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Image super-resolution (SR) is a representative low-level vision problem. Although deep SR networks have achieved extraordinary success, we are still unaware of their working mechanisms. Specifically, whether SR networks can learn semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yihao Liu , Anran Liu , Jinjin Gu , Zhipeng Zhang , Wenhao Wu , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Recent methods exploit the powerful text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) and achieve impressive results compared to previous models. However, we observe two kinds of inconsistencies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Junhao Gu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Mi Zhou , Jinwei Chen , Wenming Yang , Bo Li

High-resolution (HR) remote sensing imagery plays a vital role in a wide range of applications, including urban planning and environmental monitoring. However, due to limitations in sensors and data transmission links, the images acquired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Bowen Chen , Keyan Chen , Mohan Yang , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have demonstrated remarkable performance. Recent advancements have introduced deterministic sampling processes that reduce inference from 15 iterative steps to a single step, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zihang Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang

The issue of generative pretraining for vision models has persisted as a long-standing conundrum. At present, the text-to-image (T2I) diffusion model demonstrates remarkable proficiency in generating high-definition images matching textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Qiang Wan , Zilong Huang , Bingyi Kang , Jiashi Feng , Li Zhang

Large-scale, pre-trained Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have gained significant popularity in image generation tasks and have shown unexpected potential in image Super-Resolution (SR). However, most existing T2I diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Brian B. Moser , Stanislav Frolov , Tobias C. Nauen , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have been extensively adopted for real-world image Super-Resolution because of their powerful generative priors through textual guidance. However, when super-resolving high-resolution images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qingji Dong , Hang Dong , Mingqin Chen , Rui Zhang , Yitong Wang

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

Existing diffusion-based super-resolution approaches often exhibit semantic ambiguities due to inaccuracies and incompleteness in their text conditioning, coupled with the inherent tendency for cross-attention to divert towards irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chen Chen , Majid Abdolshah , Violetta Shevchenko , Hongdong Li , Chang Xu , Pulak Purkait

Diffusion-based Video Super-Resolution (VSR) is renowned for generating perceptually realistic videos, yet it grapples with maintaining detail consistency across frames due to stochastic fluctuations. The traditional approach of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Qi Tang , Yao Zhao , Meiqin Liu , Chao Yao

Diffusion models have recently achieved significant success in various image manipulation tasks, including image super-resolution and perceptual quality enhancement. Pretrained text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion, have exhibited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sanchar Palit , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used to recover vivid textures in image super-resolution (SR) tasks. In particular, one discriminator is utilized to enable the SR network to learn the distribution of real-world…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Bingchen Li , Xin Li , Hanxin Zhu , Yeying Jin , Ruoyu Feng , Zhizheng Zhang , Zhibo Chen

Restoring low-resolution text images presents a significant challenge, as it requires maintaining both the fidelity and stylistic realism of the text in restored images. Existing text image restoration methods often fall short in hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglu Pan , Xiaogang Xu , Ganggui Ding , Yunke Zhang , Wenbo Li , Jiarong Xu , Qingbiao Wu

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful priors for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). However, existing methods may produce unintended results due to noisy text prompts and their lack of spatial information. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Li-Yuan Tsao , Hao-Wei Chen , Hao-Wei Chung , Deqing Sun , Chun-Yi Lee , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image restoration has always been a cutting-edge topic in the academic and industrial fields of computer vision. Since degradation signals are often random and diverse, "all-in-one" models that can do blind image restoration have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Qiuhai Yan , Aiwen Jiang , Kang Chen , Long Peng , Qiaosi Yi , Chunjie Zhang

Text-driven diffusion models have become increasingly popular for various image editing tasks, including inpainting, stylization, and object replacement. However, it still remains an open research problem to adopt this language-vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenyang Qi , Zhengzhong Tu , Keren Ye , Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar , Qifeng Chen , Hossein Talebi

Scene text recognition has witnessed rapid development with the advance of convolutional neural networks. Nonetheless, most of the previous methods may not work well in recognizing text with low resolution which is often seen in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Wenjia Wang , Enze Xie , Peize Sun , Wenhai Wang , Lixun Tian , Chunhua Shen , Ping Luo

Most recent real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) methods employ pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to synthesize the high-quality image either from random Gaussian noise, which yields realistic results but is slow due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xiangtao Kong , Rongyuan Wu , Shuaizheng Liu , Lingchen Sun , Lei Zhang

Semantic communications have gained significant attention as a promising approach to address the transmission bottleneck, especially with the continuous development of 6G techniques. Distinct from the well investigated physical channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Xiang Peng , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Khaled B. Letaief

Modern Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically operate in low-level Variational Autoencoder (VAE) latent spaces that are primarily optimized for pixel-level reconstruction. To unify vision generation and understanding, a burgeoning trend…

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