arXiv Computer Vision

ContraFM-S2O: Flow Matching-Based One-step SAR-to-Optical Image Translation Model with Contrastive Learning

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

C-DiffSET: Leveraging Latent Diffusion for SAR-to-EO Image Translation with Confidence-Guided Reliable Object Generation

C‑DiffSET is a SAR‑to‑EO image translation framework that uses a pretrained Latent Diffusion Model to adapt SAR imagery to the EO domain. The method exploits the pretrained VAE encoder’s ability to map SAR and EO images into a shared latent space, even when SAR inputs contain varying noise levels. A confidence‑guided diffusion loss further improves pixel‑wise fidelity by reducing artifacts such as appearing or disappearing objects, leading to state‑of‑the‑art results across multiple datasets.

By Jeonghyeok Do, Jaehyup Lee, Munchurl Kim
arXiv AI
Jul 21

A${}^2$BM: Alignment-Aware Bridge Matching for Image-to-Image Translation

arXiv:2607. 16294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Paired image-to-image translation underpins a wide range of computer vision tasks, including image editing, sensor translation, and domain adaptation.

By Aimi Okabayashi (UBS Vannes), Georges Le Bellier (LIP, CEDRIC - VERTIGO), Nicolas Audebert (LaSTIG, IGN, CEDRIC - VERTIGO), Charlotte Pelletier (OBELIX), Thomas Corpetti (LETG - Rennes), Nicolas Courty (OBELIX)
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 6

Energy-Guided Flow Matching

Pixel-space generative models bypass lossy latent compression, yet necessitate joint learning of global structure and fine-grained details in a high-dimensional space. Standard flow matching interpolates noise toward a fixed clean-image endpoint, leaving the spectral evolution to be learned implicitly.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3

CAT-Flow: Curvature-Adaptive sTeps for Flow Matching

The paper introduces CAT-Flow, a pair of lightweight, training‑free algorithms—CAT‑OV and CAT‑OT—that adapt step‑sizes during Flow Matching inference by estimating curvature in time or state space. These methods avoid extra neural evaluations and achieve constant‑order truncation error bounds. Experiments show that CAT‑OV and CAT‑OT improve image quality metrics across four text‑to‑image Flow Matching models, cutting the required generation steps by up to 40%.

By Qinchan Li, Pedro Cisneros-Velarde, Keru Fu, Samuel Antunes Miranda, Sharan Vaswani, Hao Zhang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 13

SNM-VFI: Symmetric Nonlinear Motion-Guided Generative Video Frame Interpolation

We propose Symmetric Nonlinear Motion-guided Generative Video Frame Interpolation (SNM-VFI), a training-free framework for motion-controllable generative video frame interpolation with pre-trained optical flow and video diffusion models. Unlike conventional diffusion-based VFI methods that synthesize intermediate frames from random noise, SNM-VFI guides the generative process with correspondence-aware frames produced by a symmetric nonlinear motion model.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Bridging Modalities and Tasks: A Unified Hierarchical ViT for SAR-to-Optical Translation and Semantic Segmentation

The paper introduces BMT, a unified hierarchical Vision Transformer that jointly performs SAR-to-optical image translation and semantic segmentation. It incorporates a LocalViTBlock, an enhanced output module, a ControlNet-style conditional injection, and a bounded Kendall uncertainty weighting scheme to balance the two tasks. Experiments on paired and unpaired datasets demonstrate competitive performance in both translation quality and segmentation accuracy.

By Siyuan Liu, Xuze Zhang, Yongshun Wang, Licong Pan, Hang Liu, Huihui Li