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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

Recent advances in large-scale text-to-image models have revolutionized creative fields by generating visually captivating outputs from textual prompts; however, while traditional photography offers precise control over camera settings to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Armando Fortes , Tianyi Wei , Shangchen Zhou , Xingang Pan

This study addresses the challenge of, without training or fine-tuning, controlling the global color aspect of images generated with a diffusion model. We rewrite the guidance equations to ensure that the outputs are closer to a known color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Tom Bordin , Thomas Maugey

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing, but guiding these models to produce specific outputs remains a challenge. Conventional approaches rely on conditioning mechanisms, such as text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nithesh Chandher Karthikeyan , Jonas Unger , Gabriel Eilertsen

Blind image restoration remains a significant challenge in low-level vision tasks. Recently, denoising diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis. Guided diffusion models, leveraging the potent generative priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jun Xiao , Zihang Lyu , Hao Xie , Cong Zhang , Yakun Ju , Changjian Shui , Kin-Man Lam

Diffusion model based language-guided image editing has achieved great success recently. However, existing state-of-the-art diffusion models struggle with rendering correct text and text style during generation. To tackle this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Haoxing Chen , Zhuoer Xu , Zhangxuan Gu , Jun Lan , Xing Zheng , Yaohui Li , Changhua Meng , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models capable of producing high-quality images from pure noise using a simple text prompt. While most methods which introduce additional spatial constraints into the generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zakaria Patel , Kirill Serkh

Large-scale generative models are capable of producing high-quality images from detailed text descriptions. However, many aspects of an image are difficult or impossible to convey through text. We introduce self-guidance, a method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Dave Epstein , Allan Jabri , Ben Poole , Alexei A. Efros , Aleksander Holynski

Video models have recently been applied with success to problems in content generation, novel view synthesis, and, more broadly, world simulation. Many applications in generation and transfer rely on conditioning these models, typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Edoardo A. Dominici , Thomas Deixelberger , Konstantinos Vardis , Markus Steinberger

Recent data-driven image colorization methods have enabled automatic or reference-based colorization, while still suffering from unsatisfactory and inaccurate object-level color control. To address these issues, we propose a new method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Jianxin Lin , Peng Xiao , Yijun Wang , Rongju Zhang , Xiangxiang Zeng

Material reconstruction from a photograph is a key component of 3D content creation democratization. We propose to formulate this ill-posed problem as a controlled synthesis one, leveraging the recent progress in generative deep networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Giuseppe Vecchio , Rosalie Martin , Arthur Roullier , Adrien Kaiser , Romain Rouffet , Valentin Deschaintre , Tamy Boubekeur

Imaging in low light is challenging due to low photon count and low SNR. Short-exposure images suffer from noise, while long exposure can induce blur and is often impractical. A variety of denoising, deblurring, and enhancement techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chen Chen , Qifeng Chen , Jia Xu , Vladlen Koltun

Instruction-based image editing has made a great process in using natural human language to manipulate the visual content of images. However, existing models are limited by the quality of the dataset and cannot accurately localize editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Tiancheng Li , Jinxiu Liu , Huajun Chen , Qi Liu

Single-image relighting is highly under-constrained: small illumination changes can produce large, nonlinear variations in shading, shadows, and specularities, while geometry and materials remain unobserved. Existing diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haoze Zheng , Zihao Wang , Xianfeng Wu , Yajing Bai , Yexin Liu , Yun Li , Xiaogang Xu , Harry Yang

Conditional image generation models have achieved remarkable results by leveraging text-based control to generate customized images. However, the high resource demands of these models and the scarcity of well-annotated data have hindered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yicheng Jiang , Jin Yuan , Hua Yuan , Yao Zhang , Yong Rui

Collections of images under a single, uncontrolled illumination have enabled the rapid advancement of core computer vision tasks like classification, detection, and segmentation. But even with modern learning techniques, many inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Lukas Murmann , Michael Gharbi , Miika Aittala , Fredo Durand

We present PIXLRelight, a feed-forward approach for physically controllable single-image relighting. Existing methods either provide limited lighting control (e.g. through text or environment maps), accumulate errors when chaining inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Miguel Farinha , Ronald Clark

Text-conditioned diffusion models can generate impressive images, but fall short when it comes to fine-grained control. Unlike direct-editing tools like Photoshop, text conditioned models require the artist to perform "prompt engineering,"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Michelle Shu , Charles Herrmann , Richard Strong Bowen , Forrester Cole , Ramin Zabih

Low-quality or scarce data has posed significant challenges for training deep neural networks in practice. While classical data augmentation cannot contribute very different new data, diffusion models opens up a new door to build…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yijun Liang , Shweta Bhardwaj , Tianyi Zhou

Recent advances in diffusion models enable high-quality video generation and editing, but precise relighting with consistent video contents, which is critical for shaping scene atmosphere and viewer attention, remains unexplored. Mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Weikang Bian , Xiaoyu Shi , Zhaoyang Huang , Jianhong Bai , Qinghe Wang , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Hongsheng Li