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Discrete diffusion models excel at visual synthesis but rely on slow, iterative decoding. Existing single-step distillation methods attempt to bypass this bottleneck, either by training auxiliary score networks that effectively double…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chaoyang Wang , Yunhai Tong

In this paper, we propose GuideSR, a novel single-step diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) model specifically designed to enhance image fidelity. Existing diffusion-based SR approaches typically adapt pre-trained generative models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Aditya Arora , Zhengzhong Tu , Yufei Wang , Ruizheng Bai , Jian Wang , Sizhuo Ma

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved remarkable success by leveraging large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models as priors. However, these methods still face two challenges: the requirement for dozens of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Aiping Zhang , Zongsheng Yue , Renjing Pei , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have demonstrated remarkable performance. Recent advancements have introduced deterministic sampling processes that reduce inference from 15 iterative steps to a single step, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zihang Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) must handle complex degradations and inherent reconstruction ambiguities. While generative models have improved perceptual quality, a key trade-off remains with computational cost. One-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yun Kai Zhuang

Diffusion models have demonstrated promising performance in real-world video super-resolution (VSR). However, the dozens of sampling steps they require, make inference extremely slow. Sampling acceleration techniques, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zheng Chen , Zichen Zou , Kewei Zhang , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan , Yong Guo , Yulun Zhang

Diffusion models generate high-quality images but require dozens of forward passes. We introduce Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), a procedure to transform a diffusion model into a one-step image generator with minimal impact on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tianwei Yin , Michaël Gharbi , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Fredo Durand , William T. Freeman , Taesung Park

Versatile audio super-resolution (SR) is the challenging task of restoring high-frequency components from low-resolution audio with sampling rates between 4kHz and 32kHz in various domains such as music, speech, and sound effects. Previous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Jaekwon Im , Juhan Nam

This study presents a new image super-resolution (SR) technique based on diffusion inversion, aiming at harnessing the rich image priors encapsulated in large pre-trained diffusion models to improve SR performance. We design a Partial noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zongsheng Yue , Kang Liao , Chen Change Loy

In this paper, we introduce YONOS-SR, a novel stable diffusion-based approach for image super-resolution that yields state-of-the-art results using only a single DDIM step. We propose a novel scale distillation approach to train our SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Mehdi Noroozi , Isma Hadji , Brais Martinez , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Blind super-resolution methods based on stable diffusion showcase formidable generative capabilities in reconstructing clear high-resolution images with intricate details from low-resolution inputs. However, their practical applicability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Rui Xie , Chen Zhao , Kai Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Zhou , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

In this paper, we address the problem of enhancing perceptual quality in video super-resolution (VSR) using Diffusion Models (DMs) while ensuring temporal consistency among frames. We present StableVSR, a VSR method based on DMs that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Claudio Rota , Marco Buzzelli , Joost van de Weijer

Diffusion-based text-to-image generation models trained on extensive text-image pairs have demonstrated the ability to produce photorealistic images aligned with textual descriptions. However, a significant limitation of these models is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mingyuan Zhou , Zhendong Wang , Huangjie Zheng , Hai Huang

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) distills score-based generative models into efficient one-step generators, without requiring a one-to-one correspondence with the sampling trajectories of their teachers. Yet, the limited capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiangyu Fan , Zesong Qiu , Zhuguanyu Wu , Fanzhou Wang , Zhiqian Lin , Tianxiang Ren , Dahua Lin , Ruihao Gong , Lei Yang

Current diffusion-based super-resolution (SR) approaches achieve commendable performance at the cost of high inference overhead. Therefore, distillation techniques are utilized to accelerate the multi-step teacher model into one-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Weiyi You , Mingyang Zhang , Leheng Zhang , Xingyu Zhou , Kexuan Shi , Shuhang Gu

Pre-trained diffusion models have shown great potential in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) tasks by enabling high-resolution reconstructions. While one-step diffusion (OSD) methods significantly improve efficiency compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zongliang Wu , Siming Zheng , Peng-Tao Jiang , Xin Yuan

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

Recent advancements in visual autoregressive models (VAR) have demonstrated their effectiveness in image generation, highlighting their potential for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). However, adapting VAR for ISR presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yixuan Zhu , Shilin Ma , Haolin Wang , Ao Li , Yanzhe Jing , Yansong Tang , Lei Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Diffusion models have shown great potential in generating realistic image detail. However, adapting these models to video super-resolution (VSR) remains challenging due to their inherent stochasticity and lack of temporal modeling. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yong Liu , Jinshan Pan , Yinchuan Li , Qingji Dong , Chao Zhu , Yu Guo , Fei Wang

Despite recent advances, single-image super-resolution (SR) remains challenging, especially in real-world scenarios with complex degradations. Diffusion-based SR methods, particularly those built on Stable Diffusion, leverage strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Fabio D'Oronzio , Federico Putamorsi , Leonardo Zini , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi