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Recently, diffusion-based blind super-resolution (SR) methods have shown great ability to generate high-resolution images with abundant high-frequency detail, but the detail is often achieved at the expense of fidelity. Meanwhile, another…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Shao-Hao Lu , Ren Wang , Ching-Chun Huang , Wei-Chen Chiu

While super-resolution (SR) methods based on diffusion models exhibit promising results, their practical application is hindered by the substantial number of required inference steps. Recent methods utilize degraded images in the initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Ziwei Liu , Yu Qiao , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Camera arrays provide spatial and angular information within a single snapshot. With refocusing methods, focal planes can be altered after exposure. In this letter, we propose a light field refocusing method to improve the imaging quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Yingqian Wang , Jungang Yang , Yulan Guo , Chao Xiao , Wei An

Optical diffraction tomography is an indispensable tool for studying objects in three-dimensions due to its ability to accurately reconstruct scattering objects. Until now this technique has been limited to coherent light because spatial…

Capturing images is a key part of automation for high-level tasks such as scene text recognition. Low-light conditions pose a challenge for high-level perception stacks, which are often optimized on well-lit, artifact-free images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Cindy M. Nguyen , Eric R. Chan , Alexander W. Bergman , Gordon Wetzstein

Transparent and reflective objects, which are common in our everyday lives, present a significant challenge to 3D imaging techniques due to their unique visual and optical properties. Faced with these types of objects, RGB-D cameras fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tianyu Sun , Dingchang Hu , Yixiang Dai , Guijin Wang

Consistent improvement of image priors over the years has led to the development of better inverse problem solvers. Diffusion models are the newcomers to this arena, posing the strongest known prior to date. Recently, such models operating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ron Raphaeli , Sean Man , Michael Elad

The evolution of Diffusion Models has dramatically improved image generation quality, making it increasingly difficult to differentiate between real and generated images. This development, while impressive, also raises significant privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yunpeng Luo , Junlong Du , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding

While burst LR images are useful for improving the SR image quality compared with a single LR image, prior SR networks accepting the burst LR images are trained in a deterministic manner, which is known to produce a blurry SR image. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kyotaro Tokoro , Kazutoshi Akita , Norimichi Ukita

We propose FD3, a fundus image enhancement method based on direct diffusion bridges, which can cope with a wide range of complex degradations, including haze, blur, noise, and shadow. We first propose a synthetic forward model through a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Sehui Kim , Hyungjin Chung , Se Hie Park , Eui-Sang Chung , Kayoung Yi , Jong Chul Ye

Unsupervised out-of-distribution (OOD) detection aims to identify out-of-domain data by learning only from unlabeled In-Distribution (ID) training samples, which is crucial for developing a safe real-world machine learning system. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ying Yang , De Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Yubiao Wang , Changzhe Jiao , Lechao Cheng , Nannan Wang

Recently, the joint design of optical systems and downstream algorithms is showing significant potential. However, existing rays-described methods are limited to optimizing geometric degradation, making it difficult to fully represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zheng Ren , Jingwen Zhou , Wenguan Zhang , Jiapu Yan , Bingkun Chen , Huajun Feng , Shiqi Chen

Transparent surfaces, such as glass, create complex reflections that obscure images and challenge downstream computer vision applications. We introduce Flash-Split, a robust framework for separating transmitted and reflected light using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Tianfu Wang , Mingyang Xie , Haoming Cai , Sachin Shah , Christopher A. Metzler

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models capable of producing high-quality images from pure noise using a simple text prompt. While most methods which introduce additional spatial constraints into the generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zakaria Patel , Kirill Serkh

Artificial lights commonly leave strong lens flare artifacts on the images captured at night, degrading both the visual quality and performance of vision algorithms. Existing flare removal approaches mainly focus on removing daytime flares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yuekun Dai , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Yihang Luo , Chen Change Loy

In this paper, we propose an efficient, fast, and versatile distillation method to accelerate the generation of pre-trained diffusion models: Flash Diffusion. The method reaches state-of-the-art performances in terms of FID and CLIP-Score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Clément Chadebec , Onur Tasar , Eyal Benaroche , Benjamin Aubin

Neural reconstruction approaches are rapidly emerging as the preferred representation for 3D scenes, but their limited editability is still posing a challenge. In this work, we propose an approach for 3D scene inpainting -- the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Ashkan Mirzaei , Riccardo De Lutio , Seung Wook Kim , David Acuna , Jonathan Kelly , Sanja Fidler , Igor Gilitschenski , Zan Gojcic

A solution to the inversion problem of scattering would offer aberration-free diffraction-limited 3D images without the resolution and depth-of-field limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. Powerful algorithms are increasingly being…

While diffusion-based image restoration (IR) methods have achieved remarkable success, they are still limited by the low inference speed attributed to the necessity of executing hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable performance of diffusion models in various vision tasks. However, for image restoration that aims to recover clear images with sharper details from given degraded observations, diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Liyan Wang , Qinyu Yang , Cong Wang , Wei Wang , Jinshan Pan , Zhixun Su