Paper and Code

Blind/Real-world single image super-resolution

Year	Pub	Title	Links	Arch	Abbreviation	Diffusion Prior
2021	ICCVW	Real-ESRGAN: Training Real-World Blind Super-Resolution with Pure Synthetic Data	[paper][code]	CNN	Real-ESRGAN	-
2021	ICCV	SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer	[paper][code]	ViT	SwinIR	-
2022	ECCV	MM-RealSR: Metric Learning based Interactive Modulation for Real-World Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	CNN	MMRealSR	-
2022	ECCV	Swin2sr: Swinv2 transformer for compressed image super-resolution and restoration	[paper][code]	Transformer	Swin2sr	-
2022	ACM MM	Real-World Blind Super-Resolution via Feature Matching with Implicit High-Resolution Priors	[paper][code]	Transformer	FeMaSR	-
2022	ECCV	Efficient and Degradation-Adaptive Network for Real-World Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	CNN	DASR	-
2023	CVPR	HAT: Hybrid Attention Transformer for Image Restoration	[paper][code]	ViT	HAT	-
2024	CVPR	SinSR: Diffusion-Based Image Super-Resolution in a Single Step	[paper][code]	Diffusion	SinSR	-
2024	TPAMI	ResShift: Efficient Diffusion Model for Image Super-resolution by Residual Shifting	[paper][code]	Diffusion	ResShift	-
2024	IJCV	Exploiting Diffusion Prior for Real-World Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	StableSR	SD2.1/SD-Turbo
2024	ECCV	DiffBIR: Towards Blind Image Restoration with Generative Diffusion Prior	[paper][code]	Diffusion	DiffBIR	SD2.0/SD2.1
2024	ECCV	Pixel-Aware Stable Diffusion for Realistic Image Super-resolution and Personalized Stylization	[paper][code]	Diffusion	PASD	SD1.5/SDXL
2024	CVPR	SeeSR: Towards Semantics-Aware Real-World Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	SeeSR	SD2.0/SD-Turbo
2024	NeurIPS	One-Step Effective Diffusion Network for Real-World Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	OSEDiff	SD2.1
2024	CVPR	Scaling Up to Excellence: Practicing Model Scaling for Photo-Realistic Image Restoration In the Wild	[paper][code]	Diffusion	SUPIR	SDXL
2024	Arxiv	Improving the Stability and Efficiency of Diffusion Models for Content Consistent Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	CCSR	SD2.1
2024	Arxiv	Degradation-Guided One-Step Image Super-Resolution with Diffusion Priors	[paper][code]	Diffusion	S3Diff	SD-Turbo
2024	Arxiv	DaLPSR: Leverage Degradation-Aligned Language Prompt for Real-World Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	DaLPSR	SD2.0
2024	NeurIPS	DreamClear: High-Capacity Real-World Image Restoration with Privacy-Safe Dataset Curation	[paper][code]	Diffusion	DreamClear	PixArt-alpha
2024	ECCV	SPIRE: Semantic Prompt-Driven Image Restoration	[paper][code]	Diffusion	SPIRE
2024	Pattern Recognition	AdaptBIR: Adaptive Blind Image Restoration with latent diffusion prior for higher fidelity	[paper][code]	Diffusion	AdaptBIR
2024	Arxiv	CasSR: Activating Image Power for Real-World Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	CasSR
2024	ACCV	Real-SRGD: Enhancing Real-World Image Super-Resolution with Classifier-Free Guided Diffusion	[paper][code]	Diffusion	Real-SRGD
2024	Arxiv	AddSR: Accelerating Diffusion-based Blind Super-Resolution with Adversarial Diffusion Distillation	[paper][code]	Diffusion	AddSR
2024	CVPR	CoSeR: Bridging Image and Language for Cognitive Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	CoSeR
2024	NeurIPS	ReFIR: Grounding Large Restoration Models with Retrieval Augmentation	[paper][code]	Diffusion	ReFIR
2025	TCSVT	SSP-IR: Semantic and Structure Priors for Diffusion-based Realistic Image Restoration	[paper][code]	Diffusion	SSP-IR	-
2025	Arxiv	One Diffusion Step to Real-World Super-Resolution via Flow Trajectory Distillation	[paper][code]	Diffusion	FluxSR	-
2025	Neurocomputing	Coarse-to-fine text injecting for realistic image super-resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	--
2025	Arxiv	CTSR: Controllable Fidelity-Realness Trade-off Distillation for Real-World Image Super Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	CTSR
2025	CVPR	Arbitrarysteps image super-resolution via diffusion inversion	[paper][code]	Diffusion	InvSR
2025	Arxiv	Perceive, Understand and Restore: Real-World Image Super-Resolution with Autoregressive Multimodal Generative Models	[paper][code]	Diffusion	PURE
2025	Arxiv	AdaptSR: Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient and Scalable Real-World Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Transformer	AdaptSR
2025	Neurocomputing	DIffSteISR: Harnessing Diffusion Prior for Superior Real-world Stereo Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	DIffSteISR
2025	AAAI	StructSR: Refuse Spurious Details in Real-World Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	StructSR
2025	CVPR	TSD-SR: One-Step Diffusion with Target Score Distillation for Real-World Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	TSD-SR
2025	CVPR	TSD-SR: One-Step Diffusion with Target Score Distillation for Real-World Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	TSD-SR
2025	CVPR	AdcSR: One-Step Diffusion with Target Score Distillation for Real-World Image Super-Resolution	[paper][code]	Diffusion	AdcSR
2025	CVPR	Pixel-level and Semantic-level Adjustable Super-resolution: A Dual-LoRA Approach	[paper][code]	Diffusion	PiSA-SR

SUPIR excellent！

Diffusion Prior

Name	Links	Abbreviation
stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0	[paper][Repository]	SDXL
sd-turbo	[paper][Repository]	sd-turbo
stable-diffusion-2-1-base	[paper][Repository]	SD2.1
stable-diffusion-2-base	[paper][Repository]	SD2.0
PixArt-alpha	[paper][Repository]	PixArt-alpha

Additional Explanation

• 1.SDXL have better capabilities
• 2.SD-Turbo is a distilled version of Stable Diffusion 2.1
• 3.The papers are only relevant, not all papers on the current model