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We investigate a novel approach for image restoration by reinforcement learning. Unlike existing studies that mostly train a single large network for a specialized task, we prepare a toolbox consisting of small-scale convolutional networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Ke Yu , Chao Dong , Liang Lin , Chen Change Loy

Ancient inscriptions, as repositories of cultural memory, have suffered from centuries of environmental and human-induced degradation. Restoring their intertwined visual and textual integrity poses one of the most demanding challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shipeng Zhu , Ang Chen , Na Nie , Pengfei Fang , Min-Ling Zhang , Hui Xue

Image degradation due to atmospheric turbulence is common while capturing images at long ranges. To mitigate the degradation due to turbulence which includes deformation and blur, we propose a generative single frame restoration algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Chun Pong Lau , Hossein Souri , Rama Chellappa

Outdoor images often suffer from severe degradation due to rain, haze, and noise, impairing image quality and challenging high-level tasks. Current image restoration methods struggle to handle complex degradation while maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Huan Zhang , Xu Zhang , Nian Cai , Jianglei Di , Yun Zhang

Photographs taken in adverse weather conditions often suffer from blurriness, occlusion, and low brightness due to interference from rain, snow, and fog. These issues can significantly hinder the performance of subsequent computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Weikai Qu , Sijun Liang , Cheng Pan , Zikuan Yang , Guanchi Zhou , Xianjun Fu , Bo Liu , Changmiao Wang , Ahmed Elazab

Most existing image restoration methods use neural networks to learn strong image-level priors from huge data to estimate the lost information. However, these works still struggle in cases when images have severe information deficits.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yunpeng Bai , Cairong Wang , Shuzhao Xie , Chao Dong , Chun Yuan , Zhi Wang

Camera anomalies like rain or dust can severelydegrade image quality and its related tasks, such as localizationand segmentation. In this work we address this importantissue by implementing a pre-processing step that can effectivelymitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Gianmario Fumagalli , Yannick Huber , Marcin Dymczyk , Roland Siegwart , Renaud Dubé

Due to their highly structured characteristics, faces are easier to recover than natural scenes for blind image super-resolution. Therefore, we can extract the degradation representation of an image from the low-quality and recovered face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhicun Yin , Ming Liu , Xiaoming Li , Hui Yang , Longan Xiao , Wangmeng Zuo

Designing realistic multi-object scenes requires not only generating images, but also planning spatial layouts that respect semantic relations and physical plausibility. On one hand, while recent advances in diffusion models have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zezhong Fan , Xiaohan Li , Luyi Ma , Kai Zhao , Liang Peng , Topojoy Biswas , Evren Korpeoglu , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan

Despite recent advances in large-scale text-to-image generative models, manipulating real images with these models remains a challenging problem. The main limitations of existing editing methods are that they either fail to perform with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Vadim Titov , Madina Khalmatova , Alexandra Ivanova , Dmitry Vetrov , Aibek Alanov

Images captured in challenging environments--such as nighttime, smoke, rainy weather, and underwater--often suffer from significant degradation, resulting in a substantial loss of visual quality. The effective restoration of these degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenfeng Huang , Guoan Xu , Wenjing Jia , Stuart Perry , Guangwei Gao

Person re-identification (Re-ID) in real-world scenarios usually suffers from various degradation factors, e.g., low-resolution, weak illumination, blurring and adverse weather. On the one hand, these degradations lead to severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yukun Huang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Xueyang Fu , Richang Hong , Liang Li

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

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment for distorted images has always been a challenging problem due to image content variance and distortion diversity. Previous IQA models mostly encode explicit single-quality features of synthetic images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Jingtong Yue , Xin Lin , Zijiu Yang , Chao Ren

Automated program repair has emerged as a powerful technique to mitigate the impact of software bugs on system reliability and user experience. This paper introduces RepairAgent, the first work to address the program repair challenge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Islem Bouzenia , Premkumar Devanbu , Michael Pradel

This paper addresses the limitations of adverse weather image restoration approaches trained on synthetic data when applied to real-world scenarios. We formulate a semi-supervised learning framework employing vision-language models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jiaqi Xu , Mengyang Wu , Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Most state-of-the-art semantic segmentation approaches only achieve high accuracy in good conditions. In practically-common but less-discussed adverse environmental conditions, their performance can decrease enormously. Existing studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Weihao Xia , Zhanglin Cheng , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue

Recent text-to-image models produce high-quality results but still struggle with precise visual control, balancing multimodal inputs, and requiring extensive training for complex multimodal image generation. To address these limitations, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haozhe Zhao , Zefan Cai , Shuzheng Si , Liang Chen , Jiuxiang Gu , Wen Xiao , Minjia Zhang , Junjie Hu

The new trend of full-screen devices implies positioning the camera behind the screen to bring a larger display-to-body ratio, enhance eye contact, and provide a notch-free viewing experience on smartphones, TV or tablets. On the other…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-24 Marcos V. Conde , Florin Vasluianu , Sabari Nathan , Radu Timofte

Human body restoration plays a vital role in various applications related to the human body. Despite recent advances in general image restoration using generative models, their performance in human body restoration remains mediocre, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yiming Zhang , Zhe Wang , Xinjie Li , Yunchen Yuan , Chengsong Zhang , Xiao Sun , Zhihang Zhong , Jian Wang