Core Concepts
By analyzing the optimal boundary conditions (BCs) of diffusion ODEs, we propose an approach to approximate the optimal BC and steadily generate high-quality super-resolution (SR) images from pre-trained diffusion-based SR models, outperforming existing sampling methods.
Abstract
The content discusses a method for enhancing the performance of diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) models by analyzing and leveraging the optimal boundary conditions (BCs) of the diffusion ODEs used in the sampling process.
Key highlights:
- Diffusion models have shown impressive results on image SR tasks, but their performances fluctuate due to the randomness in the reverse sampling process.
- The authors analyze the characteristics of the optimal BC x*_T used to solve the diffusion ODEs and show that it is approximately independent of the input low-resolution (LR) image.
- They propose a method to approximate the optimal BC ̃x_T by exploring the whole space with the criterion of a reference set of HR-LR image pairs.
- Solving the diffusion ODEs with the approximately optimal ̃x_T allows them to steadily generate high-quality SR images from pre-trained diffusion-based SR models, outperforming existing sampling methods.
- Experiments on both bicubic-SR and real-SR settings demonstrate the effectiveness and versatility of the proposed method in boosting the performance of diffusion-based SR models.
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LPIPS (lower is better) and PSNR (higher is better) are used as evaluation metrics.
The reference set R contains 300 HR-LR image pairs, and the set K contains 1,000 randomly sampled x_T.
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