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While burst Low-Resolution (LR) images are useful for improving their Super Resolution (SR) image compared to a single LR image, prior burst SR methods are trained in a deterministic manner, which produces a blurry SR image. Since such…

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Real-world image super-resolution (RISR) has received increased focus for improving the quality of SR images under unknown complex degradation. Existing methods rely on the heavy SR models to enhance low-resolution (LR) images of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Junbo Qiao , Shaohui Lin , Yunlun Zhang , Wei Li , Jie Hu , Gaoqi He , Changbo Wang , Lizhuang Ma

The introduction of generative models has significantly advanced image super-resolution (SR) in handling real-world degradations. However, they often incur fidelity-related issues, particularly distorting textual structures. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Qiming Hu , Linlong Fan , Yiyan Luo , Yuhang Yu , Xiaojie Guo , Qingnan Fan

Diffusion models have demonstrated excellent performance for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), albeit at high computational costs. Most existing methods are trying to derive one-step diffusion models from multi-step counterparts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jianze Li , Jiezhang Cao , Zichen Zou , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan , Yulun Zhang , Yong Guo , Xiaokang Yang

Diffusion models for super-resolution (SR) produce high-quality visual results but require expensive computational costs. Despite the development of several methods to accelerate diffusion-based SR models, some (e.g., SinSR) fail to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Daniil Selikhanovych , David Li , Aleksei Leonov , Nikita Gushchin , Sergei Kushneriuk , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev , Iaroslav Koshelev , Alexander Korotin

Diffusion- and flow-based models have advanced Real-world Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR), but their multi-step sampling makes inference slow and hard to deploy. One-step distillation alleviates the cost, yet often degrades restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ruiqing Wang , Kai Zhang , Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Shilin Lu , Jian Yang

Volumetric optical microscopy using non-diffracting beams enables rapid imaging of 3D volumes by projecting them axially to 2D images but lacks crucial depth information. Addressing this, we introduce MicroDiffusion, a pioneering tool…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Mude Hui , Zihao Wei , Hongru Zhu , Fei Xia , Yuyin Zhou

Video super-resolution (VSR) seeks to reconstruct high-resolution frames from low-resolution inputs. While diffusion-based methods have substantially improved perceptual quality, extending them to video remains challenging for two reasons:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jintong Hu , Bin Chen , Zhenyu Hu , Jiayue Liu , Guo Wang , Lu Qi

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

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) models have attracted substantial interest due to their powerful image restoration capabilities. However, prevailing diffusion models often struggle to strike an optimal balance between efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Qinpeng Cui , Yixuan Liu , Xinyi Zhang , Qiqi Bao , Qingmin Liao , Li Wang , Tian Lu , Zicheng Liu , Zhongdao Wang , Emad Barsoum

Recently, convolutional networks have achieved remarkable development in remote sensing image Super-Resoltuion (SR) by minimizing the regression objectives, e.g., MSE loss. However, despite achieving impressive performance, these methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Yi Xiao , Qiangqiang Yuan , Kui Jiang , Jiang He , Xianyu Jin , Liangpei Zhang

Diffusion-based approaches have recently driven remarkable progress in real-world image super-resolution (SR). However, existing methods still struggle to simultaneously preserve fine details and ensure high-fidelity reconstruction, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Aro Kim , Myeongjin Jang , Chaewon Moon , Youngjin Shin , Jinwoo Jeong , Sang-hyo Park

Infrared imaging is essential for autonomous driving and robotic operations as a supportive modality due to its reliable performance in challenging environments. Despite its popularity, the limitations of infrared cameras, such as low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingyuan Li , Zirui Wang , Yang Zou , Zhixin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Jinyuan Liu

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods are mainly limited by the low inference speed due to the requirements of hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing acceleration sampling techniques inevitably sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion-based super-resolution (SR) models have recently garnered significant attention due to their potent restoration capabilities. But conventional diffusion models perform noise sampling from a single distribution, constraining their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Chengcheng Wang , Zhiwei Hao , Yehui Tang , Jianyuan Guo , Yujie Yang , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

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

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

Arbitrary-scale super-resolution (ASSR) overcomes the limitation of traditional super-resolution (SR) methods that operate only at fixed scales (e.g., 4x), enabling a single model to handle arbitrary magnification. Most existing ASSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Yingsheng Qin , Yucai Yang , Rong Xie , Li Song

Recently, Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged in Real-World Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR) to generate high-quality textures, yet their heavy inference burden hinders real-world deployment. While Post-Training Quantization (PTQ)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xun Zhang , Kaicheng Yang , Hongliang Lu , Haotong Qin , Yong Guo , Yulun Zhang

Realistic image restoration is a crucial task in computer vision, and diffusion-based models for image restoration have garnered significant attention due to their ability to produce realistic results. Restoration can be seen as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang