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The presence of residual and dense neural networks which greatly promotes the development of image Super-Resolution(SR) have witnessed a lot of impressive results. Depending on our observation, although more layers and connections could…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Yuan Ma , Kewen Liu , Hongxia Xiong , Panpan Fang , Xiaojun Li , Yalei Chen , Chaoyang Liu

Recent progress in single-image super-resolution (SISR) has achieved remarkable performance, yet the computational costs of these methods remain a challenge for deployment on resource-constrained devices. In particular, transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Gang Wu , Junjun Jiang , Junpeng Jiang , Xianming Liu

Training Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR) models using pixel-based regression losses can achieve high distortion metrics scores (e.g., PSNR and SSIM), but often results in blurry images due to insufficient recovery of high-frequency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Qiwen Zhu , Yanjie Wang , Shilv Cai , Liqun Chen , Jiahuan Zhou , Luxin Yan , Sheng Zhong , Xu Zou

Real-world image super-resolution is a practical image restoration problem that aims to obtain high-quality images from in-the-wild input, has recently received considerable attention with regard to its tremendous application potentials.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Hao Li , Jinghui Qin , Zhijing Yang , Pengxu Wei , Jinshan Pan , Liang Lin , Yukai Shi

Recent Blind Image Super-Resolution (BSR) methods have shown proficiency in general images. However, we find that the efficacy of recent methods obviously diminishes when employed on image data with blur, while image data with intentional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Rui Qin , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Bin Wang

Blind super-resolution methods based on stable diffusion showcase formidable generative capabilities in reconstructing clear high-resolution images with intricate details from low-resolution inputs. However, their practical applicability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Rui Xie , Chen Zhao , Kai Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Zhou , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Hand-held light field (LF) cameras often exhibit low spatial resolution due to the inherent trade-off between spatial and angular dimensions. Existing supervised learning-based LF spatial super-resolution (SR) methods, which rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Jianxin Lei , Dongze Wu , Chengcai Xu , Hongcheng Gu , Guangquan Zhou , Junhui Hou , Ping Zhou

Traditional blind image SR methods need to model real-world degradations precisely. Consequently, current research struggles with this dilemma by assuming idealized degradations, which leads to limited applicability to actual user data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Brian B. Moser , Ahmed Anwar , Federico Raue , Stanislav Frolov , Andreas Dengel

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

This paper presents a comprehensive study and benchmark on Efficient Perceptual Super-Resolution (EPSR). While significant progress has been made in efficient PSNR-oriented super resolution, approaches focusing on perceptual quality metrics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Bruno Longarela , Marcos V. Conde , Alvaro Garcia , Radu Timofte

Compressive sensing (CS) is an effective approach for fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). It aims at reconstructing MR images from a small number of under-sampled data in k-space, and accelerating the data acquisition in MRI. To improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Yan Yang , Jian Sun , Huibin Li , Zongben Xu

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success on various high-level tasks, but there are fewer contrastive learning-based methods proposed for low-level tasks. It is challenging to adopt vanilla contrastive learning technologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Gang Wu , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

We consider a variational model for single-image super-resolution based on the assumption that the gradient of the target image is sparse. We enforce this assumption by considering both an isotropic and an anisotropic $\ell^0$…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Pasquale Cascarano , Luca Calatroni , Elena Loli Piccolomini

The popularity of high and ultra-high definition displays has led to the need for methods to improve the quality of videos already obtained at much lower resolutions. Current Video Super-Resolution methods are not robust to mismatch between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Santiago López-Tapia , Alice Lucas , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

The recent use of diffusion prior, enhanced by pre-trained text-image models, has markedly elevated the performance of image super-resolution (SR). To alleviate the huge computational cost required by pixel-based diffusion SR, latent-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Feng Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Jun Zhang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang

This paper presents Contrastive Reconstruction, ConRec - a self-supervised learning algorithm that obtains image representations by jointly optimizing a contrastive and a self-reconstruction loss. We showcase that state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jonas Dippel , Steffen Vogler , Johannes Höhne

Blind Super-Resolution (SR) usually involves two sub-problems: 1) estimating the degradation of the given low-resolution (LR) image; 2) super-resolving the LR image to its high-resolution (HR) counterpart. Both problems are ill-posed due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhengxiong Luo , Yan Huang , Shang Li , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

Light field (LF) images acquired by hand-held devices usually suffer from low spatial resolution as the limited detector resolution has to be shared with the angular dimension. LF spatial super-resolution (SR) thus becomes an indispensable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Jing Jin , Junhui Hou , Zhiyu Zhu , Jie Chen , Sam Kwong

High-resolution (HR) MRI scans obtained from research-grade medical centers provide precise information about imaged tissues. However, routine clinical MRI scans are typically in low-resolution (LR) and vary greatly in contrast and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Jueqi Wang , Jacob Levman , Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya , Petru-Daniel Tudosiu , M. Jorge Cardoso , Razvan Marinescu

Latent Consistency Distillation (LCD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficient text-to-image synthesis. By distilling a latent consistency model (LCM) from a pre-trained teacher latent diffusion model (LDM), LCD facilitates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jiachen Li , Weixi Feng , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang