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Kyle Sargent

12 accepted papers

2026

Latent Forcing: Reordering the Diffusion Trajectory for Pixel-Space Image Generation

ICML 2026poster

Latent diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images but lose the benefits of end-to-end modeling. They discard information during image encoding, require a separately trained decoder, and model an auxiliary distribution to the raw data. In this paper, we propose Latent Forcing, a simple …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

VLIC: Vision-Language Models As Perceptual Judges for Human-Aligned Image Compression

CVPR 2026

Evaluations of image compression performance which include human preferences have generally found that naive distortion functions such as MSE are insufficiently aligned to human perception.In order to align compression models to human perception, prior work has employed differentiable perceptual los

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Flow to the Mode: Mode-Seeking Diffusion Autoencoders for State-of-the-Art Image Tokenization

ICCV 2025poster

Since the advent of popular visual generation frameworks like VQGAN and Latent Diffusion Models, state-of-the-art image generation systems have generally been two-stage systems that first tokenize or compress visual data into a lower-dimensional latent space before learning a generative model. Token…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Generative Camera Dolly: Extreme Monocular Dynamic Novel View Synthesis

ECCV 2024oral

"Accurate reconstruction of complex dynamic scenes from just a single viewpoint continues to be a challenging task in computer vision. Current dynamic novel view synthesis methods typically require videos from many different camera viewpoints, necessitating careful recording setups, and significantl…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2024

View-Invariant Policy Learning via Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesis

CoRL 2024poster

Large-scale visuomotor policy learning is a promising approach toward developing generalizable manipulation systems. Yet, policies that can be deployed on diverse embodiments, environments, and observational modalities remain elusive. In this work, we investigate how knowledge from large-scale visu…

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2024

WonderJourney: Going from Anywhere to Everywhere

CVPR 2024poster

We introduce WonderJourney a modular framework for perpetual 3D scene generation. Unlike prior work on view generation that focuses on a single type of scenes we start at any user-provided location (by a text description or an image) and generate a journey through a long sequence of diverse yet cohe…

Cited by 44SourcePDFScholar
2024

ZeroNVS: Zero-Shot 360-Degree View Synthesis from a Single Image

CVPR 2024poster

We introduce a 3D-aware diffusion model ZeroNVS for single-image novel view synthesis for in-the-wild scenes. While existing methods are designed for single objects with masked backgrounds we propose new techniques to address challenges introduced by in-the-wild multi-object scenes with complex back…

2023

NAVI: Category-Agnostic Image Collections with High-Quality 3D Shape and Pose Annotations

NeurIPS 2023poster

Recent advances in neural reconstruction enable high-quality 3D object reconstruction from casually captured image collections. Current techniques mostly analyze their progress on relatively simple image collections where SfM techniques can provide ground-truth (GT) camera poses. We note that SfM te…

2023

VQ3D: Learning a 3D-Aware Generative Model on ImageNet

ICCV 2023oral

Recent work has shown the possibility of training generative models of 3D content from 2D image collections on small datasets corresponding to a single object class, such as human faces, animal faces, or cars. However, these models struggle on larger, more complex datasets. To model diverse and unco…

Cited by 30PDFScholar
2022

Pyramid Adversarial Training Improves ViT Performance

CVPR 2022oral

Aggressive data augmentation is a key component of the strong generalization capabilities of Vision Transformer (ViT). One such data augmentation technique is adversarial training (AT); however, many prior works have shown that this often results in poor clean accuracy. In this work, we present pyra…

Cited by 69PDFcodeScholar
2021

SLIDE: Single Image 3D Photography With Soft Layering and Depth-Aware Inpainting

ICCV 2021poster

Single image 3D photography enables viewers to view a still image from novel viewpoints. Recent approaches combine monocular depth networks with inpainting networks to achieve compelling results. A drawback of these techniques is the use of hard depth layering, making them unable to model intricate…

Cited by 51PDFcodeScholar