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Face Super-Resolution (SR) is a domain-specific super-resolution problem. The specific facial prior knowledge could be leveraged for better super-resolving face images. We present a novel deep end-to-end trainable Face Super-Resolution…

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In this paper we tackle Image Super Resolution (ISR), using recent advances in Visual Auto-Regressive (VAR) modeling. VAR iteratively estimates the residual in latent space between gradually increasing image scales, a process referred to as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Enrique Sanchez , Isma Hadji , Adrian Bulat , Christos Tzelepis , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Deep image restoration models aim to learn a mapping from degraded image space to natural image space. However, they face several critical challenges: removing degradation, generating realistic details, and ensuring pixel-level consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xinqi Lin , Fanghua Yu , Jinfan Hu , Zhiyuan You , Wu Shi , Jimmy S. Ren , Jinjin Gu , Chao Dong

Single image super-resolution (SISR), as a traditional ill-conditioned inverse problem, has been greatly revitalized by the recent development of convolutional neural networks (CNN). These CNN-based methods generally map a low-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Yuqing Liu , Shiqi Wang , Jian Zhang , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Despite the significant progress in diffusion prior-based image restoration, most existing methods apply uniform processing to the entire image, lacking the capability to perform region-customized image restoration according to user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shuaizheng Liu , Jianqi Ma , Lingchen Sun , Xiangtao Kong , Lei Zhang

Despite the recent upsurge of activity in image-based non-photorealistic rendering (NPR), and in particular portrait image stylisation, due to the advent of neural style transfer, the state of performance evaluation in this field is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Paul L. Rosin , Yu-Kun Lai , David Mould , Ran Yi , Itamar Berger , Lars Doyle , Seungyong Lee , Chuan Li , Yong-Jin Liu , Amir Semmo , Ariel Shamir , Minjung Son , Holger Winnemoller

Growing privacy concerns and regulations like GDPR and CCPA necessitate pseudonymization techniques that protect identity in image datasets. However, retaining utility is also essential. Traditional methods like masking and blurring degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Kartik Patwari , David Schneider , Xiaoxiao Sun , Chen-Nee Chuah , Lingjuan Lyu , Vivek Sharma

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

Many vision applications require identity consistency beyond strict biometric recognition, especially under non-frontal views or when facial cues are missing. However, conventional face recognition models enforce intra-identity invariance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yingfeng Wang , Yuxuan Xiao , Shengcai Liao

The latest developments in Face Restoration have yielded significant advancements in visual quality through the utilization of diverse diffusion priors. Nevertheless, the uncertainty of face identity introduced by identity-obscure inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yushun Fang , Lu Liu , Xiang Gao , Qiang Hu , Ning Cao , Jianghe Cui , Gang Chen , Xiaoyun Zhang

Diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in generative modeling. Due to their high training costs, many works leverage pre-trained diffusion models' powerful representations for downstream tasks, such as face super-resolution (FSR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiarui Yang , Tao Dai , Yufei Zhu , Naiqi Li , Jinmin Li , Shutao Xia

There has been significant progress in personalized image synthesis with methods such as Textual Inversion, DreamBooth, and LoRA. Yet, their real-world applicability is hindered by high storage demands, lengthy fine-tuning processes, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Qixun Wang , Xu Bai , Haofan Wang , Zekui Qin , Anthony Chen , Huaxia Li , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Despite recent progress in diffusion models, generating realistic head portraits from novel viewpoints remains a significant challenge. Most current approaches are constrained to limited angular ranges, predominantly focusing on frontal or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Stathis Galanakis , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Bernhard Kainz , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Despite the proven significance of hyperspectral images (HSIs) in performing various computer vision tasks, its potential is adversely affected by the low-resolution (LR) property in the spatial domain, resulting from multiple physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Chanyue Wu , Dong Wang , Hanyu Mao , Ying Li

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) focuses on recovering high-quality images from low-resolution inputs that suffer from complex degradations like noise, blur, and compression. Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have shown great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Linwei Dong , Qingnan Fan , Yuhang Yu , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

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

In this paper, we propose LSRNA, a novel framework for higher-resolution (exceeding 1K) image generation using diffusion models by leveraging super-resolution directly in the latent space. Existing diffusion models struggle with scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jinho Jeong , Sangmin Han , Jinwoo Kim , Seon Joo Kim

While recent works have achieved great success on image-to-3D object generation, high quality and fidelity 3D head generation from a single image remains a great challenge. Previous text-based methods for generating 3D heads were limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jinkun Hao , Junshu Tang , Jiangning Zhang , Ran Yi , Yijia Hong , Moran Li , Weijian Cao , Yating Wang , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Hyperspectral image (HSI) restoration aims at recovering clean images from degraded observations and plays a vital role in downstream tasks. Existing model-based methods have limitations in accurately modeling the complex image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Li Pang , Xiangyu Rui , Long Cui , Hongzhong Wang , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

Generative deep learning has sparked a new wave of Super-Resolution (SR) algorithms that enhance single images with impressive aesthetic results, albeit with imaginary details. Multi-frame Super-Resolution (MFSR) offers a more grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Michel Deudon , Alfredo Kalaitzis , Israel Goytom , Md Rifat Arefin , Zhichao Lin , Kris Sankaran , Vincent Michalski , Samira E. Kahou , Julien Cornebise , Yoshua Bengio