arXiv:2607. 15711v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based methods have achieved impressive performance in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) by leveraging large pre-trained stable diffusion (SD) models as powerful generative priors.
By Xue Wu, Kang Zhao, Kafeng Wang, Jianfei Chen, Jingwei Xin, Nannan Wang, Xinbo Gao
arXiv:2608. 09133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image super-resolution (SR) with large generative models has recently achieved remarkable perceptual quality, yet maintaining fidelity to the LR observation remains challenging.
By Yu Shi, Yuyao Zhang, Yu-wing Tai
The paper introduces a perceptually regularized diffusion framework for image super‑resolution, adding perceptual‑loss based regularization to the standard diffusion training objective. This approach incorporates prior knowledge to improve training convergence and encourages the recovery of meaningful image features. Experiments on benchmark datasets show enhanced perceptual quality while maintaining competitive distortion metrics.
By Chuxiangbo Wang, Pavithra Venkatachalapathy, Ying Liang, Min Wang, Jing Qin, Yifei Lou, Weihong Guo
arXiv:2609.15120v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Benefiting from the powerful generative priors of diffusion models, diffusion-based real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) methods have demonstra...
By Shuhao Han, Wenjie Liao, Hayden Vance, Hang Dong, Rui Zhang, Chun-Le Guo, Chongyi Li
Recent advances in diffusion models have shown impressive performance in controllable image generation and dense prediction tasks. However, existing approaches typically treat diffusion-based controllable generation and dense prediction as separate tasks, overlooking the potential benefits of jointly modeling the heterogeneous distributions.
Unified image restoration (UIR) aims to recover high-quality (HQ) content from low-quality (LQ) images with different degradations using a single model. Most recent methods adapt large pretrained text-to-image (T2I) latent diffusion models for their strong capacity and generative priors.
The paper introduces a high‑resolution Rectified Flow Matching model trained on 256×256 chest CT images to serve as a generative prior for CT reconstruction. A two‑stage training strategy—initial strong anatomically informed augmentation followed by fine‑tuning—helps mitigate overfitting and improve structural fidelity. When evaluated on various CT inverse problems, Flow Matching‑based reconstruction methods outperform diffusion‑based algorithms in PSNR, SSIM, and perceptual quality while requiring fewer sampling steps.
By Davide Evangelista
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.
By Zhenning Shi, Chen Xu, Junhao Zhang, Kefei Zhang, Linjie Liu, Zhedong Zheng, Tao Li
arXiv:2603.20186v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In this work, we propose Image-to-Image Rectified Flow Reformulation (I2I-RFR), a practical plug-in reformulation that recasts standard I2I regress...
By Satoshi Iizuka, Shun Okamoto, Kazuhiro Fukui
Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) aims to reconstruct high-quality (HQ) images from low-quality (LQ) inputs subject to diverse real-world degradations. Recent advances have leveraged the LQ inputs and natural image priors learned by Stable Diffusion models to achieve impressive results.
arXiv:2604.24136v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Pretrained diffusion models have revolutionized real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), but their iterative sampling is computationally prohi...
By Shyang-En Weng, Yi-Cheng Liao, Yu-Syuan Xu, Chia-Hung Yuan, Wei-Chen Chiu, Ching-Chun Huang
arXiv:2609.37147v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Distributional Diffusion Models (DDMs) replace the standard mean-prediction denoiser with a \emph{distributional} denoiser trained via a scoring rule...
By Tommaso Martorella, Alexandre Galashov, Felix Krause, Stefan Andreas Baumann, Valentin De Bortoli, Arthur Gretton, Bj\"orn Ommer