# Simon-SR: Spatially Adaptive Modulation and Visual Prompt Adaptation for Text-Reinforced Super-Resolution

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09351 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.09351/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 11 of its 13 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Jul 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 11 of 11)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1405.0312/) (2014)
- [Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.04802/) (2016)
- [Enhanced Deep Residual Networks for Single Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.02921/) (2017)
- [Image Super-Resolution Using Very Deep Residual Channel Attention Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.02758/) (2018)
- [ResShift: Efficient Diffusion Model for Image Super-resolution by Residual Shifting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.12348/) (2023)
- [FSRNet: End-to-End Learning Face Super-Resolution with Facial Priors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.10703/) (2017)
- [Discrete Cosine Transform Network for Guided Depth Map Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.06977/) (2021)
- [XPSR: Cross-modal Priors for Diffusion-based Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.05049/) (2024)
- [CLIP-SR: Collaborative Linguistic and Image Processing for Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.11609/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Severe downsampling makes single image super-resolution (SISR) an ill-posed problem, in which the language-guided multi-modal methods are especially vulnerable to erroneous priors and require costly textual annotations. To address these issues, we propose Simon-SR, a multi-modal SISR framework leveraging learnable prompts for efficient semantic mining and robust text-image fusion. Simon-SR treats textual semantics as learnable latent variables. Specifically, the Contrastive Prompt Learning (CPL) mines instance-level semantics from unannotated images with frozen CLIP encoders, and Prompt-Guided Spatially Adaptive Refinement (PSAR) injects them through attention-gated multi-modal fusion. On CUB and COCO2017 at ×4 and ×16, Simon-SR gains up to 0.50 dB PSNR and 0.0133 SSIM over current SOTA. The project is available at https://github.com/CHT05017/ICAIS26-SimonSR