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Text-guided image editing is an essential task that enables users to modify images through natural language descriptions. Recent advances in diffusion models and rectified flows have significantly improved editing quality, primarily relying…

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Recent advances in video generation have been dominated by diffusion and flow-matching models, which produce high-quality results but remain computationally intensive and difficult to scale. In this work, we introduce VideoAR, the first…

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Visual autoregressive (AR) generation offers a promising path toward unifying vision and language models, yet its performance remains suboptimal against diffusion models. Prior work often attributes this gap to tokenizer limitations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Qiyuan He , Yicong Li , Haotian Ye , Jinghao Wang , Xinyao Liao , Pheng-Ann Heng , Stefano Ermon , James Zou , Angela Yao

Recent advances in text-to-image generative models have enabled numerous practical applications, including subject-driven generation, which fine-tunes pretrained models to capture subject semantics from only a few examples. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiwoo Chung , Sangeek Hyun , Hyunjun Kim , Eunseo Koh , MinKyu Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

The objective of image super-resolution is to generate clean and high-resolution images from degraded versions. Recent advancements in diffusion modeling have led to the emergence of various image super-resolution techniques that leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Haolan Chen , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Kun Yuan , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Wei Hu

Image super-resolution (SR) techniques are used to generate a high-resolution image from a low-resolution image. Until now, deep generative models such as autoregressive models and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Darius Chira , Ilian Haralampiev , Ole Winther , Andrea Dittadi , Valentin Liévin

With the success of autoregressive learning in large language models, it has become a dominant approach for text-to-image generation, offering high efficiency and visual quality. However, invisible watermarking for visual autoregressive…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ziyi Wang , Songbai Tan , Gang Xu , Xuerui Qiu , Hongbin Xu , Xin Meng , Ming Li , Fei Richard Yu

Infrared imaging is essential for autonomous driving and robotic operations as a supportive modality due to its reliable performance in challenging environments. Despite its popularity, the limitations of infrared cameras, such as low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingyuan Li , Zirui Wang , Yang Zou , Zhixin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Jinyuan Liu

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models generate images through next-scale prediction, naturally achieving coarse-to-fine, fast, high-fidelity synthesis mirroring human perception. In practice, this hierarchy can drift at inference time, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Youngwoo Shin , Jiwan Hur , Junmo Kim

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have garnered significant attention for their ability to model complex signals in various domains. Recently, INR-based frameworks have shown promise in neural video compression by embedding video…

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Autoregressive (AR) modeling has achieved remarkable success in natural language processing by enabling models to generate text with coherence and contextual understanding through next token prediction. Recently, in image generation, VAR…

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Restoring low-resolution text images presents a significant challenge, as it requires maintaining both the fidelity and stylistic realism of the text in restored images. Existing text image restoration methods often fall short in hard…

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Visual autoregressive modeling, based on the next-scale prediction paradigm, exhibits notable advantages in image quality and model scalability over traditional autoregressive and diffusion models. It generates images by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhuokun Chen , Jugang Fan , Zhuowei Yu , Bohan Zhuang , Mingkui Tan

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

Diffusion-based methods, endowed with a formidable generative prior, have received increasing attention in Image Super-Resolution (ISR) recently. However, as low-resolution (LR) images often undergo severe degradation, it is challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Jinhua Hao , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Existing real-world super-resolution (RSR) methods based on generative priors have achieved remarkable progress in producing high-quality and globally consistent reconstructions. However, they often struggle to recover fine-grained details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zixin Guo , Kai Zhao , Luyan Zhang

We present ControlSR, a new method that can tame Diffusion Models for consistent real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). Previous Real-ISR models mostly focus on how to activate more generative priors of text-to-image diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuhao Wan , Peng-Tao Jiang , Qibin Hou , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Li

Diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated exceptional promise in the video super-resolution (VSR) task, achieving a substantial advancement in detail generation relative to prior methods. However, these approaches face significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhongdao Wang , Guodongfang Zhao , Jingjing Ren , Bailan Feng , Shifeng Zhang , Wenbo Li

Most of the recent generative image super-resolution (SR) methods rely on adapting large text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models pretrained on web-scale text-image data. While effective, this paradigm starts from a generic T2I generator,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Rongyuan Wu , Lingchen Sun , Zhengqiang Zhang , Xiangtao Kong , Jixin Zhao , Shihao Wang , Lei Zhang

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) has achieved a remarkable leap by leveraging large-scale text-to-image models, enabling realistic image restoration from given recognition textual prompts. However, these methods sometimes fail…

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