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Human mesh recovery (HMR) provides rich human body information for various real-world applications. While image-based HMR methods have achieved impressive results, they often struggle to recover humans in dynamic scenarios, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ce Zheng , Xianpeng Liu , Qucheng Peng , Tianfu Wu , Pu Wang , Chen Chen

A low-resolution digital surface model (DSM) features distinctive attributes impacted by noise, sensor limitations and data acquisition conditions, which failed to be replicated using simple interpolation methods like bicubic. This causes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Daniel Panangian , Ksenia Bittner

Diffusion models can synthesize realistic co-speech video from audio for various applications, such as video creation and virtual agents. However, existing diffusion-based methods are slow due to numerous denoising steps and costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Beijia Lu , Ziyi Chen , Jing Xiao , Jun-Yan Zhu

Due to the significant information loss in low-resolution (LR) images, it has become extremely challenging to further advance the state-of-the-art of single image super-resolution (SISR). Reference-based super-resolution (RefSR), on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Zhifei Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Zhe Lin , Hairong Qi

In this paper, we explore the space-time video super-resolution task, which aims to generate a high-resolution (HR) slow-motion video from a low frame rate (LFR), low-resolution (LR) video. A simple solution is to split it into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Xiaoyu Xiang , Yapeng Tian , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu , Jan P. Allebach , Chenliang Xu

We study generative super-resolution (SR) in real-world scenarios where content and degradations vary across domains, genres, and segments. For example, images and videos may alternate between text overlays, fast motion, smooth cartoons,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jiaqi Guo , Mingzhen Li , Haohong Wang , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation, but their real-world applications are hampered by the extensive time needed for hundreds of diffusion steps. Although progressive distillation has been proposed to speed up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yifan Zhang , Bryan Hooi

We propose RoHM, an approach for robust 3D human motion reconstruction from monocular RGB(-D) videos in the presence of noise and occlusions. Most previous approaches either train neural networks to directly regress motion in 3D or learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Siwei Zhang , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Yuanlu Xu , Alexander Winkler , Petr Kadlecek , Siyu Tang , Federica Bogo

Human motion prediction is a cornerstone of human-robot collaboration (HRC), as robots need to infer the future movements of human workers based on past motion cues to proactively plan their motion, ensuring safety in close collaboration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Sibo Tian , Minghui Zheng , Xiao Liang

Preference optimization for diffusion models aims to align them with human preferences for images. Previous methods typically use Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as pixel-level reward models to approximate human preferences. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Tao Zhang , Cheng Da , Kun Ding , Huan Yang , Kun Jin , Yan Li , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Vanilla text-to-image diffusion models struggle with generating accurate human images, commonly resulting in imperfect anatomies such as unnatural postures or disproportionate limbs.Existing methods address this issue mostly by fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Junyan Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Zhiyu Tan , Xuanbai Chen , Weihua Chen , Hao Li , Cheng Zhang , Yang Song

Speech super-resolution (SR) is the task that restores high-resolution speech from low-resolution input. Existing models employ simulated data and constrained experimental settings, which limit generalization to real-world SR. Predictive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Heming Wang , Eric W. Healy , DeLiang Wang

Real-world videos often extend over thousands of frames. Existing generative video super-resolution (VSR) approaches, however, face two persistent challenges when processing long sequences: (1) inefficiency due to the heavy cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ziqing Zhang , Kai Liu , Zheng Chen , Xi Li , Yucong Chen , Bingnan Duan , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in generative modeling. Due to their high training costs, many works leverage pre-trained diffusion models' powerful representations for downstream tasks, such as face super-resolution (FSR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiarui Yang , Tao Dai , Yufei Zhu , Naiqi Li , Jinmin Li , Shutao Xia

Video super-resolution (SR) aims to generate a sequence of high-resolution (HR) frames with plausible and temporally consistent details from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts. The generation of accurate correspondence plays a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Zaiping Lin , Xinpu Deng , Wei An

High dynamic range (HDR) rendering has the ability to faithfully reproduce the wide luminance ranges in natural scenes, but how to accurately assess the rendering quality is relatively underexplored. Existing quality models are mostly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Peibei Cao , Rafal K. Mantiuk , Kede Ma

In recent years, convolutional networks have demonstrated unprecedented performance in the image restoration task of super-resolution (SR). SR entails the upscaling of a single low-resolution image in order to meet application-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Royson Lee , Stylianos I. Venieris , Łukasz Dudziak , Sourav Bhattacharya , Nicholas D. Lane

Recent advancements in diffusion models have positioned them at the forefront of image generation. Despite their superior performance, diffusion models are not without drawbacks; they are characterized by complex architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Yuda Song , Zehao Sun , Xuanwu Yin

Unsupervised real-world super-resolution (SR) faces critical challenges due to the complex, unknown degradation distributions in practical scenarios. Existing methods struggle to generalize from synthetic low-resolution (LR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hongyang Zhou , Xiaobin Zhu , Liuling Chen , Junyi He , Jingyan Qin , Xu-Cheng Yin , Zhang xiaoxing

While recent diffusion-based generative image codecs have shown impressive performance, their iterative sampling process introduces unpleasing latency. In this work, we revisit the design of a diffusion-based codec and argue that multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Naifu Xue , Zhaoyang Jia , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Yuan Zhang , Yan Lu