4 papers
MeanSR: Restoration Trajectory Learning for One-Step Perceptual Super-Resolution
Axi Niu, Jiawei Kou, Kang Zhang +3
Diffusion-based super-resolution (SR) achieves strong perceptual quality but requires costly iterative denoising. Existing one-step distillation methods reduce inference time but d…
FaithIR: Rethinking Infrared Image Super-Resolution from Perceptual Sharpness to Task Relevant Fidelity
Axi Niu, Zhenguo Wu, Kang Zhang +3
Infrared image super-resolution (IISR) is important for downstream tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. Existing IISR methods often produce artificial textures…
A Hidden Semantic Bottleneck in Conditional Embeddings of Diffusion Transformers
Trung X. Pham, Kang Zhang, Ji Woo Hong +1
Diffusion Transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance in class-conditional and multimodal generation, yet the structure of their learned conditional embeddings remains…
Video Diffusion Models Excel at Tracking Similar-Looking Objects Without Supervision
Chenshuang Zhang, Kang Zhang, Joon Son Chung +3
Distinguishing visually similar objects by their motion remains a critical challenge in computer vision. Although supervised trackers show promise, contemporary self-supervised tra…