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Boundary detection of irregular and translucent objects is an important problem with applications in medical imaging, environmental monitoring and manufacturing, where many of these applications are plagued with scarce labeled data and low…

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Recent image degradation estimation methods have enabled single-image super-resolution (SR) approaches to better upsample real-world images. Among these methods, explicit kernel estimation approaches have demonstrated unprecedented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Royson Lee , Rui Li , Stylianos I. Venieris , Timothy Hospedales , Ferenc Huszár , Nicholas D. Lane

Super-Resolution (SR) is a time-hallowed image processing problem that aims to improve the quality of a Low-Resolution (LR) sample up to the standard of its High-Resolution (HR) counterpart. We aim to address this by introducing…

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With the effective application of deep learning in computer vision, breakthroughs have been made in the research of super-resolution images reconstruction. However, many researches have pointed out that the insufficiency of the neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Yibo Guo , Haidi Wang , Yiming Fan , Shunyao Li , Mingliang Xu

Existing free-energy guided No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods still suffer from finding a balance between learning feature information at the pixel level of the image and capturing high-level feature information and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhaoyang Wang , Bo Hu , Mingyang Zhang , Jie Li , Leida Li , Maoguo Gong , Xinbo Gao

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have extended deep learning to complex generation and translation tasks across different data modalities. However, GANs are notoriously difficult to train: Mode collapse and other instabilities in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Santiago Gonzalez , Mohak Kant , Risto Miikkulainen

Recent advancements in real image editing have been attributed to the exploration of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) latent space. However, the main challenge of this procedure is GAN inversion, which aims to map the image to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Egor Sevriugov , Ivan Oseledets

Diffusion models have emerged as the mainstream approach for visual generation. However, these models typically suffer from sample inefficiency and high training costs. Consequently, methods for efficient finetuning, inference and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Felix Krause , Timy Phan , Ming Gui , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

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

We propose an image super resolution(ISR) method using generative adversarial networks (GANs) that takes a low resolution input fundus image and generates a high resolution super resolved (SR) image upto scaling factor of $16$. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Behzad Bozorgtabar

Modern digital cameras rely on the sequential execution of separate image processing steps to produce realistic images. The first two steps are usually related to denoising and demosaicking where the former aims to reduce noise from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

This paper considers the problem of utilizing a large-scale text-to-image diffusion model to tackle the challenging Inexact Segmentation (IS) task. Unlike traditional approaches that rely heavily on discriminative-model-based paradigms or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tianjiao Zhang , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

A common issue of deep neural networks-based methods for the problem of Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR), is the recovery of finer texture details when super-resolving at large upscaling factors. This issue is particularly related to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Mohamed Tamaazousti , John Lin

Generative diffusion models, famous for their performance in image generation, are popular in various cross-domain applications. However, their use in the communication community has been mostly limited to auxiliary tasks like data modeling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Bin Guo , Xuelin Cao , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

Single image super resolution (SISR) is to reconstruct a high resolution image from a single low resolution image. The SISR task has been a very attractive research topic over the last two decades. In recent years, convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Bingzhe Wu , Haodong Duan , Zhichao Liu , Guangyu Sun

Reinforcement learning (RL) has improved guided image generation with diffusion models by directly optimizing rewards that capture image quality, aesthetics, and instruction following capabilities. However, the resulting generative policies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Owen Oertell , Jonathan D. Chang , Yiyi Zhang , Kianté Brantley , Wen Sun

Video Super-Resolution (VSR) has achieved significant progress through diffusion models, effectively addressing the over-smoothing issues inherent in GAN-based methods. Despite recent advances, three critical challenges persist in VSR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Weisong Zhao , Jingkai Zhou , Xiangyu Zhu , Weihua Chen , Xiao-Yu Zhang , Zhen Lei , Fan Wang

Recent years have witnessed the prosperity of reference-based image super-resolution (Ref-SR). By importing the high-resolution (HR) reference images into the single image super-resolution (SISR) approach, the ill-posed nature of this…

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