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We introduce UniCon, a novel architecture designed to enhance control and efficiency in training adapters for large-scale diffusion models. Unlike existing methods that rely on bidirectional interaction between the diffusion model and…

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Diffusion models have established new state of the art in a multitude of computer vision tasks, including image restoration. Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers generate reconstructions of exceptional visual quality from heavily…

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We propose Diff-Shadow, a global-guided diffusion model for shadow removal. Previous transformer-based approaches can utilize global information to relate shadow and non-shadow regions but are limited in their synthesis ability and recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jinting Luo , Ru Li , Chengzhi Jiang , Xiaoming Zhang , Mingyan Han , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved great success in image restoration. However, most DNN methods are designed as a black box, lacking transparency and interpretability. Although some methods are proposed to combine traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Chong Mou , Qian Wang , Jian Zhang

Diffusion priors have been used for blind face restoration (BFR) by fine-tuning diffusion models (DMs) on restoration datasets to recover low-quality images. However, the naive application of DMs presents several key limitations. (i) The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Senmao Li , Kai Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Chun-Le Guo , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

Deep learning methods are becoming widely used for restoration of defects associated with fluorescence microscopy imaging. One of the major challenges in application of such methods is the availability of training data. In this work, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Anastasia Razdaibiedina , Jeevaa Velayutham , Miti Modi

Removing various degradations from damaged documents greatly benefits digitization, downstream document analysis, and readability. Previous methods often treat each restoration task independently with dedicated models, leading to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Fangmin Zhao , Weichao Zeng , Zhenhang Li , Dongbao Yang , Binbin Li , Xiaojun Bi , Yu Zhou

Photoacoustic imaging combines the high contrast of optical imaging with the deep penetration depth of ultrasonic imaging, showing great potential in cerebrovascular disease detection. However, the ultrasonic wave suffers strong attenuation…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Pengcheng Wan , Fan Zhang , Yuting Shen , Hulin Zhao , Xiran Cai , Xiaohua Feng , Fei Gao

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Weiqi Li , Xuanyu Zhang , Bin Chen , Jingfen Xie , Yan Wang , Kexin Zhang , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Jian Zhang , Shijie Zhao

In this work, we address the limitations of denoising diffusion models (DDMs) in image restoration tasks, particularly the shape and color distortions that can compromise image quality. While DDMs have demonstrated a promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Xinlong Cheng , Tiantian Cao , Guoan Cheng , Bangxuan Huang , Xinghan Tian , Ye Wang , Xiaoyu He , Weixin Li , Tianfan Xue , Xuan Dong

Unified models aim to support both understanding and generation by encoding images into discrete tokens and processing them alongside text within a single autoregressive framework. This unified design offers architectural simplicity and…

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Atmospheric turbulence significantly affects imaging systems which use light that has propagated through long atmospheric paths. Images captured under such condition suffer from a combination of geometric deformation and space varying blur.…

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Under-Display Camera (UDC) has been widely exploited to help smartphones realize full screen display. However, as the screen could inevitably affect the light propagation process, the images captured by the UDC system usually contain flare,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Xina Liu , Jinfan Hu , Xiangyu Chen , Chao Dong

Deployed text-to-image diffusion models increasingly require post-hoc concept unlearning for copyright claims, artist opt-outs, safety updates, and protected-content mitigation without full retraining. A central challenge is erase-retain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ashutosh Ranjan , Vivek Srivastava , Shirish Karande , Murari Mandal

Images captured under outdoor scenes usually suffer from low contrast and limited visibility due to suspended atmospheric particles, which directly affects the quality of photos. Despite numerous image dehazing methods have been proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Chongyi Li , Jichang Guo , Fatih Porikli , Huazhu Fu , Yanwei Pang

Nighttime image dehazing remains a challenging low-level vision problem due to the joint presence of haze, glow, non-uniform illumination, color distortion, and sensor noise, which often invalidate assumptions commonly used in daytime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mohammad Heydari , Wei Dong , Shahram Shirani , Jun Chen , Han Zhou

Image restoration is the task of recovering a clean image from a degraded version. In most cases, the degradation is spatially varying, and it requires the restoration network to both localize and restore the affected regions. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Maitreya Suin , Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan

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

Image restoration is a low-level vision task, most CNN methods are designed as a black box, lacking transparency and internal aesthetics. Although some methods combining traditional optimization algorithms with DNNs have been proposed, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiao Feng Zhang , Chao Chen Gu , Shan Ying Zhu

Generalizable neural implicit surface reconstruction aims to obtain an accurate underlying geometry given a limited number of multi-view images from unseen scenes. However, existing methods select only informative and relevant views using…

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