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Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

Real-world image super-resolution aims to recover high-quality images from complex and unknown real-world degradations. However, existing generative Real-ISR methods largely inherit the dense latent representations and quadratic-cost global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Bingtian Qiao , Yue Shi , Yingjie Zhou , Yong Guo , Guangtao Zhai , Jiezhang Cao

We study the problem of reconstructing an image from information stored at contour locations. We show that high-quality reconstructions with high fidelity to the source image can be obtained from sparse input, e.g., comprising less than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Tali Dekel , Chuang Gan , Dilip Krishnan , Ce Liu , William T. Freeman

Decompositional reconstruction of 3D scenes, with complete shapes and detailed texture of all objects within, is intriguing for downstream applications but remains challenging, particularly with sparse views as input. Recent approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Junfeng Ni , Yu Liu , Ruijie Lu , Zirui Zhou , Song-Chun Zhu , Yixin Chen , Siyuan Huang

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

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve an image's visibility while keeping its visual naturalness. Different from existing methods tending to accomplish the relighting task directly by ignoring the fidelity and naturalness recovery, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zheng Wang , Chen Chen , Peng Yi , Tao Lu , Chia-Wen Lin

Image super-resolution pursuits reconstructing high-fidelity high-resolution counterpart for low-resolution image. In recent years, diffusion-based models have garnered significant attention due to their capabilities with rich prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Aiwen Jiang , Zhi Wei , Long Peng , Feiqiang Liu , Wenbo Li , Mingwen Wang

Although image restoration has advanced significantly, most existing methods target only a single type of degradation. In real-world scenarios, images often contain multiple degradations simultaneously, such as rain, noise, and haze,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Hu Gao , Xiaoning Lei , Xichen Xu , Depeng Dang , Lizhuang Ma

Benefited from the deep learning, image Super-Resolution has been one of the most developing research fields in computer vision. Depending upon whether using a discriminator or not, a deep convolutional neural network can provide an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Wan-Chi Siu , Li-Wen Wang , Chu-Tak Li , Marie-Paule Cani , Yui-Lam Chan

Unified image restoration is a significantly challenging task in low-level vision. Existing methods either make tailored designs for specific tasks, limiting their generalizability across various types of degradation, or rely on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Huaqiu Li , Yong Wang , Tongwen Huang , Hailang Huang , Haoqian Wang , Xiangxiang Chu

The primary aim of single-image super-resolution is to construct high-resolution (HR) images from corresponding low-resolution (LR) inputs. In previous approaches, which have generally been supervised, the training objective typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Sachit Menon , Alexandru Damian , Shijia Hu , Nikhil Ravi , Cynthia Rudin

Most super-resolution (SR) models struggle with real-world low-resolution (LR) images. This issue arises because the degradation characteristics in the synthetic datasets differ from those in real-world LR images. Since SR models are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Ru Ito , Supatta Viriyavisuthisakul , Kazuhiko Kawamoto , Hiroshi Kera

Despite the breakthroughs in accuracy and speed of single image super-resolution using faster and deeper convolutional neural networks, one central problem remains largely unsolved: how do we recover the finer texture details when we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Christian Ledig , Lucas Theis , Ferenc Huszar , Jose Caballero , Andrew Cunningham , Alejandro Acosta , Andrew Aitken , Alykhan Tejani , Johannes Totz , Zehan Wang , Wenzhe Shi

In the field of medical image analysis, there is a substantial need for high-resolution (HR) images to improve diagnostic accuracy. However, it is a challenging task to obtain HR medical images, as it requires advanced instruments and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Alireza Aghelan , Modjtaba Rouhani

The inherent generative power of denoising diffusion models makes them well-suited for image restoration tasks where the objective is to find the optimal high-quality image within the generative space that closely resembles the input image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zheng Ding , Xuaner Zhang , Zhuowen Tu , Zhihao Xia

Text image super-resolution (Text-SR) requires more than visually plausible detail synthesis: slight errors in stroke topology may alter character identity and break readability. Existing methods improve text fidelity with stronger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zihang Xu , Xiaoyang Liu , Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

Image restoration under real-world degradations is critical for downstream tasks such as autonomous driving and object detection. However, existing restoration models are often limited by the scale and distribution of their training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yufeng Yang , Xianfang Zeng , Zhangqi Jiang , Fukun Yin , Jianzhuang Liu , Wei Cheng , jinghong lan , Shiyu Liu , Yuqi Peng , Gang YU , Shifeng Chen

Traditionally, the main focus of image super-resolution techniques is on recovering the most likely high-quality images from low-quality images, using a one-to-one low- to high-resolution mapping. Proceeding that way, we ignore the fact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Mohamed Abderrahmen Abid , Ihsen Hedhli , Christian Gagné

While physically-based rendering (PBR) simulates light transport that guarantees physical realism, achieving true photorealistic rendering (PRR) demands prohibitive time and labor, and still struggles to capture the intractable richness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jiayuan Lu , Rengan Xie , Xuancheng Jin , Zhizhen Wu , Qi Ye , Tian Xie , Hujun Bao , Rui Wang. Yuchi Huo

Masked Autoregressive (MAR) models promise better efficiency in visual generation than autoregressive (AR) models for the ability of parallel generation, yet their acceleration potential remains constrained by the modeling complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Feihong Yan , Peiru Wang , Yao Zhu , Kaiyu Pang , Qingyan Wei , Huiqi Li , Linfeng Zhang