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Diffusion Models (DMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in content generation without requiring adversarial training. These models are trained using a two-step process. First, a forward - diffusion - process gradually adds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar

Noise synthesis is a challenging low-level vision task aiming to generate realistic noise given a clean image along with the camera settings. To this end, we propose an effective generative model which utilizes clean features as guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Mingyang Song , Yang Zhang , Tunç O. Aydın , Elham Amin Mansour , Christopher Schroers

In this paper, we point out that suboptimal noise-data mapping leads to slow training of diffusion models. During diffusion training, current methods diffuse each image across the entire noise space, resulting in a mixture of all images at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yiheng Li , Heyang Jiang , Akio Kodaira , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer , Chenfeng Xu

Diffusion models have shown great results in image generation and in image editing. However, current approaches are limited to low resolutions due to the computational cost of training diffusion models for high-resolution generation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Johannes Ackermann , Minjun Li

Diffusion models are well known for their ability to generate a high-fidelity image for an input prompt through an iterative denoising process. Unfortunately, the high fidelity also comes at a high computational cost due the inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Qinchan Li , Kenneth Chen , Changyue Su , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Qi Sun , Patsorn Sangkloy

Our goal is to develop fine-grained real-image editing methods suitable for real-world applications. In this paper, we first summarize four requirements for these methods and propose a novel diffusion-based image editing framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Naoki Matsunaga , Masato Ishii , Akio Hayakawa , Kenji Suzuki , Takuya Narihira

Large denoising diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have been trained on billions of image-caption pairs to perform text-conditioned image generation. As a byproduct of this training, these models have acquired general knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alexandros Graikos , Nebojsa Jojic , Dimitris Samaras

Generative diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for high-quality image synthesis, yet their iterative nature demands significant computational resources. This paper proposes an efficient time step sampling method based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haeil Lee , Hansang Lee , Seoyeon Gye , Junmo Kim

Advances in diffusion models for generative artificial intelligence have recently propagated to the time series (TS) domain, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance on various tasks. However, prior works on TS diffusion models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Seunghan Lee , Kibok Lee , Taeyoung Park

The evolution of semantic segmentation has long been dominated by learning more discriminative image representations for classifying each pixel. Despite the prominent advancements, the priors of segmentation masks themselves, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Zeqiang Lai , Yuchen Duan , Jifeng Dai , Ziheng Li , Ying Fu , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao , Wenhai Wang

We consider the problem of conditional text-to-image synthesis with diffusion models. Most recent works need to either finetune specific parts of the base diffusion model or introduce new trainable parameters, leading to deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tripti Shukla , Srikrishna Karanam , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

As a class of generative artificial intelligence frameworks inspired by statistical physics, diffusion models have shown extraordinary performance in synthesizing complicated data distributions through a denoising process gradually guided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Fangjun Hu , Guangkuo Liu , Yifan F. Zhang , Xun Gao

Current self-supervised denoising methods for paired noisy images typically involve mapping one noisy image through the network to the other noisy image. However, after measuring the spectral bias of such methods using our proposed Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Wang Zhang , Huaqiu Li , Xiaowan Hu , Tao Jiang , Zikang Chen , Haoqian Wang

A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), which constructs a forward diffusion process by gradually adding noise to data points and learns the reverse denoising process to generate new samples, has been shown to handle complex data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zhengxiong Luo , Dayou Chen , Yingya Zhang , Yan Huang , Liang Wang , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou , Tieniu Tan

Diffusion models have attained remarkable success in the domains of image generation and editing. It is widely recognized that employing larger inversion and denoising steps in diffusion model leads to improved image reconstruction quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Chen Hou , Guoqiang Wei , Zhibo Chen

Denoising diffusion models have gained popularity as a generative modeling technique for producing high-quality and diverse images. Applying these models to downstream tasks requires conditioning, which can take the form of text, class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Dimitris Samaras

This work aims to improve the efficiency of text-to-image diffusion models. While diffusion models use computationally expensive UNet-based denoising operations in every generation step, we identify that not all operations are equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Amirhossein Habibian , Amir Ghodrati , Noor Fathima , Guillaume Sautiere , Risheek Garrepalli , Fatih Porikli , Jens Petersen

Classical diffusion models typically rely on isotropic Gaussian noise, treating all regions uniformly and overlooking structural information important for high-quality generation. We introduce an edge-preserving diffusion process that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jente Vandersanden , Sascha Holl , Xingchang Huang , Gurprit Singh

Diffusion models have become the dominant tool for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet are critically bottlenecked by their inference speed due to the numerous iterative passes of Diffusion Transformers. To reduce the exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Han , Juntong Shi , Puheng Li , Haotian Ye , Qiushan Guo , Stefano Ermon

With the success of image generation, generative diffusion models are increasingly adopted for discriminative tasks, as pixel generation provides a unified perception interface. However, directly repurposing the generative denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ziqi Pang , Xin Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang