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Although there have been significant advancements in image compression techniques, such as standard and learned codecs, these methods still suffer from severe quality degradation at extremely low bits per pixel. While recent diffusion-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Chanung Park , Joo Chan Lee , Jong Hwan Ko

Scene text recognition (STR) suffers from challenges of either less realistic synthetic training data or the difficulty of collecting sufficient high-quality real-world data, limiting the effectiveness of trained models. Meanwhile, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Xingsong Ye , Yongkun Du , Yunbo Tao , Zhineng Chen

The generation and enhancement of satellite imagery are critical in remote sensing, requiring high-quality, detailed images for accurate analysis. This research introduces a two-stage diffusion model methodology for synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ahmad Sebaq , Mohamed ElHelw

The current existing deep image super-resolution methods usually assume that a Low Resolution (LR) image is bicubicly downscaled of a High Resolution (HR) image. However, such an ideal bicubic downsampling process is different from the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Rao Muhammad Umer , Christian Micheloni

Diffusion-based Real-World Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR) achieves impressive perceptual quality but suffers from high computational costs due to iterative sampling. While recent distillation approaches leveraging large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Chengyan Deng , Zhangquan Chen , Li Yu , Kai Zhang , Xue Zhou , Wang Zhang

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

Recovering material information from images has been extensively studied in computer graphics and vision. Recent works in material estimation leverage diffusion model showing promising results. However, these diffusion-based methods adopt a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiuchao Wu , Pengfei Zhu , Jiangjing Lyu , Xinguo Liu , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo , Weiwei Xu , Chengfei Lyu

Diffusion models have shown promising results in speech enhancement, using a task-adapted diffusion process for the conditional generation of clean speech given a noisy mixture. However, at test time, the neural network used for score…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bunlong Lay , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

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

Unsupervised real-world super-resolution (SR) faces critical challenges due to the complex, unknown degradation distributions in practical scenarios. Existing methods struggle to generalize from synthetic low-resolution (LR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hongyang Zhou , Xiaobin Zhu , Liuling Chen , Junyi He , Jingyan Qin , Xu-Cheng Yin , Zhang xiaoxing

Reference-based Image Super-Resolution (RefSR) aims to restore a low-resolution (LR) image by utilizing the semantic and texture information from an additional reference high-resolution (reference HR) image. Existing diffusion-based RefSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zhenning Shi , Zizheng Yan , Yuhang Yu , Clara Xue , Jingyu Zhuang , Qi Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Tao Li , Qingnan Fan

Real-world image super-resolution (RISR) has received increased focus for improving the quality of SR images under unknown complex degradation. Existing methods rely on the heavy SR models to enhance low-resolution (LR) images of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Junbo Qiao , Shaohui Lin , Yunlun Zhang , Wei Li , Jie Hu , Gaoqi He , Changbo Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) has made significant strides, with high-resolution text-to-image (T2I) generation becoming increasingly critical for improving users' Quality of Experience (QoE). Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chongbin Yi , Yuxin Liang , Ziqi Zhou , Peng Yang

Single image super-resolution (SISR) is the task of inferring a high-resolution image from a single low-resolution image. Recent research on super-resolution has achieved great progress due to the development of deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Zhengyang Lu , Ying Chen

Recent diffusion-based models achieve photorealism in image inpainting but require many sampling steps, limiting practical use. Few-step text-to-image models offer faster generation, but naively applying them to inpainting yields poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Duc Vu , Kien Nguyen , Trong-Tung Nguyen , Ngan Nguyen , Phong Nguyen , Khoi Nguyen , Cuong Pham , Anh Tran

While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods have shown impressive outcomes with synthetic degradation scenarios such as bicubic downsampling, they frequently struggle to perform well on real-world images that feature complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hyeonjae Kim , Dongjin Kim , Eugene Jin , Tae Hyun Kim

Existing diffusion-based super-resolution approaches often exhibit semantic ambiguities due to inaccuracies and incompleteness in their text conditioning, coupled with the inherent tendency for cross-attention to divert towards irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chen Chen , Majid Abdolshah , Violetta Shevchenko , Hongdong Li , Chang Xu , Pulak Purkait

Diffusion models have significantly advanced the fields of image, audio, and video generation, but they depend on an iterative sampling process that causes slow generation. To overcome this limitation, we propose consistency models, a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yang Song , Prafulla Dhariwal , Mark Chen , Ilya Sutskever

While recent advancements in Image Super-Resolution (SR) using diffusion models have shown promise in improving overall image quality, their application to scene text images has revealed limitations. These models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Keren Ye , Ignacio Garcia Dorado , Michalis Raptis , Mauricio Delbracio , Irene Zhu , Peyman Milanfar , Hossein Talebi

Conventional physically based rendering (PBR) pipelines generate photorealistic images through computationally intensive light transport simulations. Although recent deep learning approaches leverage diffusion model priors with geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shenghao Zhang , Runtao Liu , Christopher Schroers , Yang Zhang