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InfScene-SR: Seamless Super-Resolution of Arbitrarily Large Remote-Sensing Scenes via Variance-Preserving Joint Denoising

arXiv 2602.19736 ↗First posted 23 Feb 2026cs.CVcited by 0

On the map: Diffusion models → Inverse problems and image restoration

Abstract (arXiv)

Diffusion models now give the best perceptual quality in super-resolution (SR), but their architecture and training confine them to small fixed crops. Operational remote sensing needs seamless scenes orders of magnitude larger. Joint denoising fuses overlapping tiles at every reverse step and lets text-to-image diffusion generate beyond its training crop, but it assumes deterministic ODE samplers. With the stochastic sampler of SR models such as SR3, the averaging also partly cancels independent per-tile noise. This known variance erosion blurs the detail SR should recover and must be corrected. We carry variance-corrected fusion to conditional SR and derive Spatially-Decoupled Variance Correction (SDVC), an exact reformulation that replaces per-step global normalization with independent per-tile contributions accumulated in one additive pass. SDVC turns the coupled per-step computation into independent tile-local work, so the resulting pipeline, InfScene-SR, runs in parallel across GPUs and makes SR of arbitrarily large scenes feasible. On a 5× SR task built from NAIP aerial imagery, we evaluate whole scenes with fidelity, perceptual, seam-continuity, and faithfulness metrics. Under one backbone, InfScene-SR is the only fusion strategy that is seamless and sharp at once, the closest to the low-resolution observation among those that synthesize detail, and within 0.003 IoU of native high-resolution imagery on downstream invasive-plant segmentation. Code is available at https://github.com/TitorX/infscene-sr.

Key facts. No citing papers in the map yet (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Inverse problems and image restoration, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 35 of its 44 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 23 Feb 2026.

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