JPEG, as a widely used image compression standard, often introduces severe visual artifacts when achieving high compression ratios. Although existing deep learning-based restoration methods have made considerable progress, they often struggle to recover complex texture details, resulting in over-smoothed outputs. To overcome these limitations, we propose SODiff, a novel and efficient semantic-oriented one-step diffusion model for JPEG artifacts removal. Our core idea is that effective restoration hinges on providing semantic-oriented guidance to the pre-trained diffusion model, thereby fully leveraging its powerful generative prior. To this end, SODiff incorporates a semantic-aligned image prompt extractor (SAIPE). SAIPE extracts rich features from low-quality (LQ) images and projects them into an embedding space semantically aligned with that of the text encoder. Simultaneously, it preserves crucial information for faithful reconstruction. Furthermore, we propose a quality factor-aware time predictor that implicitly learns the compression quality factor (QF) of the LQ image and adaptively selects the optimal denoising start timestep for the diffusion process. Extensive experimental results show that our SODiff outperforms recent leading methods in both visual quality and quantitative metrics.

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in face restoration. Yet, their multi-step inference process remains computationally intensive, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. Moreover, existing methods often struggle to generate face images that are harmonious, realistic, and consistent with the subject’s identity. In this work, we propose OSDFace, a novel one-step diffusion model for face restoration. Specifically, we propose a visual representation embedder (VRE) to better capture prior information and understand the input face. In VRE, low-quality faces are processed by a visual tokenizer and subsequently embedded with a vector-quantized dictionary to generate visual prompts. Additionally, we incorporate a facial identity loss derived from face recognition to further ensure identity consistency. We further employ a generative adversarial network (GAN) as a guidance model to encourage distribution alignment between the restored face and the ground truth. Experimental results demonstrate that OSDFace surpasses current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods in both visual quality and quantitative metrics, generating high-fidelity, natural face images with high identity consistency. The code and model will be released at https://github.com/jkwang28/OSDFace.

3D medical image classification is challenging due to small, subtle lesions and substantial irrelevant context, which often mislead deep models. Inspired by the top-down diagnos-tic process of clinicians—first identifying anatomical context, then locating anomalies—we propose Prompt-Guided 3D Vision Transformer (PG 3D- ViT), a framework that simulates clinical reasoning through prompt-driven attention. To address limited 3D training data, PG3D- ViT leverages 2D masked auto encoder (MAE) pretraining to learn transferable image features. Through the prompt generation module, consistency difference analysis is performed between normal and abnormal samples to extract anatomical structure and global spatial prompt information related to the lesion context. These prompts are injected as query into a cross-attention mechanism, guiding the model to focus on lesion-relevant regions across the 3D volume. Evaluated on 7 public datasets spanning multiple modalities and pathologies, PG3D-ViT achieves a 1.88% average AUC improvement over state-of-the-art methods. The attention map visualizations demonstrate that the model can accurately localize lesion regions, validating the effectiveness of the clinical prompting mechanism in enhancing both the performance and interpretability of 3D medical image classification. The code is available at the provided link11https://github.comJUMED-P/PG3D-ViT

Human body restoration, as a specific application of image restoration, is widely applied in practice and plays a vital role across diverse fields. However, thorough research remains difficult, particularly due to the lack of benchmark datasets. In this study, we propose a high-quality dataset automated cropping and filtering (HQ-ACF) pipeline. This pipeline leverages existing object detection datasets and other unlabeled images to automatically crop and filter high-quality human images. Using this pipeline, we constructed a person-based restoration with sophisticated objects and natural activities (PERSONA) dataset, which includes training, validation, and test sets. The dataset significantly surpasses other human-related datasets in both quality and content richness. Finally, we propose OSDHuman, a novel one-step diffusion model for human body restoration. Specifically, we propose a high-fidelity image embedder (HFIE) as the prompt generator to better guide the model with low-quality human image information, effectively avoiding misleading prompts. Experimental results show that OSDHuman outperforms existing methods in both visual quality and quantitative metrics. The dataset and code are available at: https://github.com/gobunu/OSDHuman.

Human-centered images often suffer from severe generic degradation during transmission and are prone to human motion blur (HMB), making restoration challenging. Existing research lacks sufficient focus on these issues, as both problems often coexist in practice. To address this, we design a degradation pipeline that simulates the coexistence of HMB and generic noise, generating synthetic degraded data to train our proposed HAODiff, a human-aware one-step diffusion. Specifically, we propose a triple-branch dual-prompt guidance (DPG), which leverages high-quality images, residual noise (LQ minus HQ), and HMB segmentation masks as training targets. It produces a positive–negative prompt pair for classifier‑free guidance (CFG) in a single diffusion step. The resulting adaptive dual prompts let HAODiff exploit CFG more effectively, boosting robustness against diverse degradations. For fair evaluation, we introduce MPII‑Test, a benchmark rich in combined noise and HMB cases. Extensive experiments show that our HAODiff surpasses existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods in terms of both quantitative metrics and visual quality on synthetic and real-world datasets, including our introduced MPII-Test. Code is available at: https://github.com/gobunu/HAODiff.

Due to its high mobility, flexible deployment, and low cost, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted wide attention in wireless communication in recent years. However, the delay requirements (e.g., video streaming, online game, etc.) may limit the UAV's mobility. In this paper, we consider a three-dimensional (3D) UAV communication network, where a UAV is employed to fly flexibly in 3D space to serve ground users with delay requirements. To characterize the fundamental tradeoff between throughput and delay, we introduce the minimum required rate for users and aim to maximize the minimum weighted sum of throughput and required rate for each user, via joint optimization of the 3D UAV trajectory as well as communication time and rate allocation. The formulated problem is a non-convex optimization problem, which is generally intractable. By decomposing the formulated problem into two subproblems, we propose an iterative algorithm by block coordinate descent and difference of two convex (D.C.) optimization as well as successive convex approximation (SCA) techniques. Finally, extensive simulation results show that our proposed solution outperforms baseline schemes and unveils the interesting insights and tradeoff between throughput and delay over 3D UAV communication networks.

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been considered to provide computation services near the edge of mobile networks, while the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is becoming an important integrated component to extend service coverage. In this paper, we consider a UAV-enabled MEC with binary computation offloading, where a UAV serves as an aerial edge server and each task of devices is either executing locally or offloading to the aerial edge server as a whole. To provide fairness among different ground devices, we aim to maximize the minimum computation throughput for all devices via the joint design of computing mode selection and UAV trajectory as well as resource allocation. The optimization problem is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear problem consisting of binary variables, which is difficult to tackle. The influence of non-binary solutions is penalized with a penalty function, based on which we develop an efficient iteration algorithm to obtain a suboptimal solution via leveraging the penalty successive convex approximation (P-SCA) method and difference of two convex (D.C.) optimization framework, where the algorithm is guaranteed to converge. Extensive simulations are conducted and the results with different system parameters show the effectiveness of the proposed joint design algorithm compared with other benchmark schemes.