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Underwater imaging often suffers from significant visual degradation, which limits its suitability for subsequent applications. While recent underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods rely on the current advances in deep neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Laibin Chang , Yunke Wang , Bo Du , Chang Xu

Existing methods have demonstrated effective performance on a single degradation type. In practical applications, however, the degradation is often unknown, and the mismatch between the model and the degradation will result in a severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Mingde Yao , Ruikang Xu , Yuanshen Guan , Jie Huang , Zhiwei Xiong

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have recently shown remarkable performance in image generation tasks, which are capable of generating highly realistic images. When adopting DPMs for image restoration tasks, the crucial aspect lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yi Zhang , Xiaoyu Shi , Dasong Li , Xiaogang Wang , Jian Wang , Hongsheng Li

Image deblurring, removing blurring artifacts from images, is a fundamental task in computational photography and low-level computer vision. Existing approaches focus on specialized solutions tailored to particular blur types, thus, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Daniel Feijoo , Paula Garrido-Mellado , Jaesung Rim , Alvaro Garcia , Marcos V. Conde

Recent advances in image restoration have enabled high-fidelity recovery of faces from degraded inputs using reference-based face restoration models (Ref-FR). However, such methods focus solely on facial regions, neglecting degradation…

Sparse-view 3D modeling represents a fundamental tension between reconstruction fidelity and generative plausibility. While feed-forward reconstruction excels in efficiency and input alignment, it often lacks the global priors needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhisheng Huang , Jiahao Chen , Cheng Lin , Chenyu Hu , Hanzhuo Huang , Zhengming Yu , Mengfei Li , Yuheng Liu , Zekai Gu , Zibo Zhao , Yuan Liu , Xin Li , Wenping Wang

Video imaging is often affected by complex degradations such as blur, noise, and compression artifacts. Traditional restoration methods follow a "single-task single-model" paradigm, resulting in poor generalization and high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shuning Sun , Yu Zhang , Chen Wu , Dianjie Lu , Dianjie Lu , Guijuan Zhan , Yang Weng , Zhuoran Zheng

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images to produce a more informative and visually consistent representation, benefiting both human perception and downstream vision tasks. Despite recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingyuan Li , Songcheng Du , Yang Zou , HaoYuan Xu , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu

Metalenses offer significant potential for ultra-compact computational imaging but face challenges from complex optical degradation and computational restoration difficulties. Existing methods typically rely on precise optical calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jianing Zhang , Jiayi Zhu , Feiyu Ji , Xiaokang Yang , Xiaoyun Yuan

Removing the undesired reflections from images taken through the glass is of broad application to various computer vision tasks. Non-learning based methods utilize different handcrafted priors such as the separable sparse gradients caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Renjie Wan , Boxin Shi , Ling-Yu Duan , Ah-Hwee Tan , Alex C. Kot

This paper presents a new variational inference framework for image restoration and a convolutional neural network (CNN) structure that can solve the restoration problems described by the proposed framework. Earlier CNN-based image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

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

Ultra-high-definition (UHD) images often suffer from severe degradations such as blur, haze, rain, or low-light conditions, which pose significant challenges for image restoration due to their high resolution and computational demands. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 S. Zhao , W. Lu , B. Wang , T. Wang , K. Zhang , H. Zhao

Current multimodal medical image fusion typically assumes that source images are of high quality and perfectly aligned at the pixel level. Its effectiveness heavily relies on these conditions and often deteriorates when handling misaligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dayong Su , Yafei Zhang , Huafeng Li , Jinxing Li , Yu Liu

Recent image restoration methods can be broadly categorized into two classes: (1) regression methods that recover the rough structure of the original image without synthesizing high-frequency details and (2) generative methods that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Hwayoon Lee , Kyoungkook Kang , Hyeongmin Lee , Seung-Hwan Baek , Sunghyun Cho

While deep learning-based methods for blind face restoration have achieved unprecedented success, they still suffer from two major limitations. First, most of them deteriorate when facing complex degradations out of their training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zongsheng Yue , Chen Change Loy

Image restoration from a single image degradation type, such as blurring, hazing, random noise, and compression has been investigated for decades. However, image degradations in practice are often a mixture of several types of degradation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Kazutaka Uchida , Masayuki Tanaka , Masatoshi Okutomi

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

Recently, diffusion models have gained significant attention as a novel set of deep learning-based generative methods. These models attempt to sample data from a Gaussian distribution that adheres to a target distribution, and have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Chenyan Zhang , Yifei Chen , Zhenxiong Fan , Yiyu Huang , Wenchao Weng , Ruiquan Ge , Dong Zeng , Changmiao Wang

GAN-based image restoration inverts the generative process to repair images corrupted by known degradations. Existing unsupervised methods must be carefully tuned for each task and degradation level. In this work, we make StyleGAN image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yohan Poirier-Ginter , Jean-François Lalonde