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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

Large scale image super-resolution is a challenging computer vision task, since vast information is missing in a highly degraded image, say for example forscale x16 super-resolution. Diffusion models are used successfully in recent years in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Chun-Chuen Hui , Wan-Chi Siu , Ngai-Fong Law

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 objective of image super-resolution is to generate clean and high-resolution images from degraded versions. Recent advancements in diffusion modeling have led to the emergence of various image super-resolution techniques that leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Haolan Chen , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Kun Yuan , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Wei Hu

Recently, large-scale diffusion models, e.g., Stable diffusion and DallE2, have shown remarkable results on image synthesis. On the other hand, large-scale cross-modal pre-trained models (e.g., CLIP, ALIGN, and FILIP) are competent for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Runhui Huang , Jianhua Han , Guansong Lu , Xiaodan Liang , Yihan Zeng , Wei Zhang , Hang Xu

Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have been extensively adopted for real-world image Super-Resolution because of their powerful generative priors through textual guidance. However, when super-resolving high-resolution images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qingji Dong , Hang Dong , Mingqin Chen , Rui Zhang , Yitong Wang

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) refers to algorithms that create synthetic but realistic output. Diffusion models currently offer state of the art performance in generative AI for images. They also form a key component in more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Catherine F. Higham , Desmond J. Higham , Peter Grindrod

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are among the most successful models for learning high-complexity, real-world distributions. However, in theory, due to the highly non-convex, non-concave landscape of the minmax training objective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Yuanzhi Li

The rich textual information of large vision-language models (VLMs) combined with the powerful generative prior of pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has achieved impressive performance in single-image super-resolution (SISR).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Haodong He , Yancheng Bai , Rui Lan , Xu Duan , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu , Gui-Song Xia

As the success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on natural images quickly propels them into various real-life applications across different domains, it becomes more and more important to clearly understand their limitations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Mahyar Khayatkhoei , Ahmed Elgammal

Generative foundation models like Stable Diffusion comprise a diverse spectrum of knowledge in computer vision with the potential for transfer learning, e.g., via generating data to train student models for downstream tasks. This could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Leonhard Hennicke , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Holger Giese , Jan Mathias Koehler , Lukas Schott

In recent years, deep generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), has grabbed significant attention in the field of computer vision. This project focuses on the application of GAN in image deblurring with the aim of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Zhengdong Li

The recent advancements in image-text diffusion models have stimulated research interest in large-scale 3D generative models. Nevertheless, the limited availability of diverse 3D resources presents significant challenges to learning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chi Zhang , Yiwen Chen , Yijun Fu , Zhenglin Zhou , Gang YU , Billzb Wang , Bin Fu , Tao Chen , Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen

The field of visual computing is rapidly advancing due to the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI), which unlocks unprecedented capabilities for the generation, editing, and reconstruction of images, videos, and 3D scenes.…

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI, with their inherent capacity to generate highly realistic state-of-the-art synthetic data. However, these models employ an iterative denoising process over computationally intensive layers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tharini Suresh , Salma Afifi , Sudeep Pasricha

One of the most significant challenges in statistical signal processing and machine learning is how to obtain a generative model that can produce samples of large-scale data distribution, such as images and speeches. Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Pegah Salehi , Abdolah Chalechale , Maryam Taghizadeh

Recent advances in the design of convolutional neural network (CNN) have yielded significant improvements in the performance of image super-resolution (SR). The boost in performance can be attributed to the presence of residual or dense…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Kuldeep Purohit , Srimanta Mandal , A. N. Rajagopalan

We train a feed-forward text-to-3D diffusion generator for human characters using only single-view 2D data for supervision. Existing 3D generative models cannot yet match the fidelity of image or video generative models. State-of-the-art 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Souhaib Attaiki , Paul Guerrero , Duygu Ceylan , Niloy J. Mitra , Maks Ovsjanikov

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

Diffusion models have emerged as frontrunners in text-to-image generation, but their fixed image resolution during training often leads to challenges in high-resolution image generation, such as semantic deviations and object replication.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Haoning Wu , Shaocheng Shen , Qiang Hu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang