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Light field cameras have been proved to be powerful tools for 3D reconstruction and virtual reality applications. However, the limited resolution of light field images brings a lot of difficulties for further information display and…

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The Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) has demonstrated strong capabilities in high-resolution image generation and has been widely employed for Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis (PGPIS), yielding promising results. However, the compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiaqi Liu , Jichao Zhang , Paolo Rota , Nicu Sebe

Real low-resolution (LR) face images contain degradations which are too varied and complex to be captured by known downsampling kernels and signal-independent noises. So, in order to successfully super-resolve real faces, a method needs to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Saurabh Goswami , Aakanksha , Rajagopalan A. N

Precise human mesh recovery (HMR) from multi-view images remains challenging: end-to-end methods produce entangled errors hard to localize, while fitting-based methods rely on sparse keypoints that provide limited surface constraints. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Renke Wang , Zhenyu Zhang , Ying Tai , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Image restoration is a classic low-level problem aimed at recovering high-quality images from low-quality images with various degradations such as blur, noise, rain, haze, etc. However, due to the inherent complexity and non-uniqueness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

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

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread sharing of individual portrait images, which pose serious privacy risks due to the capabilities of automatic face recognition (AFR) systems for mass surveillance. Hence, protecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Yingli Tian , Guoying Zhao

We propose a novel single face image super-resolution method, which named Face Conditional Generative Adversarial Network(FCGAN), based on boundary equilibrium generative adversarial networks. Without taking any facial prior information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Huang Bin , Chen Weihai , Wu Xingming , Lin Chun-Liang

Single image super resolution aims to enhance image quality with respect to spatial content, which is a fundamental task in computer vision. In this work, we address the task of single frame super resolution with the presence of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Xinyi Zhang , Hang Dong , Zhe Hu , Wei-Sheng Lai , Fei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Diffusion models are highly regarded for their controllability and the diversity of images they generate. However, class-conditional generation methods based on diffusion models often focus on more common categories. In large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Kun Wang , Donglin Di , Tonghua Su , Lei Fan

Previous research on face restoration often focused on repairing a specific type of low-quality facial images such as low-resolution (LR) or occluded facial images. However, in the real world, both the above-mentioned forms of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Zhilei Liu , Yunpeng Wu , Le Li , Cuicui Zhang , Baoyuan Wu

Face verification and recognition problems have seen rapid progress in recent years, however recognition from small size images remains a challenging task that is inherently intertwined with the task of face super-resolution. Tackling this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 E. Ustinova , V. Lempitsky

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is an important task in image processing that aims to generate well-exposed images in scenes with varying illumination. Although existing multi-exposure fusion methods have achieved impressive results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jun Xiao , Qian Ye , Tianshan Liu , Cong Zhang , Kin-Man Lam

In face detection, low-resolution faces, such as numerous small faces of a human group in a crowded scene, are common in dense face prediction tasks. They usually contain limited visual clues and make small faces less distinguishable from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Guangtao Wang , Jun Li , Jie Xie , Jianhua Xu , Bo Yang

Diffusion models have proven effective for various applications such as images, audio and graph generation. Other important applications are image super-resolution and the solution of inverse problems. More recently, some works have used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Marcelo dos Santos , Rayson Laroca , Rafael O. Ribeiro , João Neves , Hugo Proença , David Menotti

While deep learning-based methods for blind face restoration have achieved unprecedented success, they still suffer from two major limitations. First, most of them deteriorate when facing complex degradations out of their training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zongsheng Yue , Chen Change Loy

Modern cameras' performance in low-light conditions remains suboptimal due to fundamental limitations in photon shot noise and sensor read noise. Generative image restoration methods have shown promising results compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xijun Wang , Prateek Chennuri , Dilshan Godaliyadda , Yu Yuan , Bole Ma , Xingguang Zhang , Hamid R. Sheikh , Stanley Chan

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

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

Diffusion models have been increasingly used as strong generative priors for solving inverse problems such as super-resolution in medical imaging. However, these approaches typically utilize a diffusion prior trained at a single scale,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Darshan Thaker , Mahmoud Mostapha , Radu Miron , Shihan Qiu , Mariappan Nadar