OSDEnhancer: Taming Real-World Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with One-Step Diffusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20308v1
• Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:59:55 GMT
• Title: OSDEnhancer: Taming Real-World Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with One-Step Diffusion
• Authors: Shuoyan Wei, Feng Li, Chen Zhou, Runmin Cong, Yao Zhao, Huihui Bai,
• Abstract summary: Video super-resolution models (DMs) have demonstrated exceptional success in video super-resolution (VSR)<n>Their potential for space-time video super-resolution (STVSR) necessitates recovering realistic visual content from low to high-resolution but also improving the frame rate with coherent dynamics.<n>We propose OSDEnhancer, a framework that represents the first method to initialize real-world STVSR through an efficient one-step diffusion process.<n> Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance while maintaining superior capability in real-world scenarios.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated exceptional success in video super-resolution (VSR), showcasing a powerful capacity for generating fine-grained details. However, their potential for space-time video super-resolution (STVSR), which necessitates not only recovering realistic visual content from low-resolution to high-resolution but also improving the frame rate with coherent temporal dynamics, remains largely underexplored. Moreover, existing STVSR methods predominantly address spatiotemporal upsampling under simplified degradation assumptions, which often struggle in real-world scenarios with complex unknown degradations. Such a high demand for reconstruction fidelity and temporal consistency makes the development of a robust STVSR framework particularly non-trivial. To address these challenges, we propose OSDEnhancer, a novel framework that, to the best of our knowledge, represents the first method to achieve real-world STVSR through an efficient one-step diffusion process. OSDEnhancer initializes essential spatiotemporal structures through a linear pre-interpolation strategy and pivots on training temporal refinement and spatial enhancement mixture of experts (TR-SE MoE), which allows distinct expert pathways to progressively learn robust, specialized representations for temporal coherence and spatial detail, further collaboratively reinforcing each other during inference. A bidirectional deformable variational autoencoder (VAE) decoder is further introduced to perform recurrent spatiotemporal aggregation and propagation, enhancing cross-frame reconstruction fidelity. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance while maintaining superior generalization capability in real-world scenarios.

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