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Recently, text-to-image denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have demonstrated impressive image generation capabilities and have also been successfully applied to image inpainting. However, in practice, users often require more…

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Restoring underwater images affected by non-uniform illumination (NUI) is essential to improve visual quality and usability in marine applications. Conventional methods often fall short in handling complex illumination patterns, while…

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Composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve the target image based on a multimodal query, i.e., a reference image paired with corresponding modification text. Recent CIR studies leverage vision-language pre-trained (VLP) methods as the…

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Universal image restoration is a practical and potential computer vision task for real-world applications. The main challenge of this task is handling the different degradation distributions at once. Existing methods mainly utilize…

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Image quality assessment (IQA) and image restoration are fundamental problems in low-level vision. Although IQA and restoration are closely connected conceptually, most existing work treats them in isolation. Recent advances in unified…

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Diffusion models have demonstrated their powerful image generation capabilities, effectively fitting highly complex image distributions. These models can serve as strong priors for image restoration. Existing methods often utilize…

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Diffusion models are now commonly used to solve inverse problems in computational imaging. However, most diffusion-based inverse solvers require complete knowledge of the forward operator to be used. In this work, we introduce a novel…

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Score-based diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance for inverse problems, but their practical deployment is hindered by long inference times and cumbersome hyperparameter tuning. While pretrained diffusion models can be reused…

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Ill-posed inverse problems appear in many image processing applications, such as deblurring and super-resolution. In recent years, solutions that are based on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown great promise. Yet, most of…

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Image restoration under multiple adverse weather conditions aims to develop a single model to recover the underlying scene with high visibility. Weather-related artifacts vary with the particle's distance to the camera according to the…

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Digital versions of real-world text documents often suffer from issues like environmental corrosion of the original document, low-quality scanning, or human interference. Existing document restoration and inpainting methods typically…

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Burst image super resolution (BISR) aims to construct a single high-resolution (HR) image by aggregating information from multiple low-resolution (LR) frames, relying on temporal redundancy and spatial coherence across the burst. While…

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (ISR) has shown strong potential, but it still struggles in real-world scenarios where degradations are unknown and spatially non-uniform, often resulting in lost details or visual artifacts. To…

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The recovery of high-quality images from images corrupted by lens flare presents a significant challenge in low-level vision. Contemporary deep learning methods frequently entail training a lens flare removing model from scratch. However,…

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Universal image restoration aims to recover clean images from arbitrary real-world degradations using a single inference model. Despite significant progress, existing all-in-one restoration networks do not scale to multiple degradations. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Debabrata Mandal , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Yujie Wang , Marc Niethammer , Praneeth Chakravarthula

Diffusion model-based image restoration (IR) aims to use diffusion models to recover high-quality (HQ) images from degraded images, achieving promising performance. Due to the inherent property of diffusion models, most existing methods…

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Diffusion models have been demonstrated as powerful deep learning tools for image generation in CT reconstruction and restoration. Recently, diffusion posterior sampling, where a score-based diffusion prior is combined with a likelihood…

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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.…

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Latent diffusion models (LDM) have revolutionized text-to-image generation, leading to the proliferation of various advanced models and diverse downstream applications. However, despite these significant advancements, current diffusion…

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