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Removing various degradations from damaged documents greatly benefits digitization, downstream document analysis, and readability. Previous methods often treat each restoration task independently with dedicated models, leading to a…

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We present a novel approach to leverage prior knowledge encapsulated in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models for blind super-resolution (SR). Specifically, by employing our time-aware encoder, we can achieve promising restoration…

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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…

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Real-world image restoration is hampered by diverse degradations stemming from varying capture conditions, capture devices and post-processing pipelines. Existing works make improvements through simulating those degradations and leveraging…

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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…

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Benefiting from their powerful generative capabilities, pretrained diffusion models have garnered significant attention for real-world image super-resolution (Real-SR). Existing diffusion-based SR approaches typically utilize semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jiangang Wang , Qingnan Fan , Jinwei Chen , Hong Gu , Feng Huang , Wenqi Ren

Recently, considerable progress has been made in all-in-one image restoration. Generally, existing methods can be degradation-agnostic or degradation-aware. However, the former are limited in leveraging degradation-specific restoration, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jingbo Lin , Zhilu Zhang , Wenbo Li , Renjing Pei , Hang Xu , Hongzhi Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

With the recent surge of generative models, diffusion-based approaches have become mainstream for view synthesis tasks, either in an explicit depth-warp-inpaint or in an implicit end-to-end manner. Despite their success, both paradigms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sihan Chen , Xiang Zhang , Yang Zhang , Tunc Aydin , Christopher Schroers

Image restoration (IR) has been an indispensable and challenging task in the low-level vision field, which strives to improve the subjective quality of images distorted by various forms of degradation. Recently, the diffusion model has…

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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,…

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All-in-one image restoration aims to address diverse degradation types using a single unified model. Existing methods typically rely on degradation priors to guide restoration, yet often struggle to reconstruct content in severely degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yanjie Tu , Qingsen Yan , Axi Niu , Jiacong Tang

The computer vision community has developed numerous techniques for digitally restoring true scene information from single-view degraded photographs, an important yet extremely ill-posed task. In this work, we tackle image restoration from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yucheng Mao , Boyang Wang , Nilesh Kulkarni , Jeong Joon Park

While diffusion models demonstrate strong generative capabilities in image restoration (IR) tasks, their complex architectures and iterative processes limit their practical application compared to mainstream reconstruction-based general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xin Lu , Xueyang Fu , Jie Xiao , Zihao Fan , Yurui Zhu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Restoring low-resolution text images presents a significant challenge, as it requires maintaining both the fidelity and stylistic realism of the text in restored images. Existing text image restoration methods often fall short in hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglu Pan , Xiaogang Xu , Ganggui Ding , Yunke Zhang , Wenbo Li , Jiarong Xu , Qingbiao Wu

Since acquiring large amounts of realistic blurry-sharp image pairs is difficult and expensive, learning blind image deblurring from unpaired data is a more practical and promising solution. Unfortunately, dominant approaches rely heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Chengxu Liu , Lu Qi , Jinshan Pan , Xueming Qian , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image restoration aims to recover high quality images from inputs degraded by various factors, such as adverse weather, blur, or low light. While recent studies have shown remarkable progress across individual or unified restoration tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 I-Hsiang Chen , Isma Hadji , Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Sy-Yen Kuo , Radu Timofte , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

Handling test-time unknown degradation is the major challenge in Blind Image Restoration (BIR), necessitating high model generalization. An effective strategy is to incorporate prior knowledge, either from human input or generative model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jen-Yuan Huang , Haofan Wang , Qixun Wang , Xu Bai , Hao Ai , Peng Xing , Jen-Tse Huang

Recent advances in diffusion-based Large Restoration Models (LRMs) have significantly improved photo-realistic image restoration by leveraging the internal knowledge embedded within model weights. However, existing LRMs often suffer from…

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