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We propose a simple, interpretable framework for solving a wide range of image reconstruction problems such as denoising and deconvolution. Given a corrupted input image, the model synthesizes a spatially varying linear filter which, when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-29 Shu Kong , Charless Fowlkes

Although diffusion-based real-world image restoration (Real-IR) has achieved remarkable progress, efficiently leveraging ultra-large-scale pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) models and fully exploiting their potential remain significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Purui Bai , Junxian Duan , Pin Wang , Jinhua Hao , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Huaibo Huang

Image restoration is a classic low-level problem aimed at recovering high-quality images from low-quality images with various degradations such as blur, noise, rain, haze, etc. However, due to the inherent complexity and non-uniqueness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Video imaging is often affected by complex degradations such as blur, noise, and compression artifacts. Traditional restoration methods follow a "single-task single-model" paradigm, resulting in poor generalization and high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shuning Sun , Yu Zhang , Chen Wu , Dianjie Lu , Dianjie Lu , Guijuan Zhan , Yang Weng , Zhuoran Zheng

Image retouching, aiming to regenerate the visually pleasing renditions of given images, is a subjective task where the users are with different aesthetic sensations. Most existing methods deploy a deterministic model to learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Haolin Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Ming Liu , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

Generative flow models offer powerful priors learned from large-scale natural images, but directly adapting them to restoration tasks such as motion deblurring causes severe fidelity degradation, as their training objective is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Insoo Kim , Jinwoo Shin

Diffusion models create data from noise by inverting the forward paths of data towards noise and have emerged as a powerful generative modeling technique for high-dimensional, perceptual data such as images and videos. Rectified flow is a…

Image enhancement holds extensive applications in real-world scenarios due to complex environments and limitations of imaging devices. Conventional methods are often constrained by their tailored models, resulting in diminished robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yixuan Zhu , Wenliang Zhao , Ao Li , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Images captured in challenging environments--such as nighttime, smoke, rainy weather, and underwater--often suffer from significant degradation, resulting in a substantial loss of visual quality. The effective restoration of these degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenfeng Huang , Guoan Xu , Wenjing Jia , Stuart Perry , Guangwei Gao

Image inpainting techniques have shown significant improvements by using deep neural networks recently. However, most of them may either fail to reconstruct reasonable structures or restore fine-grained textures. In order to solve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Yurui Ren , Xiaoming Yu , Ruonan Zhang , Thomas H. Li , Shan Liu , Ge Li

One of the major challenges in the field of computer vision especially for detection, segmentation, recognition, monitoring, and automated solutions, is the quality of images. Image degradation, often caused by factors such as rain, fog,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Muhammad Awais Amin , Adama Ilboudo , Abdul Samad bin Shahid , Amjad Ali , Waqas Haider Khan Bangyal

The Reflow operation aims to straighten the inference trajectories of the rectified flow during training by constructing deterministic couplings between noises and images, thereby improving the quality of generated images in single-step or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jimin Dai , Jiexi Yan , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao

In this work, we propose Image-to-Image Rectified Flow Reformulation (I2I-RFR), a practical plug-in reformulation that recasts standard I2I regression networks as continuous-time transport models. While pixel-wise I2I regression is simple,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Satoshi Iizuka , Shun Okamoto , Kazuhiro Fukui

Image restoration aims to recover a high-quality clean image from its degraded version. Recent progress in image restoration has demonstrated the effectiveness of All-in-One image restoration models in addressing various unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jin Cao , Yi Cao , Li Pang , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

Image fusion is a fundamental and important task in computer vision, aiming to combine complementary information from different modalities to fuse images. In recent years, diffusion models have made significant developments in the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zirui Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Tianwei Guan , Yuhan Zhou , Xingyuan Li , Minjing Dong , Jinyuan Liu

Super-resolution is an ill-posed problem, where a ground-truth high-resolution image represents only one possibility in the space of plausible solutions. Yet, the dominant paradigm is to employ pixel-wise losses, such as L_1, which drive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Despite tremendous recent progress, Flow Matching methods still suffer from exposure bias due to discrepancies in training and inference. This paper investigates the root causes of exposure bias in Flow Matching, including: (1) the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Guanbo Huang , Jingjia Mao , Fanding Huang , Fengkai Liu , Xiangyang Luo , Yaoyuan Liang , Jiasheng Lu , Xiaoe Wang , Pei Liu , Ruiliu Fu , Shao-Lun Huang

Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability to model data distributions. To solve image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiang Li , Soo Min Kwon , Shijun Liang , Ismail R. Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Qing Qu

Low-resolution image representation is a special form of sparse representation that retains only low-frequency information while discarding high-frequency components. This property reduces storage and transmission costs and benefits various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chenglong Bao , Tongyao Pang , Zuowei Shen , Dihan Zheng , Yihang Zou