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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

Diffusion models, as a kind of powerful generative model, have given impressive results on image super-resolution (SR) tasks. However, due to the randomness introduced in the reverse process of diffusion models, the performances of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Yiyang Ma , Huan Yang , Wenhan Yang , Jianlong Fu , Jiaying Liu

Super-resolution results are usually measured by full-reference image quality metrics or human rating scores. However, these evaluation methods are general image quality measurement, and do not account for the nature of the super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sheng Cheng

While burst Low-Resolution (LR) images are useful for improving their Super Resolution (SR) image compared to a single LR image, prior burst SR methods are trained in a deterministic manner, which produces a blurry SR image. Since such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Kento Kawai , Takeru Oba , Kyotaro Tokoro , Kazutoshi Akita , Norimichi Ukita

Clean images are crucial for visual tasks such as small object detection, especially at high resolutions. However, real-world images are often degraded by adverse weather, and weather restoration methods may sacrifice high-frequency details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Wenjie Li , Jinglei Shi , Jin Han , Heng Guo , Zhanyu Ma

Super-resolution (SR) is a technique that allows increasing the resolution of a given image. Having applications in many areas, from medical imaging to consumer electronics, several SR methods have been proposed. Currently, the best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Marija Vella , João F. C. Mota

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-based Generative Models (DGMs) have achieved unparalleled performance in synthesizing high-quality visual content, opening up the opportunity to improve image super-resolution (SR) tasks. Recent solutions for these tasks often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Ruibin Li , Qihua Zhou , Song Guo , Jie Zhang , Jingcai Guo , Xinyang Jiang , Yifei Shen , Zhenhua Han

While super-resolution (SR) methods based on diffusion models exhibit promising results, their practical application is hindered by the substantial number of required inference steps. Recent methods utilize degraded images in the initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Ziwei Liu , Yu Qiao , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Multimodal image super-resolution (SR) is the reconstruction of a high resolution image given a low-resolution observation with the aid of another image modality. While existing deep multimodal models do not incorporate domain knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Iman Marivani , Evaggelia Tsiligianni , Bruno Cornelis , Nikos Deligiannis

Generative super-resolution (GSR) currently sets the state-of-the-art in terms of perceptual image quality, overcoming the "regression-to-the-mean" blur of prior non-generative models. However, from a human perspective, such models do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Weiming Ren , Raghav Goyal , Zhiming Hu , Tristan Ty Aumentado-Armstrong , Iqbal Mohomed , Alex Levinshtein

The ability to resolve detail in the object that is being imaged, named by resolution, is the core parameter of an imaging system. Super-resolution is a class of techniques that can enhance the resolution of an imaging system and even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yaonan Jin , Daogao Liu , Zhao Song

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

Diffusion models have gained significant popularity in the field of image-to-image translation. Previous efforts applying diffusion models to image super-resolution (SR) have demonstrated that iteratively refining pure Gaussian noise using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Axi Niu , Pham Xuan Trung , Kang Zhang , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Image Super-Resolution (SR) provides a promising technique to enhance the image quality of low-resolution optical sensors, facilitating better-performing target detection and autonomous navigation in a wide range of robotics applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Fan Wang , Jiangxin Yang , Yanlong Cao , Yanpeng Cao , Michael Ying Yang

Image super-resolution (SR) is one of the long-standing and active topics in image processing community. A large body of works for image super resolution formulate the problem with Bayesian modeling techniques and then obtain its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Haichao Zhang , David Wipf , Yanning Zhang

Diffusion-based image super-resolution methods have demonstrated significant advantages over GAN-based approaches, particularly in terms of perceptual quality. Building upon a lengthy Markov chain, diffusion-based methods possess remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Leheng Zhang , Weiyi You , Kexuan Shi , Shuhang Gu

Super-resolution (SR) is a promising tool for generating high-fidelity simulations of physical systems from low-resolution data, enabling fast and accurate predictions in engineering applications. However, existing deep-learning based SR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Pengyu Zhang , Connor Duffin , Alex Glyn-Davies , Arnaud Vadeboncoeur , Mark Girolami

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) have been widely adopted in image-to-image translation to generate high-quality images. Prior attempts at applying the DPM to image super-resolution (SR) have shown that iteratively refining a pure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Real-world image super-resolution is a critical image processing task, where two key evaluation criteria are the fidelity to the original image and the visual realness of the generated results. Although existing methods based on diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Runyi Li , Bin Chen , Jian Zhang , Radu Timofte