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most citedControllable Generation with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models: A Survey

18 citations · 26 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CV2026

Flow-CLIP: Image-Conditioned Residual Scoring for CompositionalImage-Text Matching

Minghong Wei, Enguang Zhu, Pu Cao +2

Vision--language pre-training has enabled substantial progress in image--text retrieval and zero-shot recognition by learning transferable cross-modal representations. However, sen…

cs.CV2026

Query, Align, and Distill: Navigation-Aware Cross-Modal Interaction for Efficient Vision-and-Language Navigation

Zhihao Chen, Yiyuan Ge, Ziyang Wang +2

Recent large-scale Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) models deliver strong accuracy but remain costly to deploy due to their large parameter counts and computational requirement…

cs.CV2026

PointRL: Learning Point-Level Vision-Language Grounding from Verifiable Annotation Evidence

Jingyang Su, Pu Cao, Xiuze Jin +3

Vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly rely on point coordinates as a compact and executable interface for visual grounding in GUI interaction, robotic manipulation, and intera…

cs.CV2026

DrawAI: Agentic Benchmark and Workflow for Making Raster Images Editable

Pu Cao, Qingye Kong, Xuedan Yin +5

Recent image-generation models and multimodal agents can produce high-quality visuals for increasingly complex visual communication tasks. Yet their raster outputs remain difficult…

cs.CV2026

A Tilted Seesaw: Revisiting Autoencoder Trade-off for Controllable Diffusion

Pu Cao, Yiyang Ma, Feng Zhou +3

In latent diffusion models, the autoencoder (AE) is typically expected to balance two capabilities: faithful reconstruction and a generation-friendly latent space (e.g., low gFID).…

cs.CV2025

Preliminary Explorations with GPT-4o(mni) Native Image Generation

Pu Cao, Feng Zhou, Junyi Ji +8

Recently, the visual generation ability by GPT-4o(mni) has been unlocked by OpenAI. It demonstrates a very remarkable generation capability with excellent multimodal condition unde…

cs.CV2025

Exploring Position Encoding in Diffusion U-Net for Training-free High-resolution Image Generation

Feng Zhou, Pu Cao, Yiyang Ma +2

Denoising higher-resolution latents via a pre-trained U-Net leads to repetitive and disordered image patterns. Although recent studies make efforts to improve generative quality by…

cs.CV2024

Frequency-based Matcher for Long-tailed Semantic Segmentation

Shan Li, Lu Yang, Pu Cao +2

The successful application of semantic segmentation technology in the real world has been among the most exciting achievements in the computer vision community over the past decade…

cs.CV2024

E4C: Enhance Editability for Text-Based Image Editing by Harnessing Efficient CLIP Guidance

Tianrui Huang, Pu Cao, Lu Yang +4

Diffusion-based image editing is a composite process of preserving the source image content and generating new content or applying modifications. While current editing approaches h…

cs.CV2024★ 18 cited

Controllable Generation with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models: A Survey

Pu Cao, Feng Zhou, Qing Song +1

In the rapidly advancing realm of visual generation, diffusion models have revolutionized the landscape, marking a significant shift in capabilities with their impressive text-guid…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Image is All You Need to Empower Large-scale Diffusion Models for In-Domain Generation

Pu Cao, Feng Zhou, Lu Yang +2

In-domain generation aims to perform a variety of tasks within a specific domain, such as unconditional generation, text-to-image, image editing, 3D generation, and more. Early res…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

What Decreases Editing Capability? Domain-Specific Hybrid Refinement for Improved GAN Inversion

Pu Cao, Lu Yang, Dongxv Liu +3

Recently, inversion methods have focused on additional high-rate information in the generator (e.g., weights or intermediate features) to refine inversion and editing results from…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

LSAP: Rethinking Inversion Fidelity, Perception and Editability in GAN Latent Space

Xuekun Zhao, Pu Cao, Xiaoya Yang +3

As research on image inversion advances, the process is generally divided into two stages. The first step is Image Embedding, involves using an encoder or optimization procedure to…