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The computer vision community has developed numerous techniques for digitally restoring true scene information from single-view degraded photographs, an important yet extremely ill-posed task. In this work, we tackle image restoration from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yucheng Mao , Boyang Wang , Nilesh Kulkarni , Jeong Joon Park

This paper presents a novel Two-Stage Diffusion Model (TS-Diff) for enhancing extremely low-light RAW images. In the pre-training stage, TS-Diff synthesizes noisy images by constructing multiple virtual cameras based on a noise space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yi Li , Zhiyuan Zhang , Jiangnan Xia , Jianghan Cheng , Qilong Wu , Junwei Li , Yibin Tian , Hui Kong

We introduce DeepIR, a new thermal image processing framework that combines physically accurate sensor modeling with deep network-based image representation. Our key enabling observations are that the images captured by thermal sensors can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Vishwanath Saragadam , Akshat Dave , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Richard Baraniuk

All-in-One Image Restoration (AiOIR) has emerged as a promising yet challenging research direction. To address the core challenges of diverse degradation modeling and detail preservation, we propose UniLDiff, a unified framework enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zihan Cheng , Liangtai Zhou , Dian Chen , Ni Tang , Xiaotong Luo , Yanyun Qu

Infrared imaging offers resilience against changing lighting conditions by capturing object temperatures. Yet, in few scenarios, its lack of visual details compared to daytime visible images, poses a significant challenge for human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Anh-Dzung Doan , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Surabhi Gupta , Markus Wagner , Tat-Jun Chin , Ian Reid

Light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR) is a challenging problem due to its inherent ill-posed nature, where a single low-resolution (LR) input LF image can correspond to multiple potential super-resolved outcomes. Despite this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Wentao Chao , Fuqing Duan , Xuechun Wang , Yingqian Wang , Guanghui Wang

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have achieved impressive performance on various image generation tasks, including image super-resolution. By learning to reverse the process of gradually diffusing the data distribution into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Kai Zhao , Alex Ling Yu Hung , Kaifeng Pang , Haoxin Zheng , Kyunghyun Sung

Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhennan Chen , Junwei Zhu , Xu Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Despite the recent progress, existing frame interpolation methods still struggle with processing extremely high resolution input and handling challenging cases such as repetitive textures, thin objects, and large motion. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junhwa Hur , Charles Herrmann , Saurabh Saxena , Janne Kontkanen , Wei-Sheng Lai , Yichang Shih , Michael Rubinstein , David J. Fleet , Deqing Sun

We propose an effective denoising diffusion model for generating high-resolution images (e.g., 1024$\times$512), trained on small-size image patches (e.g., 64$\times$64). We name our algorithm Patch-DM, in which a new feature collage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zheng Ding , Mengqi Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Zhuowen Tu

Plug-and-play Image Restoration (IR) has been widely recognized as a flexible and interpretable method for solving various inverse problems by utilizing any off-the-shelf denoiser as the implicit image prior. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yuanzhi Zhu , Kai Zhang , Jingyun Liang , Jiezhang Cao , Bihan Wen , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Text-to-image diffusion models often exhibit degraded performance when generating images beyond their training resolution. Recent training-free methods can mitigate this limitation, but they often require substantial computation or are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Sungho Koh , SeungJu Cha , Hyunwoo Oh , Kwanyoung Lee , Dong-Jin Kim

Diffusion model (DM) has achieved SOTA performance by modeling the image synthesis process into a sequential application of a denoising network. However, different from image synthesis, image restoration (IR) has a strong constraint to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Bin Xia , Yulun Zhang , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Luc Van Gool

Thermal imaging has a variety of applications, from agricultural monitoring to building inspection to imaging under poor visibility, such as in low light, fog, and rain. However, reconstructing thermal scenes in 3D presents several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yvette Y. Lin , Xin-Yi Pan , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Gordon Wetzstein

Clinical diffusion imaging requires short acquisition times and good image quality to permit its use in various medical applications. In turn, these demands require the development of a robust and efficient post-processing framework in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Ivan I. Maximov , Farida Grinberg , Irene Neuner , N. Jon Shah

Faithful image super-resolution (SR) not only needs to recover images that appear realistic, similar to image generation tasks, but also requires that the restored images maintain fidelity and structural consistency with the input. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Junyang Chen , Jinshan Pan , Jiangxin Dong

Modern cameras' performance in low-light conditions remains suboptimal due to fundamental limitations in photon shot noise and sensor read noise. Generative image restoration methods have shown promising results compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xijun Wang , Prateek Chennuri , Dilshan Godaliyadda , Yu Yuan , Bole Ma , Xingguang Zhang , Hamid R. Sheikh , Stanley Chan

Diffusion models are powerful, but they require a lot of time and data to train. We propose Patch Diffusion, a generic patch-wise training framework, to significantly reduce the training time costs while improving data efficiency, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhendong Wang , Yifan Jiang , Huangjie Zheng , Peihao Wang , Pengcheng He , Zhangyang Wang , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

All-in-one image restoration aims to address diverse degradation types using a single unified model. Existing methods typically rely on degradation priors to guide restoration, yet often struggle to reconstruct content in severely degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yanjie Tu , Qingsen Yan , Axi Niu , Jiacong Tang

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