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most citedGuided Image Synthesis via Initial Image Editing in Diffusion Model

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cs.CV2026

Self-Supervised Representation-Guided Generative Dataset Distillation

Mingzhuo Li, Guang Li, Linfeng Ye +4

Dataset distillation compresses a large training set into a compact synthetic set while retaining its downstream utility. Most existing methods target randomly initialized networks…

cs.CV2026

SAS: Semantic-aware Sampling for Generative Dataset Distillation

Mingzhuo Li, Guang Li, Linfeng Ye +4

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance across a wide range of tasks, but this success often comes with substantial computational and storage costs due to large-s…

cs.CV2026

Difficulty-guided Sampling: Bridging the Target Gap between Dataset Distillation and Downstream Tasks

Mingzhuo Li, Guang Li, Linfeng Ye +4

In this paper, we propose difficulty-guided sampling (DGS) to bridge the target gap between the distillation objective and the downstream task, therefore improving the performance…

cs.CV2025

Noisy Label Refinement with Semantically Reliable Synthetic Images

Yingxuan Li, Jiafeng Mao, Yusuke Matsui

Semantic noise in image classification datasets, where visually similar categories are frequently mislabeled, poses a significant challenge to conventional supervised learning appr…

cs.CV2025

Region-Wise Correspondence Prediction between Manga Line Art Images

Yingxuan Li, Jiafeng Mao, Qianru Qiu +1

Understanding region-wise correspondences between manga line art images is fundamental for high-level manga processing, supporting downstream tasks such as line art colorization an…

cs.CV2025

LORE: Latent Optimization for Precise Semantic Control in Rectified Flow-based Image Editing

Liangyang Ouyang, Jiafeng Mao

Text-driven image editing enables users to flexibly modify visual content through natural language instructions, and is widely applied to tasks such as semantic object replacement,…

cs.CV2025

MangaDiT: Reference-Guided Line Art Colorization with Hierarchical Attention in Diffusion Transformers

Qianru Qiu, Jiafeng Mao, Kento Masui +1

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved the performance of reference-guided line art colorization. However, existing methods still struggle with region-leve…

cs.GR2025

Exploring Palette based Color Guidance in Diffusion Models

Qianru Qiu, Jiafeng Mao, Xueting Wang

With the advent of diffusion models, Text-to-Image (T2I) generation has seen substantial advancements. Current T2I models allow users to specify object colors using linguistic colo…

cs.CV2025

Task-Specific Generative Dataset Distillation with Difficulty-Guided Sampling

Mingzhuo Li, Guang Li, Jiafeng Mao +3

To alleviate the reliance of deep neural networks on large-scale datasets, dataset distillation aims to generate compact, high-quality synthetic datasets that can achieve comparabl…

cs.LG2025

Diversity-Driven Generative Dataset Distillation Based on Diffusion Model with Self-Adaptive Memory

Mingzhuo Li, Guang Li, Jiafeng Mao +2

Dataset distillation enables the training of deep neural networks with comparable performance in significantly reduced time by compressing large datasets into small and representat…

cs.CV2024

Reward Incremental Learning in Text-to-Image Generation

Maorong Wang, Jiafeng Mao, Xueting Wang +1

The recent success of denoising diffusion models has significantly advanced text-to-image generation. While these large-scale pretrained models show excellent performance in genera…

cs.CV2024

Dealing with Synthetic Data Contamination in Online Continual Learning

Maorong Wang, Nicolas Michel, Jiafeng Mao +1

Image generation has shown remarkable results in generating high-fidelity realistic images, in particular with the advancement of diffusion-based models. However, the prevalence of…

cs.CV2024

Difficulty Controlled Diffusion Model for Synthesizing Effective Training Data

Zerun Wang, Jiafeng Mao, Xueting Wang +1

Generative models have become a powerful tool for synthesizing training data in computer vision tasks. Current approaches solely focus on aligning generated images with the target…

cs.CV2024

SCOMatch: Alleviating Overtrusting in Open-set Semi-supervised Learning

Zerun Wang, Liuyu Xiang, Lang Huang +3

Open-set semi-supervised learning (OSSL) leverages practical open-set unlabeled data, comprising both in-distribution (ID) samples from seen classes and out-of-distribution (OOD) s…

cs.CV2024

Training-Free Sketch-Guided Diffusion with Latent Optimization

Sandra Zhang Ding, Jiafeng Mao, Kiyoharu Aizawa

Based on recent advanced diffusion models, Text-to-image (T2I) generation models have demonstrated their capabilities to generate diverse and high-quality images. However, leveragi…

cs.CV2024

From Obstacles to Resources: Semi-supervised Learning Faces Synthetic Data Contamination

Zerun Wang, Jiafeng Mao, Liuyu Xiang +1

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can improve model performance by leveraging unlabeled images, which can be collected from public image sources with low costs. In recent years, synth…

cs.CV2023

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis in Denoising: Towards Semantic-Driven Initialization

Jiafeng Mao, Xueting Wang, Kiyoharu Aizawa

Text-to-image diffusion models allow users control over the content of generated images. Still, text-to-image generation occasionally leads to generation failure requiring users to…

cs.CV2023★ 41 cited

Guided Image Synthesis via Initial Image Editing in Diffusion Model

Jiafeng Mao, Xueting Wang, Kiyoharu Aizawa

Diffusion models have the ability to generate high quality images by denoising pure Gaussian noise images. While previous research has primarily focused on improving the control of…

cs.CV2023

Training-Free Location-Aware Text-to-Image Synthesis

Jiafeng Mao, Xueting Wang

Current large-scale generative models have impressive efficiency in generating high-quality images based on text prompts. However, they lack the ability to precisely control the si…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

Noisy Annotation Refinement for Object Detection

Jiafeng Mao, Qing Yu, Yoko Yamakata +1

Supervised training of object detectors requires well-annotated large-scale datasets, whose production is costly. Therefore, some efforts have been made to obtain annotations in ec…