Diffusion probabilistic models have been shown to generate state-of-the-art results on several competitive image synthesis benchmarks but lack a low-dimensional, interpretable latent space, and are slow at generation. On the other hand, standard Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) typically have access to a low-dimensional latent space but exhibit poor sample quality. We present DiffuseVAE, a novel generative framework that integrates VAE within a diffusion model framework, and leverage this to design novel conditional parameterizations for diffusion models. We show that the resulting model equips diffusion models with a low-dimensional VAE inferred latent code which can be used for downstream tasks like controllable synthesis. The proposed method also improves upon the speed vs quality tradeoff exhibited in standard unconditional DDPM/DDIM models (for instance, FID of 16.47 vs 34.36 using a standard DDIM on the CelebA-HQ-128 benchmark using T=10 reverse process steps) without having explicitly trained for such an objective. Furthermore, the proposed model exhibits synthesis quality comparable to state-of-the-art models on standard image synthesis benchmarks like CIFAR-10 and CelebA-64 while outperforming most existing VAE-based methods. Lastly, we show that the proposed method exhibits inherent generalization to different types of noise in the conditioning signal. For reproducibility, our source code is publicly available at https://github.com/kpandey008/DiffuseVAE.
Nagoya University（名古屋大学）；Meta Reality Labs Research（Meta现实实验室）
Our previous work, the unified source-filter GAN (uSFGAN) vocoder, introduced a novel architecture based on the source-filter theory into the parallel waveform generative adversarial network to achieve high voice quality and pitch controllability. However, the high temporal resolution inputs result in high computation costs. Although the HiFi-GAN vocoder achieves fast high-fidelity voice generation thanks to the efficient upsampling-based generator architecture, the pitch controllability is severely limited. To realize a fast and pitch-controllable high-fidelity neural vocoder, we introduce th…
SenseTime Research（商汤科技研究院）；Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence Limited（感知与交互智能中心有限公司）
Capitalizing on the recent advances in image generation models, existing controllable face image synthesis methods are able to generate high-fidelity images with some levels of controllability, e.g., controlling the shapes, expressions, textures, and poses of the generated face images. However, these methods focus on 2D image generative models, which are prone to producing inconsistent face images under large expression and pose changes. In this paper, we propose a new NeRF-based conditional 3D face synthesis framework, which enables 3D controllability over the generated face images by imposin…
ControlTraj: Controllable Trajectory Generation with Topology-Constrained Diffusion Model
Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州））；York University（约克大学）
DOME: Taming Diffusion Model into High-Fidelity Controllable Occupancy World Model
Horizon Robotics；Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院软件研究所）；Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；University of Pennsylvania（宾夕法尼亚大学）；HKUST(GZ)（香港科技大学（广州））；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；HKUST（香港科技大学）
Center For Automation Research, University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学帕克分校自动化研究中心）；Microsoft Research（微软研究院）
We present FusedGAN, a deep network for conditional image synthesis with controllable sampling of diverse images. Fidelity, diversity and controllable sampling are the main quality measures of a good image generation model. Most existing models are insufficient in all three aspects. The FusedGAN can perform controllable sampling of diverse images with very high fidelity. We argue that controllability can be achieved by disentangling the generation process into various stages. In contrast to stacked GANs, where multiple stages of GANs are trained separately with full supervision of labeled inte…
Erase but Preserve: Controllable Removal of Copyrighted Animation Characters via Optimized Semantic Anchors
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学网络空间安全学院）
College of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Hohai University（人工智能与自动化学院，河海大学）；College of DaYu, Hohai University（大禹学院，河海大学）；College of Water Conserwancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University（水利水电工程学院，河海大学）；College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology（计算机科学与技术学院，浙江工业大学）
Diff-PC: Identity-preserving and 3D-aware Controllable Diffusion for Zero-shot Portrait Customization
School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University（南京大学电子科学与工程学院）；School of Business, Hohai University（河海大学商学院）；School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology（南京信息工程大学人工智能学院）
Temporally Consistent and Controllable Video Generation of 2D Cine CMR via Latent Space Motion Modeling
Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（苏州生物医学工程与技术研究所，中国科学院）；SyCoIA, IMT Mines Ales（SyCoIA，IMT Mines Ales）
Controllable Skin Synthesis via Lesion-Focused Vector Autoregression Model
School of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University（转化医学学院，医学、护理与健康科学学院，墨尔本大学）；Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health（墨尔本性健康中心，阿尔弗雷德健康中心）；AIM for Health Lab, Monash University（健康促进实验室，墨尔本大学）；Faculty of IT, Monash University（信息技术学院，墨尔本大学）；Faculty of Engineering, Monash University（工程学院，墨尔本大学）；Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine（传染病与热带医学学院，伦敦热带医学学院）
本文提出 LF-VAR 模型，通过病灶测量评分与类型标签引导，结合多尺度 VQVAE 和 VAR Transformer，实现基于语言提示的可控高保真皮肤图像合成，FID 平均达 0.74，较 SOTA 提升 6.3%。
Fast Controllable Diffusion Models for Undersampled MRI Reconstruction
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Queensland（昆士兰大学电气工程与计算机科学学院）；School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland（昆士兰大学数学与物理学院）
DanceCrafter: Fine-Grained Text-Driven Controllable Dance Generation via Choreographic Syntax
East China Normal University（东华大学）；Beijing Dance Academy（北京舞蹈学院）；Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）；New York University Shanghai（纽约大学上海分校）；Zhongguancun Academy（中关村学院）；Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence（中关村人工智能研究院）
Create Anything Anywhere: Layout-Controllable Personalized Diffusion Model for Multiple Subjects
MoE Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Perception and Cognition, University of Science and Technology of China（脑启发智能感知与认知大学科学与技术大学实验室）；Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center（人工智能研究所）
