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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

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in visual content generation but remain challenging to deploy due to their high computational cost during inference. This computational burden primarily arises from the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ye Tian , Xin Xia , Yuxi Ren , Shanchuan Lin , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Yunhai Tong , Ling Yang , Bin Cui

Diffusion-based real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) has achieved remarkable perceptual quality; however, directly super-resolving images to 4K remains limited by extreme memory consumption. Consequently, prior methods adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chengyan Deng , Pengbin Yu , Zhentao Chen , Wei Shen , Kai Zhang , Meng Li , Lunxi Yuan , Xue Zhou , Li Yu

The potential for higher-resolution image generation using pretrained diffusion models is immense, yet these models often struggle with issues of object repetition and structural artifacts especially when scaling to 4K resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xinyu Liu , Yingqing He , Lanqing Guo , Xiang Li , Bu Jin , Peng Li , Yan Li , Chi-Min Chan , Qifeng Chen , Wei Xue , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Diffusion models have emerged as the leading approach for image synthesis, demonstrating exceptional photorealism and diversity. However, training diffusion models at high resolutions remains computationally prohibitive, and existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Tobias Vontobel , Seyedmorteza Sadat , Farnood Salehi , Romann M. Weber

Recently, diffusion model have demonstrated impressive image generation performances, and have been extensively studied in various computer vision tasks. Unfortunately, training and evaluating diffusion models consume a lot of time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Dohoon Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

High-resolution video generation faces a coupled bottleneck of optimization instability and prohibitive computational costs. The massive expansion of the token sequence not only biases optimization toward local textures at the expense of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wenxue Li , Jingjing Ren , Peng Zhang , Tian Ye , Daiguo Zhou , Jian Luan , Lei Zhu

Our goal is to develop fine-grained real-image editing methods suitable for real-world applications. In this paper, we first summarize four requirements for these methods and propose a novel diffusion-based image editing framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Naoki Matsunaga , Masato Ishii , Akio Hayakawa , Kenji Suzuki , Takuya Narihira

Diffusion models have shown great results in image generation and in image editing. However, current approaches are limited to low resolutions due to the computational cost of training diffusion models for high-resolution generation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Johannes Ackermann , Minjun Li

Visual diffusion models achieve remarkable progress, yet they are typically trained at limited resolutions due to the lack of high-resolution data and constrained computation resources, hampering their ability to generate high-fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Haonan Qiu , Shiwei Zhang , Yujie Wei , Ruihang Chu , Hangjie Yuan , Xiang Wang , Yingya Zhang , Ziwei Liu

Modern diffusion models, particularly those utilizing a Transformer-based UNet for denoising, rely heavily on self-attention operations to manage complex spatial relationships, thus achieving impressive generation performance. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Songhua Liu , Weihao Yu , Zhenxiong Tan , Xinchao Wang

In this paper, we present Diffusion-4K, a novel framework for direct ultra-high-resolution image synthesis using text-to-image diffusion models. The core advancements include: (1) Aesthetic-4K Benchmark: addressing the absence of a publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jinjin Zhang , Qiuyu Huang , Junjie Liu , Xiefan Guo , Di Huang

Currently, applying diffusion models in pixel space of high resolution images is difficult. Instead, existing approaches focus on diffusion in lower dimensional spaces (latent diffusion), or have multiple super-resolution levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Emiel Hoogeboom , Jonathan Heek , Tim Salimans

Diffusion models are well known for their ability to generate a high-fidelity image for an input prompt through an iterative denoising process. Unfortunately, the high fidelity also comes at a high computational cost due the inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Qinchan Li , Kenneth Chen , Changyue Su , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Qi Sun , Patsorn Sangkloy

Instruction-based image editing has made a great process in using natural human language to manipulate the visual content of images. However, existing models are limited by the quality of the dataset and cannot accurately localize editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Tiancheng Li , Jinxiu Liu , Huajun Chen , Qi Liu

The emergence of text-to-image generation models has led to the recognition that image enhancement, performed as post-processing, would significantly improve the visual quality of the generated images. Exploring diffusion models to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yang Luo , Yiheng Zhang , Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Zhineng Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Tao Mei

This work aims to improve the efficiency of text-to-image diffusion models. While diffusion models use computationally expensive UNet-based denoising operations in every generation step, we identify that not all operations are equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Amirhossein Habibian , Amir Ghodrati , Noor Fathima , Guillaume Sautiere , Risheek Garrepalli , Fatih Porikli , Jens Petersen

Text-to-image diffusion models can create stunning images from natural language descriptions that rival the work of professional artists and photographers. However, these models are large, with complex network architectures and tens of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yanyu Li , Huan Wang , Qing Jin , Ju Hu , Pavlo Chemerys , Yun Fu , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

Single image super-resolution is the task of inferring a high-resolution image from a single low-resolution input. Traditionally, the performance of algorithms for this task is measured using pixel-wise reconstruction measures such as peak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Bernhard Schölkopf , Michael Hirsch

Recent advancements in diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in various image generation tasks. Building upon these achievements, diffusion models have also been effectively adapted to image restoration tasks, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yu-Shan Tai , An-Yeu , Wu