FlowIR: Depth-driven Rectified Flow for Resolving Thermal Ambiguity in Infrared Super-Resolution
Xingyue Zhu, Qinyun Mei, Zhexi Min, Yang Zou, Xingyuan Li, Zhiying Jiang, Jinyuan Liu
原文摘要
Distinguishing different heat sources in low-resolution infrared (IR) images is inherently difficult, as multiple thermal emitters often collapse into ambiguous and overlapping responses. Existing super-resolution methods hallucinate structures from such ambiguous 2D evidence, leading to thermal drift, boundary merging, and unreliable restoration under infrared degradations. We propose FlowIR, a depth-driven rectified flow framework that resolves thermal ambiguity by injecting 3D geometric cues into the generation process. Pseudo-3D depth lifting and depth-guided 3D convolutions disentangle overlapping foreground objects, while cluster-wise inter-attention suppresses cross-source feature contamination. A Thermal-Geometry Consistency Loss further enforces geometric alignment during refinement. Built upon a lightweight rectified flow backbone, FlowIR restores IR images in only a few steps, producing sharply separated, degradation-robust, and geometrically faithful high-resolution results.
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