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Image completion is a challenging task, particularly when ensuring that generated content seamlessly integrates with existing parts of an image. While recent diffusion models have shown promise, they often struggle with maintaining…

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Image inpainting is the process of taking an image and generating lost or intentionally occluded portions. Inpainting has countless applications including restoring previously damaged pictures, restoring the quality of images that have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Eyoel Gebre , Krishna Saxena , Timothy Tran

Diffusion models have shown promising results in speech enhancement, using a task-adapted diffusion process for the conditional generation of clean speech given a noisy mixture. However, at test time, the neural network used for score…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bunlong Lay , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has enabled the creation of highly realistic 3D scene representations from sets of multi-view images. However, inpainting missing regions, whether due to occlusion or scene editing, remains a challenging task,…

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In this work, we address two limitations of existing conditional diffusion models: their slow inference speed due to the iterative denoising process and their reliance on paired data for model fine-tuning. To tackle these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Gaurav Parmar , Taesung Park , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Jun-Yan Zhu

Image Inpainting is one of the very popular tasks in the field of image processing with broad applications in computer vision. In various practical applications, images are often deteriorated by noise due to the presence of corrupted, lost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Harsh Patel , Amey Kulkarni , Shivam Sahni , Udit Vyas

We provide a theoretical justification for sample recovery using diffusion based image inpainting in a linear model setting. While most inpainting algorithms require retraining with each new mask, we prove that diffusion based inpainting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-03 Litu Rout , Advait Parulekar , Constantine Caramanis , Sanjay Shakkottai

Recently, text-to-image denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have demonstrated impressive image generation capabilities and have also been successfully applied to image inpainting. However, in practice, users often require more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Shiyuan Yang , Xiaodong Chen , Jing Liao

Watermarking is an important mechanism for provenance and copyright protection of diffusion-generated images. Training-free methods, exemplified by Gaussian Shading, embed watermarks into the initial noise of diffusion models with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yuwei Chen , Zhenliang He , Jia Tang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan

Despite their success for semantic segmentation, convolutional neural networks are ill-equipped for incremental learning, \ie, adapting the original segmentation model as new classes are available but the initial training data is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Zilong Huang , Wentian Hao , Xinggang Wang , Mingyuan Tao , Jianqiang Huang , Wenyu Liu , Xian-Sheng Hua

A diffusion model, which is formulated to produce an image using thousands of denoising steps, usually suffers from a slow inference speed. Existing acceleration algorithms simplify the sampling by skipping most steps yet exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mengfei Xia , Yujun Shen , Changsong Lei , Yu Zhou , Ran Yi , Deli Zhao , Wenping Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

Diffusion models excel at joint pixel sampling for image generation but lack efficient training-free methods for partial conditional sampling (e.g., inpainting with known pixels). Prior work typically formulates this as an intractable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Candi Zheng , Yuan Lan , Yang Wang

Pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have shown strong potential for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), owing to their noise-started generation process that enables realistic texture synthesis and captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Zhu , Kai Zhang , Yu Zheng , Lei Luo , Yong Guo , Jian Yang

Image inpainting is the task of filling in missing or masked region of an image with semantically meaningful contents. Recent methods have shown significant improvement in dealing with large-scale missing regions. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Wanglong Lu , Xianta Jiang , Xiaogang Jin , Yong-Liang Yang , Minglun Gong , Tao Wang , Kaijie Shi , Hanli Zhao

This study presents a new image super-resolution (SR) technique based on diffusion inversion, aiming at harnessing the rich image priors encapsulated in large pre-trained diffusion models to improve SR performance. We design a Partial noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zongsheng Yue , Kang Liao , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation, but their real-world applications are hampered by the extensive time needed for hundreds of diffusion steps. Although progressive distillation has been proposed to speed up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yifan Zhang , Bryan Hooi

We present a comprehensive comparative study of three generative modeling paradigms: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM), Conditional Flow Matching (CFM), and MeanFlow. While DDPM and CFM require iterative sampling, MeanFlow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Umang Agarwal , Rudraksh Sangore , Sumit Laddha

Large-scale diffusion-based generative models have led to breakthroughs in text-conditioned high-resolution image synthesis. Starting from random noise, such text-to-image diffusion models gradually synthesize images in an iterative fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yogesh Balaji , Seungjun Nah , Xun Huang , Arash Vahdat , Jiaming Song , Qinsheng Zhang , Karsten Kreis , Miika Aittala , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine , Bryan Catanzaro , Tero Karras , Ming-Yu Liu

We present Intrinsic Image Diffusion, a generative model for appearance decomposition of indoor scenes. Given a single input view, we sample multiple possible material explanations represented as albedo, roughness, and metallic maps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Peter Kocsis , Vincent Sitzmann , Matthias Nießner

As one of the most successful generative models, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in synthesizing high-quality images. These models learn the underlying high-dimensional data distribution in an unsupervised manner.…

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