The paper introduces RAE-CoD, a diffusion-based compression method that operates in a representation autoencoder space to preserve recognizable content even at extremely low bitrates. It addresses the problem of semantic collapse observed in existing codecs when the bitrate approaches zero, showing that reconstruction losses conflict with semantic objectives and that VAE diffusion models lose efficiency in preserving semantics. Experiments on MSCOCO-30K demonstrate that RAE-CoD outperforms competitors, reducing VFM feature MSE and Fréchet Distance ratios by at least 25.7% and 69.1% at 0.001–0.008 bpp while maintaining stable recognizability and quality.
By Tianyu Zhang, Zhaoyang Jia, Houqiang Li, Dong Liu
arXiv:2608. 10544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image restoration is fundamentally constrained by the tradeoff between distortion and perception: minimizing pixel-wise error yields over-smoothed results, whereas optimizing for perceptual realism often introduces structural deviations.
By Sangwoo Jo, Donggeun Ko, Jayeon Kang, Youngsang Kwak, Jaehwa Kwak, Sungjoon Choi
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.
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
arXiv:2606.21030v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Diffusion-based image compression has achieved strong perceptual quality at ultra-low bitrates. However, existing codecs are often tied to sp...
By Yinhuan Huang, Hao Cao, Pu chen, Wenqi Guo, Jungong Han, Zhijin Qin
Most existing extreme compression methods fail to achieve an optimal rate-distortion-perception trade-off, as they typically prioritize perceptual fidelity and visual realism over pixel-level accuracy. Consequently, the resulting reconstructions often deviate noticeably from the originals.
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
arXiv:2608.30129v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work presents $\textbf{Lapis}$, a $\textbf{l}$inear-$\textbf{a}$ttention-based $\textbf{pi}$xel-$\textbf{s}$pace generative framework that achieve...
By Bingde Liu, Wu Ran, Jinglei Zhang, Huanhuan Yuan, Chao Ma
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
DecomVoxel introduces a guided in‑situ denoising optimization that fuses 3D‑native priors with neural scene reconstruction to improve decompositional scene reconstruction. The method employs an epsilon‑based distillation loss for stable latent refinement and adaptive spatial guidance using occupied and vacant anchors with temporal annealing to reduce hallucinations and spatial drift. Experiments on Replica and ScanNet++ demonstrate that DecomVoxel outperforms state‑of‑the‑art approaches while preserving spatial layout, structural fidelity, and style‑consistent texture, yielding high‑quality textured meshes with clean topology.
By Junfeng Ni, Zirui Zhou, Yixin Chen, Yu Liu, Nan Jiang, Zhifei Yang, Song-Chun Zhu, Siyuan Huang
arXiv:2603. 03710v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot MRI reconstruction relies on generative priors, but single-modality unconditional priors produce hallucinations under severe ill-posedness.
By Seunghoi Kim, Chen Jin, Henry F. J. Tregidgo, Matteo Figini, Daniel C. Alexander
arXiv:2609.37775v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Pretrained visual representations support image generation, but may not fully preserve the fine-grained details needed for faithful reconstruction. M...
By Xuanyu Zhu, Yan Bai, Yang Shi, Yihang Lou, Yuanxing Zhang, Tengfei Liu, Jing Jin, Yuan Zhou