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Connelly Barnes

19 accepted papers

2026

Content-Aware Dynamic Patchification for Efficient Video Diffusion

CVPR 2026

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve strong video generation performance but suffer from prohibitive computation cost due to dense spatiotemporal tokenization. Most existing works rely on uniform patchification, tokenizing non-overlapping spatiotemporal with a fixed patch size regardless of the und

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2026

RealUHR: Harnessing Patch-Cascade Flows for Photorealistic Ultra-High-Resolution Synthesis

AAAI 2026technical

Ultra-high-resolution (UHR) text-to-image synthesis faces significant hurdles, including immense computational costs and a scarcity of training data. To address these, we introduce RealUHR, an efficient and scalable framework for generating photorealistic 4K images. At its core, RealUHR employs a Pa

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

UniSER: A Foundation Model for Unified Soft Effects Removal

CVPR 2026

Digital images are often degraded by soft effects such as lens flare, haze, shadows, and reflections, which reduce aesthetics even though the underlying pixels remain partially visible. The prevailing works address these degradations in isolation, developing highly specialized, specialist models tha

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Layer- and Timestep-Adaptive Differentiable Token Compression Ratios for Efficient Diffusion Transformers

CVPR 2025poster

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) image generation quality but suffer from high latency and memory inefficiency, making them difficult to deploy on resource-constrained devices. One major efficiency bottleneck is that existing DiTs apply equal computation across all…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Brush2Prompt: Contextual Prompt Generator for Object Inpainting

CVPR 2024poster

Object inpainting is a task that involves adding objects to real images and seamlessly compositing them. With the recent commercialization of products like Stable Diffusion and Generative Fill inserting objects into images by using prompts has achieved impressive visual results. In this paper we pro…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Distilling Diffusion Models into Conditional GANs

ECCV 2024poster

"We propose a method to distill a complex multistep diffusion model into a single-step conditional GAN student model, dramatically accelerating inference, while preserving image quality. Our approach interprets diffusion distillation as a paired image-to-image translation task, using noise-to-image…

Cited by 39SourcePDFScholar
2023

Automatic High Resolution Wire Segmentation and Removal

CVPR 2023poster

Wires and powerlines are common visual distractions that often undermine the aesthetics of photographs. The manual process of precisely segmenting and removing them is extremely tedious and may take up to hours, especially on high-resolution photos where wires may span the entire space. In this pape…

2023

Perceptual Artifacts Localization for Image Synthesis Tasks

ICCV 2023poster

Recent advancements in deep generative models have facilitated the creation of photo-realistic images across various tasks. However, these generated images often exhibit perceptual artifacts in specific regions, necessitating manual correction. In this study, we present a comprehensive empirical exa…

Cited by 23PDFcodeScholar
2023

SimpSON: Simplifying Photo Cleanup With Single-Click Distracting Object Segmentation Network

CVPR 2023poster

In photo editing, it is common practice to remove visual distractions to improve the overall image quality and highlight the primary subject. However, manually selecting and removing these small and dense distracting regions can be a laborious and time-consuming task. In this paper, we propose an in…

2022

Deep 360° Optical Flow Estimation Based on Multi-Projection Fusion

ECCV 2022poster

"Optical flow computation is essential in the early stages of the video processing pipeline. This paper focuses on a less explored problem in this area, the 360° optical flow estimation using deep neural networks to support the increasingly popular VR applications. To address the distortions of pan…

Cited by 24SourcePDFScholar
2022

Image Inpainting with Cascaded Modulation GAN and Object-Aware Training

ECCV 2022poster

"Recent image inpainting methods have made great progress but often struggle to generate plausible image structures when dealing with large holes in complex images. This is partially due to the lack of effective network structures that can capture both the long-range dependency and high-level semant…

2022

Inpainting at Modern Camera Resolution by Guided PatchMatch with Auto-Curation

ECCV 2022poster

"Recently, deep models have established SOTA performance for low-resolution image inpainting, but they lack fidelity at resolutions associated with modern cameras such as 4K or more, and for large holes. We contribute an inpainting benchmark dataset of photos at 4K and above representative of modern…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2022

Perceptual Artifacts Localization for Inpainting

ECCV 2022poster

"Image inpainting is an essential task for multiple practical applications like object removal and image editing. Deep GAN-based models greatly improve the inpainting performance in structures and textures within the hole, but might also generate unexpected artifacts like broken structures or color…

2021

Modulated Periodic Activations for Generalizable Local Functional Representations

ICCV 2021poster

Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) make powerful functional representations for sampling and reconstruction problems involving low-dimensional signals like images,shapes and light fields. Recent works have significantly improved their ability to represent high-frequency content by using periodic activat…

Cited by 162PDFScholar
2021

TransFill: Reference-Guided Image Inpainting by Merging Multiple Color and Spatial Transformations

CVPR 2021poster

Image inpainting is the task of plausibly restoring missing pixels within a hole region that is to be removed from a target image. Most existing technologies exploit patch similarities within the image, or leverage large-scale training data to fill the hole using learned semantic and texture informa…

Cited by 88PDFcodeScholar
2020

Unselfie: Translating Selfies to Neutral-pose Portraits in the Wild

ECCV 2020poster

Due to the ubiquity of smartphones, it is popular to take photos of one's self, or ""selfies."" Such photos are convenient to take, because they do not require specialized equipment or a third-party photographer. However, in selfies, constraints such as human arm length often make the body pose look…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2019

On the Continuity of Rotation Representations in Neural Networks

CVPR 2019poster

In neural networks, it is often desirable to work with various representations of the same space. For example, 3D rotations can be represented with quaternions or Euler angles. In this paper, we advance a definition of a continuous representation, which can be helpful for training deep neural netwo…

Cited by 1552PDFScholar
2019

Texture Mixer: A Network for Controllable Synthesis and Interpolation of Texture

CVPR 2019poster

This paper addresses the problem of interpolating visual textures. We formulate this problem by requiring (1) by-example controllability and (2) realistic and smooth interpolation among an arbitrary number of texture samples. To solve it we propose a neural network trained simultaneously on a recons…

Cited by 54PDFcodeScholar