arXiv Computer Vision

GigaBench: Benchmarking Learnable Representations for Gigapixel Image Compression and Super-Resolution

GigaBench is the first benchmark designed to evaluate learnable representations (LRs) for gigapixel image compression and super‑resolution. It compiles a diverse set of gigapixel images—collected, acquired, and synthetically rendered—from various domains and tests representative LR methods (Implicit, Hybrid, and Explicit) on consumer hardware. The study systematically measures reconstruction quality, model size, compression, and inference times, revealing consistent trends and offering actionable guidance for future research.

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

Efficient One-Step Diffusion Restoration Model with Compact Token Compression and Linear Attention

The paper introduces SANA‑SR, an efficient one‑step diffusion restoration framework for real‑world image super‑resolution. It uses a deep compression autoencoder to reduce latent tokens by a 32× ratio, preserving essential structures and textures, and applies a linear‑attention DiT with LoRA fine‑tuning for linear‑complexity token mixing. Experiments show competitive or superior performance on benchmark datasets, and the pruned model runs in 0.019 s with 407.95 G MACs and 344 M parameters, indicating strong potential for mobile deployment.

By Bingtian Qiao, Yue Shi, Yingjie Zhou, Yong Guo, Guangtao Zhai, Jiezhang Cao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 17

GB-LSR: A Fast Local Spectral Image Representation with a Single Global Bandwidth for Continuous Reconstruction and Super-Resolution

We present GB-LSR (Global-Bandwidth Local Spectral Representation), a fixed-grid local spectral representation for continuous image reconstruction. The image domain is partitioned into non-overlapping square patches, each carrying coefficients for a truncated Fourier basis predicted from shared convolutional-encoder features.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

FreeTransformSR: Efficient Lightweight Image Super-Resolution via Free Low-Rank Learnable Transform

FreeTransformSR is a lightweight image super‑resolution network that uses a channel‑wise free low‑rank learnable transform to adaptively modulate features with minimal parameters. It adds a local feature modulation branch with depthwise convolution and a soft complexity adaptive module that fuses local convolution and window self‑attention based on texture characteristics. The model also employs an adaptive intensity modulation strategy and achieves competitive PSNR/SSIM on five benchmark datasets while using only 595K parameters and running faster than competing methods.

By Hongji Li, Yunhui Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Fortifying Fully Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks for Image Super-Resolution Using Divergence Measures

arXiv:2404. 06294v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Super-Resolution (SR) is a time-hallowed image processing problem that aims to improve the quality of a Low-Resolution (LR) sample up to the standard of its High-Resolution (HR) counterpart.

By Arkaprabha Basu, Kushal Bose, Sankha Subhra Mullick, Anish Chakrabarty, Swagatam Das
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Adaptive Densification for High-Fidelity and Efficient Sparse Gaussian Splatting in Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution

The paper introduces QuADA-GS, a method for Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution that dynamically densifies 2D Gaussian splatting based on low‑resolution input. By allocating Gaussians adaptively to structurally complex regions and employing a sparse communication mechanism, it balances high visual fidelity with lower computational cost. Experiments show that this approach achieves a competitive trade‑off between quality and efficiency for super‑resolution tasks.

By Giulio Federico, Giuseppe Amato, Claudio Gennaro, Fabio Carrara, Marco Di Benedetto