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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…

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The introduction of generative models has significantly advanced image super-resolution (SR) in handling real-world degradations. However, they often incur fidelity-related issues, particularly distorting textual structures. In this paper,…

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Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods are mainly limited by the low inference speed due to the requirements of hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing acceleration sampling techniques inevitably sacrifice…

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Diffusion- and flow-based models have advanced Real-world Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR), but their multi-step sampling makes inference slow and hard to deploy. One-step distillation alleviates the cost, yet often degrades restoration…

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Diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) has recently achieved remarkable fidelity but still suffers from prohibitive sampling costs. While distribution matching distillation (DMD) can accelerate diffusion models toward one-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengyao Lv , Menghan Xia , Xintao Wang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) remains challenging due to the inherent difficulty of recovering fine-grained details and preserving perceptual quality from low-resolution inputs. Existing methods often rely on limited image priors,…

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The rich textual information of large vision-language models (VLMs) combined with the powerful generative prior of pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has achieved impressive performance in single-image super-resolution (SISR).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Haodong He , Yancheng Bai , Rui Lan , Xu Duan , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu , Gui-Song Xia

The slow inference process of image diffusion models significantly degrades interactive user experiences. To address this, we introduce Diffusion Preview, a novel paradigm employing rapid, low-step sampling to generate preliminary outputs…

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Single-image HDR reconstruction aims to recover high dynamic range radiance from a single low dynamic range (LDR) input, but remains highly ill-posed due to detail saturation in over-exposed regions and noise amplification in under-exposed…

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Recent advancements in visual autoregressive models (VAR) have demonstrated their effectiveness in image generation, highlighting their potential for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). However, adapting VAR for ISR presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yixuan Zhu , Shilin Ma , Haolin Wang , Ao Li , Yanzhe Jing , Yansong Tang , Lei Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Image super-resolution(SR) is fundamental to many vision system-from surveillance and autonomy to document analysis and retail analytics-because recovering high-frequency details, especially scene-text, enables reliable downstream…

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Diffusion models have gained significant popularity in the field of image-to-image translation. Previous efforts applying diffusion models to image super-resolution (SR) have demonstrated that iteratively refining pure Gaussian noise using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Axi Niu , Pham Xuan Trung , Kang Zhang , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) methods deliver strong perceptual quality but are often unsuitable for latency-sensitive scenarios due to reliance on future frames and expensive multi-step denoising. We propose Stream-DiffVSR,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hau-Shiang Shiu , Chin-Yang Lin , Zhixiang Wang , Chi-Wei Hsiao , Po-Fan Yu , Yu-Chih Chen , Yu-Lun Liu

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) models have attracted substantial interest due to their powerful image restoration capabilities. However, prevailing diffusion models often struggle to strike an optimal balance between efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Qinpeng Cui , Yixuan Liu , Xinyi Zhang , Qiqi Bao , Qingmin Liao , Li Wang , Tian Lu , Zicheng Liu , Zhongdao Wang , Emad Barsoum

Diffusion models have recently advanced video restoration, but applying them to real-world video super-resolution (VSR) remains challenging due to high latency, prohibitive computation, and poor generalization to ultra-high resolutions. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Junhao Zhuang , Shi Guo , Xin Cai , Xiaohui Li , Yihao Liu , Chun Yuan , Tianfan Xue

Scene Text Image Super-Resolution (STISR) aims to restore high-resolution details in low-resolution text images, which is crucial for both human readability and machine recognition. Existing methods, however, often depend on external…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Qingsen Yan , Hao Jin , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Real-world low-resolution (LR) videos have diverse and complex degradations, imposing great challenges on video super-resolution (VSR) algorithms to reproduce their high-resolution (HR) counterparts with high quality. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xi Yang , Chenhang He , Jianqi Ma , Lei Zhang

Image super-resolution (SR) methods typically model degradation to improve reconstruction accuracy in complex and unknown degradation scenarios. However, extracting degradation information from low-resolution images is challenging, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Jinjin Gu , Xin Yuan , Linghe Kong , Guihai Chen , Xiaokang Yang

Diffusion-based super-resolution (SR) is a key component in video generation and video restoration, but is slow and expensive, limiting scalability to higher resolutions and longer videos. Our key insight is that many regions in video are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Rohan Choudhury , Shanchuan Lin , Jianyi Wang , Hao Chen , Qi Zhao , Feng Cheng , Lu Jiang , Kris Kitani , Laszlo A. Jeni

Diffusion Models (DMs) have disrupted the image Super-Resolution (SR) field and further closed the gap between image quality and human perceptual preferences. They are easy to train and can produce very high-quality samples that exceed the…

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