Diffusion Explainer
Diffusion explainers are generative models that leverage the principles of diffusion processes to create new data samples, primarily images and other high-dimensional data, by reversing a noise-addition process. Current research focuses on improving efficiency (e.g., one-step diffusion), enhancing controllability (e.g., through classifier-free guidance and conditioning on various modalities like text and 3D priors), and addressing challenges like data replication and mode collapse. These advancements are impacting diverse fields, from image super-resolution and medical imaging to robotics, recommendation systems, and even scientific simulations, by providing powerful tools for data generation, manipulation, and analysis.
Papers
Assessing the capacity of a denoising diffusion probabilistic model to reproduce spatial context
Rucha Deshpande, Muzaffer Özbey, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio, Frank J. Brooks
PGDiff: Guiding Diffusion Models for Versatile Face Restoration via Partial Guidance
Peiqing Yang, Shangchen Zhou, Qingyi Tao, Chen Change Loy
DiffHPE: Robust, Coherent 3D Human Pose Lifting with Diffusion
Cédric Rommel, Eduardo Valle, Mickaël Chen, Souhaiel Khalfaoui, Renaud Marlet, Matthieu Cord, Patrick Pérez
GenSelfDiff-HIS: Generative Self-Supervision Using Diffusion for Histopathological Image Segmentation
Vishnuvardhan Purma, Suhas Srinath, Seshan Srirangarajan, Aanchal Kakkar, Prathosh A.P
Monte Carlo guided Diffusion for Bayesian linear inverse problems
Gabriel Cardoso, Yazid Janati El Idrissi, Sylvain Le Corff, Eric Moulines
CCD-3DR: Consistent Conditioning in Diffusion for Single-Image 3D Reconstruction
Yan Di, Chenyangguang Zhang, Pengyuan Wang, Guangyao Zhai, Ruida Zhang, Fabian Manhardt, Benjamin Busam, Xiangyang Ji, Federico Tombari
LAW-Diffusion: Complex Scene Generation by Diffusion with Layouts
Binbin Yang, Yi Luo, Ziliang Chen, Guangrun Wang, Xiaodan Liang, Liang Lin
Generating observation guided ensembles for data assimilation with denoising diffusion probabilistic model
Yuuichi Asahi, Yuta Hasegawa, Naoyuki Onodera, Takashi Shimokawabe, Hayato Shiba, Yasuhiro Idomura