Visual Generative Model and Its Applications
- 2-2 ECTS credits
- Academic year 2024-2025
- DP00AY99-3001

Education information
Implementation date
07.05.2025 - 12.05.2025
Education type
Field-specific studies
Alternativity of education
Optional
Location
Linnanmaa
Venue location
The twelve face-to-face lectures will be conducted in four mornings as follows:
• Date: 07 May 2025 Time: 8:30 - 10:00, 10:15 - 11:45 Venue: Lo124
• Date: 08 May 2025 Time: 8:30 - 10:00, 10:15 - 11:45 Venue: SÄ102
• Date: 09 May 2025 Time: 8:30 - 10:00, 10:15 - 11:45 Venue: Lo124
• Date: 12 May 2025 Time: 9:00 - 11:00 Venue: Lo124
Enrollment and further information
Education description
This class will provide a comprehensive overview of visual generative models, covering foundational concepts and their practical applications across diverse domains. We will begin by exploring the basics of diffusion models, delving into their underlying principles and mechanisms. The course will then focus on the role of generative models in medical imaging, emphasizing techniques to ensure anatomical plausibility in generated images. We will discuss how these methods can be effectively applied to downstream tasks such as diagnostic support, segmentation, and anomaly detection. Additionally, the class will highlight the use of generative models in art creation, demonstrating innovative approaches to incorporate art evaluation metrics into the training loop, enabling more refined and aesthetically pleasing outputs. A key aspect of the session will address strategies to accelerate the sampling process, introducing both training-free and low-cost optimization techniques to enhance efficiency without compromising performance. This lecture aims to bridge theoretical foundations with hands-on applications, catering to learners interested in both technical advancements and real-world implementations of visual generative models.
The invited lecturer is Wei Peng from University of Stanford. More information about the course from Professor Guoying Zhao.