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Bridge models in image restoration construct a diffusion process from degraded to clear images. However, existing methods typically require training a bridge model from scratch for each specific type of degradation, resulting in high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hanting Wang , Tao Jin , Wang Lin , Shulei Wang , Hai Huang , Shengpeng Ji , Zhou Zhao

We present Direct Reward Fine-Tuning (DRaFT), a simple and effective method for fine-tuning diffusion models to maximize differentiable reward functions, such as scores from human preference models. We first show that it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Kevin Clark , Paul Vicol , Kevin Swersky , David J Fleet

We address the problem of class incremental learning, which is a core step towards achieving adaptive vision intelligence. In particular, we consider the task setting of incremental learning with limited memory and aim to achieve better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Shipeng Yan , Jiangwei Xie , Xuming He

Data-efficient image classification is a challenging task that aims to solve image classification using small training data. Neural network-based deep learning methods are effective for image classification, but they typically require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Ying Bi , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Removing degradation from document images not only improves their visual quality and readability, but also enhances the performance of numerous automated document analysis and recognition tasks. However, existing regression-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Zongyuan Yang , Baolin Liu , Yongping Xiong , Lan Yi , Guibin Wu , Xiaojun Tang , Ziqi Liu , Junjie Zhou , Xing Zhang

Most recent extreme rescaling methods struggle to preserve semantically consistent structures and produce realistic details, due to the severely ill-posed nature of low- to high-resolution mapping under scaling factors of $16\times$ or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hao Wei , Yanhui Zhou , Chenyang Ge , Saeed Anwar , Ajmal Mian

Although diffusion-based real-world image restoration (Real-IR) has achieved remarkable progress, efficiently leveraging ultra-large-scale pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) models and fully exploiting their potential remain significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Purui Bai , Junxian Duan , Pin Wang , Jinhua Hao , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Huaibo Huang

Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated remarkable ability to generate diverse and high-quality images by efficiently modeling complex data distributions. They have also been explored as powerful generative priors for signal recovery,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Anqi Tang , Youming Chen , Shuchen Xue , Zhaoqiang Liu

Latest diffusion-based methods for many image restoration tasks outperform traditional models, but they encounter the long-time inference problem. To tackle it, this paper proposes a Wavelet-Based Diffusion Model (WaveDM). WaveDM learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yi Huang , Jiancheng Huang , Jianzhuang Liu , Mingfu Yan , Yu Dong , Jiaxi Lv , Chaoqi Chen , Shifeng Chen

Diffusion models excel at modeling complex data distributions, including those of images, proteins, and small molecules. However, in many cases, our goal is to model parts of the distribution that maximize certain properties: for example,…

The recent success of diffusion-based generative models in image and natural language processing has ignited interest in diffusion-based trajectory optimization for nonlinear control systems. Existing methods cannot, however, handle the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Vince Kurtz , Joel W. Burdick

Class-incremental learning aims to learn new classes in an incremental fashion without forgetting the previously learned ones. Several research works have shown how additional data can be used by incremental models to help mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Quentin Jodelet , Xin Liu , Yin Jun Phua , Tsuyoshi Murata

Deep image restoration models aim to learn a mapping from degraded image space to natural image space. However, they face several critical challenges: removing degradation, generating realistic details, and ensuring pixel-level consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xinqi Lin , Fanghua Yu , Jinfan Hu , Zhiyuan You , Wu Shi , Jimmy S. Ren , Jinjin Gu , Chao Dong

Image restoration refers to the process of restoring a damaged low-quality image back to its corresponding high-quality image. Typically, we use convolutional neural networks to directly learn the mapping from low-quality images to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Conghan Yue , Zhengwei Peng , Junlong Ma , Dongyu Zhang

Image restoration (IR) aims to recover clean images from degraded observations. Despite remarkable progress, most existing methods focus on a single degradation type, whereas real-world images often suffer from multiple coexisting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Hu Gao , Xiaoning Lei , Ying Zhang , Xichen Xu , Guannan Jiang , Lizhuang Ma

Reconstructing transparent objects from a set of multi-view images is a challenging task due to the complicated nature and indeterminate behavior of light propagation. Typical methods are primarily tailored to specific scenarios, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Changpu Li , Shuang Wu , Songlin Tang , Guangming Lu , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

Although remarkable progress has been made on single image super-resolution due to the revival of deep convolutional neural networks, deep learning methods are confronted with the challenges of computation and memory consumption in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Dehua Song , Chang Xu , Xu Jia , Yiyi Chen , Chunjing Xu , Yunhe Wang

Motion blur in dynamic scenes is an important yet challenging research topic. Recently, deep learning methods have achieved impressive performance for dynamic scene deblurring. However, the motion information contained in a blurry image has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Youjian Zhang , Chaoyue Wang , Stephen J. Maybank , Dacheng Tao

Learning-based color enhancement approaches typically learn to map from input images to retouched images. Most of existing methods require expensive pairs of input-retouched images or produce results in a non-interpretable way. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Jongchan Park , Joon-Young Lee , Donggeun Yoo , In So Kweon

We present a method to estimate dense depth by optimizing a sparse set of points such that their diffusion into a depth map minimizes a multi-view reprojection error from RGB supervision. We optimize point positions, depths, and weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Numair Khan , Min H. Kim , James Tompkin