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Recent progress in generative models has significantly improved image restoration capabilities, particularly through powerful diffusion models that offer remarkable recovery of semantic details and local fidelity. However, deploying these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yongsheng Yu , Haitian Zheng , Zhifei Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Yuqian Zhou , Connelly Barnes , Yuchen Liu , Wei Xiong , Zhe Lin , Jiebo Luo

This paper deals with a novel nonlinear coupled nonlocal reaction-diffusion system proposed for image restoration, characterized by the advantages of preserving low gray level features and textures.The gray level indicator in the proposed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yuhang Li , Zhichang Guo , Jingfeng Shao , Boying Wu

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computational photography, where achieving high perception with low distortion is highly demanding. Current methods either struggle with perceptual quality or suffer from significant distortion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tong Li , Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong , Hua Huang

There is a growing interest in the use of latent diffusion models (LDMs) for image restoration (IR) tasks due to their ability to model effectively the distribution of natural images. While significant progress has been made, there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Di You , Daniel Siromani , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Diffusion Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in handling inverse problems, offering high-quality posterior-sampling-based solutions. Despite significant advances, a fundamental trade-off persists regarding the way the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Noam Elata , Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye , Tomer Michaeli , Michael Elad

Recently, research on denoising diffusion models has expanded its application to the field of image restoration. Traditional diffusion-based image restoration methods utilize degraded images as conditional input to effectively guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhenning Shi , Haoshuai Zheng , Chen Xu , Changsheng Dong , Bin Pan , Xueshuo Xie , Along He , Tao Li , Huazhu Fu

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful priors for image editing tasks such as inpainting and local modification, where the objective is to generate realistic content that remains consistent with observed regions. In particular, zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Badr Moufad , Navid Bagheri Shouraki , Alain Oliviero Durmus , Thomas Hirtz , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson , Yazid Janati

Recent advances in diffusion models have spurred research into their application for Reconstruction-based unsupervised anomaly detection. However, these methods may struggle with maintaining structural integrity and recovering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Farzad Beizaee , Gregory A. Lodygensky , Christian Desrosiers , Jose Dolz

In recent times, diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance in image restoration tasks. Their core mechanism relies on the restricted presumption of degradation prior to the additive noise operation. However, the blur model, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sasidhar Parvathireddy , Vamsidhar Saraswathula , Rama Krishna Gorthi

Deep unfolding networks (DUNs) are widely employed in illumination degradation image restoration (IDIR) to merge the interpretability of model-based approaches with the generalization of learning-based methods. However, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chunming He , Rihan Zhang , Fengyang Xiao , Chengyu Fang , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Sina Farsiu

Diffusion model-based image restoration (IR) aims to use diffusion models to recover high-quality (HQ) images from degraded images, achieving promising performance. Due to the inherent property of diffusion models, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jiezhang Cao , Yue Shi , Kai Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Image restoration aims to recover degraded images. However, existing diffusion-based restoration methods, despite great success in natural image restoration, often struggle to faithfully reconstruct textual regions in degraded images. Those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jaewon Min , Jin Hyeon Kim , Paul Hyunbin Cho , Jaeeun Lee , Jihye Park , Minkyu Park , Sangpil Kim , Hyunhee Park , Seungryong Kim

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation and editing tasks. Inversion within these models aims to recover the latent noise representation for a real or generated image, enabling reconstruction, editing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zixiang Li , Haoyu Wang , Wei Wang , Chuangchuang Tan , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao

3D image reconstruction from a limited number of 2D images has been a long-standing challenge in computer vision and image analysis. While deep learning-based approaches have achieved impressive performance in this area, existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Nivetha Jayakumar , Tonmoy Hossain , Miaomiao Zhang

The diffusion model has demonstrated superior performance in synthesizing diverse and high-quality images for text-guided image translation. However, there remains room for improvement in both the formulation of text prompts and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Qi Si , Bo Wang , Zhao Zhang

Diffusion models excel at image restoration via probabilistic modeling of forward noise addition and reverse denoising, and their ability to handle complex noise while preserving fine details makes them well-suited for Low-Light Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ying Liu , Junchao Zhang , Caiyun Wu

In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based unsupervised framework that incorporates physically explainable Retinex theory with diffusion models for low-light image enhancement, named LightenDiffusion. Specifically, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Xiaohong Liu , Songchen Han , Shuaicheng Liu

Modern cameras' performance in low-light conditions remains suboptimal due to fundamental limitations in photon shot noise and sensor read noise. Generative image restoration methods have shown promising results compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xijun Wang , Prateek Chennuri , Dilshan Godaliyadda , Yu Yuan , Bole Ma , Xingguang Zhang , Hamid R. Sheikh , Stanley Chan

Though diffusion models have been successfully applied to various image restoration (IR) tasks, their performance is sensitive to the choice of training datasets. Typically, diffusion models trained in specific datasets fail to recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Deep image restoration models aim to learn a mapping from degraded image space to natural image space. However, they face several critical challenges: removing degradation, generating realistic details, and ensuring pixel-level consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xinqi Lin , Fanghua Yu , Jinfan Hu , Zhiyuan You , Wu Shi , Jimmy S. Ren , Jinjin Gu , Chao Dong