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  • Vishal M. Patel

    Possible advisor · last author on 6 of their early first-author papers, 2022–2023

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  • Multi-scale Residual Network for Image Super-Resolution

    Juncheng Li, Faming Fang, Kangfu Mei, Guixu Zhang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    A novel multi-scale residual network (MSRN) to fully exploit the image features, which outperform most of the state-of-the-art methods.

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  • NTIRE 2018 Challenge on Image Dehazing: Methods and Results

    Cosmin Ancuți, Ruhao Zhao, Xiaoping Ma, Yong Qin, Limin Jia, Klaus Friedel, Sehwan Ki, Hyeonjun Sim, +22 more

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) · 2018

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  • Progressive Feature Fusion Network for Realistic Image Dehazing

    Kangfu Mei, Aiwen Jiang, Juncheng Li, Mingwen Wang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2019

    An U-Net like encoder-decoder deep network via progressive feature fusions has been proposed to directly learn highly nonlinear transformation function from observed hazy image to haze-free ground-truth and can achieve superior performance when compared with popular state-of-the-art methods.

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  • MDCN: Multi-Scale Dense Cross Network for Image Super-Resolution

    Juncheng Li, Faming Fang, Jiaqian Li, Kangfu Mei, Guixu Zhang

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2020

    A Multi-scale Dense Cross Network (MDCN), which achieves great performance with fewer parameters and less execution time and achieves competitive results in SISR, especially in the reconstruction task with multiple upsampling factors.

    124
  • AttaNet: Attention-Augmented Network for Fast and Accurate Scene Parsing

    Qi Song, Kangfu Mei, Rui Huang

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2021

    This paper proposes a new model, called Attention-Augmented Network (AttaNet), to capture both global context and multi-level semantics while keeping the efficiency high, and achieves different levels of speed/accuracy trade-offs on Cityscapes.

    93
  • AT-DDPM: Restoring Faces degraded by Atmospheric Turbulence using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

    Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Kangfu Mei, Vishal M. Patel

    arXiv · 2022

    This paper proposes the first DDPM-based solution for the problem of atmospheric turbulence mitigation and proposes a fast sampling technique for reducing the inference times for conditional DDPMs.

    65
  • VIDM: Video Implicit Diffusion Models

    Kangfu Mei, Vishal M. Patel

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2023

    55
  • AIM 2019 Challenge on RAW to RGB Mapping: Methods and Results

    Andrey Ignatov, Radu Timofte, Sung-Jea Ko, Seungwook Kim, Kwang-Hyun Uhm, Seo-Won Ji, Sung-Jin Cho, Jun-Pyo Hong, +22 more

    2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW) · 2019

    48
  • Latent Feature-Guided Diffusion Models for Shadow Removal

    Kangfu Mei, Luis Figueroa, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding, Scott D. Cohen, Vishal M. Patel

    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) · 2024

    This paper proposes the use of diffusion models as they offer a promising approach to gradually refine the details of shadow regions during the diffusion process, and improves this process by conditioning on a learned latent feature space that inherits the characteristics of shadow-free images, thus avoiding the limitation of conventional methods.

    47
  • CoDi: Conditional Diffusion Distillation for Higher-Fidelity and Faster Image Generation

    Kangfu Mei, Mauricio Delbracio, Hossein Talebi, Zhengzhong Tu, Vishal M. Patel, Peyman Milanfar

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    This work in-troduce a novel method, dubbed CoDi, that adapts a pre-trained latent diffusion model to accept additional image conditioning inputs while significantly reducing the sampling steps required to achieve high-quality results.

    38
  • LTT-GAN: Looking Through Turbulence by Inverting GANs

    Kangfu Mei, Vishal M. Patel

    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing · 2023

    This work proposes a method in which well-trained Generative Adversarial Networks are leveraged as effective priors to mitigate the effect of turbulence, and proposes to connect hierarchical layers of a GAN to get multiple images with the same identity at the same time, which enriches the context and helps to better improve the restoration performance.

    37
  • Lightweight and Accurate Recursive Fractal Network for Image Super-Resolution

    Juncheng Li, Yiting Yuan, Kangfu Mei, Faming Fang

    2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW) · 2019

    34
  • Bigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models

    Kangfu Mei, Zhengzhong Tu, Mauricio Delbracio, Hossein Talebi, Vishal M. Patel, Peyman Milanfar

    arXiv · 2024

    An in-depth investigation into how model size influences sampling efficiency across varying sampling steps unveil a surprising trend: when operating under a given inference budget, smaller models frequently outperform their larger equivalents in generating high-quality results.

    29
  • HighEr-Resolution Network for Image Demosaicing and Enhancing

    Kangfu Mei, Juncheng Li, Jiajie Zhang, Haoyu Wu, Jie Li, Rui Huang

    2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW) · 2019

    A HighEr-Resolution Network (HERN) to fully learning global information in high-resolution image patches by combining global-aware features and multi-scale features, which achieves state-of-the-art performance on the AIM2019 RAW to RGB mapping challenge.

    29
  • The Power of Context: How Multimodality Improves Image Super-Resolution

    Kangfu Mei, Hossein Talebi, Mojtaba Ardakani, Vishal M. Patel, Peyman Milanfar, Mauricio Delbracio

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    This work proposes a novel approach that leverages the rich contextual information available in multiple modalities to learn a powerful generative prior for SISR within a diffusion model framework, and mitigate hallucinations, often introduced by text prompts, by using spatial information from other modalities to guide regional text-based conditioning.

    19
  • Streaming Autoregressive Video Generation via Diagonal Distillation

    Jinxiu Liu, Xuanming Liu, Kangfu Mei, Yandong Wen, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Weiyang Liu

    arXiv · 2026

    Diagonal Distillation is proposed, which operates orthogonally to existing approaches and better exploits temporal information across both video chunks and denoising steps and mitigates error propagation and reduces oversaturation in long-range sequences.

    18
  • An Effective Single-Image Super-Resolution Model Using Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks

    Kangfu Mei, Aiwen Jiang, Juncheng Li, Jihua Ye, Mingwen Wang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    An effective deep residual network based on squeeze-and-excitation blocks (SEBlock) to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) image from low- resolution (LR) image and get finer texture details.

    17
  • A Comparison of Different Atmospheric Turbulence Simulation Methods for Image Restoration

    Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Kangfu Mei, Vishal M. Patel

    Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing · 2022

    This paper systematically evaluates the effectiveness of various turbulence simulation methods on image restoration and provides guidance to the researchers and practitioners working in this field to choose the suitable data generation models for training deep models for turbulence mitigation.

    11
  • Bi-Noising Diffusion: Towards Conditional Diffusion Models with Generative Restoration Priors

    Kangfu Mei, Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Vishal M. Patel

    arXiv · 2022

    A new method is introduced that brings the predicted samples to the training data manifold using a pretrained unconditional diffusion model that acts as a regularizer and reduces the divergence introduced by the conditional model at each sampling step.

    8
  • Scale-Aware Network with Regional and Semantic Attentions for Crowd Counting under Cluttered Background

    Qiaosi Yi, Yunxing Liu, Aiwen Jiang, Juncheng Li, Kangfu Mei, Mingwen Wang

    arXiv · 2021

    8
  • Deep residual refining based pseudo‐multi‐frame network for effective single image super‐resolution

    Kangfu Mei, Aiwen Jiang, Juncheng Li, Бо Лю, Jihua Ye, Mingwen Wang

    IET Image Processing · 2018

    A deep residual refining based pseudo-multi-frame network for efficient SISR that could make full use of available redundant information possessed in hierarchical layers and can outperform most of the state-of-the-art methods with acceptable less parameters.

    8
  • Deep Semantic Statistics Matching (D2SM) Denoising Network

    Kangfu Mei, Vishal M. Patel, Rui Huang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    7
  • Thermal to Visible Image Synthesis Under Atmospheric Turbulence

    Kangfu Mei, Yiqun Mei, Vishal M. Patel

    Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing · 2022

    This is the first work that studies the problem of thermal to visible image translation under atmospheric turbulence and an end-to-end reconstruction method is proposed which can directly transform thermal images into visible-spectrum images by utilizing natural image priors based on a pre-trained StyleGAN2 network.

    6
  • Reference-Guided Identity Preserving Face Restoration

    Zhou, Mo, Keren Ye, Shah, Viraj, Kangfu Mei, Mauricio Delbracio, Peyman Milanfar, Vishal M. Patel, Hossein Talebi

    arXiv · 2025

    A novel approach that maximizes reference face utility for improved face restoration and identity preservation and achieves state-of-the-art identity preserving restoration on benchmarks such as FFHQ-Ref and CelebA-Ref-Test, consistently outperforming previous work.

    4
  • SymbOmni: Evolving Agentic Omni Models via Symbolic Concept Learning

    Jinxiu Liu, Jianru Li, Tanqing Kuang, Xuanming Liu, Kangfu Mei, Yandong Wen, Weiyang Liu

    arXiv · 2026

    SymbOmni is proposed, an agentic omni-model designed for cumulative evolution through Symbolic Concept Learning that significantly outperforms existing agent-based systems for iterative creation and also surpasses closed-source models in both image quality and task success rates.

    2
  • Improving Conditional Diffusion Models through Re-Noising from Unconditional Diffusion Priors

    Kangfu Mei, Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair, Vishal M. Patel

    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) · 2025

    2
  • T1: Scaling Diffusion Probabilistic Fields to High-Resolution on Unified Visual Modalities

    Kangfu Mei, Zhou, Mo, Vishal M. Patel

    arXiv · 2023

    This work proposes a new model comprising of a view-wise sampling algorithm to focus on local structure learning, and incorporating additional guidance, e.g., text description, to complement the global geometry.

    1
  • SDAN: Squared Deformable Alignment Network for Learning Misaligned Optical Zoom

    Kangfu Mei, Shenglong Ye, Rui Huang

    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · 2021

    A Squared Deformable Alignment Network (SDAN) is introduced to address the issue of misalignment in super-resolution algorithms, and leverages the packing and unpacking operations to enlarge the receptive field of the offset learning and to enhance the ability of extracting the spatial connection between the low-resolution images and the referenced images.

    1
  • Disentangle Perceptual Learning through Online Contrastive Learning

    Kangfu Mei, Yao Lu, Qiaosi Yi, Haoyu Wu, Juncheng Li, Rui Huang

    arXiv · 2020

    1
  • XYZFlow:Scaling Multi dimensional Shortcut Flows for Efficient Generative Modeling

    Jinxiu Liu, Xuanming Liu, Kangfu Mei, Yandong Wen, Weiyang Liu

    arXiv · 2026

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  • : Evolving Agentic Omni Models via Symbolic Concept Learning

    Jinxiu Liu, Jianru Li, Tanqing Kuang, Xuanming Liu, Kangfu Mei, Yandong Wen, Weiyang Liu

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2026

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  • Kernel Density Steering: Inference-Time Scaling via Mode Seeking for Image Restoration

    Yuyang Hu, Kangfu Mei, Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan, Ulugbek S. Kamilov, Peyman Milanfar, Mauricio Delbracio

    neural information processing systems · 2025

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