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Image-to-image translation (I2I) aims at transferring the content representation from an input domain to an output one, bouncing along different target domains. Recent I2I generative models, which gain outstanding results in this task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Eleonora Grassucci , Luigi Sigillo , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

Text-to-image (T2I) models have achieved remarkable progress, yet they continue to struggle with complex prompts that require simultaneously handling multiple objects, relations, and attributes. Existing inference-time strategies, such as…

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Purpose: This study examines the core traits of image-to-image translation (I2I) networks, focusing on their effectiveness and adaptability in everyday clinical settings. Methods: We have analyzed data from 794 patients diagnosed with…

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We present an image-conditioned point cloud completion approach that treats images as the primary geometric source rather than a secondary guide. To this end, we introduce an Image-to-Point (I2P) module that can reconstruct complete point…

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Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard technique for post-training diffusion-based image synthesis models, as it enables learning from reward signals to explicitly improve desirable aspects such as image quality and prompt…

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Rectified flow is a generative model that learns smooth transport mappings between two distributions through an ordinary differential equation (ODE). Unlike diffusion-based generative models, which require costly numerical integration of a…

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Multi-domain image-to-image (I2I) translations can transform a source image according to the style of a target domain. One important, desired characteristic of these transformations, is their graduality, which corresponds to a smooth change…

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Image-to-image translation (I2I) transforms an image from a source domain to a target domain while preserving source content. Most computer vision applications are in the field of image-to-image translation, such as style transfer, image…

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Flow matching models (FMs) have revolutionized text-to-image (T2I) generation, with reinforcement learning (RL) serving as a critical post-training strategy for alignment with reward objectives. In this research, we show that current RL…

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Although diffusion-based real-world image restoration (Real-IR) has achieved remarkable progress, efficiently leveraging ultra-large-scale pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) models and fully exploiting their potential remain significant…

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Rectified Flow text-to-image models surpass diffusion models in image quality and text alignment, but adapting ReFlow for real-image editing remains challenging. We propose a new real-image editing method for ReFlow by analyzing the…

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Low-resolution image representation is a special form of sparse representation that retains only low-frequency information while discarding high-frequency components. This property reduces storage and transmission costs and benefits various…

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Image-to-Image (I2I) multi-domain translation models are usually evaluated also using the quality of their semantic interpolation results. However, state-of-the-art models frequently show abrupt changes in the image appearance during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Yahui Liu , Enver Sangineto , Yajing Chen , Linchao Bao , Haoxian Zhang , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri , Wei Wang , Marco De Nadai

Image watermarking supports authenticity and provenance, yet many schemes are still easy to bypass with various distortions and powerful generative edits. Deep learning-based watermarking has improved robustness to diffusion-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Utae Jeong , Sumin In , Hyunju Ryu , Jaewan Choi , Feng Yang , Jongheon Jeong , Seungryong Kim , Sangpil Kim

Rectified-Flow (RF)-based generative models have recently emerged as strong alternatives to traditional diffusion models, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across various tasks. By learning a continuous velocity field that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Chenru Wang , Beier Zhu , Chi Zhang

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion/flow models have drawn considerable attention recently due to their remarkable ability to deliver flexible visual creations. Still, high-resolution image synthesis presents formidable challenges due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jiazi Bu , Pengyang Ling , Yujie Zhou , Pan Zhang , Tong Wu , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Zang , Yuhang Cao , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

The Diffusion Model (DM) has emerged as the SOTA approach for image synthesis. However, the existing DM cannot perform well on some image-to-image translation (I2I) tasks. Different from image synthesis, some I2I tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Bin Xia , Yulun Zhang , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Radu Timotfe , Luc Van Gool

Translating information between text and image is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence that connects natural language processing and computer vision. In the past few years, performance in image caption generation has seen…

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Current approaches for restoration of degraded images face a trade-off: high-performance models are slow for practical use, while fast models produce poor results. Knowledge distillation transfers teacher knowledge to students, but existing…

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