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Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in real-world image super-resolution (SR), yet their reliance on time-consuming multi-step sampling largely hinders their practical applications. While recent efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jiaqi Xu , Wenbo Li , Haoze Sun , Fan Li , Zhixin Wang , Long Peng , Jingjing Ren , Haoran Yang , Xiaowei Hu , Renjing Pei , Pheng-Ann Heng

Image denoising is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most supervised denoising methods learn to reconstruct clean images from noisy inputs, which have intrinsic spectral bias and tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yujin Wang , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

The computational burden of the iterative sampling process remains a major challenge in diffusion-based Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE). Current acceleration methods, whether training-based or training-free, often lead to significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Guanzhou Lan , Qianli Ma , Yuqi Yang , Zhigang Wang , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li , Bin Zhao

We present DiSR-NeRF, a diffusion-guided framework for view-consistent super-resolution (SR) NeRF. Unlike prior works, we circumvent the requirement for high-resolution (HR) reference images by leveraging existing powerful 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jie Long Lee , Chen Li , Gim Hee Lee

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models lack an efficient mechanism for early quality assessment, leading to costly trial-and-error in multi-generation scenarios such as prompt iteration, agent-based generation, and flow-grpo. We reveal a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Benlei Cui , Bukun Huang , Zhizeng Ye , Xuemei Dong , Tuo Chen , Hui Xue , Dingkang Yang , Longtao Huang , Jingqun Tang , Haiwen Hong

Task-driven image restoration (TDIR) has recently emerged to address performance drops in high-level vision tasks caused by low-quality (LQ) inputs. Previous TDIR methods struggle to handle practical scenarios in which images are degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jaeha Kim , Junghun Oh , Kyoung Mu Lee

We introduce Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), a novel training approach that efficiently samples large-scale foundational image diffusion models in just 1-4 steps while maintaining high image quality. We use score distillation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Axel Sauer , Dominik Lorenz , Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach

Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have been extensively adopted for real-world image Super-Resolution because of their powerful generative priors through textual guidance. However, when super-resolving high-resolution images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qingji Dong , Hang Dong , Mingqin Chen , Rui Zhang , Yitong Wang

Text-to-image (T2I) generation with Stable Diffusion models (SDMs) involves high computing demands due to billion-scale parameters. To enhance efficiency, recent studies have reduced sampling steps and applied network quantization while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Bo-Kyeong Kim , Hyoung-Kyu Song , Thibault Castells , Shinkook Choi

Currently, high-fidelity text-to-image models are developed in an accelerating pace. Among them, Diffusion Models have led to a remarkable improvement in the quality of image generation, making it vary challenging to distinguish between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ziyue Zeng , Haoyuan Liu , Dingjie Peng , Luoxu Jing , Hiroshi Watanabe

Image restoration (IR) in real-world scenarios presents significant challenges due to the lack of high-capacity models and comprehensive datasets. To tackle these issues, we present a dual strategy: GenIR, an innovative data curation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yuang Ai , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Huaibo Huang , Xiaotian Han , Zhengyu Chen , Quanzeng You , Hongxia Yang

Real-image super-resolution (Real-ISR) seeks to recover HR images from LR inputs with mixed, unknown degradations. While diffusion models surpass GANs in perceptual quality, they under-reconstruct high-frequency (HF) details due to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Seungho Choi , Jeahun Sung , Jihyong Oh

Multimodal contrastive models have achieved strong performance in text-audio retrieval and zero-shot settings, but improving joint embedding spaces remains an active research area. Less attention has been given to making these systems…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Julien Guinot , Elio Quinton , György Fazekas

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ce Wang , Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun , Zhenzhong Chen

Generative priors of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models enable a wide range of new generation and editing applications on diverse visual modalities. However, when adapting these priors to complex visual modalities, often represented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Subin Kim , Kyungmin Lee , June Suk Choi , Jongheon Jeong , Kihyuk Sohn , Jinwoo Shin

In diffusion models, samples are generated through an iterative refinement process, requiring hundreds of sequential model evaluations. Several recent methods have introduced approximations (fewer discretization steps or distillation) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Nikil Roashan Selvam , Amil Merchant , Stefano Ermon

Diffusion models have revitalized the image generation domain, playing crucial roles in both academic research and artistic expression. With the emergence of new diffusion models, assessing the performance of text-to-image models has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Chutian Meng , Fan Ma , Jiaxu Miao , Chi Zhang , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang

Score-based distillation methods (e.g., variational score distillation) train one-step diffusion models by first pre-training a teacher score model and then distilling it into a one-step student model. However, the gradient estimator in the…

Monocular depth estimation within the diffusion-denoising paradigm demonstrates impressive generalization ability but suffers from low inference speed. Recent methods adopt a single-step deterministic paradigm to improve inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Ziyang Song , Zerong Wang , Bo Li , Hao Zhang , Ruijie Zhu , Li Liu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Tianzhu Zhang

Real-world low-resolution (LR) videos have diverse and complex degradations, imposing great challenges on video super-resolution (VSR) algorithms to reproduce their high-resolution (HR) counterparts with high quality. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xi Yang , Chenhang He , Jianqi Ma , Lei Zhang