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Diffusion models gain increasing popularity for their generative capabilities. Recently, there have been surging needs to generate customized images by inverting diffusion models from exemplar images, and existing inversion methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ziqi Huang , Tianxing Wu , Yuming Jiang , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Ziwei Liu

6-DoF object pose estimation from a monocular image is challenging, and a post-refinement procedure is generally needed for high-precision estimation. In this paper, we propose a framework based on a recurrent neural network (RNN) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Yan Xu , Kwan-Yee Lin , Guofeng Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Establishing consistent and dense correspondences across multiple images is crucial for Structure from Motion (SfM) systems. Significant view changes, such as air-to-ground with very sparse view overlap, pose an even greater challenge to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Gonglin Chen , Jinsen Wu , Haiwei Chen , Wenbin Teng , Zhiyuan Gao , Andrew Feng , Rongjun Qin , Yajie Zhao

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

Score-based diffusion models learn to reverse a stochastic differential equation that maps data to noise. However, for complex tasks, numerical error can compound and result in highly unnatural samples. Previous work mitigates this drift…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-12 Aaron Lou , Stefano Ermon

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xuqin Wang , Tao Wu , Yanfeng Zhang , Lu Liu , Mingwei Sun , Yongliang Wang , Niclas Zeller , Daniel Cremers

Accurate camera calibration is a fundamental task for 3D perception, especially when dealing with real-world, in-the-wild environments where complex optical distortions are common. Existing methods often rely on pre-rectified images or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Liuyue Xie , Jiancong Guo , Ozan Cakmakci , Andre Araujo , Laszlo A. Jeni , Zhiheng Jia

How do diffusion generative models convert pure noise into meaningful images? In a variety of pretrained diffusion models (including conditional latent space models like Stable Diffusion), we observe that the reverse diffusion process that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Binxu Wang , John J. Vastola

We propose a simple, efficient, yet powerful framework for dense visual predictions based on the conditional diffusion pipeline. Our approach follows a "noise-to-map" generative paradigm for prediction by progressively removing noise from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yuanfeng Ji , Zhe Chen , Enze Xie , Lanqing Hong , Xihui Liu , Zhaoqiang Liu , Tong Lu , Zhenguo Li , Ping Luo

A novel, non-learning-based, saliency-aware, shape-cognizant correspondence determination technique is proposed for matching image pairs that are significantly disparate in nature. Images in the real world often exhibit high degrees of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Arun CS Kumar , Shefali Srivastava , Anirban Mukhopadhyay , Suchendra M. Bhandarkar

Establishing correspondences across images is a fundamental challenge in computer vision, underpinning tasks like Structure-from-Motion, image editing, and point tracking. Traditional methods are often specialized for specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Fei Xue , Sven Elflein , Laura Leal-Taixé , Qunjie Zhou

This paper addresses the challenging problem of category-level pose estimation. Current state-of-the-art methods for this task face challenges when dealing with symmetric objects and when attempting to generalize to new environments solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Takuya Ikeda , Sergey Zakharov , Tianyi Ko , Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Robert Lee , Katherine Liu , Rares Ambrus , Koichi Nishiwaki

In this paper a deterministic preprocessing algorithm is presented, whose output can be given as input to most state-of-the-art epipolar geometry estimation algorithms, improving their results considerably. They are now able to succeed on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Maria Kushnir , Ilan Shimshoni

Positional reasoning is the process of ordering unsorted parts contained in a set into a consistent structure. We present Positional Diffusion, a plug-and-play graph formulation with Diffusion Probabilistic Models to address positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Francesco Giuliari , Gianluca Scarpellini , Stuart James , Yiming Wang , Alessio Del Bue

Practical diffusion sampling is a numerical approximation problem: under a fixed inference budget, one must simulate a reverse-time ODE or SDE using only a limited number of denoising steps, so discretization error is often the dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Samuel Hurault , Thomas Moreau , Gabriel Peyré

We present an novel framework for efficiently and effectively extending the powerful continuous diffusion processes to discrete modeling. Previous approaches have suffered from the discrepancy between discrete data and continuous modeling.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuxuan Gu , Xiaocheng Feng , Lei Huang , Yingsheng Wu , Zekun Zhou , Weihong Zhong , Kun Zhu , Bing Qin

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

Diffusion-based inpainting is a powerful tool for the reconstruction of images from sparse data. Its quality strongly depends on the choice of known data. Optimising their spatial location -- the inpainting mask -- is challenging. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Tobias Alt , Pascal Peter , Joachim Weickert

Diffusion models are powerful tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions by progressively transforming pure noise into structured data through a denoising process. When equipped with a guidance mechanism, these models can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu

Dense light field depth estimation remains challenging due to sparse angular sampling, occlusion boundaries, textureless regions, and the cost of exhaustive multi-view matching. We propose \emph{Deep Spectral Epipolar Representation}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Noor Islam S. Mohammad , Md Muntaqim Meherab