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Image Super-Resolution (SR) provides a promising technique to enhance the image quality of low-resolution optical sensors, facilitating better-performing target detection and autonomous navigation in a wide range of robotics applications.…

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Diffusion models excel at producing high-quality images; however, scaling to higher resolutions, such as 4K, often results in over-smoothed content, structural distortions, and repetitive patterns. To this end, we introduce ResMaster, a…

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Recent advances in image generation have made diffusion models powerful tools for creating high-quality images. However, their iterative denoising process makes understanding and interpreting their semantic latent spaces more challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 E. Zhixuan Zeng , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

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…

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This paper presents a novel approach to improving text-guided image editing using diffusion-based models. Text-guided image editing task poses key challenge of precisly locate and edit the target semantic, and previous methods fall shorts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yihan Hu , Jianing Peng , Yiheng Lin , Ting Liu , Xiaochao Qu , Luoqi Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Super-resolution (SR) for image enhancement has great importance in medical image applications. Broadly speaking, there are two types of SR, one requires multiple low resolution (LR) images from different views of the same object to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Jin Zhu , Guang Yang , Pietro Lio

Image synthesis approaches, e.g., generative adversarial networks, have been popular as a form of data augmentation in medical image analysis tasks. It is primarily beneficial to overcome the shortage of publicly accessible data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Shiyi Du , Xiaosong Wang , Yongyi Lu , Yuyin Zhou , Shaoting Zhang , Alan Yuille , Kang Li , Zongwei Zhou

Positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction is a critical challenge in molecular imaging, often hampered by noise amplification, structural blurring, and detail loss due to sparse sampling and the ill-posed nature of inverse problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mengxiao Geng , Zijie Chen , Ran Hong , Bingxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful priors for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). However, existing methods may produce unintended results due to noisy text prompts and their lack of spatial information. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Li-Yuan Tsao , Hao-Wei Chen , Hao-Wei Chung , Deqing Sun , Chun-Yi Lee , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The advance of generative models for images has inspired various training techniques for image recognition utilizing synthetic images. In semantic segmentation, one promising approach is extracting pseudo-masks from attention maps in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ryota Yoshihashi , Yuya Otsuka , Kenji Doi , Tomohiro Tanaka , Hirokatsu Kataoka

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced Image Super-Resolution (SR), yet most CNN-based methods rely solely on pixel-based transformations, often leading to artifacts and blurring, particularly under severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bingwen Hu , Heng Liu , Zhedong Zheng , Ping Liu

Reconstructing visual stimuli from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging fMRI enables fine-grained retrieval of brain activity. However, the accurate reconstruction of diverse details, including structure, background, texture, color, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Haoyu Li , Hao Wu , Badong Chen

Diffusion models for super-resolution (SR) produce high-quality visual results but require expensive computational costs. Despite the development of several methods to accelerate diffusion-based SR models, some (e.g., SinSR) fail to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Daniil Selikhanovych , David Li , Aleksei Leonov , Nikita Gushchin , Sergei Kushneriuk , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev , Iaroslav Koshelev , Alexander Korotin

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

Scene Text Image Super-resolution (STISR) has recently achieved great success as a preprocessing method for scene text recognition. STISR aims to transform blurred and noisy low-resolution (LR) text images in real-world settings into clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chihiro Noguchi , Shun Fukuda , Masao Yamanaka

In image restoration (IR), leveraging semantic priors from segmentation models has been a common approach to improve performance. The recent segment anything model (SAM) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting advanced semantic priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Quan Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Wei Li , Hanting Chen , Junchao Liu , Jie Hu , Zhiwei Xiong , Chun Yuan , Yunhe Wang

Semantic Communication (SC) is an emerging technology that has attracted much attention in the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems. However, few literature has fully considered the perceptual quality of the reconstructed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Kexin Zhang , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Wenchi Cheng , Zhu Han

Large-scale text-to-image generative models have shown remarkable ability to synthesize diverse and high-quality images. However, it is still challenging to directly apply these models for editing real images for two reasons. First, it is…

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Text-driven diffusion models have become increasingly popular for various image editing tasks, including inpainting, stylization, and object replacement. However, it still remains an open research problem to adopt this language-vision…

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Most publicly accessible remote sensing data suffer from low resolution, limiting their practical applications. To address this, we propose a diffusion model guided by neural operators for continuous remote sensing image super-resolution…

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