arXiv Computer Vision

Identity-Conditioned Latent Consistency Distillation for Face Synthesis

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

PIU: Proximity-guided Identity Unlearning in ID-Conditioned Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605.22311v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Identity-conditioned diffusion models enable high-quality and identity-consistent face generation, but they also raise severe privacy concerns, as...

By Jose Edgar Hernandez Cancino Estrada, Mauro D\'iaz Lupone, \v{Z}iga Emer\v{s}i\v{c}, Vitomir \v{S}truc, Peter Peer, Darian Toma\v{s}evi\'c
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

Learning Late, Guiding Early: Timestep-Decoupled Semantic Guidance for Fair Face Generation

The paper introduces Semantic Boundary Predictor (SBP), an inference‑time framework that improves demographic fairness in synthetic face generation by applying a single, one‑shot intervention during reverse denoising. SBP learns linear semantic boundaries from late‑stage latent representations and applies them only at the initial noisy latent, leaving the rest of the diffusion process unchanged. Experiments on CelebA‑HQ show significant reductions in fairness disparity—98% for gender, 95% for binary race, and 15% for four‑class race—while preserving image quality across demographic groups.

By Subir Kumar Parida, Rajbabu Velmurugan, Ketan Kotwal, R. S. Sengar, Swati Hiremath
arXiv AI
4d ago

ScoreMix: Synthetic Data Generation by Score Composition in Diffusion Models Improves Recognition

ScoreMix is a self‑contained synthetic data generation method that improves recognition tasks by mixing class‑conditioned scores along reverse diffusion trajectories, thereby creating hard synthetic samples without external resources. The approach shows that selecting classes far apart in the discriminator’s embedding space yields larger performance gains, up to 3% more improvement than proximity‑based selection. Across eight public face recognition benchmarks, ScoreMix boosts accuracy by up to 7 percentage points, demonstrating robustness and practicality without hyperparameter tuning.

By Parsa Rahimi, Sebastien Marcel
arXiv AI
Jun 4

CounterFace: A Synthetic Face Dataset for Fine-Grained Counterfactual Evaluation of Face Recognition Systems

arXiv:2407. 13922v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Face recognition (FR) systems are widely deployed in critical applications, making their reliability and robustness across diverse populations and conditions essential.

By Guruprasad Viswanathan Ramesh, Ashish Hooda, Shimaa Ahmed, Harrison J Rosenberg, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Kassem Fawaz
arXiv AI
Jul 2

UltraFlux: Data-Model Co-Design for High-quality Native 4K Text-to-Image Generation across Diverse Aspect Ratios

arXiv:2511. 18050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion transformers have recently delivered strong text-to-image generation around 1K resolution, but we show that extending them to native 4K across diverse aspect ratios exposes a tightly coupled failure mode spanning positional encoding, VAE compression, and optimization.

By Tian Ye, Song Fei, Lei Zhu