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In this work, we propose aligning pretrained visual encoders to serve as tokenizers for latent diffusion models in image generation. Unlike training a variational autoencoder (VAE) from scratch, which primarily emphasizes low-level details,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bowei Chen , Sai Bi , Hao Tan , He Zhang , Tianyuan Zhang , Zhengqi Li , Yuanjun Xiong , Jianming Zhang , Kai Zhang

Vision encoders serve as the cornerstone of multimodal understanding. Single-encoder architectures like CLIP exhibit inherent constraints in generalizing across diverse multimodal tasks, while recent multi-encoder fusion methods introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yuchen Liu , Yaoming Wang , Bowen Shi , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Deep learning based fusion methods have been achieving promising performance in image fusion tasks. This is attributed to the network architecture that plays a very important role in the fusion process. However, in general, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hui Li , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Jiwen Lu , Josef Kittler

As the rapid growth of high-speed and deep-tissue imaging in biomedical research, it is urgent to find a robust and effective denoising method to retain morphological features for further texture analysis and segmentation. Conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-16 Sheng-Yong Niu , Lun-Zhang Guo , Yue Li , Tzung-Dau Wang , Yu Tsao , Tzu-Ming Liu

3D instance segmentation aims to predict a set of object instances in a scene and represent them as binary foreground masks with corresponding semantic labels. Currently, transformer-based methods are gaining increasing attention due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Jiahao Lu , Jiacheng Deng , Tianzhu Zhang

We propose a compact and effective framework to fuse multimodal features at multiple layers in a single network. The framework consists of two innovative fusion schemes. Firstly, unlike existing multimodal methods that necessitate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Yikai Wang , Fuchun Sun , Ming Lu , Anbang Yao

Inspired by recent advances in diffusion models, which are reminiscent of denoising autoencoders, we investigate whether they can acquire discriminative representations for classification via generative pre-training. This paper shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Weilai Xiang , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

This paper aims to develop a new and robust approach to feature representation. Motivated by the success of Auto-Encoders, we first theoretical summarize the general properties of all algorithms that are based on traditional Auto-Encoders:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Zeng Yu , Tianrui Li , Ning Yu , Yi Pan , Hongmei Chen , Bing Liu

We consider the problem of image representation for the tasks of unsupervised learning and semi-supervised learning. In those learning tasks, the raw image vectors may not provide enough representation for their intrinsic structures due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang , Yong Liu

Data-driven flow-field reconstruction typically relies on autoencoder architectures that compress high-dimensional states into low-dimensional latent representations. However, classical approaches such as variational autoencoders (VAEs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 AmirPouya Hemmasian , Amir Barati Farimani

Image compression and reconstruction are crucial for various digital applications. While contemporary neural compression methods achieve impressive compression rates, the adoption of such technology has been largely hindered by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ethan G. Rogers , Cheng Wang

LiDAR-based perception is central to autonomous driving and robotics, yet raw point clouds remain highly vulnerable to noise, occlusion, and adversarial corruptions. Autoencoders offer a natural framework for denoising and reconstruction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Susmit Neogi

Integrating the different data modalities of cancer patients can significantly improve the predictive performance of patient survival. However, most existing methods ignore the simultaneous utilization of rich semantic features at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Liangrui Pan , Yijun Peng , Yan Li , Yiyi Liang , Liwen Xu , Qingchun Liang , Shaoliang Peng

The performance of Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) is critically dependent on the quality of their visual tokenizers. While recent works have explored incorporating Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) into the tokenizers training via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tianci Bi , Xiaoyi Zhang , Yan Lu , Nanning Zheng

Transformer-based pre-trained language models have proven to be effective for learning contextualized language representation. However, current approaches only take advantage of the output of the encoder's final layer when fine-tuning the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Junjie Yang , Hai Zhao

This paper proposes \textit{layer fusion} - a model compression technique that discovers which weights to combine and then fuses weights of similar fully-connected, convolutional and attention layers. Layer fusion can significantly reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 James O' Neill , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

Denoising-based diffusion transformers, despite their strong generation performance, suffer from inefficient training convergence. Existing methods addressing this issue, such as REPA (relying on external representation encoders) or SRA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Mengmeng Wang , Dengyang Jiang , Liuzhuozheng Li , Yucheng Lin , Guojiang Shen , Xiangjie Kong , Yong Liu , Guang Dai , Jingdong Wang

Infrared and visible image fusion, a hot topic in the field of image processing, aims at obtaining fused images keeping the advantages of source images. This paper proposes a novel auto-encoder (AE) based fusion network. The core idea is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Zixiang Zhao , Shuang Xu , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu , Pengfei Li , Jiangshe Zhang

Indoor scenes exhibit rich hierarchical structure in 3D object layouts. Many tasks in 3D scene understanding can benefit from reasoning jointly about the hierarchical context of a scene, and the identities of objects. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Yifei Shi , Angel Xuan Chang , Zhelun Wu , Manolis Savva , Kai Xu

This study presents Latent Diffusion Autoencoder (LDAE), a novel encoder-decoder diffusion-based framework for efficient and meaningful unsupervised learning in medical imaging, focusing on Alzheimer disease (AD) using brain MR from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Gabriele Lozupone , Alessandro Bria , Francesco Fontanella , Frederick J. A. Meijer , Claudio De Stefano , Henkjan Huisman