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Diffusion models offer a robust framework for sampling from unnormalized probability densities, which requires accurately estimating the score of the noise-perturbed target distribution. While the standard Denoising Score Identity (DSI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Khaled Kahouli , Romuald Elie , Klaus-Robert Müller , Quentin Berthet , Oliver T. Unke , Arnaud Doucet

We study source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SFUDA) for semantic segmentation, which aims to adapt a source-trained model to the target domain without accessing the source data. Many works have been proposed to address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Dong Zhao , Shuang Wang , Qi Zang , Licheng Jiao , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

In medical image segmentation tasks, diffusion models have shown significant potential. However, mainstream diffusion models suffer from drawbacks such as multiple sampling times and slow prediction results. Recently, consistency models, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Kejia Zhang , Lan Zhang , Haiwei Pan , Baolong Yu

Ambient noise tomography relies on the assumption that the seismic wavefield is equipartitioned. In practice, ambient noise sources are spatially and temporally heterogeneous, producing biased estimates of the Green's function between…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Sanket Narayan Bajad , Pushkar Bharadwaj , Pawan Bharadwaj

A potent class of generative models known as Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) has become prominent. A forward diffusion process adds gradually noise to data, while a model learns to gradually denoise. Sampling from pre-trained DPMs is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Martin Gonzalez , Nelson Fernandez , Thuy Tran , Elies Gherbi , Hatem Hajri , Nader Masmoudi

In the practical application of restoring low-resolution gray-scale images, we generally need to run three separate processes of image colorization, super-resolution, and dows-sampling operation for the target device. However, this pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Jiangning Zhang , Chao Xu , Jian Li , Yue Han , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Objective: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) provides a low-dose imaging alternative to conventional CT, but suffers from noise, scatter, and artifacts that degrade image quality. Synthetic CT (sCT) aims to translate CBCT to high-quality…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Alzahra Altalib , Chunhui Li , Alessandro Perelli

Diffusion models (DM) can gradually learn to remove noise, which have been widely used in artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) in recent years. The property of DM for removing noise leads us to wonder whether DM can be applied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Dazhi He , Liang Qian , Yin Xu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Diffusion models achieve superior generation quality but suffer from slow generation speed due to the iterative nature of denoising. In contrast, consistency models, a new generative family, achieve competitive performance with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Fu-Yun Wang , Zhengyang Geng , Hongsheng Li

Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced generative deep learning for image processing. Measurement conditioned models have also been applied to inverse problems such as CT reconstruction. However, the conventional approach,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Matthew Tivnan , Dufan Wu , Quanzheng Li

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-resolution, realistic images across diverse natural distributions. However, their performance heavily relies on high-quality training data, making it challenging to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tianyu Chen , Yasi Zhang , Zhendong Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong , Mingyuan Zhou

The denoising process of diffusion models can be interpreted as an approximate projection of noisy samples onto the data manifold. Moreover, the noise level in these samples approximates their distance to the underlying manifold. Building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Abulikemu Abuduweili , Chenyang Yuan , Changliu Liu , Frank Permenter

One of the fundamental challenges in image restoration is denoising, where the objective is to estimate the clean image from its noisy measurements. To tackle such an ill-posed inverse problem, the existing denoising approaches generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Haosen Liu , Bihan Wen

Accurate gland segmentation in histopathology images is essential for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, significant variability in Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) staining and tissue morphology, combined with limited annotated data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ha-Hieu Pham , Nguyen Lan Vi Vu , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Ulas Bagci , Min Xu , Trung-Nghia Le , Huy-Hieu Pham

Image denoising is essential in low-level vision applications such as photography and automated driving. Existing methods struggle with distinguishing complex noise patterns in real-world scenes and consume significant computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Binghong Chen , Tingting Chai , Wei Jiang , Yuanrong Xu , Guanglu Zhou , Xiangqian Wu

We propose a data-efficient, physics-aware generative framework in function space for inverse PDE problems. Existing plug-and-play diffusion posterior samplers represent physics implicitly through joint coefficient-solution modeling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Thomas Y. L. Lin , Jiachen Yao , Lufang Chiang , Julius Berner , Anima Anandkumar

Improving the spatial resolution of CT images is a meaningful yet challenging task, often accompanied by the issue of noise amplification. This article introduces an innovative framework for noise-controlled CT super-resolution utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yuang Wang , Siyeop Yoon , Rui Hu , Baihui Yu , Duhgoon Lee , Rajiv Gupta , Li Zhang , Zhiqiang Chen , Dufan Wu

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has emerged as the de facto approach for text-to-content generation in non-image domains. In this paper, we reexamine the SDS process and introduce a straightforward interpretation that demystifies the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Oren Katzir , Or Patashnik , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

A mainstream type of the state of the arts (SOTAs) based on convolutional neural network (CNN) for real image denoising contains two sub-problems, i.e., noise estimation and non-blind denoising. This paper considers real noise approximated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Yifan Zuo , Jiacheng Xie , Yuming Fang , Yan Huang , Wenhui Jiang

We propose Noise Conditional Variational Score Distillation (NCVSD), a novel method for distilling pretrained diffusion models into generative denoisers. We achieve this by revealing that the unconditional score function implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xinyu Peng , Ziyang Zheng , Yaoming Wang , Han Li , Nuowen Kan , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong