Diffusion models have significantly advanced video super-resolution (VSR) but remain largely constrained to fixed upsampling scales. Conversely, while coordinate-based arbitrary-scale VSR methods offer scale flexibility, they inherently suffer from severe over-smoothing at large scaling factors. Integrating generative priors with continuous decoding is promising but currently hindered by severe temporal flickering caused by the stochasticity of diffusion sampling. To address this, we propose AVSR-Diff (Arbitrary-scale Video Super-Resolution with Diffusion), a novel decoupled framework that separates scale-agnostic latent denoising from continuous coordinate rendering, effectively avoiding computationally heavy resolution-specific sampling. Our approach introduces a Temporally-Gated Feature Recurrence (TGFR) module to extract strictly aligned, temporally consistent latent priors. Furthermore, we design a continuous video VAE decoder incorporating a Scale-Aware Fourier Refinement (SAFR) module to dynamically adapt frequency components to any target scale. Extensive experiments demonstrate that AVSR-Diff consistently preserves high-frequency details and strong temporal stability across various scales, surpassing state-of-the-art arbitrary-scale baselines. Remarkably, our framework outperforms recent fixed-scale generative models even on their native resolution.
Giulio Federico, Giuseppe Amato, Claudio Gennaro +2cs.CV cs.AI cs.GR
In computer graphics, visual content is continuously warped, zoomed and resampled. This occurs when engines upscale frames, users zoom into 3D scenes, or foveated VR applies varying scaling. Handling these transformations requires Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution (ASR). Traditional models, designed for fixed scales, typically predict at a lower integer scale (e.g., x4) and rely on sub-optimal interpolation for continuous resolutions, compromising quality. Furthermore, most methods process pixels uniformly. Since fine details are sparse, this creates overhead; efficiency dictates concentrating resources only where structural complexity demands it. While implicit models and Gaussian Splatting (GS) enable continuous representation, GS is advantageous due to adaptive densification. However, transitioning GS into a feed-forward model for ASR is non-trivial. Standard GS optimization needs high-resolution gradients to drive primitive growth, which are unavailable during inference. Thus, the network must autonomously predict GS densification from low-resolution inputs. To solve this, we propose QuADA-GS. After encoding inputs into a latent space, a Neural Routing Architecture evaluates local complexity to distribute a global budget, assigning specific upsampling factors to features to avoid redundant processing. Features are dynamically densified based on these factors, forming an irregular topology decoded into 2D Gaussian primitives. To coordinate features before decoding, we introduce Hierarchical Pointer Convolution. This non-grid operator achieves O(1) neighbor lookup complexity, facilitating efficient spatial communication and bypassing dense bottlenecks. Experiments show QuADA-GS achieves state-of-the-art ASR performance, maintaining low latency and a lean memory footprint.
Pansharpening aims to generate high-resolution multispectral (HRMS) images by fusing low-resolution multispectral (LRMS) and panchromatic (PAN) observations. Most existing deep learning methods treat pansharpening as fixed-grid prediction, which limits scale adaptation. To address this, we propose GSPan, a framework that introduces 2D Gaussian Splatting (GS) into pansharpening. Instead of directly predicting pixels, GSPan represents band-wise residual details as continuous and learnable 2D Gaussian primitives. We design a Dual-Stream Hierarchical Interaction (DSHI) architecture with a Spatial-Spectral Interactive Attention (SSIA) module to estimate these primitives from complementary PAN and MS observations. The predicted primitives are rendered as a residual detail field and injected into the upsampled MS image. This continuous representation allows GSPan to render fused images on arbitrary target sampling grids without scale-specific retraining. It further enables a Scale-Decoupled Asymmetric Inference (SDAI) strategy, which estimates primitives at a reduced resolution and renders the fused image at the target resolution for efficient large-scene pansharpening. Experiments on QuickBird, GaoFen-2, WorldView-3, and WorldView-3-4K datasets show that GSPan delivers state-of-the-art fusion performance. Moreover, SDAI markedly accelerates inference, achieving a favorable trade-off between computational efficiency and fusion quality. Our results demonstrate the potential of continuous Gaussian residual representations as a flexible and scale-decoupled alternative to fixed-grid prediction.