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most citedBeyond a Gaussian Denoiser: Residual Learning of Deep CNN for Image Denoising

9.2k citations · 13.2k across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

NTIRE 2023 Quality Assessment of Video Enhancement Challenge

Xiaohong Liu, Xiongkuo Min, Wei Sun +69

This paper reports on the NTIRE 2023 Quality Assessment of Video Enhancement Challenge, which will be held in conjunction with the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement W…

cs.CV2023★ 9 cited

Denoising Diffusion Models for Plug-and-Play Image Restoration

Yuanzhi Zhu, Kai Zhang, Jingyun Liang +4

Plug-and-play Image Restoration (IR) has been widely recognized as a flexible and interpretable method for solving various inverse problems by utilizing any off-the-shelf denoiser…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Equivariant Multi-Modality Image Fusion

Zixiang Zhao, Haowen Bai, Jiangshe Zhang +6

Multi-modality image fusion is a technique that combines information from different sensors or modalities, enabling the fused image to retain complementary features from each modal…

cs.CV2023★ 11 cited

DDFM: Denoising Diffusion Model for Multi-Modality Image Fusion

Zixiang Zhao, Haowen Bai, Yuanzhi Zhu +7

Multi-modality image fusion aims to combine different modalities to produce fused images that retain the complementary features of each modality, such as functional highlights and…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

A Unified Framework for Event-based Frame Interpolation with Ad-hoc Deblurring in the Wild

Lei Sun, Daniel Gehrig, Christos Sakaridis +7

Effective video frame interpolation hinges on the adept handling of motion in the input scene. Prior work acknowledges asynchronous event information for this, but often overlooks…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

CiaoSR: Continuous Implicit Attention-in-Attention Network for Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution

Jiezhang Cao, Qin Wang, Yongqin Xian +7

Learning continuous image representations is recently gaining popularity for image super-resolution (SR) because of its ability to reconstruct high-resolution images with arbitrary…

cs.CV2022

Reference-based Image Super-Resolution with Deformable Attention Transformer

Jiezhang Cao, Jingyun Liang, Kai Zhang +4

Reference-based image super-resolution (RefSR) aims to exploit auxiliary reference (Ref) images to super-resolve low-resolution (LR) images. Recently, RefSR has been attracting gre…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Learning Task-Oriented Flows to Mutually Guide Feature Alignment in Synthesized and Real Video Denoising

Jiezhang Cao, Qin Wang, Jingyun Liang +4

Video denoising aims at removing noise from videos to recover clean ones. Some existing works show that optical flow can help the denoising by exploiting the additional spatial-tem…

cs.CV2022

Towards Interpretable Video Super-Resolution via Alternating Optimization

Jiezhang Cao, Jingyun Liang, Kai Zhang +5

In this paper, we study a practical space-time video super-resolution (STVSR) problem which aims at generating a high-framerate high-resolution sharp video from a low-framerate low…

cs.CV2022★ 81 cited

Recurrent Video Restoration Transformer with Guided Deformable Attention

Jingyun Liang, Yuchen Fan, Xiaoyu Xiang +7

Video restoration aims at restoring multiple high-quality frames from multiple low-quality frames. Existing video restoration methods generally fall into two extreme cases, i.e., t…

cs.CV2022

NTIRE 2022 Challenge on Efficient Super-Resolution: Methods and Results

Yawei Li, Kai Zhang, Radu Timofte +108

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2022 challenge on efficient single image super-resolution with focus on the proposed solutions and results. The task of the challenge was to super-reso…

cs.CV2022

NTIRE 2022 Challenge on Super-Resolution and Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video: Dataset, Methods and Results

Ren Yang, Radu Timofte, Meisong Zheng +75

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2022 Challenge on Super-Resolution and Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video. In this challenge, we proposed the LDV 2.0 dataset, which includes the…

cs.CV2022★ 222 cited

Practical Blind Image Denoising via Swin-Conv-UNet and Data Synthesis

Kai Zhang, Yawei Li, Jingyun Liang +6

While recent years have witnessed a dramatic upsurge of exploiting deep neural networks toward solving image denoising, existing methods mostly rely on simple noise assumptions, su…

cs.CV2022★ 82 cited

VRT: A Video Restoration Transformer

Jingyun Liang, Jiezhang Cao, Yuchen Fan +5

Video restoration (e.g., video super-resolution) aims to restore high-quality frames from low-quality frames. Different from single image restoration, video restoration generally r…

eess.IV2021

Towards Flexible Blind JPEG Artifacts Removal

Jiaxi Jiang, Kai Zhang, Radu Timofte

Training a single deep blind model to handle different quality factors for JPEG image artifacts removal has been attracting considerable attention due to its convenience for practi…

eess.IV2021★ 81 cited

SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer

Jingyun Liang, Jiezhang Cao, Guolei Sun +3

Image restoration is a long-standing low-level vision problem that aims to restore high-quality images from low-quality images (e.g., downscaled, noisy and compressed images). Whil…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

Mutual Affine Network for Spatially Variant Kernel Estimation in Blind Image Super-Resolution

Jingyun Liang, Guolei Sun, Kai Zhang +2

Existing blind image super-resolution (SR) methods mostly assume blur kernels are spatially invariant across the whole image. However, such an assumption is rarely applicable for r…

eess.IV2021★ 1 cited

Hierarchical Conditional Flow: A Unified Framework for Image Super-Resolution and Image Rescaling

Jingyun Liang, Andreas Lugmayr, Kai Zhang +3

Normalizing flows have recently demonstrated promising results for low-level vision tasks. For image super-resolution (SR), it learns to predict diverse photo-realistic high-resolu…

cs.CV2021★ 132 cited

Video Super-Resolution Transformer

Jiezhang Cao, Yawei Li, Kai Zhang +1

Video super-resolution (VSR), with the aim to restore a high-resolution video from its corresponding low-resolution version, is a spatial-temporal sequence prediction problem. Rece…

cs.CV2021★ 285 cited

LocalViT: Analyzing Locality in Vision Transformers

Yawei Li, Kai Zhang, Jiezhang Cao +4

The aim of this paper is to study the influence of locality mechanisms in vision transformers. Transformers originated from machine translation and are particularly good at modelli…

cs.CV2021★ 9 cited

Flow-based Kernel Prior with Application to Blind Super-Resolution

Jingyun Liang, Kai Zhang, Shuhang Gu +2

Kernel estimation is generally one of the key problems for blind image super-resolution (SR). Recently, Double-DIP proposes to model the kernel via a network architecture prior, wh…

eess.IV2021★ 41 cited

Designing a Practical Degradation Model for Deep Blind Image Super-Resolution

Kai Zhang, Jingyun Liang, Luc Van Gool +1

It is widely acknowledged that single image super-resolution (SISR) methods would not perform well if the assumed degradation model deviates from those in real images. Although sev…

eess.IV2020

AIM 2020 Challenge on Efficient Super-Resolution: Methods and Results

Kai Zhang, Martin Danelljan, Yawei Li +75

This paper reviews the AIM 2020 challenge on efficient single image super-resolution with focus on the proposed solutions and results. The challenge task was to super-resolve an in…

eess.IV2020

Plug-and-Play Image Restoration with Deep Denoiser Prior

Kai Zhang, Yawei Li, Wangmeng Zuo +3

Recent works on plug-and-play image restoration have shown that a denoiser can implicitly serve as the image prior for model-based methods to solve many inverse problems. Such a pr…