13 papers
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…
Coherent and Multi-modality Image Inpainting via Latent Space Optimization
Lingzhi Pan, Tong Zhang, Bingyuan Chen +4
With the advancements in denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), image inpainting has significantly evolved from merely filling information based on nearby regions to gen…
Subtractive Modulative Network with Learnable Periodic Activations
Tiou Wang, Zhuoqian Yang, Markus Flierl +2
We propose the Subtractive Modulative Network (SMN), a novel, parameter-efficient Implicit Neural Representation (INR) architecture inspired by classical subtractive synthesis. The…
VibrantLeaves: A principled parametric image generator for training deep restoration models
Raphael Achddou, Yann Gousseau, Saïd Ladjal +1
Even though Deep Neural Networks are extremely powerful for image restoration tasks, they have several limitations. They are poorly understood and suffer from strong biases inherit…
2-Shots in the Dark: Low-Light Denoising with Minimal Data Acquisition
Liying Lu, Raphaël Achddou, Sabine Süsstrunk
Raw images taken in low-light conditions are very noisy due to low photon count and sensor noise. Learning-based denoisers have the potential to reconstruct high-quality images. Fo…
Zooming into Comics: Region-Aware RL Improves Fine-Grained Comic Understanding in Vision-Language Models
Yule Chen, Yufan Ren, Sabine Süsstrunk
Complex visual narratives, such as comics, present a significant challenge to Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Despite excelling on natural images, VLMs often struggle with stylized…