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
UGDiff introduces an uncertainty-guided diffusion paradigm for single-image super-resolution, aiming to improve the perception‑distortion trade‑off. The method estimates reconstruction uncertainty of latent features from a high‑fidelity image and uses this uncertainty, along with diffusion sampler posterior variance, to selectively restore high‑frequency details in uncertain regions while preserving fidelity elsewhere. Experiments show that UGDiff outperforms state‑of‑the‑art diffusion‑based SR methods.
By Ren Wang, Yung-Yu Chuang
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: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
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:2601.17723v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Implicit neural representation (INR) has become the standard approach for arbitrary-scale image super-resolution (ASSR). However, no systematic emp...
By Tayyab Nasir, Daochang Liu, Ajmal Mian
arXiv:2608.30782v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) aims to preserve structures supported by the degraded observation while reconstructing perceptually realis...
By Bingtian Qiao, Yue Shi, Yong Guo, Wenjun Zhang, Jiezhang Cao
Diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable success in real-world image super-resolution (SR). With tiled diffusion techniques, these models can produce high-resolution images that exceed their native-supported resolution.
Pixel‑Space Diffusion via Observation Operators introduces a new framework for pixel‑space diffusion models that addresses a scale‑time mismatch in existing methods. By replacing fixed full‑image supervision with a time‑indexed observation trajectory that progresses from coarse structures to the full image, the model aligns supervision with the natural recovery order of image details. The approach employs Gaussian‑Lanczos operators and a GL‑CoDA decoder to refine features progressively, resulting in faster convergence and higher generation quality, achieving an FID of 1.52 on ImageNet‑256.
By Shaojie Guo, Lichen Ma, Haoyang Tong, Yu He, Zipeng Guo, Xiaoan Liu, Feng Yan, Yu Guo, Fei Wang, Junshi Huang, Yan Wang
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