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Image super-resolution is a fundamentally ill-posed problem because multiple valid high-resolution images exist for one low-resolution image. Super-resolution methods based on diffusion probabilistic models can deal with the ill-posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yutao Yuan , Chun Yuan

Obtaining high resolution images from low resolution data with clipped noise is algorithmically challenging due to the ill-posed nature of the problem. So far such problems have hardly been tackled, and the few existing approaches use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Kireeti Bodduna , Joachim Weickert , Marcelo Cárdenas

To overcome inherent hardware limitations of hyperspectral imaging systems with respect to their spatial resolution, fusion-based hyperspectral image (HSI) super-resolution is attracting increasing attention. This technique aims to fuse a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Xiuheng Wang , Jie Chen , Cédric Richard

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglu Pan , Xiaogang Xu , Ganggui Ding , Yunke Zhang , Wenbo Li , Jiarong Xu , Qingbiao Wu

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for generative tasks, producing high-quality outputs across diverse domains. However, how the generated data responds to the initial noise perturbation in diffusion models remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Bowen Song , Zecheng Zhang , Zhaoxu Luo , Jason Hu , Wei Yuan , Jing Jia , Zhengxu Tang , Guanyang Wang , Liyue Shen

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 ZiHan Cao , ShiQi Cao , Xiao Wu , JunMing Hou , Ran Ran , Liang-Jian Deng

This study introduces a novel approach for image reconstruction based on a diffusion model conditioned on the native data domain. Our method is applied to multi-coil MRI and quantitative MRI reconstruction, leveraging the domain-conditioned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wanyu Bian , Albert Jang , Fang Liu

Current deep learning reconstruction for accelerated cardiac cine MRI suffers from spatial and temporal blurring. We aim to improve image sharpness and motion delineation for cine MRI under high undersampling rates. A spatiotemporal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Shihan Qiu , Shaoyan Pan , Yikang Liu , Lin Zhao , Jian Xu , Qi Liu , Terrence Chen , Eric Z. Chen , Xiao Chen , Shanhui Sun

The conditional diffusion model (CDM) enhances the standard diffusion model by providing more control, improving the quality and relevance of the outputs, and making the model adaptable to a wider range of complex tasks. However, inaccurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Weifeng Xu , Xiang Zhu , Xiaoyong Li

Advancements in diffusion models have enabled effortless image editing via text prompts, raising concerns about image security. Attackers with access to user images can exploit these tools for malicious edits. Recent defenses attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Aniruddha Bala , Rohit Chowdhury , Rohan Jaiswal , Siddharth Roheda

Computed tomography (CT) provides rich 3D anatomical details but is often constrained by high radiation exposure, substantial costs, and limited availability. While standard chest X-rays are cost-effective and widely accessible, they only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Martin Rath , Morteza Ghahremani , Yitong Li , Ashkan Taghipour , Marcus Makowski , Christian Wachinger

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) has been demonstrated to be an effective approach for wireless image transmission. Nevertheless, most existing work adopts an autoencoder framework to optimize conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Mingyu Yang , Bowen Liu , Boyang Wang , Hun-Seok Kim

While diffusion models have set a new benchmark for quality in Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) denoising, their clinical adoption is critically hindered by extreme computational costs, with inference times often exceeding thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tangtangfang Fang , Jingxi Hu , Xiangjian He , Jiaqi Yang

Score-based diffusion models provide a powerful way to model images using the gradient of the data distribution. Leveraging the learned score function as a prior, here we introduce a way to sample data from a conditional distribution given…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye

Image restoration refers to the process of restoring a damaged low-quality image back to its corresponding high-quality image. Typically, we use convolutional neural networks to directly learn the mapping from low-quality images to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Conghan Yue , Zhengwei Peng , Junlong Ma , Dongyu Zhang

Fusion-based hyperspectral image (HSI) super-resolution aims to produce a high-spatial-resolution HSI by fusing a low-spatial-resolution HSI and a high-spatial-resolution multispectral image. Such a HSI super-resolution process can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jianjun Liu , Zebin Wu , Liang Xiao

Super-resolution remains a promising technique to enhance the quality of low-resolution images. This study introduces CATformer (Contrastive Adversarial Transformer), a novel neural network integrating diffusion-inspired feature refinement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qinyi Tian , Spence Cox , Laura E. Dalton

Hyperspectral images (HSI) have a large amount of spectral information reflecting the characteristics of matter, while their spatial resolution is low due to the limitations of imaging technology. Complementary to this are multispectral…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-10 Shuaikai Shi , Lijun Zhang , Jie Chen

We propose a novel regularizer for supervised learning called Conditioning on Noisy Targets (CNT). This approach consists in conditioning the model on a noisy version of the target(s) (e.g., actions in imitation learning or labels in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Alex Lamb , Vikas Verma , Aniket Didolkar

The restoration of images affected by blur and noise has been widely studied and has broad potential for applications including in medical imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT). Although the blur and noise in CT images can be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yijie Yuan , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman