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Current generative frameworks use end-to-end learning and generate images by sampling from uniform noise distribution. However, these approaches ignore the most basic principle of image formation: images are product of: (a) Structure: the…

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State-of-the-art neural rendering methods optimize Gaussian scene representations from a few photographs for novel-view synthesis. Building on these representations, we develop an efficient algorithm, dubbed Gaussian Wave Splatting, to turn…

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We introduce the Sphere Encoder, an efficient generative framework capable of producing images in a single forward pass and competing with many-step diffusion models using fewer than five steps. Our approach works by learning an encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kaiyu Yue , Menglin Jia , Ji Hou , Tom Goldstein

Many deep generative models are defined as a push-forward of a Gaussian measure by a continuous generator, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs). This work explores the latent space of such deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Thibaut Issenhuth , Ugo Tanielian , Jérémie Mary , David Picard

Indoor scene generation aims at creating shape-compatible, style-consistent furniture arrangements within a spatially reasonable layout. However, most existing approaches primarily focus on generating plausible furniture layouts without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yiqun Zhao , Zibo Zhao , Jing Li , Sixun Dong , Shenghua Gao

Recent image generation schemes typically capture image distribution in a pre-constructed latent space relying on a frozen image tokenizer. Though the performance of tokenizer plays an essential role to the successful generation, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kai Qiu , Xiang Li , Jason Kuen , Hao Chen , Xiaohao Xu , Jiuxiang Gu , Yinyi Luo , Bhiksha Raj , Zhe Lin , Marios Savvides

Latent diffusion models have emerged as the leading approach for generating high-quality images and videos, utilizing compressed latent representations to reduce the computational burden of the diffusion process. While recent advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ivan Skorokhodov , Sharath Girish , Benran Hu , Willi Menapace , Yanyu Li , Rameen Abdal , Sergey Tulyakov , Aliaksandr Siarohin

Graph alignment, the problem of identifying corresponding nodes across multiple graphs, is fundamental to numerous applications. Most existing unsupervised methods embed node features into latent representations to enable cross-graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Maysam Behmanesh , Erkan Turan , Maks Ovsjanikov

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images from text prompts, they struggle with visual consistency when generating image sequences. Existing methods generate each image independently, leading to disjointed narratives -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Guilherme Fernandes , Vasco Ramos , Regev Cohen , Idan Szpektor , João Magalhães

While 3D Gaussian Splatting has achieved remarkable success in photorealistic novel view synthesis, its pursuit of fast and high-fidelity 3D reconstruction has long been constrained by a trade-off between geometric accuracy and optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhenhua Du , Zhen Tan , Haoyu Zhang , Dewen Hu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Peidong Liu

Scene Graph Generation (SGG) unifies object localization and visual relationship reasoning by predicting boxes and subject-predicate-object triples. Yet most pipelines treat SGG as a one-shot, deterministic classification problem rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xin Hu , Ke Qin , Wen Yin , Yuan-Fang Li , Ming Li , Tao He

Diffusion models create data from noise by inverting the forward paths of data towards noise and have emerged as a powerful generative modeling technique for high-dimensional, perceptual data such as images and videos. Rectified flow is a…

Semantic image synthesis aims at generating photorealistic images from semantic layouts. Previous approaches with conditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) show state-of-the-art performance on this task, which either feed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Xihui Liu , Guojun Yin , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

In this work, we analyze the optimization dynamics of generative fine-tuning. We observe that under the Flow Matching framework, the standard MSE objective can be formulated as a Quadratic Form governed by a dynamically evolving Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhinan Xiong , Shunqi Yuan

While standard flow-matching models transport noise to data uniformly, incorporating an explicit generation order - specifically, establishing coarse, low-frequency structure before fine detail - has proven highly effective for synthesizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Weitao Du

Flow matching has recently emerged as a powerful alternative to diffusion models, providing a continuous-time formulation for generative modeling and representation learning. Yet, we show that this framework suffers from a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Weili Zeng , Yichao Yan

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) achieve state-of-the-art image synthesis, yet their reconstruction-style denoising objective provides only indirect semantic supervision: high-level semantics emerge slowly, requiring longer training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Giorgos Petsangourakis , Christos Sgouropoulos , Bill Psomas , Theodoros Giannakopoulos , Giorgos Sfikas , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou

Prior works about text-to-image synthesis typically concatenated the sentence embedding with the noise vector, while the sentence embedding and the noise vector are two different factors, which control the different aspects of the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jiguo Li , Xiaobin Liu , Lirong Zheng

Recent advancements in image animation have utilized diffusion models to breathe life into static images. However, existing controllable frameworks typically rely on Lagrangian motion guidance, where optical flow is estimated relative to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Khoi M. Le , Cong-Duy Nguyen , Luu Anh Tuan , See-Kiong Ng , Chunyan Miao

Recent advances in generative modeling have substantially enhanced novel view synthesis, yet maintaining consistency across viewpoints remains challenging. Diffusion-based models rely on stochastic noise-to-data transitions, which obscure…

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