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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

It is well known the adversarial optimization of GAN-based image super-resolution (SR) methods makes the preceding SR model generate unpleasant and undesirable artifacts, leading to large distortion. We attribute the cause of such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Joshua Tian Jin Tee , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Chang D. Yoo , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Omnidirectional image super-resolution (ODISR) aims to upscale low-resolution (LR) omnidirectional images (ODIs) to high-resolution (HR), catering to the growing demand for detailed visual content across a $ 180^{\circ}\times360^{\circ}$…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Xuhan Sheng , Runyi Li , Bin Chen , Weiqi Li , Xu Jiang , Jian Zhang

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

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Image super-resolution (SR) has attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications. However, current SR methods generally suffer from over-smoothing and artifacts, and most work only with fixed magnifications. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sicheng Gao , Xuhui Liu , Bohan Zeng , Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Xiaoyan Luo , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Baochang Zhang

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) models have shown superior performance at the cost of multiple denoising steps. However, even though the denoising step has been reduced to one, they require high computational costs and storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Libo Zhu , Jianze Li , Haotong Qin , Wenbo Li , Yulun Zhang , Yong Guo , Xiaokang Yang

In this paper, we introduce YONOS-SR, a novel stable diffusion-based approach for image super-resolution that yields state-of-the-art results using only a single DDIM step. We propose a novel scale distillation approach to train our SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Mehdi Noroozi , Isma Hadji , Brais Martinez , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Arbitrary-scale super-resolution (ASSR) overcomes the limitation of traditional super-resolution (SR) methods that operate only at fixed scales (e.g., 4x), enabling a single model to handle arbitrary magnification. Most existing ASSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Yingsheng Qin , Yucai Yang , Rong Xie , Li Song

Diffusion models have revealed powerful potential in all-in-one image restoration (AiOIR), which is talented in generating abundant texture details. The existing AiOIR methods either retrain a diffusion model or fine-tune the pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ni Tang , Xiaotong Luo , Zihan Cheng , Liangtai Zhou , Dongxiao Zhang , Yanyun Qu

Reference-based Super Resolution (RefSR) improves upon Single Image Super Resolution (SISR) by leveraging high-quality reference images to enhance texture fidelity and visual realism. However, a critical limitation of existing RefSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jiaqi Yan , Shuning Xu , Xiangyu Chen , Dell Zhang , Jiantao Zhou , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu , Jie Liu

Recently, convolutional networks have achieved remarkable development in remote sensing image Super-Resoltuion (SR) by minimizing the regression objectives, e.g., MSE loss. However, despite achieving impressive performance, these methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Yi Xiao , Qiangqiang Yuan , Kui Jiang , Jiang He , Xianyu Jin , Liangpei Zhang

Recently, reference-based image super-resolution (RefSR) has shown excellent performance in image super-resolution (SR) tasks. The main idea of RefSR is to utilize additional information from the reference (Ref) image to recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jeongho Min , Yejun Lee , Dongyoung Kim , Jaejun Yoo

Structures matter in single image super-resolution (SISR). Benefiting from generative adversarial networks (GANs), recent studies have promoted the development of SISR by recovering photo-realistic images. However, there are still undesired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Cheng Ma , Yongming Rao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Unified image restoration is a significantly challenging task in low-level vision. Existing methods either make tailored designs for specific tasks, limiting their generalizability across various types of degradation, or rely on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Huaqiu Li , Yong Wang , Tongwen Huang , Hailang Huang , Haoqian Wang , Xiangxiang Chu

We present a novel approach to leverage prior knowledge encapsulated in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models for blind super-resolution (SR). Specifically, by employing our time-aware encoder, we can achieve promising restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Jianyi Wang , Zongsheng Yue , Shangchen Zhou , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Chen Change Loy

Recovering high-frequency details and textures from low-resolution images remains a fundamental challenge in super-resolution (SR), especially when real-world degradations are complex and unknown. While GAN-based methods enhance realism,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Cansu Korkmaz , Nancy Mehta , Radu Timofte

Image Super-Resolution (ISR) has seen significant progress with the introduction of remarkable generative models. However, challenges such as the trade-off issues between fidelity and realism, as well as computational complexity, have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Existing methods for single image super-resolution (SR) are typically evaluated with synthetic degradation models such as bicubic or Gaussian downsampling. In this paper, we investigate SR from the perspective of camera lenses, named as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Chang Chen , Zhiwei Xiong , Xinmei Tian , Zheng-Jun Zha , Feng Wu

Diffusion models have gained attention for their success in modeling complex distributions, achieving impressive perceptual quality in SR tasks. However, existing diffusion-based SR methods often suffer from high computational costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Rui Qin , Qijie Wang , Ming Sun , Haowei Zhu , Chao Zhou , Bin Wang