Diffusion Models for Image Restoration and Enhancement--A Comprehensive Survey

X Li, Y Ren, X Jin, C Lan, X Wang, W Zeng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level
vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various …

Consistency models

Y Song, P Dhariwal, M Chen, I Sutskever - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.01469, 2023 - arxiv.org
Diffusion models have significantly advanced the fields of image, audio, and video
generation, but they depend on an iterative sampling process that causes slow generation …

Exploiting diffusion prior for real-world image super-resolution

J Wang, Z Yue, S Zhou, KCK Chan, CC Loy - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
We present a novel approach to leverage prior knowledge encapsulated in pre-trained text-
to-image diffusion models for blind super-resolution. Specifically, by employing our time …

DDFM: denoising diffusion model for multi-modality image fusion

Z Zhao, H Bai, Y Zhu, J Zhang, S Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
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 …

Diffusion with forward models: Solving stochastic inverse problems without direct supervision

A Tewari, T Yin, G Cazenavette… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Denoising diffusion models are a powerful type of generative models used to capture
complex distributions of real-world signals. However, their applicability is limited to …

ISB: Image-to-Image Schr\"odinger Bridge

GH Liu, A Vahdat, DA Huang, EA Theodorou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We propose Image-to-Image Schr\" odinger Bridge (I $^ 2$ SB), a new class of conditional
diffusion models that directly learn the nonlinear diffusion processes between two given …

Freedom: Training-free energy-guided conditional diffusion model

J Yu, Y Wang, C Zhao, B Ghanem… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recently, conditional diffusion models have gained popularity in numerous applications due
to their exceptional generation ability. However, many existing methods are training …

Score-based diffusion models as principled priors for inverse imaging

BT Feng, J Smith, M Rubinstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Priors are essential for reconstructing images from noisy and/or incomplete measurements.
The choice of the prior determines both the quality and uncertainty of recovered images. We …

Parallel diffusion models of operator and image for blind inverse problems

H Chung, J Kim, S Kim, JC Ye - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Diffusion model-based inverse problem solvers have demonstrated state-of-the-art
performance in cases where the forward operator is known (ie non-blind). However, the …

The emergence of reproducibility and consistency in diffusion models

H Zhang, J Zhou, Y Lu, M Guo, P Wang… - Forty-first International …, 2023 - openreview.net
In this work, we investigate an intriguing and prevalent phenomenon of diffusion models
which we term as" consistent model reproducibility'': given the same starting noise input and …