Real-world single image super-resolution: A brief review

H Chen, X He, L Qing, Y Wu, C Ren, RE Sheriff, C Zhu - Information Fusion, 2022 - Elsevier
Single image super-resolution (SISR), which aims to reconstruct a high-resolution (HR)
image from a low-resolution (LR) observation, has been an active research topic in the area …

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 …

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 …

DiffBIR: Toward Blind Image Restoration with Generative Diffusion Prior

X Lin, J He, Z Chen, Z Lyu, B Dai, F Yu, Y Qiao… - … on Computer Vision, 2025 - Springer
We present DiffBIR, a general restoration pipeline that could handle different blind image
restoration tasks in a unified framework. DiffBIR decouples blind image restoration problem …

Resshift: Efficient diffusion model for image super-resolution by residual shifting

Z Yue, J Wang, CC Loy - Advances in Neural Information …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods are mainly limited by the low
inference speed due to the requirements of hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps …

From degrade to upgrade: Learning a self-supervised degradation guided adaptive network for blind remote sensing image super-resolution

Y Xiao, Q Yuan, K Jiang, J He, Y Wang, L Zhang - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, single image super-resolution (SR) has become a hotspot in the
remote sensing area, and numerous methods have made remarkable progress in this …

Diffir: Efficient diffusion model for image restoration

B Xia, Y Zhang, S Wang, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Diffusion model (DM) has achieved SOTA performance by modeling the image synthesis
process into a sequential application of a denoising network. However, different from image …

Real-esrgan: Training real-world blind super-resolution with pure synthetic data

X Wang, L Xie, C Dong, Y Shan - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Though many attempts have been made in blind super-resolution to restore low-resolution
images with unknown and complex degradations, they are still far from addressing general …

Learning enriched features for fast image restoration and enhancement

SW Zamir, A Arora, S Khan, M Hayat… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given a degraded input image, image restoration aims to recover the missing high-quality
image content. Numerous applications demand effective image restoration, eg …

Transformer for single image super-resolution

Z Lu, J Li, H Liu, C Huang, L Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Single image super-resolution (SISR) has witnessed great strides with the development of
deep learning. However, most existing studies focus on building more complex networks …