arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

Noise-Started One-Step Real-World Super-Resolution via LR-Conditioned SplitMeanFlow and GAN Refinement

The paper introduces SMFSR, a one‑step real‑world super‑resolution framework that retains the noise‑started generation of diffusion models while conditioning on low‑resolution images. It uses LR‑conditioned SplitMeanFlow with Interval Splitting Consistency to collapse a multi‑step trajectory into a single average‑velocity prediction, and adds a GAN refinement stage with a DINOv3 discriminator and variational score distillation to enhance texture realism. Experiments show SMFSR achieves state‑of‑the‑art perceptual quality among one‑step diffusion‑based methods while maintaining fast inference.

By Wei Zhu, Kai Zhang, Yu Zheng, Lei Luo, Yong Guo, Jian Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

PixelSR: Pixel-Space Orthogonal Flow Decoupling for Real-World Image Super-Resolution

PixelSR introduces a single‑stage Pixel Diffusion Transformer that operates directly in pixel space for real‑world image super‑resolution. It combines Pixel‑Space Conditional Diffusion—integrating low‑resolution conditioning, semantic guidance, and texture refinement—to avoid VAE compression, with Orthogonal Flow Decoupling that separates a low‑rank semantic component from a noise‑free texture component for specialized optimization. The approach yields perceptually realistic details while preserving structural fidelity, as shown by competitive results on multiple benchmarks.

By Xiang Lv, Kai Zhao, Qiang Wang, Qiao Mo, Chao Zhou, Mingwen Shao
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

PhoenixSR: Generative Heterogeneous Distillation Unleashes Efficient Models for Real-World Super-Resolution

arXiv:2609.30988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world image super-resolution (SR) requires recovering perceptually realistic high-resolution images from complex low-resolution observations while...

By Xin Di, Mingyu Shi, Yuanfei Bao, Long Peng, Yue Zhao, Jiaming Guo, Renjing Pei, Xueyang Fu, Yang Cao, Zheng-Jun Zha
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

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.

By Ren Wang, Yung-Yu Chuang