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Diffusion models, known for their powerful generative capabilities, play a crucial role in addressing real-world super-resolution challenges. However, these models often focus on improving local textures while neglecting the impacts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Chunyang Bi , Xin Luo , Sheng Shen , Mengxi Zhang , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

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

While burst LR images are useful for improving the SR image quality compared with a single LR image, prior SR networks accepting the burst LR images are trained in a deterministic manner, which is known to produce a blurry SR image. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kyotaro Tokoro , Kazutoshi Akita , Norimichi Ukita

Image Super-Resolution (ISR) has seen significant progress with the introduction of remarkable generative models. However, challenges such as the trade-off issues between fidelity and realism, as well as computational complexity, have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Diffusion-based methods, endowed with a formidable generative prior, have received increasing attention in Image Super-Resolution (ISR) recently. However, as low-resolution (LR) images often undergo severe degradation, it is challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Jinhua Hao , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Darshan Thaker , Abhishek Goyal , René Vidal

In this paper, we propose GuideSR, a novel single-step diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) model specifically designed to enhance image fidelity. Existing diffusion-based SR approaches typically adapt pre-trained generative models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Aditya Arora , Zhengzhong Tu , Yufei Wang , Ruizheng Bai , Jian Wang , Sizhuo Ma

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao

Image Super-Resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from degraded low-resolution inputs. While diffusion-based SR methods offer powerful generative capabilities, their performance heavily depends on how semantic priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Lei Jiang , Xin Liu , Xinze Tong , Zhiliang Li , Jie Liu , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu

Images captured in challenging environments often experience various forms of degradation, including noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. These effects significantly reduce image quality, hindering their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Abbas Anwar , Mohammad Shullar , Ali Arshad Nasir , Mudassir Masood , Saeed Anwar

Burst image super resolution (BISR) aims to construct a single high-resolution (HR) image by aggregating information from multiple low-resolution (LR) frames, relying on temporal redundancy and spatial coherence across the burst. While…

The accuracy of OCR is usually affected by the quality of the input document image and different kinds of marred document images hamper the OCR results. Among these scenarios, the low-resolution image is a common and challenging case. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Zhichao Fu , Yu Kong , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Wenxin Hu , Jing Yang , Liang He

We show that cascaded diffusion models are capable of generating high fidelity images on the class-conditional ImageNet generation benchmark, without any assistance from auxiliary image classifiers to boost sample quality. A cascaded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Jonathan Ho , Chitwan Saharia , William Chan , David J. Fleet , Mohammad Norouzi , Tim Salimans

Benefiting from their powerful generative capabilities, pretrained diffusion models have garnered significant attention for real-world image super-resolution (Real-SR). Existing diffusion-based SR approaches typically utilize semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jiangang Wang , Qingnan Fan , Jinwei Chen , Hong Gu , Feng Huang , Wenqi Ren

Reference-based Super Resolution (RefSR) improves upon Single Image Super Resolution (SISR) by leveraging high-quality reference images to enhance texture fidelity and visual realism. However, a critical limitation of existing RefSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jiaqi Yan , Shuning Xu , Xiangyu Chen , Dell Zhang , Jiantao Zhou , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu , Jie Liu

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generative modelling, particularly in enhancing image quality to conform to human preferences. Recently, these models have also been applied to low-level computer vision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Reference-based Image Super-Resolution (RefSR) aims to restore a low-resolution (LR) image by utilizing the semantic and texture information from an additional reference high-resolution (reference HR) image. Existing diffusion-based RefSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zhenning Shi , Zizheng Yan , Yuhang Yu , Clara Xue , Jingyu Zhuang , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Tao Li , Qingnan Fan

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved performance in super-resolution (SR) tasks. However, previous research often overlooks the fundamental differences between SR and general image generation. General image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Hanlin Wu , Jiangwei Mo , Xiaohui Sun , Jie Ma

Owe to the powerful generative priors, the pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have become increasingly popular in solving the real-world image super-resolution problem. However, as a consequence of the heavy quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Rongyuan Wu , Tao Yang , Lingchen Sun , Zhengqiang Zhang , Shuai Li , Lei Zhang

Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability to model data distributions. To solve image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiang Li , Soo Min Kwon , Shijun Liang , Ismail R. Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Qing Qu