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In image restoration, single-step discriminative mappings often lack fine details via expectation learning, whereas generative paradigms suffer from inefficient multi-step sampling and noise-residual coupling. To address this dilemma, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zihao Fan , Xin Lu , Jie Xiao , Dong Li , Jie Huang , Xueyang Fu

Pretrained diffusion models have revolutionized real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) but suffer from computational bottlenecks due to iterative sampling. Recent single-step distillation accelerates inference but faces a stark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shyang-En Weng , Yi-Cheng Liao , Yu-Syuan Xu , Wei-Chen Chiu , Ching-Chun Huang

Pre-trained diffusion models have shown great potential in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) tasks by enabling high-resolution reconstructions. While one-step diffusion (OSD) methods significantly improve efficiency compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zongliang Wu , Siming Zheng , Peng-Tao Jiang , Xin Yuan

Although recent research applying text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to real-world super-resolution (SR) has achieved remarkable progress, the misalignment of their targets leads to a suboptimal trade-off between inference speed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yan Wang , Shijie Zhao , Kexin Zhang , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) show promising potential in one-step Real-World Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR). Current one-step Real-ISR methods typically inject the low-quality (LQ) image latent representation at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zhiqiang Wu , Zhaomang Sun , Tong Zhou , Bingtao Fu , Ji Cong , Yitong Dong , Huaqi Zhang , Xuan Tang , Mingsong Chen , Xian Wei

One-shot magnitude pruning can cause severe accuracy collapse in the high-sparsity regime, even when the pruning mask preserves the largest weights. We argue that this failure reflects a granularity mismatch in post-pruning repair. Under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Qishi Zhan , Ziheng Chen , Minxuan Hu

Most single image super-resolution (SR) methods are developed on synthetic low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image pairs, which are simulated by a predetermined degradation operation, e.g., bicubic downsampling. However, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Rui Ma , Johnathan Czernik , Xian Du

Most image super-resolution (SR) methods are developed on synthetic low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image pairs that are constructed by a predetermined operation, e.g., bicubic downsampling. As existing methods typically learn…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Sanghyun Son , Jaeha Kim , Wei-Sheng Lai , Ming-Husan Yang , Kyoung Mu Lee

The convolutional neural network model for optical flow estimation usually outputs a low-resolution(LR) optical flow field. To obtain the corresponding full image resolution,interpolation and variational approach are the most common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Liping Zhang , Zongqing Lu , Qingmin Liao

Pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly applied to real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) task. Given the iterative refinement nature of diffusion models, most existing approaches are computationally expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Linwei Dong , Qingnan Fan , Yihong Guo , Zhonghao Wang , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Yawei Luo , Changqing Zou

Generative flow models offer powerful priors learned from large-scale natural images, but directly adapting them to restoration tasks such as motion deblurring causes severe fidelity degradation, as their training objective is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Insoo Kim , Jinwoo Shin

Most learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods aim to recover high-resolution (HR) image from a given low-resolution (LR) image via learning on LR-HR image pairs. The SR methods learned on synthetic data do not perform well in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Dong Gong , Wei Sun , Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Yanning Zhang

Recently, there has been discussions on the ill-posed nature of super-resolution that multiple possible reconstructions exist for a given low-resolution image. Using normalizing flows, SRflow[23] achieves state-of-the-art perceptual quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Sieun Park , Eunho Lee

Super-resolution suffers from an innate ill-posed problem that a single low-resolution (LR) image can be from multiple high-resolution (HR) images. Recent studies on the flow-based algorithm solve this ill-posedness by learning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Ki-Ung Song , Dongseok Shim , Kang-wook Kim , Jae-young Lee , Younggeun Kim

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

Recent advances in diffusion-based real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) have demonstrated remarkable perceptual quality, yet the balance between fidelity and controllability remains a problem: multi-step diffusion-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yushun Fang , Yuxiang Chen , Shibo Yin , Qiang Hu , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) has recently attracted significant attention by leveraging the expressive power of large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models (DMs). A central practical challenge is resolving the trade-off…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Maxence Noble , Gonzalo Iñaki Quintana , Benjamin Aubin , Clément Chadebec

Most of the recent generative image super-resolution (SR) methods rely on adapting large text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models pretrained on web-scale text-image data. While effective, this paradigm starts from a generic T2I generator,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Rongyuan Wu , Lingchen Sun , Zhengqiang Zhang , Xiangtao Kong , Jixin Zhao , Shihao Wang , Lei Zhang

Despite recent advances, single-image super-resolution (SR) remains challenging, especially in real-world scenarios with complex degradations. Diffusion-based SR methods, particularly those built on Stable Diffusion, leverage strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Fabio D'Oronzio , Federico Putamorsi , Leonardo Zini , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi

Existing real-world super-resolution (RSR) methods based on generative priors have achieved remarkable progress in producing high-quality and globally consistent reconstructions. However, they often struggle to recover fine-grained details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zixin Guo , Kai Zhao , Luyan Zhang