Unleashing Transformers: Parallel Token Prediction with Discrete Absorbing Diffusion for Fast High-Resolution Image Generation from Vector-Quantized Codes (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Bond-Taylor, S., Hessey, P., Sasaki, H., Breckon, T., & Willcocks, C. (2022). Unleashing Transformers: Parallel Token Prediction with Discrete Absorbing Diffusion for Fast High-Resolution Image Generation from Vector-Quantized Codes. In ECCV 2022: Computer Vision – ECCV 2022 (170-188)

Whilst diffusion probabilistic models can generate high quality image content, key limitations remain in terms of both generating high-resolution imagery and their associated high computational requirements. Recent Vector-Quantized image models have... Read More about Unleashing Transformers: Parallel Token Prediction with Discrete Absorbing Diffusion for Fast High-Resolution Image Generation from Vector-Quantized Codes.

MedNeRF: Medical Neural Radiance Fields for Reconstructing 3D-aware CT-Projections from a Single X-ray (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Corona-Figueroa, A., Frawley, J., Bond-Taylor, S., Bethapudi, S., Shum, H. P., & Willcocks, C. G. (2022). MedNeRF: Medical Neural Radiance Fields for Reconstructing 3D-aware CT-Projections from a Single X-ray. . https://doi.org/10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871757

Computed tomography (CT) is an effective med-ical imaging modality, widely used in the field of clinical medicine for the diagnosis of various pathologies. Advances in Multidetector CT imaging technology have enabled additional functionalities, inclu... Read More about MedNeRF: Medical Neural Radiance Fields for Reconstructing 3D-aware CT-Projections from a Single X-ray.

Multi-view Vision Transformers for Object Detection (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Isaac-Medina, B., Willcocks, C., & Breckon, T. (2022). Multi-view Vision Transformers for Object Detection.

Cross-modal Image Synthesis in Dual-Energy X-Ray Security Imagery (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Isaac-Medina, B., Bhowmik, N., Willcocks, C., & Breckon, T. (2022). Cross-modal Image Synthesis in Dual-Energy X-Ray Security Imagery. . https://doi.org/10.1109/cvprw56347.2022.00048

Dual-energy X-ray scanners are used for aviation security screening given their capability to discriminate materials inside passenger baggage. To facilitate manual operator inspection, a pseudo-colouring is assigned to the effective composition of th... Read More about Cross-modal Image Synthesis in Dual-Energy X-Ray Security Imagery.