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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 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

Reference-based Super Resolution (RefSR) improves upon Single Image Super Resolution (SISR) by leveraging high-quality reference images to enhance texture fidelity and visual realism. However, a critical limitation of existing RefSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jiaqi Yan , Shuning Xu , Xiangyu Chen , Dell Zhang , Jiantao Zhou , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu , Jie Liu

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

Powered by multimodal text-to-image priors, diffusion-based super-resolution excels at synthesizing intricate details; however, models trained on synthetic low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image pairs often degrade when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zihao Fan , Xin Lu , Yidi Liu , Jie Huang , Dong Li , Xueyang Fu , Baocai Yin

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

General-purpose super-resolution models, particularly Vision Transformers, have achieved remarkable success but exhibit fundamental inefficiencies in common infrared imaging scenarios like surveillance and autonomous driving, which operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Youngwan Jin , Incheol Park , Yagiz Nalcakan , Hyeongjin Ju , Sanghyeop Yeo , Shiho Kim

This study presents a new image super-resolution (SR) technique based on diffusion inversion, aiming at harnessing the rich image priors encapsulated in large pre-trained diffusion models to improve SR performance. We design a Partial noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zongsheng Yue , Kang Liao , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion models have become a central tool in deep generative modeling, but standard formulations rely on a single network and a single diffusion schedule to transform a simple prior, typically a standard normal distribution, into the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Takuro Kutsuna

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

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved performance in super-resolution (SR) tasks. However, previous research often overlooks the fundamental differences between SR and general image generation. General image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Hanlin Wu , Jiangwei Mo , Xiaohui Sun , Jie Ma

Pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly applied to real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) task. Given the iterative refinement nature of diffusion models, most existing approaches are computationally expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Linwei Dong , Qingnan Fan , Yihong Guo , Zhonghao Wang , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

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-based image super-resolution (SR) has recently attracted significant attention by leveraging the expressive power of large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models (DMs). A central practical challenge is resolving the trade-off…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Maxence Noble , Gonzalo Iñaki Quintana , Benjamin Aubin , Clément Chadebec

Although diffusion-based models have achieved impressive results in image super-resolution, they often rely on large-scale backbones such as Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) and Diffusion Transformers (DiT), which lead to excessive computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zhongbao Yang , Jiangxin Dong , Yazhou Yao , Jinhui Tang , Jinshan Pan

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

Recent advancements in diffusion-based generative priors have enabled visually plausible image compression at extremely low bit rates. However, existing approaches suffer from slow sampling processes and suboptimal bit allocation due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yichong Xia , Yimin Zhou , Jinpeng Wang , Bin Chen

Zero-shot image restoration (IR) methods based on pretrained diffusion models have recently achieved significant success. These methods typically require at least a parametric form of the degradation model. However, in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hamadi Chihaoui , Paolo Favaro

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Shuwei Huang , Shizhuo Liu , Zijun Wei

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv