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most citedNIMA: Neural Image Assessment

1k citations · 1.1k across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CV2025

UniRes: Universal Image Restoration for Complex Degradations

Mo Zhou, Keren Ye, Mauricio Delbracio +3

Real-world image restoration is hampered by diverse degradations stemming from varying capture conditions, capture devices and post-processing pipelines. Existing works make improv…

cs.CV2025

TextSR: Diffusion Super-Resolution with Multilingual OCR Guidance

Keren Ye, Ignacio Garcia Dorado, Michalis Raptis +4

While recent advancements in Image Super-Resolution (SR) using diffusion models have shown promise in improving overall image quality, their application to scene text images has re…

cs.CV2025

Reference-Guided Identity Preserving Face Restoration

Mo Zhou, Keren Ye, Viraj Shah +5

Preserving face identity is a critical yet persistent challenge in diffusion-based image restoration. While reference faces offer a path forward, existing reference-based methods o…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

The Power of Context: How Multimodality Improves Image Super-Resolution

Kangfu Mei, Hossein Talebi, Mojtaba Ardakani +3

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) remains challenging due to the inherent difficulty of recovering fine-grained details and preserving perceptual quality from low-resolution inp…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Bigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models

Kangfu Mei, Zhengzhong Tu, Mauricio Delbracio +3

We study the scaling properties of latent diffusion models (LDMs) with an emphasis on their sampling efficiency. While improved network architecture and inference algorithms have s…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

SPIRE: Semantic Prompt-Driven Image Restoration

Chenyang Qi, Zhengzhong Tu, Keren Ye +4

Text-driven diffusion models have become increasingly popular for various image editing tasks, including inpainting, stylization, and object replacement. However, it still remains…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

CoDi: Conditional Diffusion Distillation for Higher-Fidelity and Faster Image Generation

Kangfu Mei, Mauricio Delbracio, Hossein Talebi +3

Large generative diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation and offer immense potential for conditional generation tasks such as image enhancement, restoration,…

cs.CV2023

MULLER: Multilayer Laplacian Resizer for Vision

Zhengzhong Tu, Peyman Milanfar, Hossein Talebi

Image resizing operation is a fundamental preprocessing module in modern computer vision. Throughout the deep learning revolution, researchers have overlooked the potential of alte…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Multiscale Structure Guided Diffusion for Image Deblurring

Mengwei Ren, Mauricio Delbracio, Hossein Talebi +2

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have recently been employed for image deblurring, formulated as an image-conditioned generation process that maps Gaussian noise to the high-q…

cs.CV2022★ 29 cited

Soft Diffusion: Score Matching for General Corruptions

Giannis Daras, Mauricio Delbracio, Hossein Talebi +2

We define a broader family of corruption processes that generalizes previously known diffusion models. To reverse these general diffusions, we propose a new objective called Soft S…

cs.CV2022★ 28 cited

MaxViT: Multi-Axis Vision Transformer

Zhengzhong Tu, Hossein Talebi, Han Zhang +4

Transformers have recently gained significant attention in the computer vision community. However, the lack of scalability of self-attention mechanisms with respect to image size h…

eess.IV2022★ 7 cited

MAXIM: Multi-Axis MLP for Image Processing

Zhengzhong Tu, Hossein Talebi, Han Zhang +4

Recent progress on Transformers and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) models provide new network architectural designs for computer vision tasks. Although these models proved to be effe…

cs.CV2021

Deblurring via Stochastic Refinement

Jay Whang, Mauricio Delbracio, Hossein Talebi +3

Image deblurring is an ill-posed problem with multiple plausible solutions for a given input image. However, most existing methods produce a deterministic estimate of the clean ima…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Exponentiated Gradient Reweighting for Robust Training Under Label Noise and Beyond

Negin Majidi, Ehsan Amid, Hossein Talebi +1

Many learning tasks in machine learning can be viewed as taking a gradient step towards minimizing the average loss of a batch of examples in each training iteration. When noise is…

cs.CV2021

Learning to Resize Images for Computer Vision Tasks

Hossein Talebi, Peyman Milanfar

For all the ways convolutional neural nets have revolutionized computer vision in recent years, one important aspect has received surprisingly little attention: the effect of image…

cs.CV2021

Deep Perceptual Image Quality Assessment for Compression

Juan Carlos Mier, Eddie Huang, Hossein Talebi +2

Lossy Image compression is necessary for efficient storage and transfer of data. Typically the trade-off between bit-rate and quality determines the optimal compression level. This…

cs.CV2020

Projected Distribution Loss for Image Enhancement

Mauricio Delbracio, Hossein Talebi, Peyman Milanfar

Features obtained from object recognition CNNs have been widely used for measuring perceptual similarities between images. Such differentiable metrics can be used as perceptual lea…

cs.CV2020

Rank-smoothed Pairwise Learning In Perceptual Quality Assessment

Hossein Talebi, Ehsan Amid, Peyman Milanfar +1

Conducting pairwise comparisons is a widely used approach in curating human perceptual preference data. Typically raters are instructed to make their choices according to a specifi…

eess.IV2020★ 4 cited

The Rate-Distortion-Accuracy Tradeoff: JPEG Case Study

Xiyang Luo, Hossein Talebi, Feng Yang +2

Handling digital images is almost always accompanied by a lossy compression in order to facilitate efficient transmission and storage. This introduces an unavoidable tension betwee…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

Super-Resolving Commercial Satellite Imagery Using Realistic Training Data

Xiang Zhu, Hossein Talebi, Xinwei Shi +2

In machine learning based single image super-resolution, the degradation model is embedded in training data generation. However, most existing satellite image super-resolution meth…

eess.IV2020★ 28 cited

Better Compression with Deep Pre-Editing

Hossein Talebi, Damien Kelly, Xiyang Luo +4

Could we compress images via standard codecs while avoiding visible artifacts? The answer is obvious -- this is doable as long as the bit budget is generous enough. What if the all…

cs.CV2017★ 1k cited

NIMA: Neural Image Assessment

Hossein Talebi, Peyman Milanfar

Automatically learned quality assessment for images has recently become a hot topic due to its usefulness in a wide variety of applications such as evaluating image capture pipelin…