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Perceptual optimization is widely recognized as essential for neural compression, yet balancing the rate-distortion-perception tradeoff remains challenging. This difficulty is especially pronounced in video compression, where frame-wise…

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Visual autoregressive modeling, based on the next-scale prediction paradigm, exhibits notable advantages in image quality and model scalability over traditional autoregressive and diffusion models. It generates images by progressively…

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Video super-resolution (VSR) seeks to reconstruct high-resolution frames from low-resolution inputs. While diffusion-based methods have substantially improved perceptual quality, extending them to video remains challenging for two reasons:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jintong Hu , Bin Chen , Zhenyu Hu , Jiayue Liu , Guo Wang , Lu Qi

High-resolution image-to-video (I2V) generation aims to synthesize realistic temporal dynamics while preserving fine-grained appearance details of the input image. At 2K resolution, it becomes extremely challenging, and existing solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 YaoYang Liu , Yuechen Zhang , Wenbo Li , Yufei Zhao , Rui Liu , Long Chen

Image-to-video (I2V) generation tasks always suffer from keeping high fidelity in the open domains. Traditional image animation techniques primarily focus on specific domains such as faces or human poses, making them difficult to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Weijie Li , Litong Gong , Yiran Zhu , Fanda Fan , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Bo Zheng

Optimizing video inference efficiency has become increasingly important with the growing demand for video analysis in various fields. Some existing methods achieve high efficiency by explicit discard of spatial or temporal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Rui Deng , Qian Wu , Yuke Li , Haoran Fu

Diffusion models have been shown to implicitly generate visual content autoregressively in the frequency domain, where low-frequency components are generated earlier in the denoising process while high-frequency details emerge only in later…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Howard Xiao , Brian Chao , Lior Yariv , Gordon Wetzstein

Visual diffusion models achieve remarkable progress, yet they are typically trained at limited resolutions due to the lack of high-resolution data and constrained computation resources, hampering their ability to generate high-fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Haonan Qiu , Shiwei Zhang , Yujie Wei , Ruihang Chu , Hangjie Yuan , Xiang Wang , Yingya Zhang , Ziwei Liu

Video saliency prediction has recently attracted attention of the research community, as it is an upstream task for several practical applications. However, current solutions are particularly computationally demanding, especially due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Feiyan Hu , Simone Palazzo , Federica Proietto Salanitri , Giovanni Bellitto , Morteza Moradi , Concetto Spampinato , Kevin McGuinness

Recovery of an underlying scene geometry from multiview images stands as a long-time challenge in computer vision research. The recent promise leverages neural implicit surface learning and differentiable volume rendering, and achieves both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zhihao Liang , Zhangjin Huang , Changxing Ding , Kui Jia

Diffusion models have achieved impressive performance in video generation, but their iterative denoising process remains computationally expensive due to the large number of tokens processed at each timestep. Recently, progressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shikang Zheng , Jingkai Huang , Jiacheng Liu , Guantao Chen , Lixuan , Yuqi Lin , Peiliang Cai , Linfeng Zhang

Autoregressive image modeling relies on visual tokenizers to compress images into compact latent representations. We design an end-to-end training pipeline that jointly optimizes reconstruction and generation, enabling direct supervision…

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We introduce PixelPlayer, a system that, by leveraging large amounts of unlabeled videos, learns to locate image regions which produce sounds and separate the input sounds into a set of components that represents the sound from each pixel.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Hang Zhao , Chuang Gan , Andrew Rouditchenko , Carl Vondrick , Josh McDermott , Antonio Torralba

Advancements in diffusion-based foundation models have improved text-to-image generation, yet most efforts have been limited to low-resolution settings. As high-resolution image synthesis becomes increasingly essential for various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Zahra TehraniNasab , Amar Kumar , Tal Arbel

Large-scale video diffusion models achieve impressive visual quality, yet often fail to preserve geometric consistency. Prior approaches improve consistency either by augmenting the generator with additional modules or applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhaochong An , Orest Kupyn , Théo Uscidda , Andrea Colaco , Karan Ahuja , Serge Belongie , Mar Gonzalez-Franco , Marta Tintore Gazulla

Videos captured by consumer cameras often exhibit temporal variations in color and tone that are caused by camera auto-adjustments like white-balance and exposure. When such videos are sub-sampled to play fast-forward, as in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Xuaner Cecilia Zhang , Joon-Young Lee , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Zhaowen Wang

Superpixels provide a compact region-based representation that preserves object boundaries and local structures, and have therefore been widely used in a variety of vision tasks to reduce computational cost. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Shuyin Xia , Meng Yang , Dawei Dai , Fan Chen , Shilin Zhao , Junwei Han , Xinbo Gao , Guoyin Wang , Wen Lu

Embedding and visualizing large-scale high-dimensional data in a two-dimensional space is an important problem since such visualization can reveal deep insights out of complex data. Most of the existing embedding approaches, however, run on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Minjeong Kim , Minsuk Choi , Sunwoong Lee , Jian Tang , Haesun Park , Jaegul Choo

Generating long-range, geometrically consistent video presents a fundamental dilemma: while consistency demands strict adherence to 3D geometry in pixel space, state-of-the-art generative models operate most effectively in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hanyang Kong , Xingyi Yang , Xiaoxu Zheng , Xinchao Wang

This technical report introduces PIXART-{\delta}, a text-to-image synthesis framework that integrates the Latent Consistency Model (LCM) and ControlNet into the advanced PIXART-{\alpha} model. PIXART-{\alpha} is recognized for its ability…

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