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S1-Omni-Image: A Unified Model for Scientific Image Understanding, Generation, and Editing
2026-06-23 11:19:34Qingxiao Li, Zikai Wang, Qingli Wang, Nan XuAbstract
We present S1-Omni-Image, an open-weight unified multimodal model for scientific image understanding, generation, and editing. Unlike general-purpose image generation models, scientific image tasks require not only high-fidelity synthesis, but also robust understanding of scientific semantics, structural relations, domain knowledge, and task intent. To this end, S1-Omni-Image builds on the scientific multimodal reasoning backbone S1-VL-32B and couples its understanding capability with an image generation module under a unified think-before-generate paradigm. Given a user instruction, the model first produces a task-oriented reasoning trace, a textual answer, and a task special token; their hidden states are then injected into the generation module to condition image generation or editing. S1-Omni-Image supports scientific image understanding, generation, and editing in a unified framework. For generation, it focuses on scientific illustrations and text rendering, including logical diagrams, relational comparisons, data charts, and realistic scientific visualizations. For editing, it casts segmentation and other domain-specific vision tasks as native image editing problems, enabling multi-turn illustration editing, medical and geographic image segmentation, medical image translation, and scientific image super-resolution. We construct SciGenEdit, a 314K-sample training dataset, and release the model weights, inference code, and SciGenEdit-10K. Experiments show that S1-Omni-Image substantially improves scientific image generation and editing while preserving the scientific image understanding capability inherited from S1-VL-32B. It outperforms open-source models on GenExam and TechImage-Bench, achieves state-of-the-art results on four editing benchmarks including MSD, cigRockSEM, SynthRAD2025, and IXI, and maintains stable performance on scientific image understanding evaluations.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24441
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Linear Recurrent Unit with Semantic Modulation for Image Super-Resolution
2026-06-18 07:56:28Mingyu Choi, Woo Kyoung Han, Sunghoon Im, Kyong Hwan JinAbstract
Linear recurrent unit (LRU), designed with a principled formulation for stable linear recurrence, has demonstrated promising accuracy and robustness on long-range dependency tasks. However, its static parameterization and single-scan method limits its applicability to 2D vision tasks. In this study, we propose a LRU-based restoration network with a semantic modulating unit (SMU) to achieve a harmonious balance between performance and efficiency in single-image super-resolution. The SMU plays three key roles: LRU modulation, spatial categorization, and feature enhancement through learned prototype. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method quantitatively and qualitatively surpasses recent state-of-the-art methods. Notably, our approach achieves superior performance with computational complexity on par with existing methods. The source code and models are available at this https URL
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19901
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GB-LSR: A Fast Local Spectral Image Representation with a Single Global Bandwidth for Continuous Reconstruction and Super-Resolution
2026-06-17 21:50:05Max Shad, Naeem KhoshnevisAbstract
We present GB-LSR (Global-Bandwidth Local Spectral Representation), a fixed-grid local spectral representation for continuous image reconstruction. The image domain is partitioned into non-overlapping square patches, each carrying coefficients for a truncated Fourier basis predicted from shared convolutional-encoder features. A single trainable scalar bandwidth is shared globally across all patches and images, and reconstruction at any continuous coordinate is a fixed-size basis contraction whose cost is independent of image size. We study three bandwidth-handling variants: a trainable global scalar (main), a fixed global scalar, and a per-patch bandwidth field. On a standardized native-reconstruction benchmark across Kodak, Set14, and Urban100, the main variant outperforms matched-budget amortized LIIF / LTE / WIRE re-implementations by 2.8-3.6 dB PSNR and 0.11-0.15 LPIPS, while running at roughly one-quarter of the slowest baseline's inference cost. The single global scalar suffices empirically: per-patch adaptive-bandwidth alternatives do not improve over it on either a closed-form locality diagnostic or an end-to-end ablation. In a separate arbitrary-scale super-resolution (ASR) extension, GB-LSR achieves competitive PSNR-Y under a canonical-style SR protocol and runs 1.44x faster than LIIF-RDN and 3.25x faster than LTE-SwinIR at x4; within the same extension, a variant trained and evaluated without 4-corner local-ensemble averaging gives a 1.77x speedup with 35% lower peak memory and negligible PSNR change, while additionally widening the RDN encoder from 64 to 96 channels gives a small positive PSNR shift with a 1.58x speedup and 31% lower peak memory. Native-reconstruction claims are scoped to the matched-budget amortized protocol, and ASR claims are scoped to a separate canonical-style SR protocol.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19617
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teasr: training-efficient any-step diffusion transformer for real-world image super-resolution
2026-06-15 04:02:37Xiang Gao, Chenxin Zhu, Yushun Fang, Qiang Hu, Xiaoyun ZhangAbstract
Diffusion models excel in Real-World Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR) due to their powerful generative priors but suffer from slow iterative sampling. Although existing one-step distillation methods accelerate inference, they typically require auxiliary teacher models that inflate training memory and restrict scalability to large-scale architectures. Furthermore, these fixed-step models lack the flexibility to trade off speed for quality. In this paper, we propose TEASR, a training-efficient any-step diffusion framework for Real-ISR that enables both one-step and multi-step restoration within a unified model. Our key idea is to perform self-adversarial distillation within a single diffusion model, eliminating the need for auxiliary teachers or discriminators. Specifically, we propose a timestep-aware rectification strategy that stabilizes one-step generation across noise levels. These two designs further enables the distillation of 20B-parameter diffusion models on a single GPU, significantly improving training efficiency. Moreover, we introduce a dual-branch diffusion transformer with decoupled timestep condition to separate the current noise state and the denoising target to enhance sampling quality. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TEASR supports seamless any-step sampling and consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods across multiple datasets.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16188
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RefGC-SR$^2$: Reference-guided Generated Content Super-Resolution and Refinement
2026-06-13 07:04:36Jeahun Sung, Dahyeon Kye, Soo Ye Kim, Jihyong OhAbstract
Reference-guided generation (e.g., object compositing, customization) has progressed rapidly, yet current pipelines share a fundamental limitation: the object-centric high-resolution reference image (HRRI) provided by users is downsampled to a fixed low-resolution (LR) before being fed into the model, so the fine-grained details are discarded before the output is even produced. In addition, the generation step then introduces its own artifacts (e.g., identity distortion) on top of this loss. Existing reference-guided generated content refinement (RefGCR) methods can correct some of these artifacts but still operate in the LR domain; reference-guided super-resolution (RefSR) methods recover resolution but assume natural-image degradations and ignore the artifact distribution of generative pipelines. To address both gaps in a single formulation, we introduce a new task: reference-guided generated content super-resolution-refinement (RefGC-SR$^2$), where the original HRRI is reused at the post-processing stage to recover lost details, refine generative artifacts, and upscale the output simultaneously. We construct the first real-world triplet data generation pipeline for this RefGC-SR$^2$ task, training a diptych-conditioned generator to synthesize paired low-quality anchors that public pretrained models cannot provide. We further present a frequency-aware diffusion transformer model for RefGC-SR$^2$ that selectively injects fine details from the HRRI while removing generative artifacts. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our RefGC-SR$^2$ model successfully (i) refines the object identity faithfully with respect to the reference, and (ii) recovers high-resolution details, so that the final result is significantly higher quality and practically more usable compared to existing RefGCR and RefSR baselines.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15158
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Improving Lunar Topography with Deep Learning Schr'odinger Bridges
2026-06-12 17:04:07Matthew Repasky, Erwan Mazarico, Michael K. Barker, Stefano Bertone, Terence J. Sabaka, Yao XieAbstract
Increasing the resolution of planetary topography models can enable a better understanding of surface processes and geomorphology; however, existing analytical super-resolution methods are expensive and difficult to apply at large scales. Generative models provide the tools to learn complex relationships within data and can be applied at scale due to hardware accelerators and parallelization. We present a diffusion-based Schrödinger Bridge (SB) generative modeling approach for lunar topography super-resolution, connecting the distribution of low-resolution topography to that of high-resolution topography, incorporating physically-constraining optical imagery. Our approach is inspired by existing Shape-from-Shading methods, which improve a priori low-resolution topography by using optical images at the target resolution. We train SBs on a novel dataset of rendered lunar topography, emulating optical imagery from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera. The result is a flexible approach for topography super-resolution which can provide pixel-level uncertainties in the reconstruction.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14638
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Coordinate-Queryable Neural Field Reconstruction for EEG Spatial Super-Resolution with Unseen-Electrode Generation
2026-06-12 03:48:57Hongjun Liu, Leyu Zhou, Zijianghao Yang, Chao YaoAbstract
EEG spatial super-resolution (EEGSR) in real deployments is challenged by random channel missingness, unstable electrode quality, and changing visible-channel patterns caused by bad contacts or device variability. Most existing EEGSR methods learn a fixed low-to-high channel mapping under pre-defined input-output layouts, which makes them brittle when missing channels vary at test time. In this paper, we reformulate EEGSR as learning a shared conditional scalp field from partially observed support channels. Specifically, a position-guided encoder summarizes the observed EEG channels and their coordinates into a latent condition, and a conditional implicit neural representation decoder reconstructs target EEG signals by querying this condition at desired electrode coordinates. During inference, the model directly reconstructs unseen electrode signals from the available EEG support and the queried coordinates. To strengthen the constraint of the encoded latent representation on the decoder and thereby construct a more stable scalp field consistent with the observed channels, we further introduce a fidelity-preserving channel corruption training strategy under mixed electrode states. Extensive experiments across multiple EEG datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework for both random missing-channel reconstruction and strict unseen-electrode signal generation. Notably, under the strict held-out-electrode setting on AAD, our method reduces NMSE by 37.5\% and improves SNR by 2.12 dB over the strongest baseline, showing its ability to synthesize signals at electrode locations never exposed during training.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23707
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Avatar V: Scaling Video-Reference Avatar Video Generation
2026-06-11 19:55:39Benjamin Liang, Ce Chen, Desmond Lin, Ivan Somov, Jiajun Zhao, Jiewei Yuan, Jingfeng Zhang, Junhao Huang, Nik Nolte, Pedram Haqiqi, Penghan Wang, Rong Yan, Rui Zhang, Sam Prokopchuk, Sivan Wang, Viktor Goriachko, Yi Ren, Yuanming Li, Yutao Chen, Zhenhui Ye, Zhibin Hong, Zilong Nie, Zujin GuoAbstract
Generating avatar videos that are not merely visually similar to a target individual but behaviorally recognizable, faithfully reproducing their talking rhythm, gestural tendencies, and expression dynamics, remains an open challenge. Existing methods predominantly condition on single static images, which provide insufficient identity information and cannot capture dynamic motion traits, while standard pixel-level objectives underserve the perceptually critical facial regions that determine avatar fidelity. We present Avatar V, a production-scale framework that addresses these limitations through video-reference-conditioned identity modeling. Rather than compressing identity into fixed-size embeddings, the model conditions directly on the full token sequence of a reference video, learning to reproduce both static identity attributes (facial geometry, skin texture) and dynamic behavioral patterns (talking rhythm, micro-expressions) through attention over the reference context. We introduce Sparse Reference Attention, an asymmetric mechanism achieving linear-complexity conditioning on arbitrarily long references; a motion representation stream enabling closed-loop talking style transfer; and an identity-aware super-resolution refiner inheriting the full reference conditioning. These are supported by a data engine curating 100M+ training clips from 50M raw videos, and a five-stage training pipeline with flow matching pre-training, personality fine-tuning, two-phase distillation (>10x acceleration), and RLHF alignment, deployed across thousands of GPUs. Avatar V generates 1080p videos of unlimited duration, achieving state-of-the-art identity preservation, lip synchronization, and generation quality on our cross-scene benchmark, consistently outperforming leading systems including Seedance 2.0, Kling O3 Pro, Veo 3.1, and OmniHuman 1.5 in both automated metrics and human evaluation.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13872
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EvTexture++: Event-Driven Texture Enhancement for Video Super-Resolution
2026-06-11 17:04:08Dachun Kai, Jiayao Lu, Yueyi Zhang, Xiaoyan SunAbstract
Event-based vision has drawn increasing attention owing to its distinctive properties, including ultra-high temporal resolution and extreme dynamic range. Recent works have introduced it to video super-resolution (VSR) to enhance flow estimation and temporal alignment. In contrast, this paper shifts the focus of event signals from motion refinement to texture enhancement in VSR. We propose EvTexture++, the first event-driven framework dedicated to texture enhancement in VSR. It leverages high-frequency spatiotemporal details from events to improve texture recovery. EvTexture++ incorporates a customized texture enhancement branch, along with an iterative texture enhancement module that progressively exploits high-temporal-resolution event information for texture restoration. This enables gradual refinement of texture regions across iterations, yielding more accurate and detailed high-resolution outputs. Besides intra-frame texture recovery, large motions could degrade inter-frame temporal consistency, particularly in texture regions, leading to texture flickering. To mitigate this, we further exploit the continuous-time motion cues of events to enhance temporal consistency, introducing a temporal texture alignment module that estimates event-guided texture-aware flow for precise inter-frame texture alignment. Moreover, EvTexture++ is designed as a plug-and-play tool to flexibly boost the performance of existing VSR models. Experiments on five datasets demonstrate that EvTexture++ achieves state-of-the-art performance. When integrated into recent VSR models, it yields significant improvements, with gains of up to 1.55 dB in PSNR on the texture-rich Vid4 dataset. Code: this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13580
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FoA-SR: Faithful or Aesthetic? Profile-Aware Preference Optimization for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
2026-06-09 00:44:59Amjad Mahdi Alqarni, Peizhong JuAbstract
Real-world image super-resolution (SR) is often designed with a single restoration objective, despite the current capacity of generative models to produce multiple high-quality reconstructions for the same input. In this paper, we argue that the best restoration strategy is subject to the specific restoration profile: a Faithful restoration prioritizes reference consistency, structure preservation, and hallucination suppression, whereas an Aesthetic restoration prioritizes visually pleasing and natural-looking details. We propose FoA-SR, a novel preference optimization approach to real-world SR based on profiles. To achieve this goal, FoA-SR starts with our supervised FLUX.2-based SR adapter (Flux2SR) trained with LR latent conditioning, flow matching, and image-space reconstruction losses for paired LR-to-HR image super-resolution. Following the development of the shared supervised super-resolution adapter, FoA-SR generates a shared stochastic candidate pool for each input image and ranks the same candidates using profile-specific Faithful and Aesthetic rewards to mine winner-loser pairs. These pairs are used to fine-tune separate LoRA adapters while keeping the base model frozen. Experiments on RealSR and DIV2K show that FoA-SR can steer the same SR adapter towards distinct restoration objectives: a Faithful adapter improves reference-consistent metrics while an Aesthetic adapter boosts metrics that measure perceptual quality without reference. Our candidate-pool analysis shows that Faithful and Aesthetic rewards frequently select different winners, and a Hybrid-LoRA ablation shows that collapsing both profiles into one reward yields an implicit compromise rather than explicit profile control.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10275
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TUDSR: Twice Upsampling-Diffusion for Higher Super-Resolution
2026-06-08 15:18:04Zhiqiang Wu, Yitong Dong, Xian WeiAbstract
Diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable success in real-world image super-resolution (SR). With tiled diffusion techniques, these models can produce high-resolution images that exceed their native-supported resolution. However, the quality of such high-resolution (e.g $2048^2$) outputs often remains extremely poor, primarily due to two factors we consider: the image upsampling ratio (e.g $\times8$) exceeding the model's native-supported upsampling ratio (e.g $\times4$), and the model's native-supported resolution. In practice, training a native high-resolution model requires larger architectures, which incur significant computational overhead and GPU memory costs, making it hard on limited-resource equipment. Thus, we present TUDSR, a Twice Upsampling-Diffusion framework for higher SR. The TUDSR framework mainly consists of two stages: the first involves training at $R$-resolution, and the second introduces a looped chunk-based training strategy at $NR$-resolution. Each stage adapts a one-step GAN architecture comprising a generator and a discriminator. Based on SD2.1-base, we develop TUDSR-S, which achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks. Extensive experiments further demonstrate that TUDSR-S generates high-quality images at the resolutions of $1024^2$ and even $2048^2$, significantly outperforming existing approaches. Code is available at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09608
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LiteVSR: Lightweight Adaptation of Frozen Diffusion Transformers for Video Super-Resolution
2026-06-08 09:23:42Yu Cao, Ziquan Liu, Zhensong Zhang, Jiankang Deng, Shaogang Gong, Jifei SongAbstract
Adapting large-scale pre-trained video generators for Video Super-Resolution (VSR) in novel domains remains computationally prohibitive. Methods that reformulate generation as direct Low-Quality to High-Quality mappings deviate from the original generative formulation, demanding extensive fine-tuning. ControlNet-style adapters lose their efficiency under modern Diffusion Transformers since the absence of encoder-decoder hierarchy forces duplication of the entire backbone. We observe that flow matching offers a principled alternative for cross-domain VSR adaptation. By predicting a constant velocity field across all timesteps, the adaptation task reduces to learning a fixed injection pattern rather than time-varying transformations. Building on this insight, we propose LiteVSR, a minimalist framework that performs VSR using a completely frozen Diffusion Transformer with a lightweight State-Aware Adapter. The adapter employs a dual-stream architecture that extracts static structural cues from the LQ input and dynamic cues from intermediate denoising states, aligning them through time-dependent cross-attention to enable adaptive transition from structural alignment to texture refinement as denoising proceeds. LiteVSR achieves competitive restoration quality with only 11.25% trainable parameters and 12 GPU-hours of training on a single A100, while maintaining fast sampling (down to a single step) compatibility.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09250
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Ultra Flash: Scaling Real-Time Streaming Video Generation to High Resolutions
2026-06-08 07:45:03Luxury, Jie Huang, Zihao Fan, Xiaoxiao Ma, Yuming Li, Jun-hao Zhuang, Zeyue Xue, Siming Fu, Haoran Li, Mingchen Zhong, Guohui Zhang, Shichen Ma, Yijun Liu, Jiaqi Shi, Yanwen Ma, Yaofeng Su, Haoyu Wang, Yaowei Li, Songchun Zhang, Weiyang Jin, Yuxuan Bian, Shiyi Zhang, Haojun Xu, Shuai Lu, Xin Han, Wei Tang, Haoyang Huang, Nan DuanAbstract
While recent autoregressive video diffusion models achieve remarkable streaming quality, they remain confined to low resolutions (e.g., 480P), leaving efficient, scalable, real-time high-resolution video generation a fundamental open challenge. To bridge this gap, we present Ultra Flash, a cascaded streaming framework capable of real-time high-resolution video generation. Ultra Flash achieves ~30 FPS at 1K resolution and ~18 FPS at 2K resolution on a single GPU through three key contributions: (1) an architecture-preserving T2V-to-TV2V super-resolution training paradigm coupled with an AIGC-oriented data degradation pipeline that effectively preserves the generative capability of the base model, enabling enhanced high-resolution detail when cascaded after mainstream low-resolution generative models; (2) a causal streaming latent upsampler paired with a high-resolution decoder, which enhances spatiotemporal coherence while enabling efficient latent spatial scaling and precise high-resolution decoding with negligible computational overhead; and (3) a cascade high-resolution streaming video generation optimization scheme that first performs hybrid-reward-enhanced sparse causalization and single-step distillation of the super-resolution model, then introduces cascaded streaming self-forcing preference optimization with dynamic cache management, jointly enhancing overall coherence, improving quality, and enabling real-time high-resolution streaming video generation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Ultra Flash reliably produces ultra-high-resolution streaming video while maintaining state-of-the-art visual quality and superior efficiency.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09150
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Frequency Decoupled Framework for Screen Content Image Super-Resolution
2026-06-08 04:53:33Xufei Wang, Qicheng Zhang, Qi Wu, Ziyang Gu, Shizhuang WengAbstract
Methods based on implicit neural representations have demonstrated superior performance in Screen Content Image Super-Resolution (SCISR) . However, they overlooked the inherent frequency characteristics, leading to suboptimal performance. We propose a frequency decoupled framework (FDF) that rethinks SCISR from a phasor perspective by capturing structured energy in amplitude and relational continuity in phase, and jointly exploiting them with bespoke implicit representations to faithfully recover the regular textures and global configuration of Screen Content Image (SCI). Amplitude-Phase Factorization Network (APFN) first separates images into amplitude and phase streams, where Amplitude Clustering Module (ACM) organizes sparse yet high-energy amplitude responses into representative prototypes for periodic pattern extraction, while Phase Consistency Self-Attention (PCSA) progressively reinforces configuration through continuous consistency propagation. And Oscillation-Anharmonic Implicit Fitting Network (OAIF-Net) integrates periodic and coherent implicit representations for efficient exploitation of the periodic patterns and coherent context embedded in SCI. Experimental results show FDF achieves state-of-the-art SCISR performance at multiple scales across four public SCI datasets. Ablation experiments further demonstrate the effectiveness of each component in extracting and exploiting periodic patterns and coherent context.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09029
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NGram-MoSE: Efficient Remote Sensing Super-Resolution via N-Gram Context and Mixture-of-Experts
2026-06-07 09:30:49Yun-Hsuan Huang, Trong-An Bui, Chih-Hung ChuangAbstract
Remote sensing applications for environmental monitoring and disaster management are frequently constrained by a spatial--temporal trade-off: imagery with fine spatial detail is often acquired less frequently, whereas more temporally available observations are typically coarser. Single-image super-resolution provides a practical means to enhance coarse imagery without changing acquisition schedules, yet many Transformer-based SR models remain computationally expensive and can be sensitive to limited or geographically biased training data, which degrades robustness under out-of-distribution conditions. This paper presents NGram-MoSE, a lightweight Transformer architecture designed to improve both efficiency and texture continuity. NGram-MoSE introduces N-Gram Context Injection to strengthen cross-window local consistency and mitigate window-boundary artifacts, and incorporates a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) feed-forward design to scale capacity through sparse activation without proportional growth in inference cost. Experiments on a geographically disjoint OOD test set show that NGram-MoSE achieves 31.68\,dB PSNR while reducing FLOPs by \(14\times\) relative to a heavyweight Transformer reference. Downstream evaluation on a landslide segmentation benchmark further demonstrates that restoring degraded inputs to the detector training scale improves performance, yielding a 4.47\% absolute gain in mAP@50 over bicubic upsampling, and exhibits stronger cross-scale consistency under scale extrapolation. These results indicate that NGram-MoSE provides an effective SR module for resource-constrained remote sensing pipelines requiring robust generalization.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08535
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VoxCPM2 Technical Report
2026-06-05 05:43:15Yixuan Zhou, Guoyang Zeng, Xin Liu, Xiang Li, Renjie Yu, Jiancheng Gui, Jiaheng Wu, Ziyang Wang, Xudong Shen, Runchuan Ye, Zhisheng Zhang, Jiuyang Zhou, Bingsong Bai, Weiyue Sun, Mengyuan Deng, Qundong Shi, Zhiyong Wu, Zhiyuan LiuAbstract
We present VoxCPM2, a https://info.arxiv.org/help/prep#abstractsfully open-source multilingual and controllable speech generation foundation model that extends the hierarchical diffusion-autoregressive modeling paradigm of VoxCPM. VoxCPM2 advances the framework in three key dimensions: (i) capability, by unifying 30 languages, 9 Chinese dialects, natural-language voice design, style-controllable voice cloning, and high-fidelity continuation cloning within a single backbone; (ii) quality, through an asymmetric AudioVAE that encodes at 16 kHz and reconstructs at 48 kHz, enabling implicit super-resolution with high encoding efficiency; and (iii) scale, by jointly scaling the model to 2B parameters and the training data to over 2 million hours of multilingual speech. To support these diverse capabilities within one model, we introduce a unified sequence organization that expresses all generation modes through different arrangements of the same input building blocks, allowing joint training under a single set of parameters and objective. VoxCPM2 achieves state-of-the-art or competitive performance on public zero-shot and instruction-following TTS benchmarks. On our internal 30-language evaluation set, it attains an average WER of 1.68%. These results demonstrate that hierarchical continuous-latent modeling, without relying on any external discrete speech tokenizer, offers a viable and powerful foundation for large-scale multilingual and controllable speech generation. The model weights, fine-tuning code, and inference tools are publicly released under the Apache 2.0 license to foster community research and development.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06928
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Physics-Guided Deep Unfolding for Blind Cross-Sensor Spectral Super-Resolution via Learning the Spectral Transformation Function
2026-06-04 06:37:29Zhaolin Li, Jinsong Chen, Shanxin Guo, Tuo Zhang, Xinglong Zhang, Pan ChenAbstract
Hyperspectral imaging provides rich spectral information for quantitative remote sensing, yet hyperspectral sensors remain costly and thus unavailable in many UAV deployments. Spectral super-resolution (SSR) seeks to reconstruct hyperspectral images (HSIs) from multispectral images (MSIs). Most existing SSR methods assume a fixed and known spectral response function (SRF) and are therefore limited to single-sensor settings. In practical cross-sensor scenarios, the spectral degradation from HSI to MSI is unknown and varies with sensor characteristics and scene content, which renders HSI reconstruction ill-posed. This paper proposes a physics-guided deep unfolding network, termed PGU-Net, to address blind cross-sensor SSR by jointly estimating the HSI and a learnable spectral transformation function (STF). PGU-Net unrolls an alternating optimization procedure into an end-to-end trainable architecture with stages, where each stage sequentially updates the HSI and the STF. Both modules combine learnable proximal networks with differentiable closed-form solvers, enabling physical interpretability while retaining strong representation capacity. Experiments on benchmark datasets (CAVE and NTIRE 2022) with multiple SRFs demonstrate accurate recovery of the STF (degradation operator) and improved reconstruction performance over state-of-the-art SSR methods. Furthermore, evaluations on a real UAV cross-sensor dataset (Headwall Nano HSI and DJI P4 Multispectral MSI) verify the effectiveness and robustness of PGU-Net under truly blind conditions, and suggest that the estimated STF may exhibit land-cover-related differences.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05759
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MaCo-GAN: Manifold-Contrastive Adversarial Learning for Single Image Super-Resolution
2026-06-03 16:29:44Daeyoung Han, Seongmin Hwang, Moongu JeonAbstract
Conventional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) often struggle with hallucinated artifacts, largely because standard discriminators evaluate overall image naturalness rather than strict conditional realism. To address this, we propose MaCo-GAN, a novel manifold-contrastive GAN framework that replaces the conventional adversarial loss with a supervised contrastive objective. A core component of our method is a dynamic fake sample synthesizer that transforms ground truth (GT) data into a spectrum of challenging, perceptually plausible fake images that strictly maintain low-resolution (LR) correspondence. Utilizing these synthesized samples, we establish a robust contrastive minimax game: the generator is trained to attract its predictions toward on-manifold fakes (low distortion) and repel them from off-manifold fakes (high distortion), while the discriminator optimizes the exact opposite. By simply replacing the adversarial loss of a baseline SR model with our proposed objective, we demonstrate consistent improvements in the perception-distortion trade-off across various benchmarks. Extensive ablation studies validate the effectiveness of our framework and provide deep insights into the dynamics of this conditional contrastive game.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05068
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Topological texture analysis of microscopy images of dynamic casein gelation and its relation to rheological properties
2026-06-01 10:39:05Zahra Tabatabaei, Diana Soto Aguilar, Jose C. Bonilla, Mathias P. Clausen, Jon SporringAbstract
We propose a novel computational toolbox that integrates Topological Data Analysis (TDA), Differential Box Counting (DBC), Multifractal Partition (MFP), and Local Binary Patterns (LBP), applied to time-lapse super-resolution STED microscopy images of sodium caseinate gelation induced by glucono-delta-lactone (GDL) at 30 °C and 40 °C and two GDL concentrations (1.8% and 3.5% w/v). TDA tracked topological loops, closed ring-like structures reflecting protein network interconnectivity, via max-Betti-1 curves, which revealed a lag phase of dispersed aggregates, a sharp decay coinciding with network percolation and the rheologically observed sol-gel transition, and a post-gelation increase corresponding to network rearrangements. These topological transitions were corroborated by DBC and MFP as these methods were able to resolve changes in structural complexity and spatial heterogeneity. The toolbox was validated on simulated fractal images prior to experimental application. Together, these descriptors provided sensitivity to subtle microstructural transitions that bulk rheology captured as averaged bulk mechanical responses. This integrated approach provides a robust quantitative tool for characterizing complex microstructure in food and material science with evolving microstructural dynamics. Code is available at this https URL
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02048
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HiTokSR: A Coarse-to-Fine Tokenizer with Hierarchical Codebooks for High-Fidelity Real-World Image Super-Resolution
2026-05-31 11:02:58Mingxi LiAbstract
Vector-quantized (VQ) generative models have shown promising results in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). However, existing methods typically rely on a monolithic latent space that entangles low-frequency structures with high-frequency textures. This entanglement forces a single codebook to capture a combinatorially complex set of structure-texture pairings, which constrains representational capacity and limits codebook utilization. To address this issue, we present HiTokSR, a hierarchical token prediction framework. Instead of using a single codebook, HiTokSR partitions the latent space along the channel dimension into frequency-aware groups, quantizing each with an independent sub-codebook. This coarse-to-fine design disentangles global structures from fine details, enhancing combinatorial expressiveness while circumventing the optimization instability of high-dimensional nearest-neighbor lookups. To further improve semantic consistency, our generator integrates priors from a vision foundation model via adaptive feature modulation, multi-scale class tokens, and a representation alignment loss. Additionally, we introduce an index-level perturbation strategy during decoder fine-tuning to bridge the train-test discrepancy in discrete token prediction. Extensive experiments on real-world benchmarks demonstrate that HiTokSR achieves state-of-the-art performance in both perceptual quality and reconstruction fidelity.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01157
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