Quaternion Wavelet-Conditioned Diffusion Models for Image Super-Resolution

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Autores principales: Sigillo, Luigi, Bianchi, Christian, Uncini, Aurelio, Comminiello, Danilo
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author Sigillo, Luigi
Bianchi, Christian
Uncini, Aurelio
Comminiello, Danilo
author_facet Sigillo, Luigi
Bianchi, Christian
Uncini, Aurelio
Comminiello, Danilo
contents Image Super-Resolution is a fundamental problem in computer vision with broad applications spacing from medical imaging to satellite analysis. The ability to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs is crucial for enhancing downstream tasks such as object detection and segmentation. While deep learning has significantly advanced SR, achieving high-quality reconstructions with fine-grained details and realistic textures remains challenging, particularly at high upscaling factors. Recent approaches leveraging diffusion models have demonstrated promising results, yet they often struggle to balance perceptual quality with structural fidelity. In this work, we introduce ResQu a novel SR framework that integrates a quaternion wavelet preprocessing framework with latent diffusion models, incorporating a new quaternion wavelet- and time-aware encoder. Unlike prior methods that simply apply wavelet transforms within diffusion models, our approach enhances the conditioning process by exploiting quaternion wavelet embeddings, which are dynamically integrated at different stages of denoising. Furthermore, we also leverage the generative priors of foundation models such as Stable Diffusion. Extensive experiments on domain-specific datasets demonstrate that our method achieves outstanding SR results, outperforming in many cases existing approaches in perceptual quality and standard evaluation metrics. The code is available at https://www.github.com/Fascetta/ResQu
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spellingShingle Quaternion Wavelet-Conditioned Diffusion Models for Image Super-Resolution
Sigillo, Luigi
Bianchi, Christian
Uncini, Aurelio
Comminiello, Danilo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Image Super-Resolution is a fundamental problem in computer vision with broad applications spacing from medical imaging to satellite analysis. The ability to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs is crucial for enhancing downstream tasks such as object detection and segmentation. While deep learning has significantly advanced SR, achieving high-quality reconstructions with fine-grained details and realistic textures remains challenging, particularly at high upscaling factors. Recent approaches leveraging diffusion models have demonstrated promising results, yet they often struggle to balance perceptual quality with structural fidelity. In this work, we introduce ResQu a novel SR framework that integrates a quaternion wavelet preprocessing framework with latent diffusion models, incorporating a new quaternion wavelet- and time-aware encoder. Unlike prior methods that simply apply wavelet transforms within diffusion models, our approach enhances the conditioning process by exploiting quaternion wavelet embeddings, which are dynamically integrated at different stages of denoising. Furthermore, we also leverage the generative priors of foundation models such as Stable Diffusion. Extensive experiments on domain-specific datasets demonstrate that our method achieves outstanding SR results, outperforming in many cases existing approaches in perceptual quality and standard evaluation metrics. The code is available at https://www.github.com/Fascetta/ResQu
title Quaternion Wavelet-Conditioned Diffusion Models for Image Super-Resolution
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00334