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Diffusion-based image compression has shown remarkable potential for achieving ultra-low bitrate coding (less than 0.05 bits per pixel) with high realism, by leveraging the generative priors of large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion…

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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

The application of diffusion transformers is suffering from their significant inference costs. Recently, feature caching has been proposed to solve this problem by reusing features from previous timesteps, thereby skipping computation in…

While learned image compression (LIC) focuses on efficient data transmission, generative image compression (GIC) extends this framework by integrating generative modeling to produce photo-realistic reconstructed images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Minghao Han , Weiyi You , Jinhua Zhang , Leheng Zhang , Ce Zhu , Shuhang Gu

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao

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 models produce high quality images but inference is costly due to many denoising steps and heavy matrix operations. We present DiffPro, a post-training, hardware-faithful framework that works with the exact integer kernels used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Farhana Amin , Sabiha Afroz , Kanchon Gharami , Mona Moghadampanah , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

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

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable performance in image super-resolution (SR), but their high computational cost limits practical deployment in remote sensing applications. To address this issue, we propose SlimDiffSR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ce Wang , Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun

Dataset distillation provides an effective approach to reduce memory and computational costs by optimizing a compact dataset that achieves performance comparable to the full original. However, for large-scale datasets and complex deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xinhao Zhong , Shuoyang Sun , Xulin Gu , Zhaoyang Xu , Yaowei Wang , Min Zhang , Bin Chen

Deep learning-based image compression algorithms typically focus on designing encoding and decoding networks and improving the accuracy of entropy model estimation to enhance the rate-distortion (RD) performance. However, few algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Junhui Li , Jutao Li , Xingsong Hou , Huake Wang

We present a perceptually-driven video compression framework integrating implicit neural representations (INRs) and pre-trained video diffusion models to address the extremely low bitrate regime (<0.05 bpp). Our approach exploits the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Eren Çetin , Lucas Relic , Yuanyi Xue , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers , Roberto Azevedo

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in generating high-quality images. However, adapting large pre-trained diffusion models to new domains remains an open challenge, which is critical for real-world applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Enze Xie , Lewei Yao , Han Shi , Zhili Liu , Daquan Zhou , Zhaoqiang Liu , Jiawei Li , Zhenguo Li

Recently, foundational diffusion models have attracted considerable attention in image compression tasks, whereas their application to video compression remains largely unexplored. In this article, we introduce DiffVC, a diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Wenzhuo Ma , Zhenzhong Chen

With the great success of diffusion models in image generation, diffusion-based image compression is attracting increasing interests. However, due to the random noise introduced in the diffusion learning, they usually produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Zhenyu Du , Yanbo Gao , Shuai Li , Yiyang Li , Hui Yuan , Mao Ye

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

Diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) methods deliver strong perceptual quality but are often unsuitable for latency-sensitive scenarios due to reliance on future frames and expensive multi-step denoising. We propose Stream-DiffVSR,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hau-Shiang Shiu , Chin-Yang Lin , Zhixiang Wang , Chi-Wei Hsiao , Po-Fan Yu , Yu-Chih Chen , Yu-Lun Liu

While recent neural codecs achieve strong performance at low bitrates when optimized for perceptual quality, their effectiveness deteriorates significantly under ultra-low bitrate conditions. To mitigate this, generative compression methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chuqin Zhou , Xiaoyue Ling , Yunuo Chen , Jincheng Dai , Guo Lu , Wenjun Zhang

The rapid advancement of diffusion models has significantly improved high-quality image generation, making generated content increasingly challenging to distinguish from real images and raising concerns about potential misuse. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Beilin Chu , Xuan Xu , Xin Wang , Yufei Zhang , Weike You , Linna Zhou

Denoising Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in generating diverse, high quality images from text. Numerous techniques have been proposed on top of or in alignment with models like Stable Diffusion and Imagen that generate…