Athreya , Ashwath Radhachandran , Vedrana Ivezić , Vivek Sant , Corey W. Arnold , William Speier

Despite the promising progress of recent autoregressive models in text-to-image (T2I) generation, their ability to handle multi-attribute and ambiguous prompts remains limited. To address these limitations, existing works have applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yaqi Li , Peng Chen , Mingyang Han , Pi Bu , Haoxiang Shi , Runzhou Zhao , Yang Yao , Xuan Zhang , Jun Song , Bo Zheng

Few-step image generation has seen rapid progress, with consistency and meanflow-based methods significantly reducing the number of sampling steps. Despite their low inference cost, these approaches often suffer from training instability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Tung Do , Thuan Hoang Nguyen , Hao Li

This paper proposes a method for generating images of customized objects specified by users. The method is based on a general framework that bypasses the lengthy optimization required by previous approaches, which often employ a per-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Xuhui Jia , Yang Zhao , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yandong Li , Han Zhang , Boqing Gong , Tingbo Hou , Huisheng Wang , Yu-Chuan Su

Synthetic data offers a scalable solution for vision-language pre-training, yet current state-of-the-art methods typically rely on scaling up a single generative backbone, which introduces generator-specific spectral biases and limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Leonardo Brusini , Cristian Sbrolli , Eugenio Lomurno , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Matteo Matteucci

Recent studies on unsupervised image-to-image translation have made a remarkable progress by training a pair of generative adversarial networks with a cycle-consistent loss. However, such unsupervised methods may generate inferior results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Minjun Li , Haozhi Huang , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Yu-Gang Jiang

In this paper, we introduce LDGen, a novel method for integrating large language models (LLMs) into existing text-to-image diffusion models while minimizing computational demands. Traditional text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Pengzhi Li , Pengfei Yu , Zide Liu , Wei He , Xuhao Pan , Xudong Rao , Tao Wei , Wei Chen

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images to produce a more informative and visually consistent representation, benefiting both human perception and downstream vision tasks. Despite recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingyuan Li , Songcheng Du , Yang Zou , HaoYuan Xu , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu

We introduce Skywork UniPic, a 1.5 billion-parameter autoregressive model that unifies image understanding, text-to-image generation, and image editing within a single architecture-eliminating the need for task-specific adapters or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Peiyu Wang , Yi Peng , Yimeng Gan , Liang Hu , Tianyidan Xie , Xiaokun Wang , Yichen Wei , Chuanxin Tang , Bo Zhu , Changshi Li , Hongyang Wei , Eric Li , Xuchen Song , Yang Liu , Yahui Zhou

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been successfully used for considerable computer vision tasks, especially the image-to-image translation. However, generators in these networks are of complicated architectures with large number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Han Shu , Yunhe Wang , Xu Jia , Kai Han , Hanting Chen , Chunjing Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

Video generation models have advanced significantly, yet they still struggle to synthesize complex human movements due to the high degrees of freedom in human articulation. This limitation stems from the intrinsic constraints of pixel-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yuxiao Yang , Hualian Sheng , Sijia Cai , Jing Lin , Jiahao Wang , Bing Deng , Junzhe Lu , Haoqian Wang , Jieping Ye

Learning inter-domain mappings from unpaired data can improve performance in structured prediction tasks, such as image segmentation, by reducing the need for paired data. CycleGAN was recently proposed for this problem, but critically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Amjad Almahairi , Sai Rajeswar , Alessandro Sordoni , Philip Bachman , Aaron Courville

Conventional methods for the image-text generation tasks mainly tackle the naturally bidirectional generation tasks separately, focusing on designing task-specific frameworks to improve the quality and fidelity of the generated samples.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Han Zhang , Weichong Yin , Yewei Fang , Lanxin Li , Boqiang Duan , Zhihua Wu , Yu Sun , Hao Tian , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Image harmonization is an important step in photo editing to achieve visual consistency in composite images by adjusting the appearances of foreground to make it compatible with background. Previous approaches to harmonize composites are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Konstantin Sofiiuk , Polina Popenova , Anton Konushin

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled multimodal foundation models to tackle both image understanding and generation within a unified framework. Despite these gains, unified models often underperform compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhiyang Xu , Jiuhai Chen , Zhaojiang Lin , Xichen Pan , Lifu Huang , Tianyi Zhou , Madian Khabsa , Qifan Wang , Di Jin , Michihiro Yasunaga , Lili Yu , Xi Victoria Lin , Shaoliang Nie

Many image-to-image translation problems are ambiguous, as a single input image may correspond to multiple possible outputs. In this work, we aim to model a \emph{distribution} of possible outputs in a conditional generative modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang , Deepak Pathak , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros , Oliver Wang , Eli Shechtman