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20182026
most citedNTIRE 2020 Challenge on Real-World Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results

23 citations · 64 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CR2026

Beyond User-Side Defenses: Image Protection in Open-Weight Diffusion Models

Jihye Kang, Jiwon Park, Namhyuk Ahn

Model providers can support image protection, but open-weight deployment introduces practical constraints. We propose four requirements: protection effectiveness, clean fidelity, c…

cs.LG2026

Mean Accuracy Is the Wrong Estimand for a Release Decision

Jaewon Choi, Jihye Kang, Namhyuk Ahn

A release decision about a fine-tuned model is an operational commitment about the \emph{next} rerun of its training recipe. Yet standard benchmark reporting gives only the mean ac…

cs.CV2026

StyleComposer: Training-Free Multi-Reference Style Composition

Sanghyeok Lee, Jihye Kang, Namhyuk Ahn

The style of a painting is not monolithic: color, texture, and structure may come from different sources. Existing reference-guided methods transfer them as one style signal, leavi…

cs.CV2025

Compositional Image Synthesis with Inference-Time Scaling

Minsuk Ji, Sanghyeok Lee, Namhyuk Ahn

Despite their impressive realism, modern text-to-image models still struggle with compositionality, often failing to render accurate object counts, attributes, and spatial relation…

cs.CV2024

Nearly Zero-Cost Protection Against Mimicry by Personalized Diffusion Models

Namhyuk Ahn, KiYoon Yoo, Wonhyuk Ahn +2

Recent advancements in diffusion models revolutionize image generation but pose risks of misuse, such as replicating artworks or generating deepfakes. Existing image protection met…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Imperceptible Protection against Style Imitation from Diffusion Models

Namhyuk Ahn, Wonhyuk Ahn, KiYoon Yoo +2

Recent progress in diffusion models has profoundly enhanced the fidelity of image generation, but it has raised concerns about copyright infringements. While prior methods have int…

cs.CV2023

DreamStyler: Paint by Style Inversion with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Namhyuk Ahn, Junsoo Lee, Chunggi Lee +4

Recent progresses in large-scale text-to-image models have yielded remarkable accomplishments, finding various applications in art domain. However, expressing unique characteristic…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

AesPA-Net: Aesthetic Pattern-Aware Style Transfer Networks

Kibeom Hong, Seogkyu Jeon, Junsoo Lee +6

To deliver the artistic expression of the target style, recent studies exploit the attention mechanism owing to its ability to map the local patches of the style image to the corre…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Magnitude Attention-based Dynamic Pruning

Jihye Back, Namhyuk Ahn, Jangho Kim

Existing pruning methods utilize the importance of each weight based on specified criteria only when searching for a sparse structure but do not utilize it during training. In this…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

LPMM: Intuitive Pose Control for Neural Talking-Head Model via Landmark-Parameter Morphable Model

Kwangho Lee, Patrick Kwon, Myung Ki Lee +2

While current talking head models are capable of generating photorealistic talking head videos, they provide limited pose controllability. Most methods require specific video seque…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

DiffBlender: Composable and Versatile Multimodal Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Sungnyun Kim, Junsoo Lee, Kibeom Hong +2

In this study, we aim to enhance the capabilities of diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) generation models by integrating diverse modalities beyond textual descriptions within a un…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Interactive Cartoonization with Controllable Perceptual Factors

Namhyuk Ahn, Patrick Kwon, Jihye Back +2

Cartoonization is a task that renders natural photos into cartoon styles. Previous deep cartoonization methods only have focused on end-to-end translation, which may hinder editabi…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

WebtoonMe: A Data-Centric Approach for Full-Body Portrait Stylization

Jihye Back, Seungkwon Kim, Namhyuk Ahn

Full-body portrait stylization, which aims to translate portrait photography into a cartoon style, has drawn attention recently. However, most methods have focused only on converti…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

Cross-Domain Style Mixing for Face Cartoonization

Seungkwon Kim, Chaeheon Gwak, Dohyun Kim +4

Cartoon domain has recently gained increasing popularity. Previous studies have attempted quality portrait stylization into the cartoon domain; however, this poses a great challeng…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

What is Wrong with One-Class Anomaly Detection?

JuneKyu Park, Jeong-Hyeon Moon, Namhyuk Ahn +1

From a safety perspective, a machine learning method embedded in real-world applications is required to distinguish irregular situations. For this reason, there has been a growing…

cs.CV2020★ 2 cited

Restoring Spatially-Heterogeneous Distortions using Mixture of Experts Network

Sijin Kim, Namhyuk Ahn, Kyung-Ah Sohn

In recent years, deep learning-based methods have been successfully applied to the image distortion restoration tasks. However, scenarios that assume a single distortion only may n…

cs.MM2020★ 3 cited

From Attack to Protection: Leveraging Watermarking Attack Network for Advanced Add-on Watermarking

Seung-Hun Nam, Jihyeon Kang, Daesik Kim +2

Multi-bit watermarking (MW) has been designed to enhance resistance against watermarking attacks, such as signal processing operations and geometric distortions. Various benchmark…

eess.IV2020★ 23 cited

NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Real-World Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results

Andreas Lugmayr, Martin Danelljan, Radu Timofte +43

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2020 challenge on real world super-resolution. It focuses on the participating methods and final results. The challenge addresses the real world settin…

cs.CV2020

SimUSR: A Simple but Strong Baseline for Unsupervised Image Super-resolution

Namhyuk Ahn, Jaejun Yoo, Kyung-Ah Sohn

In this paper, we tackle a fully unsupervised super-resolution problem, i.e., neither paired images nor ground truth HR images. We assume that low resolution (LR) images are relati…

eess.IV2020

Rethinking Data Augmentation for Image Super-resolution: A Comprehensive Analysis and a New Strategy

Jaejun Yoo, Namhyuk Ahn, Kyung-Ah Sohn

Data augmentation is an effective way to improve the performance of deep networks. Unfortunately, current methods are mostly developed for high-level vision tasks (e.g., classifica…

cs.CV2019★ 4 cited

Efficient Deep Neural Network for Photo-realistic Image Super-Resolution

Namhyuk Ahn, Byungkon Kang, Kyung-Ah Sohn

Recent progress in deep learning-based models has improved photo-realistic (or perceptual) single-image super-resolution significantly. However, despite their powerful performance,…

cs.CV2018

Image Distortion Detection using Convolutional Neural Network

Namhyuk Ahn, Byungkon Kang, Kyung-Ah Sohn

Image distortion classification and detection is an important task in many applications. For example when compressing images, if we know the exact location of the distortion, then…

cs.CV2018★ 8 cited

Fast, Accurate, and Lightweight Super-Resolution with Cascading Residual Network

Namhyuk Ahn, Byungkon Kang, Kyung-Ah Sohn

In recent years, deep learning methods have been successfully applied to single-image super-resolution tasks. Despite their great performances, deep learning methods cannot be easi…