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Diffusion models represent a powerful family of generative models widely used for image and video generation. However, the time-consuming deployment, long inference time, and requirements on large memory hinder their applications on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kafeng Wang , Jianfei Chen , He Li , Zhenpeng Mi , Jun Zhu

Diffusion models have gained significant popularity in the field of image-to-image translation. Previous efforts applying diffusion models to image super-resolution (SR) have demonstrated that iteratively refining pure Gaussian noise using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Axi Niu , Pham Xuan Trung , Kang Zhang , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Neural network pruning is one of the most popular methods of accelerating the inference of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The dominant pruning methods, filter-level pruning methods, evaluate their performance through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Wenxiao Wang , Shuai Zhao , Minghao Chen , Jinming Hu , Deng Cai , Haifeng Liu

Preprocessing is a well-established technique for optimizing compression, yet existing methods are predominantly Rate-Distortion (R-D) optimized and constrained by pixel-level fidelity. This work pioneers a shift towards Rate-Perception…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Mengxi Guo , Shijie Zhao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

The challenge in fine-grained visual categorization lies in how to explore the subtle differences between different subclasses and achieve accurate discrimination. Previous research has relied on large-scale annotated data and pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Tianxu Wu , Shuo Ye , Shuhuang Chen , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You

Diffusion-based methods have shown great promise in single image super-resolution (SISR); however, existing approaches often produce blurred fine details due to insufficient guidance in the high-frequency domain. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chao Yang , Boqian Zhang , Jinghao Xu , Guang Jiang

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image generation but remain computationally costly due to iterative denoising. Latent-space models like Stable Diffusion reduce overhead yet lose fine detail, while retrieval-augmented methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Stable diffusion networks have emerged as a groundbreaking development for their ability to produce realistic and detailed visual content. This characteristic renders them ideal decoders, capable of producing high-quality and aesthetically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Kai Liu , Kang You , Pan Gao

Despite the impressive capabilities of generating images, text-to-image diffusion models are susceptible to producing undesirable outputs such as NSFW content and copyrighted artworks. To address this issue, recent studies have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Tianyun Yang , Juan Cao , Chang Xu

Popularized by their strong image generation performance, diffusion and related methods for generative modeling have found widespread success in visual media applications. In particular, diffusion methods have enabled new approaches to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt

Discrete diffusion models have recently emerged as strong alternatives to autoregressive language models, matching their performance through large-scale training. However, inference-time control remains relatively underexplored. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Meihua Dang , Jiaqi Han , Minkai Xu , Kai Xu , Akash Srivastava , Stefano Ermon

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) scans while reducing radiation exposure to the human body, various approaches have been proposed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET) images. One…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Zeyu Han , Yuhan Wang , Luping Zhou , Peng Wang , Binyu Yan , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang , Dinggang Shen

This paper presents DiffFuSR, a modular pipeline for super-resolving all 12 spectral bands of Sentinel-2 Level-2A imagery to a unified ground sampling distance (GSD) of 2.5 meters. The pipeline comprises two stages: (i) a diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Muhammad Sarmad , Arnt-Børre Salberg , Michael Kampffmeyer

It is well known the adversarial optimization of GAN-based image super-resolution (SR) methods makes the preceding SR model generate unpleasant and undesirable artifacts, leading to large distortion. We attribute the cause of such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Joshua Tian Jin Tee , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Chang D. Yoo , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Blind face restoration usually synthesizes degraded low-quality data with a pre-defined degradation model for training, while more complex cases could happen in the real world. This gap between the assumed and actual degradation hurts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhixin Wang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ziying Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Mingyuan Zhou , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Recent advances in diffusion models have driven remarkable progress in image generation. However, the generation process remains computationally intensive, and users often need to iteratively refine prompts to achieve the desired results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yi Wei , Shunpu Tang , Liang Zhao , Qiangian Yang

Deep learning technologies have demonstrated their effectiveness in removing cloud cover from optical remote-sensing images. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) exert dominance in the cloud removal tasks. However, constrained by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Meilin Wang , Yexing Song , Pengxu Wei , Xiaoyu Xian , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have recently emerged as a promising class of generative models. However, a fundamental limitation is that their inference is very slow due to a need for many (e.g., 2000) iterations of sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Hengyuan Ma , Li Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Jianfeng Feng

Deep learning techniques have been applied in the context of image super-resolution (SR), achieving remarkable advances in terms of reconstruction performance. Existing techniques typically employ highly complex model structures which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Yuxuan Jiang , Jakub Nawala , Fan Zhang , David Bull

This paper proposes a new framework to regularize the highly ill-posed and non-linear phase retrieval problem through deep generative priors using simple gradient descent algorithm. We experimentally show effectiveness of proposed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed