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Recent methods for conditional image generation benefit from dense supervision such as segmentation label maps to achieve high-fidelity. However, it is rarely explored to employ dense supervision for unconditional image generation. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Gayoung Lee , Hyunsu Kim , Junho Kim , Seonghyeon Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Yunjey Choi

Learning super-resolution (SR) network without the paired low resolution (LR) and high resolution (HR) image is difficult because direct supervision through the corresponding HR counterpart is unavailable. Recently, many real-world SR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Kwangjin Yoon

Generative models, such as GANs, learn an explicit low-dimensional representation of a particular class of images, and so they may be used as natural image priors for solving inverse problems such as image restoration and compressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mara Daniels , Paul Hand , Reinhard Heckel

Programmatic Weak Supervision (PWS) and generative models serve as crucial tools that enable researchers to maximize the utility of existing datasets without resorting to laborious data gathering and manual annotation processes. PWS uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kumar Shubham , Pranav Sastry , Prathosh AP

This paper addresses the problem of super-resolution: constructing a highly resolved (HR) image from a low resolved (LR) one. Recent unsupervised approaches search the latent space of a StyleGAN pre-trained on HR images, for the image that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Marzieh Gheisari , Auguste Genovesio

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) have been widely adopted in image-to-image translation to generate high-quality images. Prior attempts at applying the DPM to image super-resolution (SR) have shown that iteratively refining a pure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Real-world Super-Resolution (SR) has been traditionally tackled by first learning a specific degradation model that resembles the noise and corruption artifacts in low-resolution imagery. Thus, current methods lack generalization and lose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Angela Castillo , María Escobar , Juan C. Pérez , Andrés Romero , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool , Pablo Arbeláez

Disentanglement learning is crucial for obtaining disentangled representations and controllable generation. Current disentanglement methods face several inherent limitations: difficulty with high-resolution images, primarily focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Weili Nie , Tero Karras , Animesh Garg , Shoubhik Debnath , Anjul Patney , Ankit B. Patel , Anima Anandkumar

Unsupervised real-world super-resolution (SR) faces critical challenges due to the complex, unknown degradation distributions in practical scenarios. Existing methods struggle to generalize from synthetic low-resolution (LR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hongyang Zhou , Xiaobin Zhu , Liuling Chen , Junyi He , Jingyan Qin , Xu-Cheng Yin , Zhang xiaoxing

The problem of blind image super-resolution aims to recover high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) images with unknown degradation modes. Most existing methods model the image degradation process using blur kernels. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Junxiong Lin , Zeng Tao , Xuan Tong , Xinji Mai , Haoran Wang , Boyang Wang , Yan Wang , Qing Zhao , Jiawen Yu , Yuxuan Lin , Shaoqi Yan , Shuyong Gao , Wenqiang Zhang

Video super-resolution (VSR) techniques, especially deep-learning-based algorithms, have drastically improved over the last few years and shown impressive performance on synthetic data. However, their performance on real-world video data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Mehran Jeelani , Sadbhawna , Noshaba Cheema , Klaus Illgner-Fehns , Philipp Slusallek , Sunil Jaiswal

Super-Resolution (SR) is a time-hallowed image processing problem that aims to improve the quality of a Low-Resolution (LR) sample up to the standard of its High-Resolution (HR) counterpart. We aim to address this by introducing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Arkaprabha Basu , Kushal Bose , Sankha Subhra Mullick , Anish Chakrabarty , Swagatam Das

Recent image degradation estimation methods have enabled single-image super-resolution (SR) approaches to better upsample real-world images. Among these methods, explicit kernel estimation approaches have demonstrated unprecedented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Royson Lee , Rui Li , Stylianos I. Venieris , Timothy Hospedales , Ferenc Huszár , Nicholas D. Lane

While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods have shown impressive outcomes with synthetic degradation scenarios such as bicubic downsampling, they frequently struggle to perform well on real-world images that feature complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hyeonjae Kim , Dongjin Kim , Eugene Jin , Tae Hyun Kim

Deep Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) have achieved significant performance on single image super-resolution (SR) recently. However, existing CNN-based methods use artificially synthetic low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Tianyu Zhao , Wenqi Ren , Changqing Zhang , Dongwei Ren , Qinghua Hu

Due to the limitations of sensors, the transmission medium and the intrinsic properties of ultrasound, the quality of ultrasound imaging is always not ideal, especially its low spatial resolution. To remedy this situation, deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Heng Liu , Jianyong Liu , Tao Tao , Shudong Hou , Jungong Han

Recently, most of state-of-the-art single image super-resolution (SISR) methods have attained impressive performance by using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). The existing SR methods have limited performance due to a fixed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Rao Muhammad Umer , Asad Munir , Christian Micheloni

The task of single image super-resolution (SISR) aims at reconstructing a high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) image. Although significant progress has been made by deep learning models, they are trained on synthetic paired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Zhen Han , Enyan Dai , Xu Jia , Xiaoying Ren , Shuaijun Chen , Chunjing Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Qi Tian

Most existing face image Super-Resolution (SR) methods assume that the Low-Resolution (LR) images were artificially downsampled from High-Resolution (HR) images with bicubic interpolation. This operation changes the natural image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Andreas Aakerberg , Kamal Nasrollahi , Thomas B. Moeslund

GAN-based image restoration inverts the generative process to repair images corrupted by known degradations. Existing unsupervised methods must be carefully tuned for each task and degradation level. In this work, we make StyleGAN image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yohan Poirier-Ginter , Jean-François Lalonde