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Existing video Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) generally overlook the similarity between frame contents, leading to redundant latent modeling. In this paper, we propose decoupled VAE (DeCo-VAE) to achieve compact latent representation.…

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Arbitrary resolution image generation provides a consistent visual experience across devices, having extensive applications for producers and consumers. Current diffusion models increase computational demand quadratically with resolution,…

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This paper presents a family of advanced vision encoder, named OpenVision 3, that learns a single, unified visual representation that can serve both image understanding and image generation. Our core architecture is simple: we feed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Letian Zhang , Sucheng Ren , Yanqing Liu , Xianhang Li , Zeyu Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Huaxiu Yao , Zeyu Zheng , Weili Nie , Guilin Liu , Zhiding Yu , Cihang Xie

Pixel diffusion aims to generate images directly in pixel space in an end-to-end fashion. This approach avoids the limitations of VAE in the two-stage latent diffusion, offering higher model capacity. Existing pixel diffusion models suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zehong Ma , Longhui Wei , Shuai Wang , Shiliang Zhang , Qi Tian

Despite advancements in Text-to-Video (T2V) generation, producing videos with realistic motion remains challenging. Current models often yield static or minimally dynamic outputs, failing to capture complex motions described by text. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Penghui Ruan , Pichao Wang , Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao , Yuhui Shi

Autoencoder (AE) is the key to the success of latent diffusion models for image and video generation, reducing the denoising resolution and improving efficiency. However, the power of AE has long been underexplored in terms of network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yushu Wu , Yanyu Li , Ivan Skorokhodov , Anil Kag , Willi Menapace , Sharath Girish , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov

Reference-to-video (R2V) generation is a controllable video synthesis paradigm that constrains the generation process using both text prompts and reference images, enabling applications such as personalized advertising and virtual try-on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Lei Wang , YuXin Song , Ge Wu , Haocheng Feng , Hang Zhou , Jingdong Wang , Yaxing Wang , jian Yang

Effectively handling temporal redundancy remains a key challenge in learning video models. Prevailing approaches often treat each set of frames independently, failing to effectively capture the temporal dependencies and redundancies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiang Fan , Xiaohang Sun , Kushan Thakkar , Zhu Liu , Vimal Bhat , Ranjay Krishna , Xiang Hao

Generating sound effects that humans want is an important topic. However, there are few studies in this area for sound generation. In this study, we investigate generating sound conditioned on a text prompt and propose a novel text-to-sound…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Dongchao Yang , Jianwei Yu , Helin Wang , Wen Wang , Chao Weng , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

In this paper, the problem of describing visual contents of a video sequence with natural language is addressed. Unlike previous video captioning work mainly exploiting the cues of video contents to make a language description, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Bairui Wang , Lin Ma , Wei Zhang , Wei Liu

Existing video tokenizers typically use the traditional Variational Autoencoder (VAE) architecture for video compression and reconstruction. However, to achieve good performance, its training process often relies on complex multi-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Nianzu Yang , Pandeng Li , Liming Zhao , Yang Li , Chen-Wei Xie , Yehui Tang , Xudong Lu , Zhihang Liu , Yun Zheng , Yu Liu , Junchi Yan

Denoising diffusion models achieved impressive results on several image generation tasks often outperforming GAN based models. Recently, the generative capabilities of diffusion models have been employed for perceptual image compression,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Jonas Brenig , Radu Timofte

Learned image compression codecs have recently achieved impressive compression performances surpassing the most efficient image coding architectures. However, most approaches are trained to minimize rate and distortion which often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Daniele Mari , Simone Milani

Image-to-video generation, which aims to generate a video starting from a given reference image, has drawn great attention. Existing methods try to extend pre-trained text-guided image diffusion models to image-guided video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Cong Wang , Jiaxi Gu , Panwen Hu , Songcen Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Generative models have attracted significant interest due to their ability to handle uncertainty by learning the inherent data distributions. However, two prominent generative models, namely Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yu Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Liangwei Yang , Philip S. Yu

Reference-guided image generation has progressed rapidly, yet current diffusion models still struggle to preserve fine-grained visual details when refining a generated image using a reference. This limitation arises because VAE-based latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yaoli Liu , Ziheng Ouyang , Shengtao Lou , Yiren Song

In recent years, video generation has seen significant advancements. However, challenges still persist in generating complex motions and interactions. To address these challenges, we introduce ReVision, a plug-and-play framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Qihao Liu , Ju He , Qihang Yu , Liang-Chieh Chen , Alan Yuille

Autoregressive (AR) models have recently shown strong performance in image generation, where a critical component is the visual tokenizer (VT) that maps continuous pixel inputs to discrete token sequences. The quality of the VT largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Huawei Lin , Tong Geng , Zhaozhuo Xu , Weijie Zhao

Given a monocular video, the goal of video re-rendering is to generate views of the scene from a novel camera trajectory. Existing methods face two distinct challenges. Geometrically unconditioned models lack spatial awareness, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mingyang Xie , Numair Khan , Tianfu Wang , Naina Dhingra , Seonghyeon Nam , Haitao Yang , Zhuo Hui , Christopher Metzler , Andrea Vedaldi , Hamed Pirsiavash , Lei Luo

Although there have been significant advancements in image compression techniques, such as standard and learned codecs, these methods still suffer from severe quality degradation at extremely low bits per pixel. While recent diffusion-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Chanung Park , Joo Chan Lee , Jong Hwan Ko