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Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the presence of noise, loss of detail, and poor contrast in images captured under insufficient lighting conditions. Recent methods often rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alexandru Brateanu , Raul Balmez , Ciprian Orhei , Codruta Ancuti , Cosmin Ancuti

Image deblurring is vital in computer vision, aiming to recover sharp images from blurry ones caused by motion or camera shake. While deep learning approaches such as CNNs and Vision Transformers (ViTs) have advanced this field, they often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Syed Mumtahin Mahmud , Mahdi Mohd Hossain Noki , Prothito Shovon Majumder , Abdul Mohaimen Al Radi , Md. Haider Ali , Md. Mosaddek Khan

Image restoration (IR) aims to recover high-quality images from degraded inputs, with recent deep learning advancements significantly enhancing performance. However, existing methods lack a unified training benchmark for iterations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yuzhen Du , Teng Hu , Jiangning Zhang , Ran Yi Chengming Xu , Xiaobin Hu , Kai Wu , Donghao Luo , Yabiao Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Vision-language agents that orchestrate specialized tools for image restoration (IR) have emerged as a promising method, yet most existing frameworks operate in a training-free manner. They rely on heuristic task scheduling and exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yisheng Zhang , Guoli Jia , Haote Hu , Shanxu Zhao , Kaikai Zhao , Long Sun , Xinwei Long , Kai Tian , Che Jiang , Zhaoxiang Liu , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian , Kaiyan Zhang , Bowen Zhou

Transformer-based image restoration methods in adverse weather have achieved significant progress. Most of them use self-attention along the channel dimension or within spatially fixed-range blocks to reduce computational load. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shangquan Sun , Wenqi Ren , Xinwei Gao , Rui Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Transformer-based models have made remarkable progress in image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention in Transformer hinders its applicability to high-resolution images. Existing methods mitigate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yuang Ai , Huaibo Huang , Tao Wu , Qihang Fan , Ran He

Restoring images affected by various types of degradation, such as noise, blur, or improper exposure, remains a significant challenge in computer vision. While recent trends favor complex monolithic all-in-one architectures, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Joanna Wiekiera , Martyna Zur

Removing adverse weather conditions like rain, fog, and snow from images is an important problem in many applications. Most methods proposed in the literature have been designed to deal with just removing one type of degradation. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M. Patel

Flow-based latent generative models such as Stable Diffusion 3 are able to generate images with remarkable quality, even enabling photorealistic text-to-image generation. Their impressive performance suggests that these models should also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Julius Erbach , Dominik Narnhofer , Andreas Dombos , Bernt Schiele , Jan Eric Lenssen , Konrad Schindler

Transformer-based methods have achieved impressive image restoration performance due to their capacities to model long-range dependency compared to CNN-based methods. However, advances like SwinIR adopts the window-based and local attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Dafeng Zhang , Feiyu Huang , Shizhuo Liu , Xiaobing Wang , Zhezhu Jin

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

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve the perception of images collected in dim environments and provide high-quality data support for image recognition tasks. When dealing with photos captured under non-uniform illumination, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xiao Fang , Xin Gao , Baofeng Li , Feng Zhai , Yu Qin , Zhihang Meng , Jiansheng Lu , Chun Xiao

Image restoration is a long-standing problem in low-level computer vision with many interesting applications. We describe a flexible learning framework based on the concept of nonlinear reaction diffusion models for various image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Yunjin Chen , Thomas Pock

Multi-modality image fusion (MMIF) combines complementary information from different image modalities to provide a comprehensive and objective interpretation of scenes. However, existing fusion methods cannot resist different weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xilai Li , Wuyang Liu , Xiaosong Li , Fuqiang Zhou , Huafeng Li , Feiping Nie

Plug-and-play Image Restoration (IR) has been widely recognized as a flexible and interpretable method for solving various inverse problems by utilizing any off-the-shelf denoiser as the implicit image prior. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yuanzhi Zhu , Kai Zhang , Jingyun Liang , Jiezhang Cao , Bihan Wen , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

It is widely acknowledged that single image super-resolution (SISR) methods would not perform well if the assumed degradation model deviates from those in real images. Although several degradation models take additional factors into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Kai Zhang , Jingyun Liang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Precise, object-aware control over visual content is essential for advanced image editing and compositional generation. Yet, most existing approaches operate on entire images holistically, limiting the ability to isolate and manipulate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Fangyi Chen , Yaojie Shen , Lu Xu , Ye Yuan , Shu Zhang , Yulei Niu , Longyin Wen

We introduce a novel Multi-modal Guided Real-World Face Restoration (MGFR) technique designed to improve the quality of facial image restoration from low-quality inputs. Leveraging a blend of attribute text prompts, high-quality reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Keda Tao , Jinjin Gu , Yulun Zhang , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng

Natural images captured by mobile devices often suffer from multiple types of degradation, such as noise, blur, and low light. Traditional image restoration methods require manual selection of specific tasks, algorithms, and execution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Haoyu Chen , Wenbo Li , Jinjin Gu , Jingjing Ren , Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Renjing Pei , Kaiwen Zhou , Fenglong Song , Lei Zhu

Image restoration aims to reconstruct degraded images, e.g., denoising or deblurring. Existing works focus on designing task-specific methods and there are inadequate attempts at universal methods. However, simply unifying multiple tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jiaqi Ma , Tianheng Cheng , Guoli Wang , Qian Zhang , Xinggang Wang , Lefei Zhang