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Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various forms of degradation. Recently, the diffusion model has…

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Multi-modal 3D object detection is important for reliable perception in robotics and autonomous driving. However, its effectiveness remains limited under adverse weather conditions due to weather-induced distortions and misalignment between…

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Recent generative-prior-based methods have shown promising blind face restoration performance. They usually project the degraded images to the latent space and then decode high-quality faces either by single-stage latent optimization or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Maitreya Suin , Rama Chellappa

Diffusion models (DM) have achieved remarkable promise in image super-resolution (SR). However, most of them are tailored to solving non-blind inverse problems with fixed known degradation settings, limiting their adaptability to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Feng Li , Yixuan Wu , Zichao Liang , Runmin Cong , Huihui Bai , Yao Zhao , Meng Wang

Diffusion models have been widely utilized for image restoration. However, previous blind image restoration methods still need to assume the type of degradation model while leaving the parameters to be optimized, limiting their real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Siwei Tu , Weidong Yang , Ben Fei

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

Blind face restoration (BFR) aims to recover high-quality facial images from degraded inputs, yet its inherently ill-posed nature leads to ambiguous and uncontrollable solutions. Recent diffusion-based BFR methods improve perceptual quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chenxin Zhu , Yushun Fang , Lu Liu , Shibo Yin , Xiaohong Liu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Qiang Hu , Guangtao Zhai

Unveiling the real appearance of retouched faces to prevent malicious users from deceptive advertising and economic fraud has been an increasing concern in the era of digital economics. This article makes the first attempt to investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Fengchuang Xing , Xiaowen Shi , Yuan-Gen Wang , Chunsheng Yang

Recovering a 3D human mesh from a single RGB image is a challenging task due to depth ambiguity and self-occlusion, resulting in a high degree of uncertainty. Meanwhile, diffusion models have recently seen much success in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Lin Geng Foo , Jia Gong , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Diffusion Probabilistic Models have recently shown remarkable performance in generative image modeling, attracting significant attention in the computer vision community. However, while a substantial amount of diffusion-based research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yijun Yang , Huazhu Fu , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Lei Zhu

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the visibility of degraded images to better align with human visual perception. While diffusion-based methods have shown promising performance due to their strong generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jinhong He , Minglong Xue , Zhipu Liu , Mingliang Zhou , Aoxiang Ning , Palaiahnakote Shivakumara

In this work, we utilize the high-fidelity generation abilities of diffusion models to solve blind JPEG restoration at high compression levels. We propose an elegant modification of the forward stochastic differential equation of diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Simon Welker , Henry N. Chapman , Timo Gerkmann

Face restoration under complex degradations still remains an ill-posed inverse problem due to severe information loss. Although diffusion models benefit from strong generative priors, most methods still condition only on low-quality inputs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zirui Wang , Xianhui Lin , Yi Dong , Bo Wei , Gangjian Zhang , Siteng Ma , Zebiao Zheng , Xing Liu , Hong Gu , Minjing Dong

Universal image restoration is a critical task in low-level vision, requiring the model to remove various degradations from low-quality images to produce clean images with rich detail. The challenges lie in sampling the distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 JiaKui Hu , Zhengjian Yao , Lujia Jin , Yanye Lu

Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Shi , Yu Liu , Zhong-Cheng Wu , Juan Cheng , Huafeng Li , Xun Chen

Deep MRI reconstruction is commonly performed with conditional models that de-alias undersampled acquisitions to recover images consistent with fully-sampled data. Since conditional models are trained with knowledge of the imaging operator,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Alper Güngör , Salman UH Dar , Şaban Öztürk , Yilmaz Korkmaz , Gokberk Elmas , Muzaffer Özbey , Tolga Çukur

Diffusion priors have been used for blind face restoration (BFR) by fine-tuning diffusion models (DMs) on restoration datasets to recover low-quality images. However, the naive application of DMs presents several key limitations. (i) The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Senmao Li , Kai Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Chun-Le Guo , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

The rapid progress of Deepfake technology has made face swapping highly realistic, raising concerns about the malicious use of fabricated facial content. Existing methods often struggle to generalize to unseen domains due to the diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ke Sun , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Hong Liu , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shouhong Ding , Rongrong Ji

An authentic face restoration system is becoming increasingly demanding in many computer vision applications, e.g., image enhancement, video communication, and taking portrait. Most of the advanced face restoration models can recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yang Zhao , Tingbo Hou , Yu-Chuan Su , Xuhui Jia. Yandong Li , Matthias Grundmann

Blind face restoration aims to recover high-quality facial images from various unidentified sources of degradation, posing significant challenges due to the minimal information retrievable from the degraded images. Prior knowledge-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wanglong Lu , Jikai Wang , Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Xianta Jiang , Hanli Zhao