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most citedDiffusion Models in Vision: A Survey

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cs.CV2026

EigDiff: Eigensample Diffusion - or how to significantly reduce training dataset size with marginal performance variation?

Andrei Jarca, Vlad Hondru, Florinel-Alin Croitoru +1

Diffusion models are notoriously expensive to train, requiring large-scale datasets to learn how to gradually reverse the noise from images over multiple small denoising steps. Cur…

cs.CV2026

DF-MoE: Generalizable Deepfake Detection via Multimodal Sparse Mixture-of-Experts

Vlad Hondru, Florinel Alin Croitoru, Iuliana Georgescu +2

Audio-visual deepfake detection is an actively studied topic, where one of the main challenges is to develop detectors able to generalize across deepfake generation methods. We con…

cs.CV2026

MTL-MAD: Multi-Task Learners are Effective Medical Anomaly Detectors

Bogdan Alexandru Bercean, Florinel Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru +3

Anomaly detection in medical images is a challenging task, since anomalies are not typically available during training. Recent methods leverage a single pretext task coupled with a…

cs.CV2026

Curriculum-DPO++: Direct Preference Optimization via Data and Model Curricula for Text-to-Image Generation

Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru, Radu Tudor Ionescu +2

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has been proposed as an effective and efficient alternative to reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). However, neither RLHF nor DPO…

cs.CV2025

PRNU-Bench: A Novel Benchmark and Model for PRNU-Based Camera Identification

Florinel Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru, Radu Tudor Ionescu

We propose a novel benchmark for camera identification via Photo Response Non-Uniformity (PRNU) estimation. The benchmark comprises 13K photos taken with 120+ cameras, where the tr…

cs.CV2025

MAVOS-DD: Multilingual Audio-Video Open-Set Deepfake Detection Benchmark

Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru, Marius Popescu +3

We present the first large-scale open-set benchmark for multilingual audio-video deepfake detection. Our dataset comprises nearly 350 hours of real and fake videos across eight lan…

cs.CV2025

ExDDV: A New Dataset for Explainable Deepfake Detection in Video

Vlad Hondru, Eduard Hogea, Darian Onchis +1

The ever growing realism and quality of generated videos makes it increasingly harder for humans to spot deepfake content, who need to rely more and more on automatic deepfake dete…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Deepfake Media Generation and Detection in the Generative AI Era: A Survey and Outlook

Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Andrei-Iulian Hiji, Vlad Hondru +7

We survey deepfake generation and detection techniques, covering all deepfake media types: image, video, audio and multimodal content. We identify various kinds of deepfakes and co…

cs.CV2024

Masked Image Modeling: A Survey

Vlad Hondru, Florinel Alin Croitoru, Shervin Minaee +2

In this work, we survey recent studies on masked image modeling (MIM), an approach that emerged as a powerful self-supervised learning technique in computer vision. The MIM task in…

cs.CV2024

Curriculum Direct Preference Optimization for Diffusion and Consistency Models

Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru, Radu Tudor Ionescu +2

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has been proposed as an effective and efficient alternative to reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). In this paper, we propose a n…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Towards Few-Call Model Stealing via Active Self-Paced Knowledge Distillation and Diffusion-Based Image Generation

Vlad Hondru, Radu Tudor Ionescu

Diffusion models showcase strong capabilities in image synthesis, being used in many computer vision tasks with great success. To this end, we propose to explore a new use case, na…

cs.CV2023

Reverse Stable Diffusion: What prompt was used to generate this image?

Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru, Radu Tudor Ionescu +1

Text-to-image diffusion models have recently attracted the interest of many researchers, and inverting the diffusion process can play an important role in better understanding the…

cs.CV2022★ 1.8k cited

Diffusion Models in Vision: A Survey

Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru, Radu Tudor Ionescu +1

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep ge…