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Blind face restoration endeavors to restore a clear face image from a degraded counterpart. Recent approaches employing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as priors have demonstrated remarkable success in this field. However, these…

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Blind image restoration (IR) is a common yet challenging problem in computer vision. Classical model-based methods and recent deep learning (DL)-based methods represent two different methodologies for this problem, each with their own…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Zongsheng Yue , Hongwei Yong , Qian Zhao , Lei Zhang , Deyu Meng , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

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Removing degradation from document images not only improves their visual quality and readability, but also enhances the performance of numerous automated document analysis and recognition tasks. However, existing regression-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Zongyuan Yang , Baolin Liu , Yongping Xiong , Lan Yi , Guibin Wu , Xiaojun Tang , Ziqi Liu , Junjie Zhou , Xing Zhang

This work aims to improve the applicability of diffusion models in realistic image restoration. Specifically, we enhance the diffusion model in several aspects such as network architecture, noise level, denoising steps, training image size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Reflection removal of a single image remains a highly challenging task due to the complex entanglement between target scenes and unwanted reflections. Despite significant progress, existing methods are hindered by the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jichen Hu , Chen Yang , Zanwei Zhou , Jiemin Fang , Xiaokang Yang , Qi Tian , Wei Shen

Blind face restoration is a highly ill-posed problem due to the lack of necessary context. Although existing methods produce high-quality outputs, they often fail to faithfully preserve the individual's identity. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Siyu Liu , Zheng-Peng Duan , Jia OuYang , Jiayi Fu , Hyunhee Park , Zikun Liu , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

Beyond high-fidelity image synthesis, diffusion models have recently exhibited promising results in dense visual perception tasks. However, most existing work treats diffusion models as a standalone component for perception tasks, employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Shuhong Zheng , Zhipeng Bao , Ruoyu Zhao , Martial Hebert , Yu-Xiong Wang

Optical flow models trained on high-quality data often degrade severely when confronted with real-world corruptions such as blur, noise, and compression artifacts. To overcome this limitation, we formulate Degradation-Aware Optical Flow, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jaewon Min , Jaeeun Lee , Yeji Choi , Paul Hyunbin Cho , Jin Hyeon Kim , Tae-Young Lee , Jongsik Ahn , Hwayeong Lee , Seonghyun Park , Seungryong Kim

Image-based motion prediction is one of the essential techniques for robot manipulation. Among the various prediction models, we focus on diffusion models because they have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various applications. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Takeru Oba , Norimichi Ukita

Blind face restoration aims to recover high-quality facial images from various unidentified sources of degradation, posing significant challenges due to the minimal information retrievable from the degraded images. Prior knowledge-based…

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Existing Blind image Super-Resolution (BSR) methods focus on estimating either kernel or degradation information, but have long overlooked the essential content details. In this paper, we propose a novel BSR approach, Content-aware…

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Underwater images typically suffer from severe colour distortions, low visibility, and reduced structural clarity due to complex optical effects such as scattering and absorption, which greatly degrade their visual quality and limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chang Huang , Jiahang Cao , Jun Ma , Kieren Yu , Cong Li , Huayong Yang , Kaishun Wu

Existing fusion methods are tailored for high-quality images but struggle with degraded images captured under harsh circumstances, thus limiting the practical potential of image fusion. This work presents a \textbf{D}egradation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Linfeng Tang , Chunyu Li , Guoqing Wang , Yixuan Yuan , Jiayi Ma

Blind face restoration (BFR) is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. To faithfully restore high-quality (HQ) photos from poor-quality ones, recent research endeavors predominantly rely on facial image priors from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Guoqiang Liang , Qingnan Fan , Bingtao Fu , Jinwei Chen , Hong Gu , Lin Wang

Diffusion models have garnered considerable interest in computer vision, owing both to their capacity to synthesize photorealistic images and to their proven effectiveness in image reconstruction tasks. However, existing approaches fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jonas Dornbusch , Emanuel Pfarr , Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Frank Werner , Radu Timofte

Current deep learning methods for low-light image enhancement (LLIE) typically rely on pixel-wise mapping learned from paired data. However, these methods often overlook the importance of considering degradation representations, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ziqian Shao , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tae-Kyun Kim , Wei Liu , Hongdong Li

In medical imaging, the diffusion models have shown great potential for synthetic image generation tasks. However, these approaches often lack the interpretable connections between the generated and real images and can create anatomically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Jian-Qing Zheng , Yuanhan Mo , Yang Sun , Jiahua Li , Fuping Wu , Ziyang Wang , Tonia Vincent , Bartłomiej W. Papież

Diffusion models (DM) have achieved remarkable promise in image super-resolution (SR). However, most of them are tailored to solving non-blind inverse problems with fixed known degradation settings, limiting their adaptability to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Feng Li , Yixuan Wu , Zichao Liang , Runmin Cong , Huihui Bai , Yao Zhao , Meng Wang

Generative diffusion models are becoming one of the most popular prior in image restoration (IR) tasks due to their remarkable ability to generate realistic natural images. Despite achieving satisfactory results, IR methods based on…

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