arXiv Computer Vision

Fast and Accurate Image Restoration and Generation with Rank Enhanced Linear Attention

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26

NAIMA: Semantics Aware RGB Guided Depth Super-Resolution

The paper introduces NAIMA, a guided depth super‑resolution framework that leverages global contextual semantic priors from pretrained vision transformer token embeddings. Its Guided Token Attention (GTA) module uses depth encodings as queries to attend over semantic tokens, with a zero‑initialized gate controlling the influence of semantic evidence. NAIMA achieves competitive in‑distribution performance while delivering superior cross‑dataset generalization without relying on decoded priors or auxiliary objectives.

By Tayyab Nasir, Daochang Liu, Ajmal Mian
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 12

High-Throughput Generative Video Super-Resolution on a Single Consumer GPU

The paper presents a zero‑shot framework for high‑throughput generative video super‑resolution (VSR) that operates on a single high‑end consumer GPU without retraining. It decouples spatial upscaling, handled by a time‑distilled one‑step diffusion backbone, from temporal stabilization, achieved with a lightweight pretrained flow‑based interpolator. A resolution‑aware hybrid attention scheme replaces high‑resolution global attention with neighborhood attention to improve scalability, achieving up to ~32 FPS at 720p and a 44% speedup at 4K on an NVIDIA RTX 4090, while maintaining competitive perceptual quality and temporal consistency on standard VSR benchmarks.

By Georgios Panaretou, Sotirios Chatzis
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 30

Constructive Distortion: Improving MLLMs with Attention-Guided Image Warping

The paper introduces AttWarp, a lightweight technique that uses a multimodal large language model’s cross‑modal attention to perform rectilinear warping of input images at test time. By reallocating spatial resolution toward query‑relevant regions without altering model weights or architecture, AttWarp preserves global context while making small objects and subtle relationships easier for the model to read. Experiments on five benchmarks and four MLLMs show consistent accuracy gains, improved compositional reasoning, and reduced hallucinations compared to baseline image‑manipulation methods.

By Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Utkarsh Mishra, Jeonghwan Kim, Madhav Kanda, Hyeonjeong Ha, Svetlana Lazebnik, Heng Ji, Unnat Jain
arXiv AI
Jun 12

HYDRA-X: Native Unified Multimodal Models with Holistic Visual Tokenizers

arXiv:2606. 13289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Holistic visual tokenizers are fundamental to unified multimodal models (UMMs) as they map diverse visual inputs into a unified representation space.

By Guozhen Zhang, Xuerui Qiu, Yutao Cui, Tianhui Song, Changlin Li, Junzhe Li, Tao Huang, Xiao Zhang, Yang Li, Jianbing Wu, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo, Limin Wang