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Generation of photo-realistic images, semantic editing and representation learning are a few of many potential applications of high resolution generative models. Recent progress in GANs have established them as an excellent choice for such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Partha Ghosh , Dominik Zietlow , Michael J. Black , Larry S. Davis , Xiaochen Hu

SAR images possess unique attributes that present challenges for both human observers and vision AI models to interpret, owing to their electromagnetic characteristics. The interpretation of SAR images encounters various hurdles, with one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Zhongling Huang , Xidan Zhang , Zuqian Tang , Feng Xu , Mihai Datcu , Junwei Han

As super-resolution (SR) techniques advance, we observe a growing distrust of evaluation metrics in recent SR research. An inconsistency often emerges between certain evaluation criteria and human perceptual preference. Although current SR…

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Recent years have witnessed remarkable achievements in perceptual image restoration (IR), creating an urgent demand for accurate image quality assessment (IQA), which is essential for both performance comparison and algorithm optimization.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xiangfei Sheng , Xiaofeng Pan , Zhichao Yang , Pengfei Chen , Leida Li

This research addresses a critical challenge in the field of generative models, particularly in the generation and evaluation of synthetic images. Given the inherent complexity of generative models and the absence of a standardized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Majid Memari , Khaled R. Ahmed , Shahram Rahimi , Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz

Generative AI models have revolutionized various fields by enabling the creation of realistic and diverse data samples. Among these models, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful approach for generating high-quality images, text, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Gaurav Raut , Apoorv Singh

We consider the problem of trustworthy image restoration, taking the form of a constrained optimization over the prior density. To this end, we develop generative models for the task of image super-resolution that respect the degradation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Andreas Floros , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Diffusion models have been widely utilized for image restoration. However, previous blind image restoration methods still need to assume the type of degradation model while leaving the parameters to be optimized, limiting their real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Siwei Tu , Weidong Yang , Ben Fei

Recent advancements in generative models have significantly facilitated the development of personalized content creation. Given a small set of images with user-specific concept, personalized image generation allows to create images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yuxiang Wei , Yiheng Zheng , Yabo Zhang , Ming Liu , Zhilong Ji , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

We introduce SUPIR (Scaling-UP Image Restoration), a groundbreaking image restoration method that harnesses generative prior and the power of model scaling up. Leveraging multi-modal techniques and advanced generative prior, SUPIR marks a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Fanghua Yu , Jinjin Gu , Zheyuan Li , Jinfan Hu , Xiangtao Kong , Xintao Wang , Jingwen He , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Despite the breakthroughs in accuracy and speed of single image super-resolution using faster and deeper convolutional neural networks, one central problem remains largely unsolved: how do we recover the finer texture details when we…

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Recently, it has been demonstrated that deep neural networks can significantly improve the performance of single image super-resolution (SISR). Numerous studies have concentrated on raising the quantitative quality of super-resolved (SR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Zheng Hui , Jie Li , Xinbo Gao , Xiumei Wang

The rapid evolution of generative technologies necessitates reliable methods for detecting AI-generated images. A critical limitation of current detectors is their failure to generalize to images from unseen generative models, as they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Chenming Zhou , Jiaan Wang , Yu Li , Lei Li , Juan Cao , Sheng Tang

With the effective application of deep learning in computer vision, breakthroughs have been made in the research of super-resolution images reconstruction. However, many researches have pointed out that the insufficiency of the neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Yibo Guo , Haidi Wang , Yiming Fan , Shunyao Li , Mingliang Xu

The rapid progress of generative models, particularly diffusion models and GANs, has greatly increased the difficulty of distinguishing synthetic images from real ones. Although numerous detection methods have been proposed, their accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Shuman He , Xiehua Li , Xioaju Yang , Yang Xiong , Keqin Li

The generative adversarial network (GAN) is successfully applied to study the perceptual single image superresolution (SISR). However, the GAN often tends to generate images with high frequency details being inconsistent with the real ones.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Ziyang Liu , Zhengguo Li , Xingming Wu , Zhong Liu , Weihai Chen

End-to-end generative methods are considered a more promising solution for image restoration in physics-based vision compared with the traditional deconstructive methods based on handcrafted composition models. However, existing generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xudong Kang , Haoran Xie , Man-Leung Wong , Jing Qin

Image Super-Resolution (SR) aims to recover a high-resolution image from its low-resolution counterpart, which has been affected by a specific degradation process. This is achieved by enhancing detail and visual quality. Recent advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Debasish Dutta , Deepjyoti Chetia , Neeharika Sonowal , Sanjib Kr Kalita

Current developments in computer vision and deep learning allow to automatically generate hyper-realistic images, hardly distinguishable from real ones. In particular, human face generation achieved a stunning level of realism, opening new…

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