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Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved remarkable success by leveraging large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models as priors. However, these methods still face two challenges: the requirement for dozens of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Aiping Zhang , Zongsheng Yue , Renjing Pei , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

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

Implicit degradation modeling-based blind super-resolution (SR) has attracted more increasing attention in the community due to its excellent generalization to complex degradation scenarios and wide application range. How to extract more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiang Yuan , Ji Ma , Bo Wang , Weiming Hu

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable performance in image super-resolution (SR), but their high computational cost limits practical deployment in remote sensing applications. To address this issue, we propose SlimDiffSR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ce Wang , Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun

Due to storage and bandwidth limitations, videos transmitted over the Internet often exhibit low quality, characterized by low-resolution and compression artifacts. Although video super-resolution (VSR) is an efficient video enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hongyu An , Xinfeng Zhang , Shijie Zhao , Li Zhang , Ruiqin Xiong

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

Blind face restoration usually synthesizes degraded low-quality data with a pre-defined degradation model for training, while more complex cases could happen in the real world. This gap between the assumed and actual degradation hurts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhixin Wang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ziying Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Mingyuan Zhou , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Zero-shot image restoration (IR) methods based on pretrained diffusion models have recently achieved significant success. These methods typically require at least a parametric form of the degradation model. However, in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hamadi Chihaoui , Paolo Favaro

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based image super-resolution (SR) has exhibited impressive success on known degraded low-resolution (LR) images. However, this type of approach is hard to hold its performance in practical scenarios when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yixuan Wu , Feng Li , Huihui Bai , Weisi Lin , Runmin Cong , Yao Zhao

Image deep features extracted by pre-trained networks are known to contain rich and informative representations. In this paper, we present Deep Degradation Response (DDR), a method to quantify changes in image deep features under varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Juncheng Wu , Zhangkai Ni , Hanli Wang , Wenhan Yang , Yuyin Zhou , Shiqi Wang

The images produced by diffusion models can attain excellent perceptual quality. However, it is challenging for diffusion models to guarantee distortion, hence the integration of diffusion models and image compression models still needs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Yiyang Ma , Wenhan Yang , Jiaying Liu

Diffusion model (DM) has achieved SOTA performance by modeling the image synthesis process into a sequential application of a denoising network. However, different from image synthesis, image restoration (IR) has a strong constraint to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Bin Xia , Yulun Zhang , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Luc Van Gool

Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, their restored images still suffer from unsatisfactory boundary artifacts, due to the lack of degradation prior embedding and the deficiency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Lanqing Guo , Chong Wang , Wenhan Yang , Siyu Huang , Yufei Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Bihan Wen

The depth completion task is a critical problem in autonomous driving, involving the generation of dense depth maps from sparse depth maps and RGB images. Most existing methods employ a spatial propagation network to iteratively refine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ming Yuan , Chuang Zhang , Lei He , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

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

Real-world image super-resolution is particularly challenging for diffusion models because real degradations are complex, heterogeneous, and rarely modeled explicitly. We propose a degradation-aware and structure-preserving diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yang Ji , Zonghao Chen , Zhihao Xue , Junqin Hu

Diffusion-based super-resolution (SR) models have recently garnered significant attention due to their potent restoration capabilities. But conventional diffusion models perform noise sampling from a single distribution, constraining their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Chengcheng Wang , Zhiwei Hao , Yehui Tang , Jianyuan Guo , Yujie Yang , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

The introduction of generative models has significantly advanced image super-resolution (SR) in handling real-world degradations. However, they often incur fidelity-related issues, particularly distorting textual structures. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Qiming Hu , Linlong Fan , Yiyan Luo , Yuhang Yu , Xiaojie Guo , Qingnan Fan

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

Manipulating transparent objects presents significant challenges due to the complexities introduced by their reflection and refraction properties, which considerably hinder the accurate estimation of their 3D shapes. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Haoxiao Wang , Kaichen Zhou , Binrui Gu , Zhiyuan Feng , Weijie Wang , Peilin Sun , Yicheng Xiao , Jianhua Zhang , Hao Dong