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Most existing image restoration networks are designed in a disposable way and catastrophically forget previously learned distortions when trained on a new distortion removal task. To alleviate this problem, we raise the novel lifelong image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Jianzhao Liu , Jianxin Lin , Xin Li , Wei Zhou , Sen Liu , Zhibo Chen

Image restoration (IR) seeks to recover high-quality images from degraded observations caused by a wide range of factors, including noise, blur, compression, and adverse weather. While traditional IR methods have made notable progress by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Junjun Jiang , Zengyuan Zuo , Gang Wu , Kui Jiang , Xianming Liu

Despite significant progress has been made in image deraining, we note that most existing methods are often developed for only specific types of rain degradation and fail to generalize across diverse real-world rainy scenes. How to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Qianfeng Yang , Qiyuan Guan , Xiang Chen , Jiyu Jin , Guiyue Jin , Jiangxin Dong

The human visual system is remarkably robust against a wide range of naturally occurring variations and corruptions like rain or snow. In contrast, the performance of modern image recognition models strongly degrades when evaluated on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Evgenia Rusak , Lukas Schott , Roland S. Zimmermann , Julian Bitterwolf , Oliver Bringmann , Matthias Bethge , Wieland Brendel

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved exceptional results on multiple detection and recognition tasks. However, the performance of such detectors are often evaluated in public benchmarks under constrained and non-realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuhang Lu , Touradj Ebrahimi

Deep networks provide state-of-the-art performance in multiple imaging inverse problems ranging from medical imaging to computational photography. However, most existing networks are trained with clean signals which are often hard or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dongdong Chen , Julián Tachella , Mike E. Davies

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) aims to improve the visual quality from a low-quality input. Unlike other image enhancement tasks, underwater images suffer from the unavailability of real reference images. Although existing works exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Shuaixin Liu , Kunqian Li , Yilin Ding , Qi Qi

In recent years, learning-based underwater image enhancement (UIE) techniques have rapidly evolved. However, distribution shifts between high-quality enhanced outputs and natural images can hinder semantic cue extraction for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Guodong Fan , Shengning Zhou , Genji Yuan , Huiyu Li , Jingchun Zhou , Jinjiang Li

Universal adversarial perturbations (UAPs), a.k.a. input-agnostic perturbations, has been proved to exist and be able to fool cutting-edge deep learning models on most of the data samples. Existing UAP methods mainly focus on attacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jie Li , Rongrong Ji , Hong Liu , Xiaopeng Hong , Yue Gao , Qi Tian

Restoring underwater images affected by non-uniform illumination (NUI) is essential to improve visual quality and usability in marine applications. Conventional methods often fall short in handling complex illumination patterns, while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Ezequiel Perez-Zarate , Chunxiao Liu , Oscar Ramos-Soto , Diego Oliva , Marco Perez-Cisneros

Underwater scenes intrinsically involve degradation problems owing to heterogeneous ocean elements. Prevailing underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods stick to straightforward feature modeling to learn the mapping function, which leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zhixiong Huang , Xinying Wang , Chengpei Xu , Jinjiang Li , Lin Feng

Neural Networks (NNs) have become indispensable for applications of Computer Vision (CV) and their use has been ever-growing. NNs are commonly trained for long periods of time on datasets like ImageNet and COCO that have been carefully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Jonathan Sanderson , Syed Rafay Hasan

Image restoration, which aims to retrieve and enhance degraded images, is fundamental across a wide range of applications. While conventional deep learning approaches have notably improved the image quality across various tasks, they still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Zilong Li , Yiming Lei , Chenglong Ma , Junping Zhang , Hongming Shan

Image restoration is a classic low-level problem aimed at recovering high-quality images from low-quality images with various degradations such as blur, noise, rain, haze, etc. However, due to the inherent complexity and non-uniqueness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Image demoir\'eing poses one of the most formidable challenges in image restoration, primarily due to the unpredictable and anisotropic nature of moir\'e patterns. Limited by the quantity and diversity of training data, current methods tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zemin Yang , Yujing Sun , Xidong Peng , Siu Ming Yiu , Yuexin Ma

Though diffusion models have been successfully applied to various image restoration (IR) tasks, their performance is sensitive to the choice of training datasets. Typically, diffusion models trained in specific datasets fail to recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) technology aims to tackle the challenge of restoring the degraded underwater images due to light absorption and scattering. To address problems, a novel U-Net based Reinforced Swin-Convs Transformer for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Tingdi Ren , Haiyong Xu , Gangyi Jiang , Mei Yu , Ting Luo

Underwater image quality is affected by fluorescence, low illumination, absorption, and scattering. Recent works in underwater image enhancement have proposed different deep network architectures to handle these problems. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Pranjali Singh , Prithwijit Guha

Reconstructing missing details from degraded low-quality inputs poses a significant challenge. Recent progress in image restoration has demonstrated the efficacy of learning large models capable of addressing various degradations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Eduard Zamfir , Zongwei Wu , Nancy Mehta , Danda Pani Paudel , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte

Improving the aesthetic quality of images is challenging and eager for the public. To address this problem, most existing algorithms are based on supervised learning methods to learn an automatic photo enhancer for paired data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong