Probability Density Geodesics in Image Diffusion Latent Space

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Auteurs principaux: Yu, Qingtao, Singh, Jaskirat, Yang, Zhaoyuan, Tu, Peter Henry, Zhang, Jing, Li, Hongdong, Hartley, Richard, Campbell, Dylan
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author Yu, Qingtao
Singh, Jaskirat
Yang, Zhaoyuan
Tu, Peter Henry
Zhang, Jing
Li, Hongdong
Hartley, Richard
Campbell, Dylan
author_facet Yu, Qingtao
Singh, Jaskirat
Yang, Zhaoyuan
Tu, Peter Henry
Zhang, Jing
Li, Hongdong
Hartley, Richard
Campbell, Dylan
contents Diffusion models indirectly estimate the probability density over a data space, which can be used to study its structure. In this work, we show that geodesics can be computed in diffusion latent space, where the norm induced by the spatially-varying inner product is inversely proportional to the probability density. In this formulation, a path that traverses a high density (that is, probable) region of image latent space is shorter than the equivalent path through a low density region. We present algorithms for solving the associated initial and boundary value problems and show how to compute the probability density along the path and the geodesic distance between two points. Using these techniques, we analyze how closely video clips approximate geodesics in a pre-trained image diffusion space. Finally, we demonstrate how these techniques can be applied to training-free image sequence interpolation and extrapolation, given a pre-trained image diffusion model.
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spellingShingle Probability Density Geodesics in Image Diffusion Latent Space
Yu, Qingtao
Singh, Jaskirat
Yang, Zhaoyuan
Tu, Peter Henry
Zhang, Jing
Li, Hongdong
Hartley, Richard
Campbell, Dylan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Diffusion models indirectly estimate the probability density over a data space, which can be used to study its structure. In this work, we show that geodesics can be computed in diffusion latent space, where the norm induced by the spatially-varying inner product is inversely proportional to the probability density. In this formulation, a path that traverses a high density (that is, probable) region of image latent space is shorter than the equivalent path through a low density region. We present algorithms for solving the associated initial and boundary value problems and show how to compute the probability density along the path and the geodesic distance between two points. Using these techniques, we analyze how closely video clips approximate geodesics in a pre-trained image diffusion space. Finally, we demonstrate how these techniques can be applied to training-free image sequence interpolation and extrapolation, given a pre-trained image diffusion model.
title Probability Density Geodesics in Image Diffusion Latent Space
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06675