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Image deblurring is an ill-posed problem with multiple plausible solutions for a given input image. However, most existing methods produce a deterministic estimate of the clean image and are trained to minimize pixel-level distortion. These…

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Images captured in challenging environments often experience various forms of degradation, including noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. These effects significantly reduce image quality, hindering their applicability in…

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Image super-resolution is a fundamentally ill-posed problem because multiple valid high-resolution images exist for one low-resolution image. Super-resolution methods based on diffusion probabilistic models can deal with the ill-posed…

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Image superresolution methods process an input image sequence of a scene to obtain a still image with increased resolution. Classical approaches to this problem involve complex iterative minimization procedures, typically with high…

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Recent advances in implicit neural representations have achieved impressive results by sampling and fusing individual points along sampling rays in the sampling space. However, due to the explosively growing sampling space, finely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yuhan Ding , Fukun Yin , Jiayuan Fan , Hui Li , Xin Chen , Wen Liu , Chongshan Lu , Gang YU , Tao Chen

Accurate 3D reconstruction in visually-degraded underwater environments remains a formidable challenge. Single-modality approaches are insufficient: vision-based methods fail due to poor visibility and geometric constraints, while sonar is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lingpeng Chen , Jiakun Tang , Apple Pui-Yi Chui , Ziyang Hong , Junfeng Wu

Restoring real-world degraded images, such as old photographs or low-resolution images, presents a significant challenge due to the complex, mixed degradations they exhibit, such as scratches, color fading, and noise. Recent data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peng Xiao , Hongbo Zhao , Yijun Wang , Jianxin Lin

Recently, Deep Unfolding Networks (DUNs) have achieved impressive reconstruction quality in the field of image Compressive Sensing (CS) by unfolding iterative optimization algorithms into neural networks. The reconstruction quality of DUNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Chen Liao , Yan Shen , Dan Li , Zhongli Wang

Recent advancements in image restoration increasingly employ conditional latent diffusion models (CLDMs). While these models have demonstrated notable performance improvements in recent years, this work questions their suitability for IR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yunchen Yuan , Junyuan Xiao , Xinjie Li

Benefiting from their powerful generative capabilities, pretrained diffusion models have garnered significant attention for real-world image super-resolution (Real-SR). Existing diffusion-based SR approaches typically utilize semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jiangang Wang , Qingnan Fan , Jinwei Chen , Hong Gu , Feng Huang , Wenqi Ren

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have markedly advanced the quality of image inpainting and local editing. However, the inherent latent compression often introduces pixel-level inconsistencies, such as chromatic shifts, texture mismatches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Haitian Zheng , Yuan Yao , Yongsheng Yu , Yuqian Zhou , Jiebo Luo , Zhe Lin

The exponential surge in high-resolution remote sensing data faces a severe bottleneck in satellite-to-ground transmission. Limited downlink bandwidth forces the use of extreme high-ratio compression, which irreversibly destroys…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yun Li , Xianju Li

Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, their restored images still suffer from unsatisfactory boundary artifacts, due to the lack of degradation prior embedding and the deficiency in…

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Text-to-Image models have introduced a remarkable leap in the evolution of machine learning, demonstrating high-quality synthesis of images from a given text-prompt. However, these powerful pretrained models still lack control handles that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Andrey Voynov , Kfir Aberman , Daniel Cohen-Or

Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration. To address these issues, we propose a robust and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Songchen Han , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

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) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) observations. However, the inherent randomness injected during the reverse diffusion process causes the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Shuwei Huang , Shizhuo Liu , Zijun Wei

Image rescaling aims to learn the optimal low-resolution (LR) image that can be accurately reconstructed to its original high-resolution (HR) counterpart, providing an efficient image processing and storage method for ultra-high definition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ce Wang , Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun , Zhenzhong Chen

Conditional diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in image manipulation tasks. The general pipeline involves adding noise to the image and then denoising it. However, this method faces a trade-off problem: adding too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Luozhou Wang , Shuai Yang , Shu Liu , Ying-cong Chen

Underwater images suffer from color distortion and low contrast, because light is attenuated while it propagates through water. Attenuation under water varies with wavelength, unlike terrestrial images where attenuation is assumed to be…

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