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Deep neural networks have greatly promoted the performance of single image super-resolution (SISR). Conventional methods still resort to restoring the single high-resolution (HR) solution only based on the input of image modality. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Chenxi Ma , Bo Yan , Qing Lin , Weimin Tan , Siming Chen

Due to their highly structured characteristics, faces are easier to recover than natural scenes for blind image super-resolution. Therefore, we can extract the degradation representation of an image from the low-quality and recovered face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhicun Yin , Ming Liu , Xiaoming Li , Hui Yang , Longan Xiao , Wangmeng Zuo

Generative diffusion models can provide powerful prior probability models for inverse problems in imaging, but existing implementations suffer from two key limitations: $(i)$ the prior density is represented implicitly, and $(ii)$ they rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra , Eero Simoncelli , Florentin Guth

In numerous practical applications, especially in medical image reconstruction, it is often infeasible to obtain a large ensemble of ground-truth/measurement pairs for supervised learning. Therefore, it is imperative to develop unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Subhadip Mukherjee , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Diffusion models have become increasingly popular for generative modeling due to their ability to generate high-quality samples. This has unlocked exciting new possibilities for solving inverse problems, especially in image restoration and…

Recovering natural language prompts for image generation models, solely based on the generated images is a difficult discrete optimization problem. In this work, we present the first head-to-head comparison of recent discrete optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Joshua Nathaniel Williams , Avi Schwarzschild , Yutong He , J. Zico Kolter

We introduce SUPIR (Scaling-UP Image Restoration), a groundbreaking image restoration method that harnesses generative prior and the power of model scaling up. Leveraging multi-modal techniques and advanced generative prior, SUPIR marks a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Fanghua Yu , Jinjin Gu , Zheyuan Li , Jinfan Hu , Xiangtao Kong , Xintao Wang , Jingwen He , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Deep image denoising networks have achieved impressive success with the help of a considerably large number of synthetic train datasets. However, real-world denoising is a still challenging problem due to the dissimilarity between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Seunghwan Lee , Tae Hyun Kim

Super-resolution is an important but difficult problem in image/video processing. If a video sequence or some training set other than the given low-resolution image is available, this kind of extra information can greatly aid in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-09-13 Heng Lian

We consider the limits of super-resolution using imaging constraints. Due to various theoretical and practical limitations, reconstruction-based methods have been largely restricted to small increases in resolution. In addition, motion-blur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Gabby Litterio , Juan-David Lizarazo-Ferro , Pedro Felzenszwalb , Rashid Zia

Deep generative modeling has led to new and state of the art approaches for enforcing structural priors in a variety of inverse problems. In contrast to priors given by sparsity, deep models can provide direct low-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Wen Huang , Paul Hand , Reinhard Heckel , Vladislav Voroninski

Real-world image super-resolution is a practical image restoration problem that aims to obtain high-quality images from in-the-wild input, has recently received considerable attention with regard to its tremendous application potentials.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Hao Li , Jinghui Qin , Zhijing Yang , Pengxu Wei , Jinshan Pan , Liang Lin , Yukai Shi

Image inpainting refers to the restoration of an image with missing regions in a way that is not detectable by the observer. The inpainting regions can be of any size and shape. This is an ill-posed inverse problem that does not have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Coloma Ballester , Aurelie Bugeau , Samuel Hurault , Simone Parisotto , Patricia Vitoria

We propose an end-to-end approach for solving inverse problems for a class of complex astronomical signals, namely Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs). Our goal is to reconstruct such signals from scarce and/or unreliable measurements. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-14 Agapi Rissaki , Orestis Pavlou , Dimitris Fotakis , Vicky Papadopoulou , Andreas Efstathiou

Structures matter in single image super resolution (SISR). Recent studies benefiting from generative adversarial network (GAN) have promoted the development of SISR by recovering photo-realistic images. However, there are always undesired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Cheng Ma , Yongming Rao , Yean Cheng , Ce Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Deep generative models have become a standard for modeling priors for inverse problems, going beyond classical sparsity-based methods. However, existing theoretical guarantees are mostly confined to finite-dimensional vector spaces,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Paolo Angella , Vito Paolo Pastore , Matteo Santacesaria

The current existing deep image super-resolution methods usually assume that a Low Resolution (LR) image is bicubicly downscaled of a High Resolution (HR) image. However, such an ideal bicubic downsampling process is different from the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Rao Muhammad Umer , Christian Micheloni

Modeling statistics of image priors is useful for image super-resolution, but little attention has been paid from the massive works of deep learning-based methods. In this work, we propose a Bayesian image restoration framework, where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Shangqi Gao , Xiahai Zhuang

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

Recently, generated images could reach very high quality, even human eyes could not tell them apart from real images. Although there are already some methods for detecting generated images in current forensic community, most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Xinsheng Xuan , Bo Peng , Wei Wang , Jing Dong