Recent advancements in low-light image enhancement have leveraged diffusion models for their strong ability to generate perceptually realistic, detailed images. Patch diffusion models further offer a...
ForcingBooster is a framework that adaptively allocates denoising steps to individual video patches in autoregressive diffusion models, allowing easy patches to stop early while difficult patches receive more refinement. This dynamic scheduling reduces the total number of denoising steps by about 50% and improves generation efficiency with negligible quality loss. The method requires only a lightweight routing module and works with most existing few‑step autoregressive diffusion models.
arXiv:2606. 04299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider the problem of generating images whose internal structure -- defined by the distribution of patches across multiple scales -- matches that of a single reference image.
arXiv:2607. 25275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world Image Restoration (Real-IR) aims to recover high-quality (HQ) images from complex and unknown degradations.
arXiv:2608.29243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing diffusion-based enhancement methods provide strong generative capability for low-light image enhancement (LLIE), yet they either rely on paire...
arXiv:2609.24919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in pixel-space diffusion models have narrowed the image quality gap with latent-space diffusion, but still converge more slowly and lag...
arXiv:2609.00798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pixel-space diffusion has recently emerged as a promising direction for high-fidelity image generation by modeling images directly in the original pixe...
IDM-Net is a lightweight Illumination-Decoupled Modulation Network designed for low-light image enhancement. It uses a dual-encoder architecture: a structure encoder extracts multi-scale appearance features from the RGB image, while a lightweight illumination encoder learns illumination priors from the decoupled luminance channel. An Illumination-Guided Modulation module injects these priors into the decoder via spatially adaptive affine modulation, and a Feature Refinement Block progressively suppresses artifacts and recovers fine details, achieving competitive performance on standard benchmarks with good balance between quality and efficiency.
Pixel-space diffusion has recently emerged as a promising direction for high-fidelity image generation by modeling images directly in the original pixel domain. However, pixel-space diffusion is compu...
WildShadowRemover is a framework that adapts a pretrained video diffusion model for robust in-the-wild video shadow removal using LoRA fine-tuning. It augments the frozen VAE decoder with a detail injection module and introduces a shadow‑mask‑guided frequency‑decomposed modulation module to restore high‑frequency textures while suppressing shadow artifacts, with monocular depth priors providing geometry‑aware guidance. The authors also create WildShadow, a large‑scale paired video shadow removal dataset, and show that their method outperforms existing approaches in shadow removal quality, temporal consistency, and generalization across challenging real‑world scenarios.
Existing supervised and unsupervised shadow removal methods often suffer from limited generalization due to the insufficient diversity of available training datasets, while zero-shot methods tend to produce artifacts and require time-consuming test-time optimization. To address these issues, we propose FreeShadow, a training-free shadow removal method built upon pretrained diffusion models, which exploits diffusion priors for shadow removal without any training or optimization.
arXiv:2607. 03013v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Images captured by consumer electronic devices, such as mobile phones and digital cameras, often suffer from low-light degradation due to sensor limitations and imaging pipelines, which degrades visual quality and affects downstream vision tasks.