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Large-scale text-to-image models have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize diverse and high-fidelity images. However, these models are often violated by several limitations. Firstly, they require the user to provide precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Xiaojun Yang , Xiao Wang , Yukai Shi

Image restoration aims to recover content from inputs degraded by various factors, such as adverse weather, blur, and noise. Perceptual Image Restoration (PIR) methods improve visual quality but often do not support downstream tasks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 I-Hsiang Chen , Wei-Ting Chen , Yu-Wei Liu , Yuan-Chun Chiang , Sy-Yen Kuo , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Denoising diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable success in image generation, capturing rich information about natural image statistics. This makes them highly promising for image reconstruction, where the goal is to recover a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Shady Abu-Hussein , Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

We present a novel approach to leverage prior knowledge encapsulated in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models for blind super-resolution (SR). Specifically, by employing our time-aware encoder, we can achieve promising restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Jianyi Wang , Zongsheng Yue , Shangchen Zhou , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration. To address these issues, we propose a robust and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Songchen Han , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Depth-of-field control is essential in photography, but achieving perfect focus often requires multiple attempts or specialized equipment. Single-image refocusing is still difficult. It involves recovering sharp content and creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chun-Wei Tuan Mu , Cheng-De Fan , Jia-Bin Huang , Yu-Lun Liu

This paper presents a novel approach for denoising Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) patterns using diffusion models. We propose a two-stage training process with a UNet-based architecture, incorporating an auxiliary regression head…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Nikolay Falaleev , Nikolai Orlov

In the visual generative area, discrete diffusion models are gaining traction for their efficiency and compatibility. However, pioneered attempts still fall behind their continuous counterparts, which we attribute to noise (absorbing state)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianren Ma , Xiaosong Zhang , Boyu Yang , Junlan Feng , Qixiang Ye

Image restoration refers to the process of restoring a damaged low-quality image back to its corresponding high-quality image. Typically, we use convolutional neural networks to directly learn the mapping from low-quality images to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Conghan Yue , Zhengwei Peng , Junlong Ma , Dongyu Zhang

In this paper, we rethink the low-light image enhancement task and propose a physically explainable and generative diffusion model for low-light image enhancement, termed as Diff-Retinex. We aim to integrate the advantages of the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xunpeng Yi , Han Xu , Hao Zhang , Linfeng Tang , Jiayi Ma

Although diffusion-based models have achieved impressive results in image super-resolution, they often rely on large-scale backbones such as Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) and Diffusion Transformers (DiT), which lead to excessive computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zhongbao Yang , Jiangxin Dong , Yazhou Yao , Jinhui Tang , Jinshan Pan

Using diffusion models to solve inverse problems is a growing field of research. Current methods assume the degradation to be known and provide impressive results in terms of restoration quality and diversity. In this work, we leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Charles Laroche , Andrés Almansa , Eva Coupete

Universal image restoration is a practical and potential computer vision task for real-world applications. The main challenge of this task is handling the different degradation distributions at once. Existing methods mainly utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Dian Zheng , Xiao-Ming Wu , Shuzhou Yang , Jian Zhang , Jian-Fang Hu , Wei-Shi Zheng

This paper considers blind inverse image restoration, the task of predicting a target image from a degraded source when the degradation (i.e. the forward operator) is unknown. Existing solutions typically rely on restrictive assumptions…

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Remote sensing semantic segmentation must address both what the ground objects are within an image and where they are located. Consequently, segmentation models must ensure not only the semantic correctness of large-scale patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Hao Wang , Keyan Hu , Xin Guo , Haifeng Li , Chao Tao

Most existing image restoration networks are designed in a disposable way and catastrophically forget previously learned distortions when trained on a new distortion removal task. To alleviate this problem, we raise the novel lifelong image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Jianzhao Liu , Jianxin Lin , Xin Li , Wei Zhou , Sen Liu , Zhibo Chen

Diffusion models have established new state of the art in a multitude of computer vision tasks, including image restoration. Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers generate reconstructions of exceptional visual quality from heavily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Reward Feedback Learning (ReFL) has recently shown great potential in aligning model outputs with human preferences across various generative tasks. In this work, we introduce a ReFL framework, named DiffusionReward, to the Blind Face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Bin Wu , Wei Wang , Yahui Liu , Zixiang Li , Yao Zhao

3D image reconstruction from a limited number of 2D images has been a long-standing challenge in computer vision and image analysis. While deep learning-based approaches have achieved impressive performance in this area, existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Nivetha Jayakumar , Tonmoy Hossain , Miaomiao Zhang

Three-dimensional microscopy is often limited by anisotropic spatial resolution, resulting in lower axial resolution than lateral resolution. Current State-of-The-Art (SoTA) isotropic reconstruction methods utilizing deep neural networks…

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