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Implicit Diffusion Models for Continuous Super-Resolution

29 Mar 2023CVPR 2023 1arXiv:2303.16491archive 2025-07-28

Sicheng Gao, Xuhui Liu, Bohan Zeng, Sheng Xu, Yanjing Li, Xiaoyan Luo, Jianzhuang Liu, XianTong Zhen, Baochang Zhang

Image super-resolution (SR) has attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications. However, current SR methods generally suffer from over-smoothing and artifacts, and most work only with fixed magnifications. This paper introduces an Implicit Diffusion Model (IDM) for high-fidelity continuous image super-resolution. IDM integrates an implicit neural representation and a denoising diffusion model in a unified end-to-end framework, where the implicit neural representation is adopted in the decoding process to learn continuous-resolution representation. Furthermore, we design a scale-controllable conditioning mechanism that consists of a low-resolution (LR) conditioning network and a scaling factor. The scaling factor regulates the resolution and accordingly modulates the proportion of the LR information and generated features in the final output, which enables the model to accommodate the continuous-resolution requirement. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of our IDM and demonstrate its superior performance over prior arts.

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DenoisingImage Super-ResolutionSuper-Resolution

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Super-Resolution CelebA-HQ 128x128 IDM Consistency 2.14 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution CelebA-HQ 128x128 IDM PSNR 24.01 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution CelebA-HQ 128x128 IDM SSIM 0.71 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling IDM PSNR 27.59 #15 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling IDM SSIM 0.78 #15 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling LAR-SR PSNR 27.03 #16 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling LAR-SR SSIM 0.77 #16 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling HCFlow PSNR 27.02 #17 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling HCFlow SSIM 0.76 #17 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling Bicubic PSNR 26.7 #18 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling Bicubic SSIM 0.77 #18 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling HCFlow++ PSNR 26.61 #19 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling HCFlow++ SSIM 0.74 #19 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling RankSRGAN PSNR 26.55 #20 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling RankSRGAN SSIM 0.75 #20 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling ESRGAN PSNR 26.22 #21 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution DIV2K val - 4x upscaling ESRGAN SSIM 0.75 #21 of 21 Archive leaderboard report

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Diffusion

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