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All-in-one image restoration seeks to recover high-quality images from various types of degradation using a single model, without prior knowledge of the corruption source. However, existing methods often struggle to effectively and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Jiachen Jiang , Tianyu Ding , Ke Zhang , Jinxin Zhou , Tianyi Chen , Ilya Zharkov , Zhihui Zhu , Luming Liang

While recent advancements in Image Super-Resolution (SR) using diffusion models have shown promise in improving overall image quality, their application to scene text images has revealed limitations. These models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Keren Ye , Ignacio Garcia Dorado , Michalis Raptis , Mauricio Delbracio , Irene Zhu , Peyman Milanfar , Hossein Talebi

Pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly applied to real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) task. Given the iterative refinement nature of diffusion models, most existing approaches are computationally expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Linwei Dong , Qingnan Fan , Yihong Guo , Zhonghao Wang , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

Image Restoration (IR) methods based on a pre-trained diffusion model have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, they have two fundamental limitations: 1) they often assume that the degradation operator is completely known and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hamadi Chihaoui , Abdelhak Lemkhenter , Paolo Favaro

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation methods based on diffusion model have garnered significant attention in the last few years. Although these image synthesis methods produce visually appealing results, they frequently exhibit spelling errors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yiming Zhao , Zhouhui Lian

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in various image generation, editing, enhancement and translation tasks. In particular, the pre-trained text-to-image stable diffusion models provide a potential solution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Tao Yang , Rongyuan Wu , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie , Lei Zhang

Diffusion models have been widely utilized for image restoration. However, previous blind image restoration methods still need to assume the type of degradation model while leaving the parameters to be optimized, limiting their real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Siwei Tu , Weidong Yang , Ben Fei

Image captioning models often suffer from performance degradation when applied to novel datasets, as they are typically trained on domain-specific data. To enhance generalization in out-of-domain scenarios, retrieval-augmented approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hao Wu , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun

Text-guided image editing has recently experienced rapid development. However, simultaneously performing multiple editing actions on a single image, such as background replacement and specific subject attribute changes, while maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Pengzhi Li , QInxuan Huang , Yikang Ding , Zhiheng Li

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in text-guided image generation. Current methods that leverage the knowledge of these models for image editing either fine-tune them using the input image (e.g., Imagic) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhongping Zhang , Jian Zheng , Jacob Zhiyuan Fang , Bryan A. Plummer

Recent advances in interactive text-to-image retrieval (I-TIR) use diffusion models to bridge the modality gap between the textual information need and the images to be searched, resulting in increased effectiveness. However, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhuocheng Zhang , Xingwu Zhang , Kangheng Liang , Guanxuan Li , Richard Mccreadie , Zijun Long

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in generating a broad spectrum of visual content, yet their proficiency in rendering text is still limited: they often generate inaccurate characters or words that fail to blend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jianyi Zhang , Yufan Zhou , Jiuxiang Gu , Curtis Wigington , Tong Yu , Yiran Chen , Tong Sun , Ruiyi Zhang

While latent diffusion models achieve impressive image editing results, their application to iterative editing of the same image is severely restricted. When trying to apply consecutive edit operations using current models, they accumulate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Gal Almog , Ariel Shamir , Ohad Fried

Scene Text Image Super-Resolution (STISR) aims to enhance the resolution and legibility of text within low-resolution (LR) images, consequently elevating recognition accuracy in Scene Text Recognition (STR). Previous methods predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yuxuan Zhou , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Baole Wei

Digital versions of real-world text documents often suffer from issues like environmental corrosion of the original document, low-quality scanning, or human interference. Existing document restoration and inpainting methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Wanglong Lu , Lingming Su , Jingjing Zheng , Vinícius Veloso de Melo , Farzaneh Shoeleh , John Hawkin , Terrence Tricco , Hanli Zhao , Xianta Jiang

Capturing images is a key part of automation for high-level tasks such as scene text recognition. Low-light conditions pose a challenge for high-level perception stacks, which are often optimized on well-lit, artifact-free images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Cindy M. Nguyen , Eric R. Chan , Alexander W. Bergman , Gordon Wetzstein

Text-driven diffusion models have become increasingly popular for various image editing tasks, including inpainting, stylization, and object replacement. However, it still remains an open research problem to adopt this language-vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenyang Qi , Zhengzhong Tu , Keren Ye , Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar , Qifeng Chen , Hossein Talebi

Diffusion models have gained increasing attention for their impressive generation abilities but currently struggle with rendering accurate and coherent text. To address this issue, we introduce TextDiffuser, focusing on generating images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jingye Chen , Yupan Huang , Tengchao Lv , Lei Cui , Qifeng Chen , Furu Wei

In reality, images often exhibit multiple degradations, such as rain and fog at night (triple degradations). However, in many cases, individuals may not want to remove all degradations, for instance, a blurry lens revealing a beautiful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Runwei Guan , Rongsheng Hu , Zhuhao Zhou , Tianlang Xue , Ka Lok Man , Jeremy Smith , Eng Gee Lim , Weiping Ding , Yutao Yue

Recent advances in diffusion-based Large Restoration Models (LRMs) have significantly improved photo-realistic image restoration by leveraging the internal knowledge embedded within model weights. However, existing LRMs often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hang Guo , Tao Dai , Zhihao Ouyang , Taolin Zhang , Yaohua Zha , Bin Chen , Shu-tao Xia