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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

Complex image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from inputs affected by multiple degradations such as blur, noise, rain, and compression artifacts. Recent restoration agents, powered by vision-language models and large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jianglin Lu , Yuanwei Wu , Ziyi Zhao , Hongcheng Wang , Felix Jimenez , Abrar Majeedi , Yun Fu

Real-world image restoration (IR) is inherently complex and often requires combining multiple specialized models to address diverse degradations. Inspired by human problem-solving, we propose AgenticIR, an agentic system that mimics the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Kaiwen Zhu , Jinjin Gu , Zhiyuan You , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Image restoration (IR) often faces various complex and unknown degradations in real-world scenarios, such as noise, blurring, compression artifacts, and low resolution, etc. Training specific models for specific degradation may lead to poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Yingjie Zhou , Jiezhang Cao , Farong Wen , Zicheng Zhang , Yu Zhou , Yue Shi , Xiaohong Liu , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool , Guangtao Zhai

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have a significant impact on various tasks, due to their extensive knowledge and powerful perception and generation capabilities. However, it still remains an open research problem on applying MLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xiaoyu Jin , Yuan Shi , Bin Xia , Wenming Yang

With the rapid advancement of commercial multi-modal models, image editing has garnered significant attention due to its widespread applicability in daily life. Despite impressive progress, existing image editing systems, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yiran Zhao , Yaoqi Ye , Xiang Liu , Michael Qizhe Shieh , Trung Bui

Image restoration (IR) is challenging due to the complexity of real-world degradations. While many specialized and all-in-one IR models have been developed, they fail to effectively handle complex, mixed degradations. Recent agentic methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xu Jiang , Gehui Li , Bin Chen , Jian Zhang

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

Generating long and coherent reports to describe medical images poses challenges to bridging visual patterns with informative human linguistic descriptions. We propose a novel Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Reinforced Agent (HRGR-Agent) which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Christy Y. Li , Xiaodan Liang , Zhiting Hu , Eric P. Xing

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-driven image restoration agent demonstrates effectiveness in degradation coupling scenarios by flexibly selecting tools and determining removal orders. However, their zero-shot planning often fails…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Kailin Zhuang , Jiawei Wu , Zhi Jin

Photo retouching is integral to photographic art, extending far beyond simple technical fixes to heighten emotional expression and narrative depth. While artists leverage expertise to create unique visual effects through deliberate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Haoyu Chen , Keda Tao , Yizao Wang , Xinlei Wang , Lei Zhu , Jinjin Gu

All-in-one image restoration seeks to recover clean images from inputs affected by diverse and unknown degradations using a unified framework. Recent methods have shown strong performance by identifying degradation characteristics to guide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Eunho Lee , Rei Kawakami , Youngbae Hwang

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

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, they often struggle with accurate counting, attributes, and spatial relationships in complex multi-object scenes. One potential solution involves employing Multimodal Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiayang Sun , Hongbo Wang , Jie Cao , Huaibo Huang , Ran He

Precise surgical interventions are vital to patient safety, and advanced enhancement algorithms have been developed to assist surgeons in decision-making. Despite significant progress, these algorithms are typically designed for single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zeyu Lei , Hongyuan Yu , Jinlin Wu , Zhen Chen

In recent developments within the research community, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in creating fully autonomous agents has garnered significant interest. Despite this, LLM-based agents frequently demonstrate notable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Xueyang Feng , Zhi-Yuan Chen , Yujia Qin , Yankai Lin , Xu Chen , Zhiyuan Liu , Ji-Rong Wen

We present the first loss agent, dubbed LossAgent, for low-level image processing tasks, e.g., image super-resolution and restoration, intending to achieve any customized optimization objectives of low-level image processing in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bingchen Li , Xin Li , Yiting Lu , Zhibo Chen

Recent VLM-based agents aim to replicate OpenAI O3's "thinking with images" via tool use, yet most open-source methods restrict inputs to a single image, limiting their applicability to real-world multi-image QA tasks. To address this gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chengqi Dong , Chuhuai Yue , Hang He , Rongge Mao , Fenghe Tang , S Kevin Zhou , Zekun Xu , Xiaohan Wang , Jiajun Chai , Guojun Yin

Understanding long-form video content presents significant challenges due to its temporal complexity and the substantial computational resources required. In this work, we propose an agent-based approach to enhance both the efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sullam Jeoung , Goeric Huybrechts , Bhavana Ganesh , Aram Galstyan , Sravan Bodapati

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced natural language processing, but these models often generate factually incorrect information, known as "hallucination". Initial retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yujia Zhou , Zheng Liu , Zhicheng Dou
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