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Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) observations. However, the inherent randomness injected during the reverse diffusion process causes the performance of…

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Phase can be reliably estimated from a single diffracted intensity image, if a faithful prior information about the object is available. Examples include amplitude bounds, object support, sparsity in the spatial or a transform domain, deep…

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