3 papers
cs.CV2026
Neural Cellular Automata: From Cells to Pixels
Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Yitao Xu, Ali Abbasi +3
Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are bio-inspired dynamical systems in which identical cells iteratively apply a learned local update rule to self-organize into complex patterns, ex…
cs.LG2025
Canonical Latent Representations in Conditional Diffusion Models
Yitao Xu, Tong Zhang, Ehsan Pajouheshgar +1
Conditional diffusion models (CDMs) have shown impressive performance across a range of generative tasks. Their ability to model the full data distribution has opened new avenues f…
eess.IV2025
Volumetric Temporal Texture Synthesis for Smoke Stylization using Neural Cellular Automata
Dongqing Wang, Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Yitao Xu +2
Artistic stylization of 3D volumetric smoke data is still a challenge in computer graphics due to the difficulty of ensuring spatiotemporal consistency given a reference style imag…