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most citedOne-Step Effective Diffusion Network for Real-World Image Super-Resolution

7 citations · 22 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CV2026

HarnessIR: Harnessing Multimodal Foundation Models for Universal Real-World Image Restoration

Xiangtao Kong, Shuaizheng Liu, Rongyuan Wu +6

Real-world low-quality images suffer from complex mixed degradations, including but not limited to noise, blur, atmospheric effects, etc. Recent agentic methods usually model real-…

cs.CV2026

PixRestore: Unified Image Restoration via Pixel Diffusion Transformer

Lingchen Sun, Rongyuan Wu, Xiangtao Kong +6

Unified image restoration (UIR) aims to recover high-quality (HQ) content from low-quality (LQ) images with different degradations using a single model. Most recent methods adapt l…

cs.CV2026

GGT-100K: Generative Ground Truth for Generalizable Real-World Image Restoration

Xiangtao Kong, Jixin Zhao, Lingchen Sun +2

Real-world image restoration (IR) is bottlenecked by the scarcity of high-quality paired training data. Synthetic datasets are abundant but often fail to model real-world degradati…

cs.CV2026

VOSR: A Vision-Only Generative Model for Image Super-Resolution

Rongyuan Wu, Lingchen Sun, Zhengqiang Zhang +4

Most of the recent generative image super-resolution (SR) methods rely on adapting large text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models pretrained on web-scale text-image data. While effecti…

cs.CV2026

GDPO-SR: Group Direct Preference Optimization for One-Step Generative Image Super-Resolution

Qiaosi Yi, Shuai Li, Rongyuan Wu +3

Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has been employed for improving generative image super-resolution (ISR) performance. However, the current efforts are focused on multi-step ge…

cs.CV2026

Self-transcendence: Is External Feature Guidance Indispensable for Accelerating Diffusion Transformer Training?

Lingchen Sun, Rongyuan Wu, Zhengqiang Zhang +4

Recent works such as REPA have shown that guiding diffusion models with external semantic features (e.g., DINO) can significantly accelerate the training of diffusion transformers…

cs.CV2025

Photo3D: Advancing Photorealistic 3D Generation through Structure-Aligned Detail Enhancement

Xinyue Liang, Zhinyuan Ma, Lingchen Sun +2

Although recent 3D-native generators have made great progress in synthesizing reliable geometry, they still fall short in achieving realistic appearances. A key obstacle lies in th…

cs.CV2025

DPO-SR: Direct Perceptual Preference Optimization for Real-World Image Super-Resolution

Rongyuan Wu, Lingchen Sun, Zhengqiang Zhang +5

Benefiting from pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) methods can synthesize rich and realistic details. However, due to th…

cs.CV2025

NSARM: Next-Scale Autoregressive Modeling for Robust Real-World Image Super-Resolution

Xiangtao Kong, Rongyuan Wu, Shuaizheng Liu +2

Most recent real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) methods employ pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to synthesize the high-quality image either from random Gau…

cs.CV2025

GPSToken: Gaussian Parameterized Spatially-adaptive Tokenization for Image Representation and Generation

Zhengqiang Zhang, Rongyuan Wu, Lingchen Sun +1

Effective and efficient tokenization plays an important role in image representation and generation. Conventional methods, constrained by uniform 2D/1D grid tokenization, are infle…

cs.CV2025

Fine-structure Preserved Real-world Image Super-resolution via Transfer VAE Training

Qiaosi Yi, Shuai Li, Rongyuan Wu +3

Impressive results on real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) have been achieved by employing pre-trained stable diffusion (SD) models. However, one critical issue of such met…

eess.IV2025

NTIRE 2025 the 2nd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild Challenge

Jie Liang, Radu Timofte, Qiaosi Yi +7

In this paper, we present a comprehensive overview of the NTIRE 2025 challenge on the 2nd Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild. This challenge established a new benchmark for…

cs.CV2025

AlignCVC: Aligning Cross-View Consistency for Single-Image-to-3D Generation

Xinyue Liang, Zhiyuan Ma, Lingchen Sun +2

Single-image-to-3D models typically follow a sequential generation and reconstruction workflow. However, intermediate multi-view images synthesized by pre-trained generation models…

cs.CV2025

One-Step Diffusion for Detail-Rich and Temporally Consistent Video Super-Resolution

Yujing Sun, Lingchen Sun, Shuaizheng Liu +3

It is a challenging problem to reproduce rich spatial details while maintaining temporal consistency in real-world video super-resolution (Real-VSR), especially when we leverage pr…

cs.CV2025

InstructRestore: Region-Customized Image Restoration with Human Instructions

Shuaizheng Liu, Jianqi Ma, Lingchen Sun +2

Despite the significant progress in diffusion prior-based image restoration, most existing methods apply uniform processing to the entire image, lacking the capability to perform r…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Pixel-level and Semantic-level Adjustable Super-resolution: A Dual-LoRA Approach

Lingchen Sun, Rongyuan Wu, Zhiyuan Ma +3

Diffusion prior-based methods have shown impressive results in real-world image super-resolution (SR). However, most existing methods entangle pixel-level and semantic-level SR obj…

eess.IV2024★ 7 cited

One-Step Effective Diffusion Network for Real-World Image Super-Resolution

Rongyuan Wu, Lingchen Sun, Zhiyuan Ma +1

The pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models have been increasingly employed to tackle the real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) problem due to their powerful generative i…

cs.CV2024

NTIRE 2024 Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild Challenge

Jie Liang, Radu Timofte, Qiaosi Yi +6

In this paper, we review the NTIRE 2024 challenge on Restore Any Image Model (RAIM) in the Wild. The RAIM challenge constructed a benchmark for image restoration in the wild, inclu…

eess.IV2024★ 7 cited

Improving the Stability and Efficiency of Diffusion Models for Content Consistent Super-Resolution

Lingchen Sun, Rongyuan Wu, Jie Liang +3

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However,…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

Perception-Distortion Balanced Super-Resolution: A Multi-Objective Optimization Perspective

Lingchen Sun, Jie Liang, Shuaizheng Liu +2

High perceptual quality and low distortion degree are two important goals in image restoration tasks such as super-resolution (SR). Most of the existing SR methods aim to achieve t…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

SeeSR: Towards Semantics-Aware Real-World Image Super-Resolution

Rongyuan Wu, Tao Yang, Lingchen Sun +3

Owe to the powerful generative priors, the pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have become increasingly popular in solving the real-world image super-resolution proble…