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Pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly applied to real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) task. Given the iterative refinement nature of diffusion models, most existing approaches are computationally expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Linwei Dong , Qingnan Fan , Yihong Guo , Zhonghao Wang , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

We offer a novel approach to image composition, which integrates multiple input images into a single, coherent image. Rather than concentrating on specific use cases such as appearance editing (image harmonization) or semantic editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhekai Chen , Wen Wang , Zhen Yang , Zeqing Yuan , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

Recent advancements in text-guided diffusion models have unlocked powerful image manipulation capabilities. However, applying these methods to real images necessitates the inversion of the images into the domain of the pretrained diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Daniel Garibi , Or Patashnik , Andrey Voynov , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Daniel Cohen-Or

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) remains challenging due to the inherent difficulty of recovering fine-grained details and preserving perceptual quality from low-resolution inputs. Existing methods often rely on limited image priors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kangfu Mei , Hossein Talebi , Mojtaba Ardakani , Vishal M. Patel , Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio

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

Diffusion models have shown promising results on single-image super-resolution and other image- to-image translation tasks. Despite this success, they have not outperformed state-of-the-art GAN models on the more challenging blind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Hshmat Sahak , Daniel Watson , Chitwan Saharia , David Fleet

Diffusion models have been increasingly used as strong generative priors for solving inverse problems such as super-resolution in medical imaging. However, these approaches typically utilize a diffusion prior trained at a single scale,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Darshan Thaker , Mahmoud Mostapha , Radu Miron , Shihan Qiu , Mariappan Nadar

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved remarkable success by leveraging large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models as priors. However, these methods still face two challenges: the requirement for dozens of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Aiping Zhang , Zongsheng Yue , Renjing Pei , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

We introduce DiffSteISR, a pioneering framework for reconstructing real-world stereo images. DiffSteISR utilizes the powerful prior knowledge embedded in pre-trained text-to-image model to efficiently recover the lost texture details in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yuanbo Zhou , Xinlin Zhang , Wei Deng , Tao Wang , Tao Tan , Qinquan Gao , Tong Tong

Generative models trained on extensive high-quality datasets effectively capture the structural and statistical properties of clean images, rendering them powerful priors for transforming degraded features into clean ones in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Siyang Wang , Feng Zhao

Image Restoration (IR) methods based on a pre-trained diffusion model have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, they have two fundamental limitations: 1) they often assume that the degradation operator is completely known and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hamadi Chihaoui , Abdelhak Lemkhenter , Paolo Favaro

Image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high resolution images with both high perceptual quality and low distortion, but is fundamentally limited by the perception-distortion trade-off. GAN-based SR methods reduce distortion but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dan Wang , Haiyan Sun , Shan Du , Z. Jane Wang , Zhaochong An , Serge Belongie , Xinrui Cui

As generative technologies advance, visual content has evolved into a complex mix of natural and AI-generated images, driving the need for more efficient coding techniques that prioritize perceptual quality. Traditional codecs and learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jianhui Chang

Faithful image super-resolution (SR) not only needs to recover images that appear realistic, similar to image generation tasks, but also requires that the restored images maintain fidelity and structural consistency with the input. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Junyang Chen , Jinshan Pan , Jiangxin Dong

Although diffusion prior is rising as a powerful solution for blind face restoration (BFR), the inherent gap between the vanilla diffusion model and BFR settings hinders its seamless adaptation. The gap mainly stems from the discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yunqi Miao , Zhiyu Qu , Mingqi Gao , Changrui Chen , Jifei Song , Jungong Han , Jiankang Deng

Recent breakthroughs in text-to-image synthesis have been driven by diffusion models trained on billions of image-text pairs. Adapting this approach to 3D synthesis would require large-scale datasets of labeled 3D data and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Ben Poole , Ajay Jain , Jonathan T. Barron , Ben Mildenhall

Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Dohoon Ryu , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

We propose an efficient diffusion-based text-to-video super-resolution (SR) tuning approach that leverages the readily learned capacity of pixel level image diffusion model to capture spatial information for video generation. To accomplish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Xin Yuan , Jinoo Baek , Keyang Xu , Omer Tov , Hongliang Fei

This study presents a new image super-resolution (SR) technique based on diffusion inversion, aiming at harnessing the rich image priors encapsulated in large pre-trained diffusion models to improve SR performance. We design a Partial noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zongsheng Yue , Kang Liao , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion-based methods, endowed with a formidable generative prior, have received increasing attention in Image Super-Resolution (ISR) recently. However, as low-resolution (LR) images often undergo severe degradation, it is challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Jinhua Hao , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou