Perceptual Losses paper wins ECCV Test of Time Award, still core to diffusion VAEs

CSProfKGD · x · 2026-09-10

Justin Johnson announced that his 2016 paper 'Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution,' co-authored with Alex Alahi and Fei-Fei Li, has won the ECCV Test of Time Award.

He notes it's remarkable that the paper remains a core ingredient in many modern pipelines a decade later — including the VAEs used in diffusion models.

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