Awesome Diffusion Models In Low-level Vision

🔥A curated list of awesome Diffusion Models(DMs) in low-level vision.🔥

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[ Last updated at 2024/10/12 ]

Latest Works Recommended
Papers
- Diffusion Models For Natural Image Restoration
  General-purpose Image Restoration (IR)
  - Zero-shot DM-based IR
  - Supervised DM-based IR
  Task-specific Image Restoration (IR)
- Extended Diffusion Models In Low-level Vision
  Diffusion Models In Low-level Medical Image Analysis
  Diffusion Models In Remote Sensing For Low-level Vision Tasks
  Varied Low-level Vision Tasks In Video Through Diffusion Models

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Large-scale datasets for model pre-training

Datasets for low-level vision tasks

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Reference

Latest Works Recommended

Diffusion Models in Low-Level Vision: A Survey
Chunming He, Yuqi Shen, Chengyu Fang, Fengyang Xiao, Longxiang Tang, Yulun Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo, Zhenhua Guo, Xiu Li
arXiv 2024. [Paper]
June 2024

Reti-Diff: Illumination Degradation Image Restoration with Retinex-based Latent Diffusion Model
Chunming He, Chengyu Fang, Yulun Zhang, Kai Li, Longxiang Tang, Chenyu You, Fengyang Xiao, Zhenhua Guo, Xiu Li
arXiv 2023. [Paper] [Code]
March 2024

Papers

1. Diffusion Models For Natural Image Restoration

1.1 General-purpose Image Restoration

1.1.1 Zero-shot DM-based IR

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/09	DDPG	Image Restoration by Denoising Diffusion Models with Iteratively Preconditioned Guidance ^{_{Tomer Garber,Tom Tirer}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	DAVI	DAVI: Diffusion Prior-Based Amortized Variational Inference for Noisy Inverse Problems ^{_{Sojin Lee, Dogyun Park, Inho Kong, Hyunwoo J. Kim}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	-	Prototype Clustered Diffusion Models for Versatile Inverse Problems ^{_{Jinghao Zhang, Zizheng Yang, Qi Zhu, Feng Zhao}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/07	ZAPS	Zero-Shot Adaptation for Approximate Posterior Sampling of Diffusion Models in Inverse Problems ^{_{Yaşar Utku Alçalar, Mehmet Akçakaya}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	DDIP3D	Deep Diffusion Image Prior for Efficient OOD Adaptation in 3D Inverse Problems ^{_{Hyungjin Chung, Jong Chul Ye}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	MoE-DiffIR	MoE-DiffIR: Task-customized Diffusion Priors for Universal Compressed Image Restoration ^{_{Yulin Ren, Xin Li, Bingchen Li, Xingrui Wang, Mengxi Guo, Shijie Zhao, Li Zhang, Zhibo Chen}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	Osmosis	Osmosis: RGBD Diffusion Prior for Underwater Image Restoration ^{_{Opher Bar Nathan, Deborah Levy, Tali Treibitz, Dan Rosenbaum}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	DCDP	Decoupled Data Consistency with Diffusion Purification for Image Restoration ^{_{Xiang Li, Soo Min Kwon, Ismail R. Alkhouri, Saiprasad Ravishankar, Qing Qu}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	Diff-Plugin	Diff-Plugin: Revitalizing Details for Diffusion-based Low-level Tasks ^{_{Yuhao Liu, Zhanghan Ke, Fang Liu, Nanxuan Zhao, Rynson W.H. Lau}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/11	DeqIR	Deep Equilibrium Diffusion Restoration with Parallel Sampling ^{_{Jiezhang Cao, Yue Shi, Kai Zhang, Yulun Zhang, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/09	PGDiff	PGDiff: Guiding Diffusion Models for Versatile Face Restoration via Partial Guidance ^{_{Peiqing Yang, Shangchen Zhou, Qingyi Tao, Chen Change Loy}}	NeurIPS 2023	Paper/Code
2023/05	DiffPIR	Denoising diffusion models for plug-and-play image restoration ^{_{Yuanzhi Zhu, Kai Zhang, Jingyun Liang, Jiezhang Cao, Bihan Wen, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/Code
2023/05	RED-Diff	A Variational Perspective on Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models ^{_{Morteza Mardani, Jiaming Song, Jan Kautz, Arash Vahdat}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/04	GDP	Generative Diffusion Prior for Unified Image Restoration and Enhancement ^{_{Ben Fei, Zhaoyang Lyu, Liang Pan, Junzhe Zhang, Weidong Yang, Tianyue Luo, Bo Zhang, Bo Dai}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/Code
2023/04	-	Score-Based Diffusion Models as Principled Priors for Inverse Imaging ^{_{Berthy T. Feng, Jamie Smith, Michael Rubinstein, Huiwen Chang, Katherine L. Bouman, William T. Freeman}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/03	-	Unlimited-Size Diffusion Restoration ^{_{Yinhuai Wang, Jiwen Yu, Runyi Yu, Jian Zhang}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/Code
2023/02	πGDM	Pseudoinverse-Guided Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems ^{_{Jiaming Song, Arash Vahdat, Morteza Mardani, Jan Kautz}}	ICLR 2023	Paper/
2022/12	ADIR	ADIR: Adaptive Diffusion for Image Reconstruction ^{_{Shady Abu-Hussein, Tom Tirer, Raja Giryes}}	arXiv 2022	Paper/
2022/12	DDNM	Zero-Shot Image Restoration Using Denoising Diffusion Null-Space Model ^{_{Yinhuai Wang, Jiwen Yu, Jian Zhang}}	ICLR 2023	Paper/Code
2022/09	DPS	Diffusion Posterior Sampling for General Noisy Inverse Problems ^{_{Hyungjin Chung, Jeongsol Kim, Michael T. Mccann, Marc L. Klasky, Jong Chul Ye}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/Code
2022/01	MCG	Improving diffusion models for inverse problems using manifold constraints ^{_{Hyungjin Chung, Byeongsu Sim, Dohoon Ryu, Jong Chul Ye}}	NeurIPS 2022	Paper/Code
2022/01	DDRM	Denoising Diffusion Restoration Models ^{_{Bahjat Kawar, Michael Elad, Stefano Ermon, Jiaming Song}}	NeurIPS 2022	Paper/Code
2021/12	CCDF	Come-Closer-Diffuse-Faster: Accelerating Conditional Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems through Stochastic Contraction ^{_{Hyungjin Chung, Byeongsu Sim, Jong Chul Ye}}	CVPR 2022	Paper/
2021/08	ILVR	ILVR: Conditioning Method for Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models ^{_{Jooyoung Choi, Sungwon Kim, Yonghyun Jeong, Youngjune Gwon, Sungroh Yoon}}	ICCV 2021	Paper/Code
2021/05	SNeurIPS	SNeurIPS: Solving Noisy Inverse Problems Stochastically ^{_{Bahjat Kawar, Gregory Vaksman, Michael Elad}}	NeurIPS 2021	Paper/Code

1.1.2 Supervised DM-based IR

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/10	Resfusion	Resfusion: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Image Restoration Based on Prior Residual Noise ^{_{Zhenning Shi, Haoshuai Zheng, Chen Xu, Changsheng Dong, Bin Pan, Xueshuo Xie, Along He, Tao Li, Huazhu Fu}}	NeurIPS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/09	DTPM	Learning Diffusion Texture Priors for Image Restoration ^{_{Tian Ye, Sixiang Chen, Wenhao Chai, Zhaohu Xing, Jing Qin, Ge Lin, Lei Zhu}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/
2024/07	Difface	Difface: Blind face restoration with diffused error contraction ^{_{Zongsheng Yue, Chen Change Loy}}	TPAMI 2024	Paper/Code
2024/05	AutoDIR	AutoDIR: Automatic All-in-One Image Restoration with Latent Diffusion ^{_{Yitong Jiang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Tianfan Xue, Jinwei Gu}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/04	SUPIR	Scaling Up to Excellence: Practicing Model Scaling for Photo-Realistic Image Restoration In the Wild ^{_{Fanghua Yu, Jinjin Gu, Zheyuan Li, Jinfan Hu, Xiangtao Kong, Xintao Wang, Jingwen He, Yu Qiao, Chao Dong}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	MPerceiver	Multimodal Prompt Perceiver: Empower Adaptiveness, Generalizability and Fidelity for All-in-One Image Restoration ^{_{Yuang Ai, Huaibo Huang, Xiaoqiang Zhou, Jiexiang Wang, Ran He}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/
2024/03	DiffUIR	Selective Hourglass Mapping for Universal Image Restoration Based on Diffusion Model ^{_{Dian Zheng, Xiao-Ming Wu, Shuzhou Yang, Jian Zhang, Jian-Fang Hu, Wei-Shi Zheng}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	-	Efficient Diffusion Model for Image Restoration by Residual Shifting ^{_{Yuanzhi Zhu, Kai Zhang, Jingyun Liang, Jiezhang Cao, Bihan Wen, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/02	WaveDM	WaveDM: Wavelet-Based Diffusion Models for Image Restoration ^{_{Yi Huang, Jiancheng Huang, Jianzhuang Liu, Mingfu Yan, Yu Dong, Jiaxi Lv}}	IEEE Trans Multimedia 2024	Paper/Code
2023/11	WF-Diff	Wavelet-based Fourier Information Interaction with Frequency Diffusion Adjustment for Underwater Image Restoration ^{_{Chen Zhao, Weiling Cai, Chenyu Dong, Chengwei Hu}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/10	Event-Diffusion	Event-Diffusion: Event-Based Image Reconstruction and Restoration with Diffusion Models _{Quanmin Liang, Xiawu Zheng, Kai Huang, Yan Zhang, Jie Chen, Yonghong Tian}	MM 2023	Paper/
2023/10	C2F-DFT	Learning A Coarse-to-Fine Diffusion Transformer for Image Restoration _{Liyan Wang, Qinyu Yang, Cong Wang, Wei Wang, Jinshan Pan, Zhixun Su}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/08	RDDM	Residual Denoising Diffusion Models ^{_{Jiawei Liu, Qiang Wang, Huijie Fan, Yinong Wang, Yandong Tang, Liangqiong Qu}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/07	PiRN	Physics-Driven Turbulence Image Restoration with Stochastic Refinement ^{_{Ajay Jaiswal, Xingguang Zhang, Stanley H. Chan, Zhangyang Wang}}	ICCV 2023	Paper/Code
2023/08	DiffBIR	DiffBIR: Towards Blind Image Restoration with Generative Diffusion Prior ^{_{Xinqi Lin, Jingwen He, Ziyan Chen, Zhaoyang Lyu, Bo Dai, Fanghua Yu, Wanli Ouyang, Yu Qiao, Chao Dong}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/07	SinDDM	SinDDM: A Single Image Denoising Diffusion Model ^{_{Vladimir Kulikov, Shahar Yadin, Matan Kleiner, Tomer Michaeli}}	ICML 2023	Paper/Code
2023/07	IDM	Towards Authentic Face Restoration with Iterative Diffusion Models and Beyond ^{_{Yang Zhao, Tingbo Hou, Yu-Chuan Su, Xuhui Jia. Yandong Li, Matthias Grundmann}}	ICCV 2023	Paper/
2023/05	InDI	Inversion by Direct Iteration: An Alternative to Denoising Diffusion for Image Restoration ^{_{Mauricio Delbracio, Peyman Milanfar}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/05	UCDIR	A Unified Conditional Framework for Diffusion-based Image Restoration ^{_{Yi Zhang, Xiaoyu Shi, Dasong Li, Xiaogang Wang, Jian Wang, Hongsheng Li}}	NeurIPS 2023	Paper/Code
2023/03	DiracDiffusion	DiracDiffusion: Denoising and Incremental Reconstruction with Assured Data-Consistency ^{_{Zalan Fabian, Berk Tinaz, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/04	Refusion	Refusion: Enabling Large-Size Realistic Image Restoration with Latent-Space Diffusion Models ^{_{Ziwei Luo, Fredrik K. Gustafsson, Zheng Zhao, Jens Sjölund, Thomas B. Schön}}	CVPRW 2023	Paper/Code
2023/01	IR-SDE	Image Restoration with Mean-Reverting Stochastic Differential Equations ^{_{Ziwei Luo, Fredrik K. Gustafsson, Zheng Zhao, Jens Sjölund, Thomas B. Schön}}	ICML 2023	Paper/Code
2021/12	LDM	High-resolution image synthesis with latent diffusion models ^{_{Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz, Patrick Esser, Björn Ommer}}	CVPR 2022	Paper/Code

1.2 Task-specific Image Restoration

1.2.1 Super Resolution (SR)

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/09	SinSR	SinSR: Diffusion-Based Image Super-Resolution in a Single Step ^{_{Yufei Wang, Wenhan Yang, Xinyuan Chen, Yaohui Wang, Lanqing Guo, Lap-Pui Chau, Ziwei Liu, Yu Qiao, Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/09	CCSR	Improving the Stability and Efficiency of Diffusion Models for Content Consistent Super-Resolution ^{_{Lingchen Sun, Rongyuan Wu, Jie Liang, Zhengqiang Zhang, Hongwei Yong, Lei Zhang}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	DiWa	Waving goodbye to low-res: A diffusion-wavelet approach for image super-resolution ^{_{Brian B. Moser, Stanislav Frolov, Federico Raue, Sebastian Palacio, Andreas Dengel}}	IJCNN 2024	Paper/
2024/05	CDFormer	CDFormer:When Degradation Prediction Embraces Diffusion Model for Blind Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Qingguo Liu, Chenyi Zhuang, Pan Gao, Jie Qin}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/4	OmniSSR	OmniSSR: Zero-shot Omnidirectional Image Super-Resolution using Stable Diffusion Model ^{_{Runyi Li, Xuhan Sheng, Weiqi Li, Jian Zhang}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/04	DiffMSR	Rethinking Diffusion Model for Multi-Contrast MRI Super-Resolution ^{_{Guangyuan Li, Chen Rao, Juncheng Mo, Zhanjie Zhang, Wei Xing, Lei Zhao}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/04	DiSR-NeRF	DiSR-NeRF: Diffusion-Guided View-Consistent Super-Resolution NeRF ^{_{Jie Long Lee, Chen Li, Gim Hee Lee}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	RefDiff	Building Bridges across Spatial and Temporal Resolutions: Reference-Based Super-Resolution via Change Priors and Conditional Diffusion Model ^{_{Runmin Dong, Shuai Yuan, Bin Luo, Mengxuan Chen, Jinxiao Zhang, Lixian Zhang, Weijia Li, Juepeng Zheng, Haohuan Fu}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	SARGD	Self-Adaptive Reality-Guided Diffusion for Artifact-Free Super-Resolution ^_--	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	-	Arbitrary-Scale Image Generation and Upsampling using Latent Diffusion Model and Implicit Neural Decoder ^{_{Jinseok Kim, Tae-Kyun Kim}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	XPSR	XPSR: Cross-modal Priors for Diffusion-based Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Yunpeng Qu, Kun Yuan, Kai Zhao, Qizhi Xie, Jinhua Hao, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/02	SAM-DiffSR	SAM-DiffSR: Structure-Modulated Diffusion Model for Image Super-Resolution _{Chengcheng Wang, Zhiwei Hao, Yehui Tang, Jianyuan Guo, Yujie Yang, Kai Han, Yunhe Wang}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/01	SeeSR	SeeSR: Towards Semantics-Aware Real-World Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Rongyuan Wu, Tao Yang, Lingchen Sun, Zhengqiang Zhang, Shuai Li, Lei Zhang}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/12	DiffTSR	Diffusion-based Blind Text Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Yuzhe Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, Hao Li, Zhouxia Wang, Luwei Hou, Dongqing Zou, Liheng Bian}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/12	stisr-tcdm	Scene Text Image Super-resolution based on Text-conditional Diffusion Models _{Chihiro Noguchi, Shun Fukuda, Masao Yamanaka}	WACV 2024	Paper/Code
2023/11	CoSeR	CoSeR: Bridging Image and Language for Cognitive Super-Resolution ^{_{Haoze Sun, Wenbo Li, Jianzhuang Liu, Haoyu Chen, Renjing Pei, Xueyi Zou, Youliang Yan, Yujiu Yang}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/10	MoESR	Image Super-resolution Via Latent Diffusion: A Sampling-space Mixture Of Experts And Frequency-augmented Decoder Approach ^{_{Feng Luo, Jinxi Xiang, Jun Zhang, Xiao Han, Wei Yang}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/09	-	License Plate Super-Resolution Using Diffusion Models ^{_{Sawsan AlHalawani, Bilel Benjdira, Adel Ammar, Anis Koubaa, Anas M. Ali}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/08	PASD	Pixel-Aware Stable Diffusion for Realistic Image Super-resolution and Personalized Stylization ^{_{Tao Yang, Rongyuan Wu, Peiran Ren, Xuansong Xie, Lei Zhang}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/07	ResShift	ResShift: Efficient Diffusion Model for Image Super-resolution by Residual Shifting ^{_{Zongsheng Yue, Jianyi Wang, Chen Change Loy}}	NeurIPS 2023	Paper/Code
2023/07	PartDiff	PartDiff: Image Super-resolution with Partial Diffusion Models ^{_{Axi Niu, Pham Xuan Trung, Kang Zhang, Jinqiu Sun, Yu Zhu, In So Kweon, Yanning Zhang}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/07	ACDMSR	ACDMSR: Accelerated Conditional Diffusion Models for Single Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Axi Niu, Pham Xuan Trung, Kang Zhang, Jinqiu Sun, Yu Zhu, In So Kweon, Yanning Zhang}}	IEEE Trans. Broadcast. 2024	Paper/
2023/05	StableSR	Exploiting Diffusion Prior for Real-World Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Jianyi Wang, Zongsheng Yue, Shangchen Zhou, Kelvin C.K. Chan, Chen Change Loy}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/03	DR2	DR2: Diffusion-Based Robust Degradation Remover for Blind Face Restoration ^{_{Zhixin Wang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Ziying Zhang, Huangjie Zheng, Mingyuan Zhou, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/Code
2023/03	ResDiff	ResDiff: Combining CNN and Diffusion Model for Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Shuyao Shang, Zhengyang Shan, Guangxing Liu, Jinglin Zhang}}	AAAI 2024	Paper/Code
2023/03	IDM	Implicit Diffusion Models for Continuous Super-Resolution ^{_{Sicheng Gao, Xuhui Liu, Bohan Zeng, Sheng Xu, Yanjing Li, Xiaoyan Luo, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiantong Zhen, Baochang Zhang}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/Code
2023/02	-	Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Robust Image Super-Resolution in the Wild ^{_{Hshmat Sahak, Daniel Watson, Chitwan Saharia, David Fleet}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/02	CDPMSR	CDPMSR: Conditional Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Single Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Axi Niu, Kang Zhang, Trung X. Pham, Jinqiu Sun, Yu Zhu, In So Kweon, Yanning Zhang}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2022/09	SUE-SR	Face Super-Resolution Using Stochastic Differential Equations ^{_{Marcelo dos Santos, Rayson Laroca, Rafael O. Ribeiro, João Neves, Hugo Proença, David Menotti}}	SIGGRAPH 2022	Paper/Code
2021/05	CDM	Cascaded Diffusion Models for High Fidelity Image Generation ^{_{Jonathan Ho, Chitwan Saharia, William Chan, David J. Fleet, Mohammad Norouzi, Tim Salimans.}}	JMLR 2022	Paper/Code
2021/04	SR3	Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Refinement ^{_{Chitwan Saharia, Jonathan Ho, William Chan, Tim Salimans, David J. Fleet, Mohammad Norouzi.}}	TPAMI 2022	Paper/Code
2021/04	SRDiff	SRDiff: Single Image Super-Resolution with Diffusion Probabilistic Models ^{_{H. Li, Y. Yang, M. Chang, S. Chen, H. Feng, Z. Xu, Q. Li, and Y. Chen.}}	Neurocomputing 2022	Paper/Code

1.2.2 Inpainting

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/09	CAT-Diffusion	Improving Text-guided Object Inpainting with Semantic Pre-inpainting ^{_{Yifu Chen, Jingwen Chen, Yingwei Pan, Yehao Li, Ting Yao, Zhineng Chen, Tao Mei}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/08	GSDM	Text Image Inpainting via Global Structure-Guided Diffusion Models ^{_{Shipeng Zhu, Pengfei Fang, Chenjie Zhu, Zuoyan Zhao, Qiang Xu, Hui Xue}}	AAAI 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	PILOT	Coherent and Multi-modality Image Inpainting via Latent Space Optimization _{Lingzhi Pan, Tong Zhang, Bingyuan Chen, Qi Zhou, Wei Ke, Sabine Süsstrunk, Mathieu Salzmann}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	Diffree	Diffree: Text-Guided Shape Free Object Inpainting with Diffusion Model ^{_{Lirui Zhao, Tianshuo Yang, Wenqi Shao, Yuxin Zhang, Yu Qiao, Ping Luo, Kaipeng Zhang, Rongrong Ji}}	arxiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	StrDiffusion	Structure Matters: Tackling the Semantic Discrepancy in Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting ^{_{Haipeng Liu, Yang Wang, Biao Qian, Meng Wang, Yong Rui}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	MMGInpainting	MMGInpainting: Multi-Modality Guided Image Inpainting Based On Diffusion Models ^{_{Cong Zhang, Wenxia Yang, Xin Li, Huan Han}}	IEEE Trans Multimedia 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	BrushNet	BrushNet: A Plug-and-Play Image Inpainting Model with Decomposed Dual-Branch Diffusion ^{_{Xuan Ju, Xian Liu, Xintao Wang, Yuxuan Bian, Ying Shan, Qiang Xu}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	-	Fill in the ____ (a Diffusion-based Image Inpainting Pipeline) ^{_{Eyoel Gebre, Krishna Saxena, Timothy Tran}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/01	LatentPaint	LatentPaint: Image Inpainting in Latent Space With Diffusion Models ^{_{Ciprian Corneanu, Raghudeep Gadde, Aleix M. Martinez}}	WACV 2024	Paper/
2023/12	-	Amodal Completion via Progressive Mixed Context Diffusion ^{_{Katherine Xu, Lingzhi Zhang, Jianbo Shi}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/11	Tiramisu	Image Inpainting via Tractable Steering of Diffusion Models ^{_{Anji Liu, Mathias Niepert, Guy Van den Broeck}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	Uni-paint	Uni-paint: A Unified Framework for Multimodal Image Inpainting with Pretrained Diffusion Model ^{_{Shiyuan Yang, Xiaodong Chen, Jing Liao}}	MM 2023	Paper/Code
2023/09	Gradpaint	Gradpaint: Gradient-Guided Inpainting with Diffusion Models ^{_{Asya Grechka, Guillaume Couairon, Matthieu Cord}}	CVIU 2024	Paper/Code
2022/12	SmartBrush	SmartBrush: Text and Shape Guided Object Inpainting With Diffusion Model ^{_{Shaoan Xie 1, Zhifei Zhang, Zhe Lin, Tobias Hinz, Kun Zhang*}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/
2023/04	Copaint	Towards Coherent Image Inpainting Using Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models ^{_{Guanhua Zhang, Jiabao Ji, Yang Zhang, Mo Yu, Tommi Jaakkola, Shiyu Chang}}	ICML 2023	Paper/Code
2022/05	Palette	Palette: Image-to-image diffusion models ^{_{C. Saharia, W. Chan, H. Chang, C. Lee, J. Ho, T. Salimans, D. Fleet, and M. Norouzi.}}	SIGGRAPH 2022	Paper/Code
2022/01	RePaint	Repaint: Inpainting using denoising diffusion probabilistic models ^{_{A. Lugmayr, M. Danelljan, A. Romero, F. Yu, R. Timofte, and L. Van Gool.}}	CVPR 2022	Paper/Code

1.2.3 Deblur

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/04	Diffevent	Diffevent: Event Residual Diffusion for Image Deblurring ^{_{Pei Wang, Jiumei He, Qingsen Yan, Yu Zhu, Jinqiu Sun, Yanning Zhang}}	ICASSP 2024	Paper/Code
2024/01	FastDiffusionEM	Fast Diffusion EM: a diffusion model for blind inverse problems with application to deconvolution ^{_{Charles Laroche, Andrés Almansa, Eva Coupete}}	WACV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/01	SI-DDPM-FMO	Single-Image Deblurring, Trajectory and Shape Recovery of Fast Moving Objects With Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models ^{_{Radim Spetlik, Denys Rozumnyi, Jiří Matas}}	WACV 2024	Paper/Code
2023/12	ID-Blau	ID-Blau: Image Deblurring by Implicit Diffusion-based reBLurring AUgmentation ^{_{Jia-Hao Wu, Fu-Jen Tsai, Yan-Tsung Peng, Chung-Chi Tsai, Chia-Wen Lin, Yen-Yu Lin}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/05	HI-Diff	Hierarchical Integration Diffusion Model for Realistic Image Deblurring ^{_{Zheng Chen, Yulun Zhang, Ding Liu, Bin Xia, Jinjin Gu, Linghe Kong, Xin Yuan}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2022/12	-	Multiscale Structure Guided Diffusion for Image Deblurring ^{_{M. Ren, M. Delbracio, H. Talebi, G. Gerig, and P. Milanfar.}}	ICCV 2023	Paper/
2021/12	DVSR	Deblurring via Stochastic Refinement ^{_{Jay Whang, Mauricio Delbracio, Hossein Talebi, Chitwan Saharia, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Peyman Milanfar}}	CVPR 2022	Paper/Code

1.2.4 Dehaze

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/09	DiffLI²D	Unleashing the Potential of the Semantic Latent Space in Diffusion Models for Image Dehazing ^{_{Zizheng Yang, Hu Yu, Bing Li, Jinghao Zhang, Jie Huang, Feng Zhao}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/
2024/08	-	Image Dehazing Method Based on Diffusion Model ^{_{Fengxu Guan; Haitao Lai; Hanyu Zang; Jinbao Huang}}	ICMA 2024	Paper/
2024/08	MP-DDPM	A Multi-scale Patch Approach with Diffusion Model for Image Dehazing ^{_{Yao Guo, Yongliang Wu & Changsheng Wan}}	ICIC 2024	Paper/
2024/07	FP-Diff	Frequency-based and Physics-guiding Diffusion Model for Single Image Dehazing ^{_{Siying Xie; Fuping Li; Mingye Ju}}	CCC 2024	Paper/
2024/07	DehazeDiff	DehazeDiff: When Conditional Guidance Meets Diffusion Models for Image Dehazing ^{_{Longyu Cheng, Xujin Ba, Yanyun Qu}}	ISCAS 2024	Paper/
2024/05	-	Image Dehazing based on Iterative-Refining Diffusion Model ^{_{Jiarong Wang, Hao Hu}}	ICIGP 2024	Paper/
2024/04	JCDM	Joint Conditional Diffusion Model for Image Restoration with Mixed Degradations _{Yufeng Yue, Meng Yu, Luojie Yang, Yi Yang}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/04	DehazeDDPM	High-quality Image Dehazing with Diffusion Model _{Hu Yu, Jie Huang, Kaiwen Zheng, Feng Zhao}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2023/10	DehazeDM	DehazeDM: Image Dehazing via Patch Autoencoder Based on Diffusion Models _{Yuming Yang; Dongsheng Zou; Xinyi Song; Xiaotong Zhang}	SMC 2023	Paper
2023/08	HazeAug	Frequency Compensated Diffusion Model for Real-scene Dehazing ^{_{Jing Wang, Songtao Wu, Kuanhong Xu, Zhiqiang Yuan}}	Neural Networks 2024	Paper/Code
2022/11	WeatherDiff	Restoring Vision in Adverse Weather Conditions with Patch-Based Denoising Diffusion Models ^{_{Ozan Özdenizci, Robert Legenstein}}	TPAMI 2023	Paper/Code

1.2.5 Low-light Enhancement

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/10	-	Super-resolving Real-world Image Illumination Enhancement: A New Dataset and A Conditional Diffusion Model ^{_{Yang Liu, Yaofang Liu, Jinshan Pan, Yuxiang Hui, Fan Jia, Raymond H. Chan, Tieyong Zeng}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/09	FourierDiff	Fourier Priors-Guided Diffusion for Zero-Shot Joint Low-Light Enhancement and Deblurring ^{_{Xiaoqian Lv, Shengping Zhang, Chenyang Wang, Yichen Zheng, Bineng Zhong, Chongyi Li}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/09	DiffLight	DiffLight: Integrating Content and Detail for Low-light Image Enhancement ^{_{Yixu Feng, Shuo Hou, Haotian Lin, Yu Zhu, Peng Wu, Wei Dong, Jinqiu Sun, Qingsen Yan, Yanning Zhang}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/
2024/09	DLDiff	DLDiff: Image Detail-guided Latent Diffusion Model for Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Minglong Xue; Yanyi He; Jinhong He; Senming Zhong}}	LSP 2024	Paper/Code
2024/09	-	Low Light Image Enhancement Based on a Pyramid Diffusion Model ^{_{Xiang Li; Chunling Liu; Hui Cheng}}	ISPDS 2024	Paper/
2024/08	-	Image Intrinsic Components Guided Conditional Diffusion Model for Low-light Image Enhancement ^{_{Sicong Kang; Shuaibo Gao; Wenhui Wu; Xu Wang; Shuoyao Wang; Guoping Qiu}}	TCSVT 2024	Paper/
2024/08	MDDE	Low Light Image Enhancement Based on Retinex Theory and Diffusion Model ^{_{Tao Chen, Dongmei Liu}}	ICDSP 2024	Paper/
2024/07	PSC diffusion	PSC diffusion: patch-based simplified conditional diffusion model for low-light image enhancement ^{_{Fei Wan, Bingxin Xu, Weiguo Pan, Hongzhe Liu}}	Multimed. Syst. 2024	Paper/
2024/07	JoReS-Diff	JoReS-Diff: Joint Retinex and Semantic Priors in Diffusion Model for Low-light Image Enhancement ^{_{Yuhui Wu, Guoqing Wang, Zhiwen Wang, Yang Yang, Tianyu Li, Malu Zhang, Chongyi Li, Heng Tao Shen}}	MM 2024	Paper/
2024/07	AGLLDiff	AGLLDiff: Guiding Diffusion Models Towards Unsupervised Training-free Real-world Low-light Image Enhancement ^{_{Yunlong Lin, Tian Ye, Sixiang Chen, Zhenqi Fu, Yingying Wang, Wenhao Chai, Zhaohu Xing, Lei Zhu, Xinghao Ding}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	LightenDiffusion	LightenDiffusion: Unsupervised Low-Light Image Enhancement with Latent-Retinex Diffusion Models ^{_{Hai Jiang, Ao Luo, Xiaohong Liu, Songchen Han, Shuaicheng Liu}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	Zero-LED	Zero-LED: Zero-Reference Lighting Estimation Diffusion Model for Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Jinhong He, Minglong Xue, Aoxiang Ning, Chengyun Song}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/07	-	Enhancing Low-Light Images: A Novel Approach Combining Anisotropic Diffusion and Retinex ^{_{Mingyang Sun; Ru Yi; Xinxin Wang; Ningtao Ma}}	CSCWD 2024	Paper/
2024/07	SVBoost	Low Light Enhancement in Street Scenes Based on Diffusion Model _{Rui Xia; Lisong Wang; Taili Li; Pingping Shi}	CSCWD 2024	Paper/
2024/04	LightDiff	Light the Night: A Multi-Condition Diffusion Framework for Unpaired Low-Light Enhancement in Autonomous Driving ^{_{Jinlong Li, Baolu Li, Zhengzhong Tu, Xinyu Liu, Qing Guo, Felix Juefei-Xu, Runsheng Xu, Hongkai Yu}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/04	-	A ground-based dataset and a diffusion model for on-orbit low-light image enhancement ^{_{Yiman Zhu, Lu Wang, Jingyi Yuan, Yu Guo}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/04	SG-DDPM	SG-DDPM: Semantic-Guided Diffusion Model for Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Shize Wang}}	ICCECE 2024	Paper/
2024/03	MDMS	Multi-Domain Multi-Scale Diffusion Model for Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Kai Shang, Mingwen Shao, Chao Wang, Yuanshuo Cheng, Shuigen Wang}}	AAAI 2024	Paper/Code
2024/02	TDS	TDS: Two Diffusion Streams for Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Jieming Wang; Xianqin Liu; Yijun Zhang; Jianfang Hu}}	CSECS 2024	Paper/
2024/01	CFWD	Low-light Image Enhancement via CLIP-Fourier Guided Wavelet Diffusion ^{_{Minglong Xue, Jinhong He, Yanyi He, Zhipu Liu, Wenhai Wang, Mingliang Zhou}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code/
2023/12	L²DM	L²DM: A Diffusion Model for Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Lv, Xingguo and Dong, Xingbo and Jin, Zhe and Zhang, Hui and Song, Siyi and Li, Xuejun}}	PRCV 2023	Paper/Code
2023/11	Reti-Diff	Reti-Diff: Illumination Degradation Image Restoration with Retinex-based Latent Diffusion Model ^{_{Chunming He, Chengyu Fang, Yulun Zhang, Kai Li, Longxiang Tang, Chenyu You, Fengyang Xiao, Zhenhua Guo, Xiu Li}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	GASD	Global Structure-Aware Diffusion Process for Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Jinhui Hou, Zhiyu Zhu, Junhui Hou, Hui Liu, Huanqiang Zeng, Hui Yuan}}	NeurIPS 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	CLEDiffusion	CLE Diffusion: Controllable Light Enhancement Diffusion Model ^{_{Yuyang Yin, Dejia Xu, Chuangchuang Tan, Ping Liu, Yao Zhao, Yunchao Wei}}	MM 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	LLDE	LLDE: Enhancing Low-Light Images with Diffusion Model ^{_{Xin Peng Oo, Chee Seng Chan}}	ICIP 2023	Paper/Code
2023/09	-	Bootstrap Diffusion Model Curve Estimation for High Resolution Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Jiancheng Huang, Yifan Liu, Shifeng Chen}}	PRICAI 2023	Paper/
2023/08	DiffLLE	DiffLLE: Diffusion-guided Domain Calibration for Unsupervised Low-light Image Enhancement ^{_{Shuzhou Yang, Xuanyu Zhang, Yinhuai Wang, Jiwen Yu, Yuhan Wang, Jian Zhang}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/08	ExposureDiffusion	ExposureDiffusion: Learning to Expose for Low-light Image Enhancement ^{_{Yufei Wang, Yi Yu, Wenhan Yang, Lanqing Guo, Lap-Pui Chau, Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen}}	ICCV 2023	Paper/Code
2023/08	Diff-Retinex	Diff-Retinex: Rethinking Low-light Image Enhancement with A Generative Diffusion Model ^{_{Xunpeng Yi, Han Xu, Hao Zhang, Linfeng Tang, Jiayi Ma}}	ICCV 2023	Paper/Code
2023/08	CLE Diffusion	CLE Diffusion: Controllable Light Enhancement Diffusion Model ^{_{Yuyang Yin, Dejia Xu, Chuangchuang Tan, Ping Liu, Yao Zhao, Yunchao Wei}}	MM 23	Paper/Code
2023/07	LLDiffusion	LLDiffusion: Learning Degradation Representations in Diffusion Models for Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang, Ziqian Shao, Wenhan Luo, Bjorn Stenger, Tae-Kyun Kim, Wei Liu, Hongdong Li}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/07	DiffLIE	DiffLIE: Low-Light Image Enhancment based on Deep Diffusion Model ^{_{Guanyu Wu; Cheng. Jin}}	ISCTIS 2023	Paper/
2023/06	-	Diffusion Model Based Low-Light Image Enhancement for Space Satellite ^{_{Yiman Zhu, Lu Wang, Jingyi Yuan, Yu Guo}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/05	PyDiff	Pyramid Diffusion Models For Low-light Image Enhancement ^{_{Dewei Zhou, Zongxin Yang, Yi Yang}}	IJCAI 2023	Paper/Code
2023/03	LPDM	Denoising Diffusion Post-Processing for Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Savvas Panagiotou, Anna S. Bosman}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/03	DiD	Diffusion in the Dark: A Diffusion Model for Low-Light Text Recognition ^{_{Cindy M. Nguyen, Eric R. Chan, Alexander W. Bergman, Gordon Wetzstein}}	WACV 2024	Paper/Code
2023/01	DiffLL	Low-Light Image Enhancement with Wavelet-based Diffusion Models ^{_{Hai Jiang, Ao Luo, Songchen Han, Haoqiang Fan, Shuaicheng Liu}}	TOG 2023	Paper/Code

1.2.6 Image Fusion

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/12	MADMFuse	MADMFuse: A multi-attribute diffusion model to fuse infrared and visible images ^{_{Hang Xu, Rencan Nie, Jinde Cao, Mingchuan Tan, Zhengze Ding}}	DSP 2024	Paper/
2024/10	Diff-IF	Diff-IF: Multi-modality image fusion via diffusion model with fusion knowledge prior ^{_{Xunpeng Yi, Linfeng Tang, Hao Zhang, Han Xu, Jiayi Ma}}	Inf. Fusion 2024	Paper/Code
2024/08	LFDT-Fusion	LFDT-Fusion: A latent feature-guided diffusion Transformer model for general image fusion _{Bo Yang, Zhaohui Jiang, Dong Pan, Haoyang Yu, Gui Gui, Weihua Gui}	Inf. Fusion 2025	Paper/Code
2024/07	FusionDiff	FusionDiff: A unified image fusion network based on diffusion probabilistic models _{Zefeng Huang, Shen Yang , Jin Wu, Lei Zhu, Jin Liu}	CVIU 2024	Paper/
2024/07	GLAD	GLAD: A Global-Attention-Based Diffusion Model for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion _{Haozhe Guo, Mengjie Chen, Kaijiang Li, Hao Su, and Pei Lv}	ICIC 2024	Paper/
2024/04	Dif-PAN	Diffusion model with disentangled modulations for sharpening multispectral and hyperspectral images _{Zihan Cao, Shiqi Cao, Liang-Jian Deng, Xiao Wu, Junming Hou, Gemine Vivone}	Inf. Fusion 2024	Paper/Code
2023/06	FusionDiff	FusionDiff: Multi-focus image fusion using denoising diffusion probabilistic models ^{_{Mining Li, Ronghao Pei, Tianyou Zheng, Yang Zhang, Weiwei Fu}}	ESWA 2024	Paper/Code
2023/04	DDRF	DDRF: Denoising Diffusion Model for Remote Sensing Image Fusion ^{_{ZiHan Cao, ShiQi Cao, Xiao Wu, JunMing Hou, Ran Ran, Liang-Jian Deng}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/03	DDFM	DDFM: Denoising Diffusion Model for Multi-Modality Image Fusion ^{_{Zixiang Zhao, Haowen Bai, Yuanzhi Zhu, Jiangshe Zhang, Shuang Xu, Yulun Zhang, Kai Zhang, Deyu Meng, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool}}	ICCV 2023	Paper/Code
2023/01	Dif-Fusion	Dif-Fusion: Towards High Color Fidelity in Infrared and Visible Image Fusion with Diffusion Models ^{_{Jun Yue, Leyuan Fang, Shaobo Xia, Yue Deng, Jiayi Ma}}	TIP 2023	Paper/Code

2. Extended Diffusion Models In Low-level Vision

2.1 Diffusion Models In Low-level Medical Image Analysis

2.1.1 MRI

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/08	DiMO	Diffusion Modeling with Domain-conditioned Prior Guidance for Accelerated MRI and qMRI Reconstruction ^{_{Wanyu Bian, Albert Jang, Liping Zhang, Xiaonan Yang, Zachary Stewart, Fang Liu}}	TMI 2024	Paper/
2024/04	DiffMSR	Rethinking Diffusion Model for Multi-Contrast MRI Super-Resolution ^{_{Guangyuan Li, Chen Rao, Juncheng Mo, Zhanjie Zhang, Wei Xing, Lei Zhao}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/05	PPN	Fast Controllable Diffusion Models for Undersampled MRI Reconstruction ^{_{Wei Jiang, Zhuang Xiong, Feng Liu, Nan Ye, Hongfu Sun}}	ISIB 2024	Paper/
2024/02	MRPD	MRPD: Undersampled MRI reconstruction by prompting a large latent diffusion model ^{_{Ziqi Gao, S. Kevin Zhou}}	arxiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/01	HFS-SDE	High-Frequency Space Diffusion Model for Accelerated MRI ^{_{Chentao Cao, Zhuo-Xu Cui, Yue Wang, Shaonan Liu, Taiin Chen, Hairong Zheng}}	TMI 2024	Paper/Code
2023/10	SMRD	SMRD: SURE-Based Robust MRI Reconstruction with Diffusion Models ^{_{Batu Ozturkler, Chao Liu, Benjamin Eckart, Morteza Mardani, Jiaming Song, Jan Kautz}}	MICCAI 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	InverseSR	InverseSR: 3D Brain MRI Super-Resolution Using a Latent Diffusion Model ^{_{Jueqi Wang, Jacob Levman, Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya, Petru-Daniel Tudosiu, M. Jorge Cardoso & Razvan Marinescu}}	MICCAI 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	DisC-Diff	DisC-Diff: Disentangled Conditional Diffusion Model for Multi-contrast MRI Super-Resolution ^{_{Ye Mao, Lan Jiang, Xi Chen, Chao Li}}	MICCAI 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	CDiffMR	CDiffMR: Can We Replace the Gaussian Noise with K-Space Undersampling for Fast MRI? ^{_{Jiahao Huang, Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Guang Yang}}	MICCAI 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	SSDiffRecon	Self-supervised MRI Reconstruction with Unrolled Diffusion Models ^{_{Yilmaz Korkmaz, Tolga Cukur, Vishal M. Patel}}	MICCAI 2023	Paper/Code
2023/08	-	Super-resolution of brain MRI images based on denoising diffusion probabilistic model ^{_{Zhanxiong Wu, Xuanheng Chen, Sangma Xie, Jian Shen, Yu Zeng}}	BSPC 2023	Paper/
2023/03	-	Bayesian MRI reconstruction with joint uncertainty estimation using diffusion models ^{_{Guanxiong Luo, Moritz Blumenthal, Martin Heide, Martin Uecker}}	MRM 2023	Paper/
2022/09	MC-DDPM	Measurement-Conditioned Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Under-Sampled Medical Image Reconstruction ^{_{Yutong Xie, Quanzheng Li}}	MICCAI 2022	Paper/Code
2022/09	DiffuseRecon	Towards Performant and Reliable Undersampled MR Reconstruction via Diffusion Model Sampling ^{_{Cheng Peng, Pengfei Guo, S. Kevin Zhou, Vishal M. Patel & Rama Chellappa}}	MICCAI 2022	Paper/Code
2022/07	AdaDiff	Adaptive Diffusion Priors for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction ^{_{Alper Güngör, Salman UH Dar, Şaban Öztürk, Yilmaz Korkmaz, Gokberk Elmas, Muzaffer Özbey, Tolga Çukur}}	MedIA 2023	Paper/Code
2021/10	Score-MRI	Score-based diffusion models for accelerated MRI ^{_{Hyungjin Chung, Jong Chul Ye}}	MedIA 2022	Paper/Code
2021/08	CSGM	Robust Compressed Sensing MRI with Deep Generative Priors ^{_{Alper Güngör, Salman UH Dar, Şaban Öztürk, Yilmaz Korkmaz, Gokberk Elmas, Muzaffer Özbey, Tolga Çukur}}	NeurIPS 2021	Paper/Code

2.1.2 X-ray-based

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/10	-	Diffusion-Based Generative Image Outpainting for Recovery of FOV-Truncated CT Images ^{_{Michelle Espranita Liman, Daniel Rueckert, Florian J. Fintelmann, Philip Müller}}	MICCAI 2024	Paper/Code
2024/10	PrideDiff	PrideDiff: Physics-Regularized Generalized Diffusion Model for CT Reconstruction ^{_{Zexin Lu; Qi Gao; Tao Wang; Ziyuan Yang; Zhiwen Wang; Hui Yu}}	TRPMS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/10	-	Ultrafast Short-Arc Diffusion-Based Cone Beam CT Image Reconstruction ^{_{Y. FU, H. Zhang, W. Cai, L. Kuo, H. Xie, J.J. Cuaron, L.I. Cervino, J.M. Moran, X. Li1, T. Li}}	IJROBP 2024	Paper/
2024/09	RN-SDEs	RN-SDEs: Limited-Angle CT Reconstruction with Residual Null-Space Diffusion Stochastic Differential Equations ^{_{Jiaqi Guo, Santiago Lopez-Tapia, Wing Shun Li, Yunnan Wu, Marcelo Carignano, Vadim Backman, Vinayak P. Dravid, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/09	CT-SDM	CT-SDM: A Sampling Diffusion Model for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction across All Sampling Rates ^{_{Liutao Yang, Jiahao Huang, Guang Yang, Daoqiang Zhang}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/08	-	CT reconstruction using diffusion posterior sampling conditioned on a nonlinear measurement model ^{_{Shudong Li, Xiao Jiang, Matthew Tivnan, Grace J. Gang, Yuan Shen, J. Webster Stayman}}	SPIE 2024	Paper/
2024/08	DIFR3CT	DIFR3CT: Latent Diffusion for Probabilistic 3D CT Reconstruction from Few Planar X-Rays ^{_{Yiran Sun, Hana Baroudi, Tucker Netherton, Laurence Court, Osama Mawlawi, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Guha Balakrishnan}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/08	FCDM	FCDM: Sparse-view Sinogram Inpainting with Frequency Domain Convolution Enhanced Diffusion Models ^{_{Jiaze E, Srutarshi Banerjee, Tekin Bicer, Guannan Wang, Bin Ren}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/08	-	Iterative CT Reconstruction via Latent Variable Optimization of Shallow Diffusion Models ^{_{Sho Ozaki, Shizuo Kaji, Toshikazu Imae, Kanabu Nawa, Hideomi Yamashita, Keiichi Nakagawa}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/08	-	Four-Dimensional Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction via Diffusion Model and Motion Compensation ^{_{Xianghong Wang, Zhengwei Ou, Peng Jin, Jiayi Xie, Ze Teng, Lei Xu}}	TRPMS 2024	Paper/
2024/08	-	Linear diffusion noise boosted deep image prior for unsupervised sparse-view CT reconstruction ^{_{Jia Wu, Xiaoming Jiang, Lisha Zhong, Wei Zheng, Xinwei Li, Jinzhao Lin, Zhangyong Li}}	IOP 2024	Paper/
2024/07	DiffRecon	DiffRecon: Diffusion-based CT reconstruction with cross-modal deformable fusion for DR-guided non-coplanar radiotherapy ^{_{Jiawei Sun, Nannan Cao, Hui Bi, Liugang Gao, Kai Xie, Tao Lin, Jianfeng Sui, Xinye Ni}}	COMPUT. BIOL. MED. 2024	Paper/
2024/07	SAD	Structure-aware diffusion for low-dose CT imaging ^{_{Wenchao Du, HuanHuan Cui, LinChao He, Hu Chen, Yi Zhang, Hongyu Yang}}	IOP 2024	Paper/
2024/06	PFGDM	Prior frequency guided diffusion model for limited angle (LA)-CBCT reconstruction ^{_{Jiacheng Xie, Hua-Chieh Shao, Yunxiang Li, You Zhang}}	IOP 2024	Paper/
2024/06	TIFA	Time-reversion Fast-sampling Score-based Model for Limited-angle CT Reconstruction ^{_{Yanyang Wang, Zirong Li, Weiwen Wu}}	TMI 2024	Paper/Code
2024/06	DiffusionBlend	DiffusionBlend: Learning 3D Image Prior through Position-aware Diffusion Score Blending for 3D Computed Tomography Reconstruction ^{_{Bowen Song, Jason Hu, Zhaoxu Luo, Jeffrey A. Fessler, Liyue Shen}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/05	Blaze3DM	Blaze3DM: Marry Triplane Representation with Diffusion for 3D Medical Inverse Problem Solving ^{_{Jia He, Bonan Li, Ge Yang, Ziwen Liu}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/05	PDHG	Physics-informed Score-based Diffusion Model for Limited-angle Reconstruction of Cardiac Computed Tomography ^{_{Shuo Han, Yongshun Xu, Dayang Wang, Bahareh Morovati, Li Zhou, Jonathan S. Maltz, Ge Wang, Hengyong Yu}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/05	-	Score-based generative model-assisted information compensation for high-quality limited-view reconstruction in photoacoustic tomography ^{_{Kangjun Guo, Zhiyuan Zheng, Wenhua Zhong, Zilong Li, Guijun Wang,Jiang Li, Yubin Cao,Yiguang Wang,Jiabin Lin, Qiegen Liu, XianLin Song}}	Photoacoustics 2024	Paper/
2024/05	CDDM	Mitigating Data Consistency Induced Discrepancy in Cascaded Diffusion Models for Sparse-view CT Reconstruction ^{_{Hanyu Chen, Zhixiu Hao, Lin Guo, Liying Xiao}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/05	MSDiff	MSDiff: Multi-Scale Diffusion Model for Ultra-Sparse View CT Reconstruction ^{_{Pinhuang Tan, Mengxiao Geng, Jingya Lu, Liu Shi, Bin Huang, Qiegen Liu}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/04	-	Iterative reconstruction for limited-angle CT using implicit neural representation ^{_{Jooho Lee, Jongduk Baek}}	IOP 2024	Paper/
2024/04	DPER	DPER: Diffusion Prior Driven Neural Representation for Limited Angle and Sparse View CT Reconstruction ^{_{Chenhe Du, Xiyue Lin, Qing Wu, Xuanyu Tian, Ying Su, Zhe Luo, Rui Zheng, Yang Chen, Hongjiang Wei, S. Kevin Zhou, Jingyi Yu, Yuyao Zhang}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/04	-	An interactive method based on multi-objective optimization for limited-angle CT reconstruction ^{_{Chengxiang Wang, Yuanmei Xia, Jiaxi Wang, Kequan Zhao, Wei Peng, Wei Yu}}	IOP 2024	Paper/
2024/04	-	Fourier diffusion for sparse CT reconstruction ^{_{Anqi Liu, Grace J. Gang, J. Webster Stayman}}	SPIE 2024	Paper/
2024/03	DE-CBCT	Dual-Energy Cone-Beam CT Using Two Complementary Limited-Angle Scans with A Projection-Consistent Diffusion Model ^{_{Junbo Peng, Chih-Wei Chang, Richard L.J. Qiu, Tonghe Wang, Justin Roper, Beth Ghavidel, Xiangyang Tang, Xiaofeng Yang}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/03	cDDPM	Using denoising diffusion probabilistic models to enhance quality of limited-view photoacoustic tomography ^{_{Bruno De Santi, Navchetan Awasthi, Srirang Manohar}}	SPIE 2024	Paper/
2024/03	-	Image reconstruction based on nonlinear diffusion model for limited-angle computed tomography ^{_{Xuying Zhao1, Wenjin Jiang, Xinting Zhang, Wenxiu Guo, Yunsong Zhao, Xing Zhao}}	IOP 2024	Paper/
2024/02	-	Image Domain Ultra-Sparse View CT Artifact Removal Via Conditional Denoising Diffusion Probability Model ^{_{Feixiang Zhao, Jianchao Zhao, Mingzhe Liu}}	ICCPR 2024	Paper/
2024/02	WISM	Wavelet-Inspired Multi-channel Score-based Model for Limited-angle CT Reconstruction ^{_{Jianjia Zhang, Haiyang Mao, Xinran Wang, Yuan Guo, Weiwen Wu}}	TMI 2024	Paper/
2024/01	SWORD	Stage-by-stage Wavelet Optimization Refinement Diffusion Model for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction ^{_{Kai Xu, Shiyu Lu, Bin Huang, Weiwen Wu, Qiegen Liu}}	TMI 2024	Paper/
2023/12	HD-DCDM	HD-DCDM: Hybrid-domain network for limited-angle computed tomography with deconvolution and conditional diffusion model ^{_{Jianyu Wang, Rongqian Wang1, Lide Cai, Xintong Liu1, Guochang Lin1, Fukai Chen1, Lingyun Qiu}}	AMMC 2023	Paper/
2023/10	-	Enhancing the Resolution of Micro-CT Images of Rock Samples via Unsupervised Machine Learning based on a Diffusion Model ^{_{Zhaoyang Ma, Shuyu Sun, Bicheng Yan, Hyung Kwak, Jun Gao}}	SPEATCE 2023	Paper/
2023/08	-	Generative Modeling in Sinogram Domain for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction ^{_{Bing Guan, Cailian Yang, Liu Zhang, Shanzhou Niu, Minghui Zhang, Yuhao Wang}}	TRPMS 2023	Paper/
2023/07	HGU	Fast and Stable Diffusion Inverse Solver with History Gradient Update ^{_{Linchao He, Hongyu Yan, Mengting Luo, Hongjie Wu, Kunming Luo, Wang Wang, Wenchao Du, Hu Chen, Hongyu Yang, Yi Zhang, Jiancheng Lv}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2022/11	DOLCE	DOLCE: A Model-Based Probabilistic Diffusion Framework for Limited-Angle CT Reconstruction ^{_{Jiaming Liu, Rushil Anirudh, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Stewart He, K. Aditya Mohan, Ulugbek S. Kamilov, Hyojin Kim}}	ICCV 2023	Paper/Code
2022/11	DiffusionMBIR	Solving 3D Inverse Problems using Pre-trained 2D Diffusion Models ^{_{Hyungjin Chung, Dohoon Ryu, Michael T. McCann, Marc L. Klasky, Jong Chul Ye}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/Code
2022/01	MCG	Improving diffusion models for inverse problems using manifold constraints ^{_{Hyungjin Chung, Byeongsu Sim, Dohoon Ryu, Jong Chul Ye}}	NeurIPS 2022	Paper/Code

2.1.3 Multi-modal

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/10	PASTA	PASTA: Pathology-Aware MRI to PET CroSs-modal TrAnslation with Diffusion Models _{Yitong Li, Igor Yakushev, Dennis M. Hedderich, Christian Wachinger}	MICCAI 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	Joint diffusion	Joint diffusion: mutual consistency-driven diffusion model for PET-MRI co-reconstruction _{Taofeng Xie, Zhuo-Xu Cui, Chen Lu, Huayu Wang, Congcong Liu, Yuanzhi Zhang, Xuemei Wang, Yanjie Zhu, Guoqing Chen, Dong Liang}	IOP 2024	Paper/
2024/05	FICD	Functional Imaging Constrained Diffusion for Brain PET Synthesis from Structural MRI _{Minhui Yu, Mengqi Wu, Ling Yue, Andrea Bozoki, Mingxia Liu}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2023/06	SynDiff	Unsupervised Medical Image Translation With Adversarial Diffusion Models _{Muzaffer Özbey; Onat Dalmaz; Salman U. H. Dar; Hasan A. Bedel; Şaban Özturk; Alper Güngör}	TMI 2023	Paper/Code
2023/04	FGDM	Zero-shot Medical Image Translation via Frequency-Guided Diffusion Models ^{_{Yunxiang Li, Hua-Chieh Shao, Xiao Liang, Liyuan Chen, Ruiqi Li, Steve Jiang, Jing Wang, You Zhang}}	TMI 2023	Paper/
2022/09	-	Conversion Between CT and MRI Images Using Diffusion and Score-Matching Models ^{_{Qing Lyu, Ge Wang}}	arXiv 2022	Paper/
2022/07	UMM-CSGM	A Novel Unified Conditional Score-based Generative Framework for Multi-modal Medical Image Completion ^{_{Xiangxi Meng, Yuning Gu, Yongsheng Pan, Nizhuan Wang, Peng Xue, Mengkang Lu, Xuming He, Yiqiang Zhan, Dinggang Shen}}	arXiv 2022	Paper/

2.1.4 Other Modalities

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/10	MCAD	MCAD: Multi-modal Conditioned Adversarial Diffusion Model for High-Quality PET Image Reconstruction ^{_{Jiaqi Cui, Xinyi Zeng, Pinxian Zeng, Bo Liu, Xi Wu, Jiliu Zhou, Yan Wang}}	MICCAI 2024	Paper/
2024/08	PET-CM	Full-dose whole-body PET synthesis from low-dose PET using high-efficiency denoising diffusion probabilistic model: PET consistency model ^{_{Shaoyan Pan, Elham Abouei, Junbo Peng, Joshua Qian, Jacob F Wynne, Tonghe Wang, Chih-Wei Chang, Justin Roper, Jonathon A Nye, Hui Mao, Xiaofeng Yang}}	Medical Physics 2024	Paper/Code
2024/04	Entropy-SDE	Equipping Diffusion Models with Differentiable Spatial Entropy for Low-Light Image Enhancement ^{_{Wenyi Lian, Wenjing Lian, Ziwei Luo}}	CVPRW 2024	Paper/Code
2024/02	-	Dehazing Ultrasound using Diffusion Models ^{_{Tristan S.W. Stevens, Faik C. Meral, Jason Yu, Iason Z. Apostolakis, Jean-Luc Robert, Ruud J.G. Van Sloun}}	TMI 2024	Paper/
2023/10	LLCaps	LLCaps: Learning to Illuminate Low-Light Capsule Endoscopy with Curved Wavelet Attention and Reverse Diffusion ^{_{Tristan S.W. Stevens, Faik C. Meral, Jason Yu, Iason Z. Apostolakis, Jean-Luc Robert, Ruud J.G. Van Sloun}}	MICCAI 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	CPDM	Content-Preserving Diffusion Model for Unsupervised AS-OCT Image Despeckling ^{_{Sanqian Li, Risa Higashita, Huazhu Fu, Heng Li, Jingxuan Niu, Jiang Liu}}	MICCAI 2023	Paper/
2023/10	PET-Diffusion	PET-Diffusion: Unsupervised PET Enhancement Based on the Latent Diffusion Model ^{_{Caiwen Jiang, Yongsheng Pan, Mianxin Liu, Lei Ma, Xiao Zhang, Jiameng Liu, Xiaosong Xiong, Dinggang Shen}}	MICCAI 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	-	PET image denoising based on denoising diffusion probabilistic model ^{_{Kuang Gong, Keith Johnson, Georges El Fakhri, Quanzheng Li, Tinsu Pan}}	EJNMMI 2024	Paper/
2023/10	PET-Reconstruction	Contrastive Diffusion Model with Auxiliary Guidance for Coarse-to-Fine PET Reconstruction ^{_{Zeyu Han, Yuhan Wang, Luping Zhou, Peng Wang, Binyu Yan, Jiliu Zhou, Yan Wang, Dinggang Shen}}	MICCAI 2023	Paper/Code
2022/09	PET-DDM	PET image denoising based on denoising diffusion probabilistic models ^{_{Kuang Gong, Keith A. Johnson, Georges El Fakhri, Quanzheng Li, Tinsu Pan}}	Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging 2023	Paper/
2022/04	OCT-DDPM	Unsupervised denoising of retinal OCT with diffusion probabilistic model ^{_{Dewei Hu, Yuankai K. Tao, Ipek Oguz}}	SPIE 2022	Paper/Code
2022/01	DenoOCT-DDPM	Unsupervised Denoising of Retinal OCT with Diffusion Probabilistic Model ^{_{Dewei Hu, Yuankai K. Tao, Ipek Oguz}}	SPIE 2022	Paper/Code

2.2 Diffusion Models In Remote Sensing For Low-level Vision Tasks

2.2.1 Visible-light Remote Sensing Image

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/12	EVADM	Effective variance attention-enhanced diffusion model for crop field aerial image super resolution ^{_{Xiangyu Lu, Jianlin Zhang, Rui Yang , Qina Yang , Mengyuan Chen , Hongxing Xu, Pinjun Wan, Jiawen Guo , Fei Liu}}	ISPRS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/09	FastDiffSR	A Conditional Diffusion Model With Fast Sampling Strategy for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Fanen Meng; Yijun Chen; Haoyu Jing; Laifu Zhang; Yiming Yan; Yingchao Ren}}	TGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/09	-	Clouds and Haze Co-Removal Based on Weight-Tuned Overlap Refinement Diffusion Model for Remote Sensing Images ^{_{Jingxuan Zhang; Libao Zhang}}	ICIP 2024	Paper/
2024/07	RSSRDiff	RSSRDiff: An Effective Diffusion Probability Model with Attention for Single Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Tian Wei, Hanyi Zhang, Jin Xu, Jing Zhao, Fei Shen}}	ICIC 2024	Paper/
2024/06	-	Diffusion Enhancement for Cloud Removal in Ultra-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery ^{_{Jialu Sui; Yiyang Ma; Wenhan Yang; Xiaokang Zhang; Man-On Pun; Jiaying Liu}}	TGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/06	CLDiff	CLDiff: Weakly Supervised Cloud Detection With Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models	TGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/05	SGDM	Semantic Guided Large Scale Factor Remote Sensing Image Super-resolution with Generative Diffusion Prior ^{_{Ce Wang, Wanjie Sun}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/05	ShipinSight	Ship in Sight: Diffusion Models for Ship-Image Super Resolution ^{_{Luigi Sigillo, Riccardo Fosco Gramaccioni, Alessandro Nicolosi, Danilo Comminiello}}	WCCI 2024	Paper/Code
2024/05	RSHazeDiff	RSHazeDiff: A Unified Fourier-aware Diffusion Model for Remote Sensing Image Dehazing ^{_{Jiamei Xiong, Xuefeng Yan, Yongzhen Wang, Wei Zhao, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Mingqiang Wei}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	ASDDPM	Adaptive Semantic-Enhanced Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Jialu Sui, Xianping Ma, Xiaokang Zhang, Man-On Pun}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	IDF-CR	IDF-CR: Iterative Diffusion Process for Divide-and-Conquer Cloud Removal in Remote-Sensing Images ^{_{Meilin Wang; Yexing Song; Pengxu Wei; Xiaoyu Xian; Yukai Shi; Liang Lin}}	TGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/03	DiffALS	Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model with Adversarial Learning for Remote Sensing Super-Resolution ^{_{Jialu Sui,Qianqian Wu， Man-On Pun}}	Remote Sensing 2024	Paper/
2024/02	ADND-Net	Diffusion Models Based Null-Space Learning for Remote Sensing Image Dehazing ^{_{Yufeng Huang; Zhiyu Lin; Shuai Xiong; Tongtong Sun}}	LGRS 2024	Paper
2024/02	DiffCR	DiffCR: A Fast Conditional Diffusion Framework for Cloud Removal From Optical Satellite Images ^{_{Xuechao Zou; Kai Li; Junliang Xing; Yu Zhang; Shiying Wang; Lei Jin}}	TGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/02	TCDM	TCDM: Effective Large-Factor Image Super-Resolution via Texture Consistency Diffusion ^{_{Yan Zhang; Hanqi Liu; Zhenghao Li; Xinbo Gao; Guangyao Shi; Jianan Jiang}}	TGRS 2024	Paper/
2023/11	LWTDM	Efficient Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution via Lightweight Diffusion Models ^{_{Tai An; Bin Xue; Chunlei Huo; Shiming Xiang}}	LGRS 2023	Paper/Code
2023/10	EDiffSR	EDiffSR: An Efficient Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Yi Xiao, Qiangqiang Yuan, Kui Jiang, Jiang He, Xianyu Jin, Liangpei Zhang}}	TGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2023/08	DDSR	Dual-Diffusion: Dual Conditional Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Blind Super-Resolution Reconstruction in RSIs ^{_{Mengze Xu, Jie Ma, Yuanyuan Zhu}}	LGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2023/07	EHC-DMSR	Enhancing Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution with Efficient Hybrid Conditional Diffusion Model ^{_{Lintao Han,Yuchen Zhao, Hengyi Lv, Yisa Zhang, Hailong Liu, Guoling Bi, Qing Han}}	Remote Sensing 2023	Paper/
2023/09	RSDiff	RSDiff: Remote Sensing Image Generation from Text Using Diffusion Model ^{_{Ahmad Sebaq, Mohamed ElHelw}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/08	ARDD-Net	Remote Sensing Image Dehazing Using Adaptive Region-Based Diffusion Models ^{_{Y Huang, S Xiong}}	LGRS 2023	Paper/
2023/02	TESR	TESR: Two-Stage Approach for Enhancement and Super-Resolution of Remote Sensing Images ^{_{Anas M. Ali, Bilel Benjdira, Anis Koubaa, Wadii Boulila, Walid El-Shafai}}	Remote Sensing 2023	Paper/Code
2022/09	PSSR	Diffusion Model with Detail Complement for Super-Resolution of Remote Sensing ^{_{Liu, Jinzhe and Yuan, Zhiqiang and Pan, Zhaoying and Fu, Yiqun and Liu, Li and Lu, Bin}}	Remote Sensing 2022	Paper/

2.2.2 HSI

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/11	STFDiff	STFDiff: Remote sensing image spatiotemporal fusion with diffusion models _{He Huang, Wei He, Hongyan Zhang, Yu Xia, Liangpei Zhang}	Inf. Fusion 2024	Paper/Code
2024/11	MTLSC-Diff	MTLSC-Diff: Multitask learning with diffusion models for hyperspectral image super-resolution and classification _{Jiahui Qu, Liusheng Xiao, Wenqian Dong, Yunsong Li}	Knowledge-Based Systems 2024	Paper
2024/09	Diff-Unmix	Unmixing Diffusion for Self-Supervised Hyperspectral Image Denoising ^{_{Haijin Zeng; Jiezhang Cao; Kai Zhang; Yongyong Chen; Hiep Luong; Wilfried Philips}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/08	SCDM	Spectral-Cascaded Diffusion Model for Remote Sensing Image Spectral Super-Resolution ^{_{Bowen Chen; Liqin Liu; Chenyang Liu; Zhengxia Zou; Zhenwei Shi}}	TGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/08	SDP	A Spectral Diffusion Prior for Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Jianjun Liu; Zebin Wu; Liang Xiao}}	TGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	PLRDiff	Unsupervised hyperspectral pansharpening via low-rank diffusion model ^{_{Xiangyu Rui, Xiangyong Cao, Li Pang, Zeyu Zhu, Zongsheng Yue, Deyu Meng}}	Information Fusion 2024	Paper/Code
2024/05	ISPDiff	ISPDiff: Interpretable Scale-Propelled Diffusion Model for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Wenqian Dong; Sen Liu; Song Xiao; Jiahui Qu; Yunsong Li}}	TGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/04	DMSANet	A Diffusion Model-Assisted Multiscale Spectral Attention Network for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution ^{_{Kaiqi He; Yiheng Cai; Shengjun Peng; Meiling Tan}}	JSTARS 2024	Paper
2024/03	DMGASR	Enhancing Hyperspectral Images via Diffusion Model and Group-Autoencoder Super-resolution Network ^{_{Zhaoyang Wang, Dongyang Li, Mingyang Zhang†, Hao Luo, Maoguo Gong}}	AAAI 2024	Paper/Code
2024/02	HIR-Diff	HIR-Diff: Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Restoration Via Improved Diffusion Models ^{_{Li Pang, Xiangyu Rui, Long Cui, Hongzhong Wang, Deyu Meng, Xiangyong Cao}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2024/02	CFMDM	CFMDM: Coarse-to-Fine Meta-Diffusion Model for Scale-Arbitrary Hyperspectral Super-Resolution ^{_{Jizhou Cui; Wenqian Dong; Jiahui Qu; Xiaoyang Wu; Song Xiao; Yunsong Li}}	LGRS 2024	Paper/
2024/01	SatDiffMoE	SatDiffMoE: A Mixture of Estimation Method for Satellite Image Super-resolution with Latent Diffusion Models _{Zhaoxu Luo, Bowen Song, Liyue Shen}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2023/11	TDiffDe	TDiffDe: A Truncated Diffusion Model for Remote Sensing Hyperspectral Image Denoising _{Jiang He, Yajie Li, Jie L, Qiangqiang Yuan}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2023/07	DDPM-Fus	Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion Using the Conditional Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model ^{_{Shuaikai Shi, Lijun Zhang, Jie Chen}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/07	-	A Noise-Model-Free Hyperspectral Image Denoising Method Based on Diffusion Model ^{_{Deng, Keli and Jiang, Zhongshun and Qian, Qipeng and Qiu, Yi and Qian, Yuntao}}	IGASS 2023	Paper/
2023/07	R2H-CCD	R2H-CCD: Hyperspectral Imagery Generation from RGB Images Based on Conditional Cascade Diffusion Probabilistic Models ^{_{Zhang, Lei and Luo, Xiaoyan and Li, Sen and Shi, Xiaofeng}}	IGASS 2023	Paper/
2023/03	DDS2M	DDS2M: Self-Supervised Denoising Diffusion Spatio-Spectral Model for Hyperspectral Image Restoration ^{_{Yuchun Miao, Lefei Zhang, Liangpei Zhang, Dacheng Tao}}	ICCV 2023	Paper/Code
2023/01	HSR-Diff	HSR-Diff:Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution via Conditional Diffusion Models ^{_{Chanyue Wu, Dong Wang, Hanyu Mao, Ying Li}}	ICCV 2023	Paper/

2.2.3 SAR

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/01	Ship-Go	Ship-Go: SAR Ship Images Inpainting via instance-to-image Generative Diffusion Models _{Xin Zhang, Yang Li, Feng Li , Hangzhi Jiang, Yanhua Wang , Liang Zhang , Le Zheng, Zegang Ding}	ISPRS 2024	Paper/Code
2024/09	R-DDPM	SAR Despeckling Via Regional Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model _{Xuran Hu; Ziqiang Xu; Zhihan Chen; Zhenpeng Feng; Mingzhe Zhu; Ljubiša Stanković}	IGASS 2024	Paper/
2024/06	-	Despeckling SAR Images With Log-Yeo–Johnson Transformation and Conditional Diffusion Models _{Yaobin Ma; Peng Ke; Hossein Aghababaei; Ling Chang; Jingbo Wei}	TGRS 2024	Paper/
2023/07	-	Unsupervised SAR Despeckling Based on Diffusion Model ^{_{Xiao, Siyao and Huang, Libing and Zhang, Shunsheng}}	IGASS 2023	Paper/
2023/08	-	Diffusion Models for Interferometric Satellite Aperture Radar ^{_{Alexandre Tuel, Thomas Kerdreux, Claudia Hulbert, Bertrand Rouet-Leduc}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/06	-	SAR Despeckling using a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model ^{_{Malsha V. Perera, Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Vishal M. Patel}}	LGRS 2023	Paper/Code

2.2.4 Multi-modal

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/10	-	Binary Diffusion Method for Image Fusion with Despeckling ^{_{Chenlin Zhang; Yajun Chang; Yuhang Wu; Zelong Wang}}	AIPMV 2024	Paper/
2024/09	-	SAR to Optical Image Translation with Color Supervised Diffusion Model ^{_{Xinyu Bai; Feng Xu}}	IGARSS 2024	Paper/
2024/08	-	Learning SAR-to-Optical Image Translation via Diffusion Models With Color Memory ^{_{Zhe Guo; Jiayi Liu; Qinglin Cai; Zhibo Zhang; Shaohui Mei}}	JSTARS 2024	Paper/
2024/07	DDSR	DDSR: Degradation-Aware Diffusion Model for Spectral Reconstruction from RGB Images ^{_{Yunlai Chen, Xiaoyan Zhang}}	Remote Sensing 2024	Paper/
2024/04	-	Variational Diffusion Method for Remote Sensing Image Fusion ^{_{Chenlin Zhang; Jialing Han; Jubo Zhu; Zelong Wang}}	LGRS 2024	Paper/
2024/01	-	A brain-inspired approach for SAR-to-optical image translation based on diffusion models ^{_{Hao Shi, Zihan Cui, Liang Chen, ingfei He, Jingyi Yang}}	FRONT NEUROSCI-SWITZ 2024	Paper/
2023/11	-	Conditional Diffusion for SAR to Optical Image Translation _{Xinyu Bai; Xinyang Pu; Feng Xu}	LGRS 2024	Paper/
2023/10	DCDMF	Hyperspectral and Panchromatic Images Fusion Based on the Dual Conditional Diffusion Models ^{_{Shuangliang Li; Siwei Li; Lihao Zhang}}	TGRS 2024	Paper/Code
2023/07	-	Improved Flood Insights: Diffusion-Based SAR to EO Image Translation ^{_{Minseok Seo, Youngtack Oh, Doyi Kim, Dongmin Kang, Yeji Choi}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/04	-	Cloud Removal in Remote Sensing Using Sequential-Based Diffusion Models ^{_{Zhao, Xiaohu and Jia, Kebin}}	Remote Sensing 2023	Paper/
2023/04	DDRF	DDRF: Denoising Diffusion Model for Remote Sensing Image Fusion ^{_{ZiHan Cao, ShiQi Cao, Xiao Wu, JunMing Hou, Ran Ran, Liang-Jian Deng}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/03	DDPM-CR	Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Feature-Based Network for Cloud Removal in Sentinel-2 Imagery ^{_{Jing, Ran and Duan, Fuzhou and Lu, Fengxian and Zhang, Miao and Zhao, Wenji}}	Remote Sensing 2023	Paper/

2.3 Varied Low-level Vision Tasks In Video Through Diffusion Models

2.3.1 Video Frame Prediction and Interpolation

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/09	ExtDM	ExtDM: Distribution Extrapolation Diffusion Model for Video Prediction ^{_{Zhicheng Zhang, Junyao Hu, Wentao Cheng, Danda Paudel, Jufeng Yang}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/
2024/08	EasyControl	EasyControl: Transfer ControlNet to Video Diffusion for Controllable Generation and Interpolation ^{_{Cong Wang, Jiaxi Gu, Panwen Hu, Haoyu Zhao, Yuanfan Guo, Jianhua Han, Hang Xu, Xiaodan Liang}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/04	MADiff	Motion-aware Latent Diffusion Models for Video Frame Interpolation ^{_{Zhilin Huang, Yijie Yu, Ling Yang, Chujun Qin, Bing Zheng, Xiawu Zheng, Zikun Zhou, Yaowei Wang, Wenming Yang}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/04	VIDIM	Video Interpolation with Diffusion Models ^{_{Siddhant Jain, Daniel Watson, Eric Tabellion, Aleksander Hołyński, Ben Poole, Janne Kontkanen}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/
2024/03	STDiff	STDiff: Spatio-Temporal Diffusion for Continuous Stochastic Video Prediction ^{_{Xi Ye, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau}}	AAAI 2024	Paper/Code
2024/01	AID	AID: Adapting Image2Video Diffusion Models for Instruction-guided Video Prediction ^{_{Zhen Xing, Qi Dai, Zejia Weng, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2023/05	Seer	Seer: Language Instructed Video Prediction with Latent Diffusion Models ^{_{Xianfan Gu, Chuan Wen, Weirui Ye, Jiaming Song, Yang Gao}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/
2023/10	SEINE	SEINE: Short-to-Long Video Diffusion Model for Generative Transition and Prediction ^{_{Xinyuan Chen, Yaohui Wang, Lingjun Zhang, Shaobin Zhuang, Xin Ma, Jiashuo Yu, Yali Wang, Dahua Lin, Yu Qiao, Ziwei Liu}}	ICLR 2024	Paper/Project
2023/03	LDMVFI	LDMVFI: Video Frame Interpolation with Latent Diffusion Models ^{_{Duolikun Danier, Fan Zhang, David Bull}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2022/06	RaMViD	Diffusion Models for Video Prediction and Infilling ^{_{Tobias Höppe, Arash Mehrjou, Stefan Bauer, Didrik Nielsen, Andrea Dittadi}}	TMLR 2022	Paper/
2022/05	MCVD	MCVD: Masked Conditional Video Diffusion for Prediction, Generation, and Interpolation ^{_{Vikram Voleti, Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, Christopher Pal}}	NeurIPS 2022	Paper/Code
2022/03	RVD	Diffusion Probabilistic Modeling for Video Generation ^{_{Ruihan Yang, Prakhar Srivastava, Stephan Mandt}}	Entropy 2023	Paper/Code

2.3.2 Super Resolution For Video Generation

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/06	HPDM	Hierarchical Patch Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Video Generation ^{_{Ivan Skorokhodov, Willi Menapace, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Sergey Tulyakov}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Project
2024/03	SATeCo	Learning Spatial Adaptation and Temporal Coherence in Diffusion Models for Video Super-Resolution ^{_{Zhikai Chen, Fuchen Long, Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Wengang Zhou, Jiebo Luo, Tao Mei}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/
2024/01	-	Inflation with Diffusion: Efficient Temporal Adaptation for Text-to-Video Super-Resolution ^{_{Xin Yuan, Jinoo Baek, Keyang Xu, Omer Tov, Hongliang Fei}}	WACV 2024	Paper/
2023/12	Upscale-A-Video	Upscale-A-Video: Temporal-Consistent Diffusion Model for Real-World Video Super-Resolution ^{_{Shangchen Zhou, Peiqing Yang, Jianyi Wang, Yihang Luo, Chen Change Loy}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/12	MGLD-VSR	Motion-Guided Latent Diffusion for Temporally Consistent Real-world Video Super-resolution ^{_{Xi Yang, Chenhang He, Jianqi Ma, Lei Zhang}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2023/11	StableVSR	Enhancing Perceptual Quality in Video Super-Resolution through Temporally-Consistent Detail Synthesis using Diffusion Models ^{_{Claudio Rota, Marco Buzzelli, Joost van de Weijer}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2023/09	LAVIE	LAVIE: High-Quality Video Generation with Cascaded Latent Diffusion Models ^{_{Yaohui Wang, Xinyuan Chen, Xin Ma, Shangchen Zhou, Ziqi Huang, Yi Wang, Ceyuan Yang, Yinan He, Jiashuo Yu, Peiqing Yang, Yuwei Guo, Tianxing Wu, Chenyang Si, Yuming Jiang, Cunjian Chen, Chen Change Loy, Bo Dai, Dahua Lin, Yu Qiao, Ziwei Liu}}	arXiv 2023	Paper/Code
2023/05	PYoCo	Preserve Your Own Correlation: A Noise Prior for Video Diffusion Models ^{_{Songwei Ge, Seungjun Nah, Guilin Liu, Tyler Poon, Andrew Tao, Bryan Catanzaro, David Jacobs, Jia-Bin Huang, Ming-Yu Liu, Yogesh Balaji}}	ICCV 2023	Paper/Demo
2023/05	VideoFusion	VideoFusion: Decomposed Diffusion Models for High-Quality Video Generation ^{_{Zhengxiong Luo, Dayou Chen, Yingya Zhang, Yan Huang, Liang Wang, Yujun Shen, Deli Zhao, Jingren Zhou, Tieniu Tan}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/
2023/04	-	Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models ^{_{Andreas Blattmann, Robin Rombach, Huan Ling, Tim Dockhorn, Seung Wook Kim, Sanja Fidler, Karsten Kreis}}	CVPR 2023	Paper/Demo

2.3.3 Video Restoration

Release	Method	Title	Pub.	Link
2024/08	VD-Diff	Rethinking Video Deblurring with Wavelet-Aware Dynamic Transformer and Diffusion Model ^{_{Chen Rao, Guangyuan Li, Zehua Lan, Jiakai Sun, Junsheng Luan, Wei Xing, Lei Zhao, Huaizhong Lin, Jianfeng Dong, Dalong Zhang}}	ECCV 2024	Paper/Code
2024/08	-	Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Based Video Restoration Technique for Noise Mixtures ^{_{Tudor Barbu, Costică Moroşanu}}	ICIEA 2024	Paper/
2024/07	DiffIR2VR-Zero	DiffIR2VR-Zero: Zero-Shot Video Restoration with Diffusion-based Image Restoration Models ^{_{Chang-Han Yeh, Chin-Yang Lin, Zhixiang Wang, Chi-Wei Hsiao, Ting-Hsuan Chen, Yu-Lun Liu}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/Code
2024/07	-	Zero-shot Video Restoration and Enhancement Using Pre-Trained Image Diffusion Model ^{_{Cong Cao, Huanjing Yue, Xin Liu, Jingyu Yang}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/
2024/03	DiffTTA	Genuine Knowledge from Practice: Diffusion Test-Time Adaptation for Video Adverse Weather Removal ^{_{Yijun Yang, Hongtao Wu, Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero, Yulun Zhang, Jing Qin, Lei Zhu}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/12	AVID	AVID: Any-Length Video Inpainting with Diffusion Model ^{_{Zhixing Zhang, Bichen Wu, Xiaoyan Wang, Yaqiao Luo, Luxin Zhang, Yinan Zhao, Peter Vajda, Dimitris Metaxas, Licheng Yu}}	CVPR 2024	Paper/Code
2023/11	FLAIR	FLAIR: A Conditional Diffusion Framework with Applications to Face Video Restoration ^{_{Zihao Zou, Jiaming Liu, Shirin Shoushtari, Yubo Wang, Weijie Gan, Ulugbek S. Kamilov}}	arXiv 2024	Paper/

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Large-scale datasets for model pre-training

Here, we provide a more comprehensive overview of the commonly used Large-scale datasets for model pre-training in low-level vision tasks.

ImageNet
ImageNet is a large-scale dataset with over 14 million natural images spanning over 21k classes, termed ImageNet21K. ImageNet1k, serving as a subset of ImageNet21K, has 1k classes with about 1k images per class, often resized to practical dimensions of 224 × 224 or 256 × 256.
CelebA
CelebA has 200k facial images, each annotated with 40 attributes, featuring 10k celebrities. CelebA-HQ is a subset having 30k high-resolution facial images with a resolution of 1024 × 1024. Enhanced with detailed annotations, CelebAMask-HQ is derived from pixel-wise facial component labeling (face parsing).
LSUN
LSUN includes 10 scene categories and 20 object categories, each having about 1 million labeled images, typically resized with a shorter edge of 256 pixels and compressed to JPEG image quality of 75.
AFHQ
AFHQ comprises around 5,000 high-quality animal face images with three categories: cat, dog, and wildlife, each with a resolution of 512 × 512. Current approaches frequently opt to train diffusion models on specific categories, such as cats.
FFHQ
FFHQ comprises 70k high-resolution facial images with diverse distributions. Existing methods based on pre-trained DMs undergo training on FFHQ and evaluation on CelebA-HQ to showcase their generalizability.

Datasets for low-level vision tasks

Due to space limitations, we provide a summary of commonly used datasets for several classical natural low-level vision tasks here, including their scales, sources, modalities, and remarks. Clicking on the dataset will redirect you to its download link.

Tasks	Datasets	Scales	Sources	Modalities	Remarks
SR	BSD500	500	TPAMI 2010	Syn	A synthetic benchmark that is initially designed for object contour detection.
SR	Set14	14	TPAMI 2015	Syn	Commonly utilized for testing performance of super-resolution algorithms.
SR	Manga109	109	MTAP 2015	Syn	Compiled mainly for academic research on Japanese manga media processing.
SR	General100	100	ECCV 2016	Syn	Synthesized images in uncompressed BMP format covering various scales.
SR	DIV2K	900/100	NTIRE 2018	Real	A commonly-used dataset with diverse scenarios and realistic degradations.
SR	Flickr1024	1024	ICCVW 2019	Syn	A large-scale stereo image dataset with high-quality pairs and diverse scenarios.
SR	Urban100	100	CVPR 2019	Syn	Sourced from urban environments: city streets, buildings, and urban landscapes.
SR	DRealSR	31970	ECCV 2020	Real	Benchmarks captured by DSLR cameras, circumventing simulated degradation.
Deblur	GoPro	2103/1111	CVPR 2017	Syn	Acquired by high-speed cameras for video quality assessment and restoration.
Deblur	HIDE	8422	ICCV 2019	Syn	Cover long-distance and short-distance scenarios degraded by motion blur.
Deblur	REDS	270/30	NTIRE 2019	Real	Contain 300 video sequences with dynamic duration and varied resolutions.
Deblur	BSD	80/20	ECCV 2020	Real	Comprise more scenes and use the proposed beam-splitter acquisition system.
Deblur	RealBlur	3758/980	ECCV 2020	Real	Cover common instances of motion blur, captured in raw and JPEG formats.
Dehaze	I-Haze	35	NTIRE 2018	Real	Indoor dataset with real haze for objective image dehazing and evaluation.
Dehaze	O-Haze	45	NTIRE 2018	Real	Outdoor dataset with real haze for objective image dehazing and evaluation.
Dehaze	Dense-Haze	33	ICIP 2019	Real	Real-world dataset with dense haze for robust single image dehazing methods.
Dehaze	RESIDE	13000/990	TIP 2019	Syn+Real	Divided into five subsets to highlight diverse sources and heterogeneous contents.
Dehaze	NH-Haze	55	CVRPW 2020	Real	The first non-homogeneous dehazing dataset with realistic haze distribution.
Dehaze	Haze-4K	4000	MM 2021	Syn	A large-scale synthetic dataset for image dehazing with varing distributions.
LLIE	MIT-Fivek	4500/500	CVPR 2011	Syn	A curated dataset of RAW photos adjusted by skilled retouchers for visual appeal.
LLIE	LOLv1	485/15	BMVC 2018	Real	The first dataset with image pairs from real scenarios for low-light enhancement.
LLIE	SID	5094	CVPR 2018	Real	A dataset of raw short-exposure images with their long-exposure reference images.
LLIE	SICE	589	TIP 2018	Syn	A large-scale multi-exposure image dataset with complex illumination conditions.
LLIE	ExDark	7363	CVIU 2019	Real	Collected in low-light scenarios with 12 classes and instance-level annotations.
LLIE	LOLv2-Real	689/100	TIP 2021	Real	A three-step shooting strategy is used to eliminate intra-pair image misalignments.
LLIE	LOLv2-Syn	900/100	TIP 2021	Syn	Synthetic dark images mimic real low-light photography via histogram analysis.
LLIE	SDSD-Indoor	62/6	ICCV 2021	Real	Indoor dataset collected from dynamic scenes under varying lighting conditions.
LLIE	SDSD-Outdoor	116/10	ICCV 2021	Real	Outdoor dataset collected from dynamic scenes under varying lighting conditions.
Derain	Rain100H	1800/100	CVPR 2017	Syn	Comprise synthetic datasets with five types of rain streaks for rain removal.
Derain	RainDrop	861/239	CVPR 2018	Syn	Image pairs with raindrop degradation, captured using the setup of dual glasses.
Derain	SPA-Data	638492/1000	CVPR 2019	Real	Design a semi-automatic method to generate clean images from real rain streaks.
Derain	MPID	3961/419	CVPR 2019	Syn+Real	A large-scale benchmark that focuses on driving and surveillance scenarios.
Derain	RainCityscapes	9432/1188	CVPR 2019	Syn	A famous rain removal dataset with paired depth maps for outdoor scenarios.
Derain	RainDS	3450/900	CVPR 2021	Syn+Real	A hybrid dataset with both real and synthesized data under diverse scenarios.
Derain	RainDirection	2920/430	ICCV 2021	Syn	A large-scale synthetic rainy dataset with directional labels in the training phase.
Derain	GT-RAIN	28217/2100	ECCV 2022	Real	The first paired derain dataset with real data by controlling non-rain variations.
Desnow	Snow100k	100000	TIP 2018	Syn+Real	A large-scale dataset with over 1k real-world images degraded by heavy snow.
Desnow	SRRS	16000	ECCV 2020	Syn+Real	A hybrid snow dataset with 15k synthesized images and 1k real-world images.
Desnow	CSD	10000	ICCV 2021	Syn	A large-scale desnowing dataset to comprehensively simulate snow scenarios.

Evaluation metrics

Due to space limitations, we only introduced the evaluation metrics involved in the comparative experiments in the survey. Here, we provide a more comprehensive overview of the commonly used metrics in low-level vision tasks.

Distortion-based metrics

PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio)
PSNR quantifies the pixel-wise disparity between a corrupted image and its clean image by computing their mean squared error.
SSIM (Structural Similarity)
SSIM aims to accommodate human visual perception, assesses the likeness between distorted and clean images across three aspects, including contrast, brightness, and structure.

Inception-based metrics

LPIPS (Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity)
LPIPS is a learning-based metric that leverages the pre-trained AlexNet as a feature extractor and adjusts the linear layer to emulate human perception.
FID (Fréchet inception distance)
FID assesses the fidelity and diversity of generated images by modeling the feature-level multivariate Gaussian distribution of the extracted features, by computing the Fréchet distance of their reference images.
KID (Kernel Inception Distance)
KID is similar to FID, which also leverages the extracted features for assessment but employs maximum mean discrepancy with a polynomial kernel to measure the distance, showing greater stability in the zero-shot and few-shot conditions. KID, specifically, demonstrates greater stability even with limited samples compared to FID.
NIQE (Natural Image Quality Evaluator)
A no-reference metric, evaluates the distance between the natural scene statistics of distorted images and natural images modeled with a multivariate Gaussian model.
DISTS (Deep Image Structure and Texture Similarity)
DISTS notes that texture and structure similarities between two images can be assessed by their feature means and correlations obtained from VGG and thus utilizes an SSIM-like distance measurement within the feature space to determine texture and structure similarities.
PI
PI is introduced in the PIRM Challenge on perceptual SR, aiming to evaluate the perceptual quality of super-resolved images. Its definition, PI=0.5((10-Ma)+NIQE), incorporates Ma, a no-reference IQA metric for SR.