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Diffusion models have recently demonstrated strong performance for image restoration tasks, including super-resolution. However, their large model size and iterative sampling procedures make them computationally expensive for practical…

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Pixel diffusion aims to generate images directly in pixel space in an end-to-end fashion. This approach avoids the limitations of VAE in the two-stage latent diffusion, offering higher model capacity. Existing pixel diffusion models suffer…

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While recent advancements in Image Super-Resolution (SR) using diffusion models have shown promise in improving overall image quality, their application to scene text images has revealed limitations. These models often struggle with…

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Diffusion-based models have achieved notable empirical successes in reinforcement learning (RL) due to their expressiveness in modeling complex distributions. Despite existing methods being promising, the key challenge of extending existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Dmitry Shribak , Chen-Xiao Gao , Yitong Li , Chenjun Xiao , Bo Dai

Advanced diffusion models (DMs) perform impressively in image super-resolution (SR), but the high memory and computational costs hinder their deployment. Binarization, an ultra-compression algorithm, offers the potential for effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zheng Chen , Haotong Qin , Yong Guo , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Single-image reflection removal is a highly ill-posed problem, where existing methods struggle to reason about the composition of corrupted regions, causing them to fail at recovery and generalization in the wild. This work reframes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mingjia Li , Jin Hu , Hainuo Wang , Qiming Hu , Jiarui Wang , Xiaojie Guo

Unified image restoration is a significantly challenging task in low-level vision. Existing methods either make tailored designs for specific tasks, limiting their generalizability across various types of degradation, or rely on training…

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Powered by multimodal text-to-image priors, diffusion-based super-resolution excels at synthesizing intricate details; however, models trained on synthetic low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image pairs often degrade when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zihao Fan , Xin Lu , Yidi Liu , Jie Huang , Dong Li , Xueyang Fu , Baocai Yin

In the process of performing image super-resolution processing, the processing of complex localized information can have a significant impact on the quality of the image generated. Fractal features can capture the rich details of both micro…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Lianping Yang , Peng Jiao , Jinshan Pan , Hegui Zhu , Su Guo

Capsule endoscopy has enabled minimally invasive gastrointestinal imaging, but its clinical utility is limited by the inherently low resolution of captured images due to hardware, power, and transmission constraints. This limitation hampers…

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There is a prevalent opinion that diffusion-based models outperform GAN-based counterparts in the Image Super Resolution (ISR) problem. However, in most studies, diffusion-based ISR models employ larger networks and are trained longer than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Denis Kuznedelev , Valerii Startsev , Daniil Shlenskii , Sergey Kastryulin

Currently, applying diffusion models in pixel space of high resolution images is difficult. Instead, existing approaches focus on diffusion in lower dimensional spaces (latent diffusion), or have multiple super-resolution levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Emiel Hoogeboom , Jonathan Heek , Tim Salimans

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in image restoration, yet their application to video super-resolution (VSR) faces significant challenges in balancing fidelity with temporal consistency. Our evaluation reveals a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiaohui Li , Yihao Liu , Shuo Cao , Ziyan Chen , Shaobin Zhuang , Xiangyu Chen , Yinan He , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao

The objective of image super-resolution is to generate clean and high-resolution images from degraded versions. Recent advancements in diffusion modeling have led to the emergence of various image super-resolution techniques that leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Haolan Chen , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Kun Yuan , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Wei Hu

Recent research has shown that text-to-image diffusion models are capable of generating high-quality images guided by text prompts. But can they be used to generate or approximate real-world images from the seed noise? This is known as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Weiming Chen , Qifan Liu , Siyi Liu , Yushun Tang , Yijia Wang , Zhihan Zhu , Zhihai He

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Huan Ling , Tim Dockhorn , Seung Wook Kim , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Most existing super-resolution methods and datasets have been developed to improve the image quality in well-lighted conditions. However, these methods do not work well in real-world low-light conditions as the images captured in such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yang Liu , Yaofang Liu , Jinshan Pan , Yuxiang Hui , Fan Jia , Raymond H. Chan , Tieyong Zeng

Synthetic X-ray images are simulated X-ray images projected from CT data. High-quality synthetic X-ray images can facilitate various applications such as surgical image guidance systems and VR training simulations. However, it is difficult…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-12 Qing Ma , Jae Chul Koh , WonSook Lee

Although there have been significant advancements in image compression techniques, such as standard and learned codecs, these methods still suffer from severe quality degradation at extremely low bits per pixel. While recent diffusion-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Chanung Park , Joo Chan Lee , Jong Hwan Ko

Due to the significant information loss in low-resolution (LR) images, it has become extremely challenging to further advance the state-of-the-art of single image super-resolution (SISR). Reference-based super-resolution (RefSR), on the…

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