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arXiv Computer Vision By Suhyeon Lee, Kwanyoung Kim, Jong Chul Ye

Single-Step Bidirectional Unpaired Image Translation Using Implicit Bridge Consistency Distillation

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The paper introduces Implicit Bridge Consistency Distillation (IBCD), a method that enables single-step, bidirectional unpaired image translation without adversarial loss. IBCD uses a diffusion implicit bridge model that connects PF-ODE trajectories between distributions, parametrized on a signed time axis to select the target domain, allowing one network to translate in both directions in a single step. The authors also propose distribution matching for consistency distillation and an adaptive weighting scheme based on distillation difficulty, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on benchmark datasets and extending to brain MRI contrast translation.

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