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Reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) has the potential to build bridges across spatial and temporal resolutions of remote sensing images. However, existing RefSR methods are limited by the faithfulness of content reconstruction and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Runmin Dong , Shuai Yuan , Bin Luo , Mengxuan Chen , Jinxiao Zhang , Lixian Zhang , Weijia Li , Juepeng Zheng , Haohuan Fu

While diffusion-based image restoration (IR) methods have achieved remarkable success, they are still limited by the low inference speed attributed to the necessity of executing hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion-based models have shown great promise in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), but often generate content with structural errors and spurious texture details due to the empirical priors and illusions of these models. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yachao Li , Dong Liang , Tianyu Ding , Sheng-Jun Huang

Conventional class-guided diffusion models generally succeed in generating images with correct semantic content, but often struggle with texture details. This limitation stems from the usage of class priors, which only provide coarse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyu Yue , Zidong Wang , Zeyu Lu , Shuyang Sun , Meng Wei , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Luping Zhou

Training deep neural networks has become increasingly demanding, requiring large datasets and significant computational resources, especially as model complexity advances. Data distillation methods, which aim to improve data efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Sunwoo Cho , Yejin Jung , Nam Ik Cho , Jae Woong Soh

Restoring low-resolution text images presents a significant challenge, as it requires maintaining both the fidelity and stylistic realism of the text in restored images. Existing text image restoration methods often fall short in hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglu Pan , Xiaogang Xu , Ganggui Ding , Yunke Zhang , Wenbo Li , Jiarong Xu , Qingbiao Wu

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) focuses on recovering high-quality images from low-resolution inputs that suffer from complex degradations like noise, blur, and compression. Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have shown great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Linwei Dong , Qingnan Fan , Yuhang Yu , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

Diffusion Models (DMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in content generation without requiring adversarial training. These models are trained using a two-step process. First, a forward - diffusion - process gradually adds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar

This paper presents a novel Diffusion-Wavelet (DiWa) approach for Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR). It leverages the strengths of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) and Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT). By enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Brian Moser , Stanislav Frolov , Federico Raue , Sebastian Palacio , Andreas Dengel

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

While originally designed for image generation, diffusion models have recently shown to provide excellent pretrained feature representations for semantic segmentation. Intrigued by this result, we set out to explore how well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Rui Gong , Martin Danelljan , Han Sun , Julio Delgado Mangas , Luc Van Gool

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

A dramatic influx of diffusion-generated images has marked recent years, posing unique challenges to current detection technologies. While the task of identifying these images falls under binary classification, a seemingly straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yewon Lim , Changyeon Lee , Aerin Kim , Oren Etzioni

Detectors often suffer from performance drop due to domain gap between training and testing data. Recent methods explore diffusion models applied to domain generalization (DG) and adaptation (DA) tasks, but still struggle with large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Boyong He , Yuxiang Ji , Zhuoyue Tan , Liaoni Wu

Recent years have witnessed the prosperity of reference-based image super-resolution (Ref-SR). By importing the high-resolution (HR) reference images into the single image super-resolution (SISR) approach, the ill-posed nature of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zihan Wang , Ziliang Xiong , Hongying Tang , Xiaobing Yuan

Arbitrary-scale super-resolution (ASSR) overcomes the limitation of traditional super-resolution (SR) methods that operate only at fixed scales (e.g., 4x), enabling a single model to handle arbitrary magnification. Most existing ASSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Yingsheng Qin , Yucai Yang , Rong Xie , Li Song

Diffusion-based methods demonstrate significant potential for remote sensing image super-resolution at large scaling factors, particularly in reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) where high-resolution reference images provide critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Bin Luo , Runmin Dong , Zhaoyang Luo , Jinxiao Zhang , Jiyao Zhao , Fan Wei , Haohuan Fu

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

Task-driven image restoration (TDIR) has recently emerged to address performance drops in high-level vision tasks caused by low-quality (LQ) inputs. Previous TDIR methods struggle to handle practical scenarios in which images are degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jaeha Kim , Junghun Oh , Kyoung Mu Lee

Image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high resolution images with both high perceptual quality and low distortion, but is fundamentally limited by the perception-distortion trade-off. GAN-based SR methods reduce distortion but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dan Wang , Haiyan Sun , Shan Du , Z. Jane Wang , Zhaochong An , Serge Belongie , Xinrui Cui