BurstGP: Enhancing Raw Burst Image Super Resolution with Generative Priors

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Main Authors: Huo, Dong, Aumentado-Armstrong, Tristan, Rangrej, Samrudhdhi B., Suin, Maitreya, Ye, Angela Ning, Hu, Zhiming, Walia, Amanpreet, Kazerouni, Amirhossein, Derpanis, Konstantinos G., Mohomed, Iqbal, Levinshtein, Alex
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author Huo, Dong
Aumentado-Armstrong, Tristan
Rangrej, Samrudhdhi B.
Suin, Maitreya
Ye, Angela Ning
Hu, Zhiming
Walia, Amanpreet
Kazerouni, Amirhossein
Derpanis, Konstantinos G.
Mohomed, Iqbal
Levinshtein, Alex
author_facet Huo, Dong
Aumentado-Armstrong, Tristan
Rangrej, Samrudhdhi B.
Suin, Maitreya
Ye, Angela Ning
Hu, Zhiming
Walia, Amanpreet
Kazerouni, Amirhossein
Derpanis, Konstantinos G.
Mohomed, Iqbal
Levinshtein, Alex
contents Burst image super resolution (BISR) aims to construct a single high-resolution (HR) image by aggregating information from multiple low-resolution (LR) frames, relying on temporal redundancy and spatial coherence across the burst. While conventional methods achieve impressive results, they often struggle with complex textures and oversmoothing. Diffusion models, particularly those pretrained on high-quality data, have shown remarkable capability in generating realistic details for image and video super-resolution. However, their potential remains largely under-explored in BISR, where existing approaches typically rely on task-specific diffusion models trained from scratch and operate on single-frame reconstructions. In this work, we propose BurstGP, a novel diffusion-based solution for BISR, which leverages generative priors of recent foundation models to overcome these issues. In particular, we build a multiframe-aware diffusion model on top of a conventional BISR approach, which boosts image quality with minimal loss to fidelity. Further, we introduce (i) a novel degradation-aware conditioning mechanism, which controls synthesis of fine details based on the estimated degradation in the input, and (ii) a robust sRGB-to-lRGB inverter, enabling us to utilize generative multiframe (video) sRGB priors, while operating with raw input and lRGB output images. Empirically, we demonstrate that BurstGP outperforms the existing state of the art, both quantitatively (especially with respect to perceptual metrics, including MUSIQ and LPIPS) and qualitatively. In particular, our proposed method excels at recovering richer textures and finer structural details, highlighting the potential of video priors for BISR over traditional methods.
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spellingShingle BurstGP: Enhancing Raw Burst Image Super Resolution with Generative Priors
Huo, Dong
Aumentado-Armstrong, Tristan
Rangrej, Samrudhdhi B.
Suin, Maitreya
Ye, Angela Ning
Hu, Zhiming
Walia, Amanpreet
Kazerouni, Amirhossein
Derpanis, Konstantinos G.
Mohomed, Iqbal
Levinshtein, Alex
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Burst image super resolution (BISR) aims to construct a single high-resolution (HR) image by aggregating information from multiple low-resolution (LR) frames, relying on temporal redundancy and spatial coherence across the burst. While conventional methods achieve impressive results, they often struggle with complex textures and oversmoothing. Diffusion models, particularly those pretrained on high-quality data, have shown remarkable capability in generating realistic details for image and video super-resolution. However, their potential remains largely under-explored in BISR, where existing approaches typically rely on task-specific diffusion models trained from scratch and operate on single-frame reconstructions. In this work, we propose BurstGP, a novel diffusion-based solution for BISR, which leverages generative priors of recent foundation models to overcome these issues. In particular, we build a multiframe-aware diffusion model on top of a conventional BISR approach, which boosts image quality with minimal loss to fidelity. Further, we introduce (i) a novel degradation-aware conditioning mechanism, which controls synthesis of fine details based on the estimated degradation in the input, and (ii) a robust sRGB-to-lRGB inverter, enabling us to utilize generative multiframe (video) sRGB priors, while operating with raw input and lRGB output images. Empirically, we demonstrate that BurstGP outperforms the existing state of the art, both quantitatively (especially with respect to perceptual metrics, including MUSIQ and LPIPS) and qualitatively. In particular, our proposed method excels at recovering richer textures and finer structural details, highlighting the potential of video priors for BISR over traditional methods.
title BurstGP: Enhancing Raw Burst Image Super Resolution with Generative Priors
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23508