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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…

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Diffusion-based image compression has demonstrated impressive perceptual performance. However, it suffers from two critical drawbacks: (1) excessive decoding latency due to multi-step sampling, and (2) poor fidelity resulting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zheng Chen , Mingde Zhou , Jinpei Guo , Jiale Yuan , Yifei Ji , Yulun Zhang

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Jie Liang , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

Realistic image restoration is a crucial task in computer vision, and diffusion-based models for image restoration have garnered significant attention due to their ability to produce realistic results. Restoration can be seen as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

This work presents TV-LoRA, a novel method for low-dose sparse-view CT reconstruction that combines a diffusion generative prior (NCSN++ with SDE modeling) and multi-regularization constraints, including anisotropic TV and nuclear norm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zongyin Deng , Qing Zhou , Yuhao Fang , Zijian Wang , Yao Lu , Ye Zhang , Chun Li

Recent advances in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have heightened concerns about their potential misuse, especially in generating harmful or misleading content. This underscores the urgent need for effective machine unlearning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Agnieszka Polowczyk , Alicja Polowczyk , Dawid Malarz , Artur Kasymov , Marcin Mazur , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

As deep learning technology continues to advance, image generation models, especially models like Stable Diffusion, are finding increasingly widespread application in visual arts creation. However, these models often face challenges such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Chengcheng Feng , Mu He , Qiuyu Tian , Haojie Yin , Xiaofang Zhao , Hongwei Tang , Xingqiang Wei

Diffusion models have recently achieved outstanding results in the field of image super-resolution. These methods typically inject low-resolution (LR) images via ControlNet.In this paper, we first explore the temporal dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Qinwei Lin , Xiaopeng Sun , Yu Gao , Yujie Zhong , Dengjie Li , Zheng Zhao , Haoqian Wang

Image super-resolution (SR) is one of the vital image processing methods that improve the resolution of an image in the field of computer vision. In the last two decades, significant progress has been made in the field of super-resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Syed Muhammad Arsalan Bashir , Yi Wang , Mahrukh Khan , Yilong Niu

Diffusion models (DMs) have significantly advanced the development of real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), but the computational cost of multi-step diffusion models limits their application. One-step diffusion models generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jianze Li , Jiezhang Cao , Yong Guo , Wenbo Li , Yulun Zhang

In this paper, we introduce YONOS-SR, a novel stable diffusion-based approach for image super-resolution that yields state-of-the-art results using only a single DDIM step. We propose a novel scale distillation approach to train our SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Mehdi Noroozi , Isma Hadji , Brais Martinez , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Diffusion models have demonstrated promising performance in real-world video super-resolution (VSR). However, the dozens of sampling steps they require, make inference extremely slow. Sampling acceleration techniques, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zheng Chen , Zichen Zou , Kewei Zhang , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan , Yong Guo , Yulun Zhang

Single image super-resolution (SISR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from the given low-resolution (LR) ones, which is an ill-posed problem because one LR image corresponds to multiple HR images. Recently, learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Haoying Li , Yifan Yang , Meng Chang , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu , Qi Li , Yueting Chen

Most single image super-resolution (SR) methods are developed on synthetic low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image pairs, which are simulated by a predetermined degradation operation, e.g., bicubic downsampling. However, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Rui Ma , Johnathan Czernik , Xian Du

Imaging under extremely low-light conditions presents a significant challenge and is an ill-posed problem due to the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) caused by minimal photon capture. Previously, diffusion models have been used for multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Rishit Dagli

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xin Li , Yulin Ren , Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Xingrui Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Xinchao Wang , Zhibo Chen

It is well known the adversarial optimization of GAN-based image super-resolution (SR) methods makes the preceding SR model generate unpleasant and undesirable artifacts, leading to large distortion. We attribute the cause of such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Joshua Tian Jin Tee , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Chang D. Yoo , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Super-resolution (SR) has traditionally been based on pairs of high-resolution images (HR) and their low-resolution (LR) counterparts obtained artificially with bicubic downsampling. However, in real-world SR, there is a large variety of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Mohammad Saeed Rad , Thomas Yu , Claudiu Musat , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Generative diffusion models (DM) have been extensively utilized in image super-resolution (ISR). Most of the existing methods adopt the denoising loss from DDPMs for model optimization. We posit that introducing reward feedback learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xiaopeng Sun , Qinwei Lin , Yu Gao , Yujie Zhong , Chengjian Feng , Dengjie Li , Zheng Zhao , Jie Hu , Lin Ma

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) observations. However, the inherent randomness injected during the reverse diffusion process causes the performance of…

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