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Recent data-driven image colorization methods have enabled automatic or reference-based colorization, while still suffering from unsatisfactory and inaccurate object-level color control. To address these issues, we propose a new method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Jianxin Lin , Peng Xiao , Yijun Wang , Rongju Zhang , Xiangxiang Zeng

Deep image restoration models aim to learn a mapping from degraded image space to natural image space. However, they face several critical challenges: removing degradation, generating realistic details, and ensuring pixel-level consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xinqi Lin , Fanghua Yu , Jinfan Hu , Zhiyuan You , Wu Shi , Jimmy S. Ren , Jinjin Gu , Chao Dong

Although diffusion prior is rising as a powerful solution for blind face restoration (BFR), the inherent gap between the vanilla diffusion model and BFR settings hinders its seamless adaptation. The gap mainly stems from the discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yunqi Miao , Zhiyu Qu , Mingqi Gao , Changrui Chen , Jifei Song , Jungong Han , Jiankang Deng

Blind face restoration endeavors to restore a clear face image from a degraded counterpart. Recent approaches employing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as priors have demonstrated remarkable success in this field. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Xiaobin Lu , Xiaobin Hu , Jun Luo , Ben Zhu , Yaping Ruan , Wenqi Ren

Blind image restoration (IR) is a common yet challenging problem in computer vision. Classical model-based methods and recent deep learning (DL)-based methods represent two different methodologies for this problem, each with their own…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Zongsheng Yue , Hongwei Yong , Qian Zhao , Lei Zhang , Deyu Meng , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

An authentic face restoration system is becoming increasingly demanding in many computer vision applications, e.g., image enhancement, video communication, and taking portrait. Most of the advanced face restoration models can recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yang Zhao , Tingbo Hou , Yu-Chuan Su , Xuhui Jia. Yandong Li , Matthias Grundmann

Blind Face Restoration aims to recover high-fidelity, detail-rich facial images from unknown degraded inputs, presenting significant challenges in preserving both identity and detail. Pre-trained diffusion models have been increasingly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Huu-Phu Do , Yu-Wei Chen , Yi-Cheng Liao , Chi-Wei Hsiao , Han-Yang Wang , Wei-Chen Chiu , Ching-Chun Huang

Image restoration (IR) in real-world scenarios presents significant challenges due to the lack of high-capacity models and comprehensive datasets. To tackle these issues, we present a dual strategy: GenIR, an innovative data curation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yuang Ai , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Huaibo Huang , Xiaotian Han , Zhengyu Chen , Quanzeng You , Hongxia Yang

Recent generative models show impressive results in photo-realistic image generation. However, artifacts often inevitably appear in the generated results, leading to downgraded user experience and reduced performance in downstream tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yueqin Yin , Lianghua Huang , Yu Liu , Kaiqi Huang

Images captured in challenging environments often experience various forms of degradation, including noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. These effects significantly reduce image quality, hindering their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Abbas Anwar , Mohammad Shullar , Ali Arshad Nasir , Mudassir Masood , Saeed Anwar

Training deep neural networks has become a common approach for addressing image restoration problems. An alternative for training a "task-specific" network for each observation model is to use pretrained deep denoisers for imposing only the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Tomer Garber , Tom Tirer

Blind face restoration usually synthesizes degraded low-quality data with a pre-defined degradation model for training, while more complex cases could happen in the real world. This gap between the assumed and actual degradation hurts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhixin Wang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ziying Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Mingyuan Zhou , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Image restoration tasks like deblurring, denoising, and dehazing usually need distinct models for each degradation type, restricting their generalization in real-world scenarios with mixed or unknown degradations. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wenyang Luo , Haina Qin , Zewen Chen , Libin Wang , Dandan Zheng , Yuming Li , Yufan Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Diffusion models (DM) have achieved remarkable promise in image super-resolution (SR). However, most of them are tailored to solving non-blind inverse problems with fixed known degradation settings, limiting their adaptability to real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Feng Li , Yixuan Wu , Zichao Liang , Runmin Cong , Huihui Bai , Yao Zhao , Meng Wang

We present DiffIR2VR-Zero, a zero-shot framework that enables any pre-trained image restoration diffusion model to perform high-quality video restoration without additional training. While image diffusion models have shown remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Chang-Han Yeh , Hau-Shiang Shiu , Chin-Yang Lin , Zhixiang Wang , Chi-Wei Hsiao , Ting-Hsuan Chen , Yu-Lun Liu

Image denoising is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most supervised denoising methods learn to reconstruct clean images from noisy inputs, which have intrinsic spectral bias and tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yujin Wang , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

Image restoration faces challenges including ineffective feature fusion, computational bottlenecks and inefficient diffusion processes. To address these, we propose DiffRWKVIR, a novel framework unifying Test-Time Training (TTT) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Rongchang Lu , Tianduo Luo , Yunzhi Jiang , Conghan Yue , Pei Yang , Guibao Liu , Changyang Gu

Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability to model data distributions. To solve image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiang Li , Soo Min Kwon , Shijun Liang , Ismail R. Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Qing Qu

We introduce the BIR-Adapter, a parameter-efficient diffusion adapter for blind image restoration. Diffusion-based restoration methods have demonstrated promising performance in addressing this fundamental problem in computer vision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Cem Eteke , Alexander Griessel , Wolfgang Kellerer , Eckehard Steinbach

In this work, we utilize the high-fidelity generation abilities of diffusion models to solve blind JPEG restoration at high compression levels. We propose an elegant modification of the forward stochastic differential equation of diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Simon Welker , Henry N. Chapman , Timo Gerkmann