arXiv Computer Vision

Uncertainty-Guided Latent Diffusion Models for Faithful Super Resolution

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.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Patch-PODiff-ViT: Structured Latent Diffusion with Patchwise POD for Super-Resolution and Uncertainty Quantification

arXiv:2606. 31290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models enable probabilistic super-resolution and conditional generation, but pixel-space methods are computationally expensive and learned latent spaces often lack interpretable uncertainty quantification.

By Onkar Jadhav, Tim French, Matthew Rayson, Nicole L. Jones