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Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration. To address these issues, we propose a robust and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Songchen Han , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable progress in image generation quality, especially when guidance is used to control the generative process. However, guidance requires a large amount of image-annotation pairs for training and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Vincent Tao Hu , David W Zhang , Yuki M. Asano , Gertjan J. Burghouts , Cees G. M. Snoek

While modern diffusion models excel at generating high-quality and diverse images, they still struggle with high-fidelity compositional and multimodal control, particularly when users simultaneously specify text prompts, subject references,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yusuf Dalva , Guocheng Gordon Qian , Maya Goldenberg , Tsai-Shien Chen , Kfir Aberman , Sergey Tulyakov , Pinar Yanardag , Kuan-Chieh Jackson Wang

We introduce MVControl, a novel neural network architecture that enhances existing pre-trained multi-view 2D diffusion models by incorporating additional input conditions, e.g. edge maps. Our approach enables the generation of controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhiqi Li , Yiming Chen , Lingzhe Zhao , Peidong Liu

Recent advances in image editing with diffusion models have achieved impressive results, offering fine-grained control over the generation process. However, these methods are computationally intensive because of their iterative nature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Ilia Beletskii , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

Guidance serves as a key concept in diffusion models, yet its effectiveness is often limited by the need for extra data annotation or classifier pretraining. That is why guidance was harnessed from self-supervised learning backbones, like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Vincent Tao Hu , Yunlu Chen , Mathilde Caron , Yuki M. Asano , Cees G. M. Snoek , Bjorn Ommer

The correct insertion of virtual objects in images of real-world scenes requires a deep understanding of the scene's lighting, geometry and materials, as well as the image formation process. While recent large-scale diffusion models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ruofan Liang , Zan Gojcic , Merlin Nimier-David , David Acuna , Nandita Vijaykumar , Sanja Fidler , Zian Wang

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

The field of image synthesis has made tremendous strides forward in the last years. Besides defining the desired output image with text-prompts, an intuitive approach is to additionally use spatial guidance in form of an image, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Denis Zavadski , Johann-Friedrich Feiden , Carsten Rother

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in image generation and editing, with recent advancements enabling albedo-preserving image relighting. However, applying these models to video relighting remains challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ye Fang , Zeyi Sun , Shangzhan Zhang , Tong Wu , Yinghao Xu , Pan Zhang , Jiaqi Wang , Gordon Wetzstein , Dahua Lin

Typical diffusion models are trained to accept a particular form of conditioning, most commonly text, and cannot be conditioned on other modalities without retraining. In this work, we propose a universal guidance algorithm that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Arpit Bansal , Hong-Min Chu , Avi Schwarzschild , Soumyadip Sengupta , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

Creative sketch is a universal way of visual expression, but translating images from an abstract sketch is very challenging. Traditionally, creating a deep learning model for sketch-to-image synthesis needs to overcome the distorted input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Qiang Wang , Di Kong , Fengyin Lin , Yonggang Qi

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

Video inpainting is the task of filling a region in a video in a visually convincing manner. It is very challenging due to the high dimensionality of the data and the temporal consistency required for obtaining convincing results. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nicolas Cherel , Andrés Almansa , Yann Gousseau , Alasdair Newson

Current text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating diverse, high-quality images, yet they struggle to incorporate fine-grained camera metadata such as precise aperture settings. In this work, we introduce a novel text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Ayush Shrivastava , Connelly Barnes , Xuaner Zhang , Lingzhi Zhang , Andrew Owens , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Eli Shechtman

Inverse rendering, the process of inferring scene properties from images, is a challenging inverse problem. The task is ill-posed, as many different scene configurations can give rise to the same image. Most existing solutions incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Marc Habermann , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Thomas Leimkühler , Christian Theobalt

Text-guided diffusion models have revolutionized image generation and editing, offering exceptional realism and diversity. Specifically, in the context of diffusion-based editing, where a source image is edited according to a target prompt,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Xuan Ju , Ailing Zeng , Yuxuan Bian , Shaoteng Liu , Qiang Xu

This paper presents a method for image relighting that enables precise and continuous control over multiple illumination attributes in a photograph. We formulate relighting as a conditional image generation task and introduce attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sumit Chaturvedi , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Mengwei Ren , Jingyuan Liu , He Zhang , Yiqun Mei , Julie Dorsey , Zhixin Shu

Learning-based methods have made promising advances in low-light RAW image enhancement, while their capability to extremely dark scenes where the environmental illuminance drops as low as 0.0001 lux remains to be explored due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hai Jiang , Binhao Guan , Zhen Liu , Xiaohong Liu , Jian Yu , Zheng Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

Diffusion models have become increasingly popular for generative modeling due to their ability to generate high-quality samples. This has unlocked exciting new possibilities for solving inverse problems, especially in image restoration and…