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Text-to-image diffusion techniques have shown exceptional capabilities in producing high-quality, dense visual predictions from open-vocabulary text. This indicates a strong correlation between visual and textual domains in open concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Tuan-Anh Vu , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Qing Guo , Nhat Chung , Binh-Son Hua , Ivor W. Tsang , Sai-Kit Yeung

We present a novel approach to object classification and detection which requires minimal supervision and which combines visual texture cues and shape information learned from freely available unlabeled web search results. The explosion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Xingchao Peng , Kate Saenko

Foreground object search (FOS) aims to find compatible foreground objects for a given background image, producing realistic composite image. We observe that competitive retrieval performance could be achieved by using a discriminator to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Bo Zhang , Jiacheng Sui , Li Niu

Diffusion models have emerged as a leading technique for generating images due to their ability to create high-resolution and realistic images. Despite their strong performance, diffusion models still struggle in managing image collections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hailong Yang , Te Zhang , Kup-sze Choi , Zhaohong Deng

The mining sector increasingly adopts digital tools to improve operational efficiency, safety, and data-driven decision-making. One of the key challenges remains the reliable acquisition of high-resolution, geo-referenced spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Vasiliki Balaska , Ioannis Tsampikos Papapetros , Katerina Maria Oikonomou , Loukas Bampis , Antonios Gasteratos

Humans can effortlessly locate desired objects in cluttered environments, relying on a cognitive mechanism known as visual search to efficiently filter out irrelevant information and focus on task-related regions. Inspired by this process,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Geng Li , Jinglin Xu , Yunzhen Zhao , Yuxin Peng

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in multimodal understanding, yet their susceptibility to perturbations poses a significant threat to their reliability in real-world applications. Despite often being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jia Fu , Yongtao Wu , Yihang Chen , Kunyu Peng , Xiao Zhang , Volkan Cevher , Sepideh Pashami , Anders Holst

As one of the most successful generative models, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in synthesizing high-quality images. These models learn the underlying high-dimensional data distribution in an unsupervised manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Min Hou , Yueying Wu , Chang Xu , Yu-Hao Huang , Chenxi Bai , Le Wu , Jiang Bian

Active visual SLAM finds a wide array of applications in GNSS-Denied sub-terrain environments and outdoor environments for ground robots. To achieve robust localization and mapping accuracy, it is imperative to incorporate the perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Suchetan Saravanan , Corentin Chauffaut , Caroline Chanel , Damien Vivet

Considering the accelerated development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) applications in both industrial and research scenarios, there is an increasing need for localizing these aerial systems in non-urban environments, using GNSS-Free,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Marius-Mihail Gurgu , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

There is an increased interest in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for agriculture, military, disaster management and aerial photography around the world. UAVs are scalable, flexible and are useful in various environments where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Bapireddy Karri

In environmental monitoring, data collection is often costly, sparse, and shaped by urgent public-health needs. This is particularly true for cancer-causing PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) contamination, where discussions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jowaria Khan , Anindya Sarkar , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly

We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

Detecting visual anomalies in diverse, multi-class real-world images is a significant challenge. We introduce \ours, a novel unsupervised multi-class visual anomaly detection framework. It integrates a Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Samet Hicsonmez , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Djamila Aouada

This paper introduces Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot's visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. We benchmark Diffusion Policy across 12 different tasks from 4…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Cheng Chi , Zhenjia Xu , Siyuan Feng , Eric Cousineau , Yilun Du , Benjamin Burchfiel , Russ Tedrake , Shuran Song

A fairly reliable trend in deep reinforcement learning is that the performance scales with the number of parameters, provided a complimentary scaling in amount of training data. As the appetite for large models increases, it is imperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Bogdan Mazoure , Walter Talbott , Miguel Angel Bautista , Devon Hjelm , Alexander Toshev , Josh Susskind

Reconstructing 3D objects from extremely sparse views is a long-standing and challenging problem. While recent techniques employ image diffusion models for generating plausible images at novel viewpoints or for distilling pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zi-Xin Zou , Weihao Cheng , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Sheng Huang , Ying Shan , Song-Hai Zhang

The Diffusion Model has not only garnered noteworthy achievements in the realm of image generation but has also demonstrated its potential as an effective pretraining method utilizing unlabeled data. Drawing from the extensive potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Muzhi Zhu , Yang Liu , Zekai Luo , Chenchen Jing , Hao Chen , Guangkai Xu , Xinlong Wang , Chunhua Shen

Diffusion models have gained attention for their ability to represent complex distributions and incorporate uncertainty, making them ideal for robust predictions in the presence of noisy or incomplete data. In this study, we develop and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yilin Zhuang , Sibo Cheng , Karthik Duraisamy

Moving object detection (MOD) in remote sensing is significantly challenged by low resolution, extremely small object sizes, and complex noise interference. Current deep learning-based MOD methods rely on probability density estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinyue Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Zhongjian Huang , Tianyang Zhang , Yifei Jiang , Licheng Jiao