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The proposed method, Discriminator Guidance, aims to improve sample generation of pre-trained diffusion models. The approach introduces a discriminator that gives explicit supervision to a denoising sample path whether it is realistic or…

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Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved impressive results in real-time 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, these methods struggle in large-scale, unconstrained…

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Super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts, often relying on effective downsampling to generate diverse and realistic training pairs. In this work, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Sohwi Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

Using diffusion models to solve inverse problems is a growing field of research. Current methods assume the degradation to be known and provide impressive results in terms of restoration quality and diversity. In this work, we leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Charles Laroche , Andrés Almansa , Eva Coupete

Protein inverse folding, the design of an amino acid sequence based on a target protein structure, is a fundamental problem of computational protein engineering. Existing methods either generate sequences without leveraging external…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-10 Jin Han , Tianfan Fu , Wu-Jun Li

While super-resolution (SR) methods based on diffusion models exhibit promising results, their practical application is hindered by the substantial number of required inference steps. Recent methods utilize degraded images in the initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Ziwei Liu , Yu Qiao , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

This paper presents a novel approach for denoising Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) patterns using diffusion models. We propose a two-stage training process with a UNet-based architecture, incorporating an auxiliary regression head…

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This study introduces LRDif, a novel diffusion-based framework designed specifically for facial expression recognition (FER) within the context of under-display cameras (UDC). To address the inherent challenges posed by UDC's image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

Illumination degradation image restoration (IDIR) techniques aim to improve the visibility of degraded images and mitigate the adverse effects of deteriorated illumination. Among these algorithms, diffusion model (DM)-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunming He , Chengyu Fang , Yulun Zhang , Tian Ye , Kai Li , Longxiang Tang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li , Sina Farsiu

Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration. To address these issues, we propose a robust and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Songchen Han , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Denosing diffusion model, as a generative model, has received a lot of attention in the field of image generation recently, thanks to its powerful generation capability. However, diffusion models have not yet received sufficient research in…

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Due to storage and bandwidth limitations, videos transmitted over the Internet often exhibit low quality, characterized by low-resolution and compression artifacts. Although video super-resolution (VSR) is an efficient video enhancing…

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High-fidelity, high-resolution numerical simulations are crucial for studying complex multiscale phenomena in fluid dynamics, such as turbulent flows and ocean waves. However, direct numerical simulations with high-resolution solvers are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Wuzhe Xu , Yulong Lu , Lian Shen , Anqing Xuan , Ali Barzegari

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

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Images captured in challenging environments--such as nighttime, smoke, rainy weather, and underwater--often suffer from significant degradation, resulting in a substantial loss of visual quality. The effective restoration of these degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenfeng Huang , Guoan Xu , Wenjing Jia , Stuart Perry , Guangwei Gao

While burst Low-Resolution (LR) images are useful for improving their Super Resolution (SR) image compared to a single LR image, prior burst SR methods are trained in a deterministic manner, which produces a blurry SR image. Since such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Kento Kawai , Takeru Oba , Kyotaro Tokoro , Kazutoshi Akita , Norimichi Ukita

The problem of blind image super-resolution aims to recover high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) images with unknown degradation modes. Most existing methods model the image degradation process using blur kernels. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Junxiong Lin , Zeng Tao , Xuan Tong , Xinji Mai , Haoran Wang , Boyang Wang , Yan Wang , Qing Zhao , Jiawen Yu , Yuxuan Lin , Shaoqi Yan , Shuyong Gao , Wenqiang Zhang

Image rescaling aims to learn the optimal low-resolution (LR) image that can be accurately reconstructed to its original high-resolution (HR) counterpart, providing an efficient image processing and storage method for ultra-high definition…

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